The NZ Hip Society Meeting 2026 is a confirmed one-and-a-half-day satellite meeting at Te Papa, Wellington on 16-17 October 2026, running immediately before the NZOA Annual Scientific Meeting at the same venue.
The NZ Hip Society Meeting 2026 is a confirmed subspecialty gathering at Te Papa, Wellington on 16-17 October 2026, opening a dense week of New Zealand orthopaedic events on the capital's waterfront. It is a live, separately-registered meeting with its own event website, and the organiser positions it explicitly as a satellite preceding the NZOA Annual Scientific Meeting (18-20 October, same venue).
The meeting is convened by the NZ Hip Society, a subspecialty society within the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA), and coordinated through NZOA's conference and events team. According to the organiser, Vaughan Poutawera is President of the NZ Hip Society and the host of the meeting. NZOA is the professional body for orthopaedic surgeons in New Zealand and runs the country's registries (including the NZ Joint Registry) and training programmes.
The programme is aimed at orthopaedic surgeons with a hip-surgery focus. Per the organiser, the meeting is one and a half days: it convenes at lunchtime on Friday with Instructional Course Lectures on Friday afternoon, followed by dinner arrangements with industry. Saturday is a full-day programme of free papers and case discussions moderated by senior NZ surgeons, with Dr Stefan Kreuzer as the invited international guest speaker. It concludes with dinner on Saturday night ahead of the ASM sports on Sunday, and the meeting follows the theme of the wider NZOA ASM.
Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) sits on Cable Street on Wellington's central waterfront, within walking distance of the CBD, Lambton Quay and the Courtenay Place hospitality precinct. As New Zealand's national museum it is an established conference venue, and its waterfront location keeps delegates close to central-city hotels and to Wellington Railway Station and the airport shuttle routes. The event site carries dedicated Accommodation and "Things to do in Wellington" pages for attendees.
The Hip Society meeting is one node in a tightly clustered orthopaedic week: the NZ Spine Society (16-17 Oct, Te Papa), NZ Society for Surgery of the Hand (17-18 Oct, Takina), and the NZOA ASM (18-20 Oct, Te Papa) all land in Wellington across the same window. That co-location concentrates medical-sector delegate demand on Wellington venues and accommodation over several consecutive days in mid-October 2026, making the NZOA week a notable recurring anchor for the capital's business-events calendar.
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