Dietitians New Zealand holds its 2026 annual conference, themed 'Innovation for a Nourished Future', from 2-4 September at the University of Auckland's Grafton Campus, combining a two-day clinical and professional programme with a Friday equity and cultural-safety session led by Te Kāhui Manukura o Kai Ora.
Dietitians New Zealand will hold its 2026 annual conference, themed "Innovation for a Nourished Future", from 2 to 4 September 2026 at the University of Auckland's Grafton Campus (Waipapa Taumata Rau), 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland. The official programme runs from 8:00 AM on Wednesday 2 September to 3:00 PM on Friday 4 September, with the registration desk opening at 7:30 AM each day. The last day to register is 28 August 2026, and early-bird pricing closed on 3 August 2026.
The conference is organised by Dietitians NZ (Dietitians New Zealand Incorporated), the voluntary professional association and credentialing body for dietitians in Aotearoa. The organisation traces its origins to the New Zealand Dietetic Association, founded in 1943, and operates separately from the regulatory Dietitians Board, which sets the competencies required for registration.
The conference is aimed at dietitians across all career stages — students, new graduates and experienced practitioners — and is positioned as a way to collect CCP points, find a supervisor, hone dietetic skills and grow professional networks. The programme, as published by the organiser, opens with a Mihi Whakatau and welcome, followed by keynotes including "Rethinking New Zealand's Food System: What Comes Next?" by Emily King, "Challenging the Status Quo" by Tyson Tripcony, and an applied AI keynote by Janine Chamley. Plenaries cover GLP-1s and obesity, national malnutrition guidelines, and culinary nutrition, alongside parallel streams from Special Interest Groups (Sports, Gerontology, Renal, Mental Health), abstract presentations of original dietitian-led research, an Annual General Meeting, an awards ceremony and cocktail function. The Friday session, "Whakatō Kākano: Sowing Seeds for Equity & Cultural Safety in Dietetic Practice" (9:00 AM-3:00 PM), is led by Te Kāhui Manukura o Kai Ora and can be added to full registration or booked separately.
The Grafton Campus sits at 85 Park Road in Grafton, immediately adjacent to Auckland City Hospital and the Auckland Domain, and is a short distance from the Auckland CBD, Karangahape Road and Symonds Street. For context, Dietitians NZ has arranged delegate rates at three nearby properties: Quest on Eden (Auckland Central), Cordis (83 Symonds Street, Grafton) and Nesuto St Martins Apartment Hotel (Grafton), the latter within walking distance of Auckland Hospital, the Domain and War Memorial Museum and well served by public transport. Auckland Airport is the main international and domestic gateway, roughly 20-25 km south of the Grafton precinct, connected by motorway and the AirportLink/city bus services.
As the flagship gathering of New Zealand's dietetic profession, the Dietitians NZ Conference is a recurring, nationally significant medical and scientific congress that draws practitioners from across the country to a single Auckland academic venue. Its combination of clinical streams, original research, professional governance and a dedicated cultural-safety day illustrates the steady demand for mid-sized professional-association congresses hosted on university campuses within the Auckland business-events market.
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