Neurological Association of New Zealand Julius Brendel Meeting 2027

The Neurological Association of New Zealand (NANZ) has scheduled its Julius Brendel Meeting for 24 to 26 February 2027 in Auckland. The meeting is listed on the association's own events page, which notes that further details will be sent to members by email. A venue had not been published at the time of writing.

Who runs it

The event is run by the Neurological Association of New Zealand, the professional society for doctors and scientists working on the nervous system in Aotearoa. NANZ traces its origins to 1956, when Dunedin neurosurgeon Richard Robinson and Otago physiology professor Archie McIntyre proposed forming a society for those interested in neurology; the first meeting was held at Dunedin Hospital on 1 February 1957. The association has run an unbroken line of presidents from 1957 through to 2025 and today draws together neurologists, neuroscientists, trainees and allied specialists nationwide. The Julius Brendel name carried by this Auckland meeting echoes the Julius Brendel Trust, an Auckland-linked neurology charitable trust associated with the city's neurology community.

Who it's for

This is a members' meeting rather than a public congress. NANZ's events page indicates attendance and programme details are circulated to members directly, so the audience is the association's constituency of practising neurologists, clinical neurophysiologists, researchers and trainees. It sits alongside NANZ's other fixtures, such as its Winter MS Meeting and its larger Annual Scientific Meeting, as part of the association's yearly calendar.

Venue and Auckland logistics

NANZ has not published a venue for the 2027 Julius Brendel Meeting; the association says arrangements will reach members by email. As reporting context, Auckland is New Zealand's largest city and principal medical hub, home to the University of Auckland's medical school and the Centre for Brain Research, and is served by Auckland Airport, the country's main international gateway, which gives domestic and overseas delegates straightforward access. The city holds a deep inventory of conference hotels and meeting spaces across the central city and waterfront precinct suited to a three-day professional meeting of this size.

Why it matters in NZ MICE

Recurring specialist society meetings like this anchor New Zealand's business-events calendar in the medical and scientific congress sector. A three-day neurology gathering brings clinicians and researchers together in Auckland in the quieter late-summer window, supporting the city's accommodation, catering and venue sectors while keeping a long-standing national medical association's programme rooted on New Zealand soil.