Gastro 2026 — the combined NZSG and NZgNC Annual Scientific Meeting — runs 18–20 November at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre under the theme “Global Frontiers in Gastroenterology.”
Gastro 2026 is the combined Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology (NZSG) and the New Zealand Gastroenterology Nurses College (NZgNC), running as a three-day main conference from 18 to 20 November 2026 at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre, preceded by a pre-conference endoscopy masterclass on 17 November. According to the organiser's site (gastroconference.co.nz), the 2026 meeting runs under the theme "Global Frontiers in Gastroenterology," with an international faculty drawn from the United States, Canada, Singapore and Australia.
The meeting is jointly convened by the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology and the New Zealand Gastroenterology Nurses College, with programming credited to the 2026 ASM Conference Committee (gastroconference.co.nz). The NZSG describes itself as a member organisation made up of professionals within the gastroenterology sector and was founded at a Royal Australasian College of Physicians meeting in Auckland in February 1966 (nzsg.org.nz). The Society sits within the international field through memberships of the World Gastroenterology Organisation, the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology, the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation and the Asia Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy, and it works alongside the gastroenterology nurses college, giving the ASM standing as New Zealand's principal annual gathering for the discipline.
The organiser lists the audience as clinicians, nurses, dieticians, researchers and industry partners, with the pre-conference endoscopy masterclass aimed at both emerging and experienced endoscopists and moving from foundational principles to advanced techniques (gastroconference.co.nz). The main programme spans three days of sessions, expert panels and latest research, alongside a social programme that the site describes as including a waka-inspired boat activity on the Avon and a conference dinner.
Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre sits in Christchurch's central city on the banks of the Ōtākaro/Avon River beside Victoria Square. According to WSP, the project's engineering firm, the centre accommodates up to 2,000 delegates, with a 1,400-delegate auditorium and 24 meeting rooms overlooking the river and square. ChristchurchNZ reports that Te Pae is about a 20-minute drive from Christchurch International Airport and that the compact, walkable central city holds around 2,500 hotel beds in the CBD alone, with hotels including Rydges, Sudima, Crowne Plaza, Novotel and Ibis noted within walking distance of the central business-event venues.
The meeting is a recurring, nationally significant medical and scientific congress anchored to a purpose-built convention centre, drawing a multidisciplinary professional audience plus an international faculty and industry exhibitors. Its scale, its combined clinical-and-nursing delegate base, and its placement in a walkable central-city precinct with substantial nearby accommodation make it a representative example of the association and congress business that New Zealand's convention infrastructure is built to host.
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