The listing 'CIO Summit 2026' refers to the New Zealand CIO Innovation Summit, the conference component of Brightstar's combined NZ CIO Innovation Summit & Awards at Auckland's NZICC on 4-5 August 2026.
The listing "CIO Summit 2026" refers to the New Zealand CIO Innovation Summit - the two-day conference component of Brightstar's combined NZ CIO Innovation Summit & Awards, held at the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) in Auckland on 4-5 August 2026. It is organised by Brightstar in partnership with the analyst firm Ecosystm, and shares its programme, venue and organiser with the awards gala staged on the evening of 4 August.
For the full reported deep dive - programme, speakers, awards categories and venue context - see our article on the NZ CIO Innovation Summit & Awards 2026, which covers the same event.
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A live, confirmed single-day corporate conference on 23 November 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, run by Conferenz Ltd (trading as Brightstar), with a full law-firm and payroll programme on New Zealand's employment leave / Holidays Act reform.
A confirmed one-day MICE trade expo on 24 November 2026 (9am-4.30pm) at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre, organised by Tourism Media Group Ltd and billed as the fourth New Zealand edition.
A two-day medical congress on 24-25 November 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, organised by Conferenz Ltd trading as Brightstar, targeting Health NZ leaders, GPs, pharmacists and specialist clinical teams.
A two-day corporate energy conference run by global events company IQPC, taking place 24-25 November 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, with a roster of NZ energy-sector chief executives and a net-zero / grid-transition programme.
ANZMAC 2026, the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy's annual conference, is confirmed for 30 November to 2 December 2026 at the Cordis Hotel Auckland (with a Doctoral Colloquium 27-29 November at Massey University's Auckland campus), hosted by Massey University on the theme 'Marketing in the Age of Plenty?'.
The ANZ ACBS 2026 Conference, the annual conference of the Australia & New Zealand chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, runs 23-25 November 2026 at the University of Auckland's Grafton Campus, with pre-conference ACT workshops on 21-22 November. It draws psychologists, therapists and researchers in contextual behavioural science and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy from across Australia and New Zealand.