The TERMIS Asia Pacific Chapter Conference 2026, the regional congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, runs 27-30 October 2026 at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.
The TERMIS Asia Pacific Chapter Conference 2026 is the Asia-Pacific regional meeting of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS), and it runs from 27 to 30 October 2026 in Otautahi-Christchurch, according to the conference website. The meeting gathers scientists and clinicians working across tissue engineering, biomaterials, stem-cell science and regenerative therapies under the stated theme "Converging Cultures and Strategies in Translational Regenerative Medicine".
The framing is deliberately translational: the organisers describe a programme built around bridging research cultures across the Asia-Pacific and globally, and around the research, development and scale-up challenges of moving regenerative therapies toward clinical and commercial use.
The conference is hosted by TERMIS through its Asia-Pacific chapter, and is co-chaired by Prof Tim Woodfield of the University of Otago and Prof Andrea O'Connor of the University of Melbourne, as stated on the event site, with partners including the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE) and TERMIS New Zealand.
TERMIS-AP is not a one-off. The society's own Asia-Pacific chapter meetings page lists a rotating series of regional conferences stretching back more than a decade, from Sydney in 2010 and Singapore in 2011 through host cities including Daegu, Taipei, Nantong, Brisbane, Jeju and Hong Kong, with Wuhan hosting in 2025 ahead of Christchurch in 2026. That lineage positions the 2026 event as an established fixture on the regional scientific calendar rather than a new launch.
The conference website describes an audience of leading researchers, clinicians, industry experts, policymakers and emerging scientists and thought leaders in regenerative medicine. The programme is signalled to include special sessions, workshops and symposia, with an emphasis on clinician engagement alongside the laboratory science. The organisers have not published an expected delegate figure, and the full plenary and keynote line-up is not yet detailed on the public pages.
TERMIS lists the conference location as Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre. Te Pae's own materials describe a purpose-built venue at 188 Oxford Terrace in the heart of the central city, able to host events for 50 to 2,000 people. Its principal auditorium seats 1,364 in tiered configuration and can be divided into two rooms, a banquet space seats around 860 and overlooks the Otakaro Avon River, and the exhibition area offers about 2,800 square metres across three halls, according to the venue.
For a multi-day scientific congress, that central location matters as practical context: a city-centre site puts delegate accommodation, dining and the riverside precinct within the surrounding central business district rather than requiring daily transfers, and Christchurch is served by its own international airport as the South Island's main air gateway. The venue reports Toitu Carbon Zero and Enviro Mark Gold and Qualmark Gold certifications, which can feature in the sustainability expectations many scientific and medical bodies now attach to conference hosting.
Securing a rotating international chapter congress of a global society is the kind of win the New Zealand business-events sector actively pursues: it draws an offshore academic and industry audience into Christchurch for several days outside the peak summer tourism window, and it reinforces Te Pae's role in hosting knowledge-economy gatherings. For the regenerative-medicine community, it is the first time this Asia-Pacific meeting has been held in New Zealand in the listed chapter history, giving local researchers at the University of Otago and beyond a home-ground platform.
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