The New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology's Hepatology Network holds its next meeting in Queenstown on Thursday 17 September 2026 at the Hilton, the day before the Motility Symposium.
The New Zealand Hepatology Network holds its next meeting in Queenstown on Thursday 17 September 2026 at the Hilton, according to the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology (NZSG), which announced the date and opened registration on 10 July 2026. It is a compact, single-day specialist gathering rather than a large congress, and it is timed to run the day before the NZSG Motility Symposium in the same resort town.
The meeting is a Hepatology Network event of the NZSG. The Society describes its networks as member-led groups, created by its Executive in 2022 and governed by the Executive, that bring clinicians and researchers together around a shared area of gastroenterology. Registration and logistics are handled by the professional conference organiser Conference Innovators, which lists the meeting on its own events calendar and hosts the booking page on its EventsAir platform.
The audience is New Zealand's hepatology and liver-medicine community — the gastroenterologists, hepatologists and researchers who make up the Network. The NZSG frames the Queenstown meeting as a fresh instalment following an earlier 2026 Network meeting in Auckland, promising a different agenda and different speakers. A detailed session-by-session programme was not published on the organiser's public pages at the time of research, so the scientific line-up is best confirmed through the registration site.
The confirmed venue is the Hilton Queenstown Resort & Spa, which sits at Kawarau Village on the southern shore of Lake Wakatipu. The property is a short drive from Queenstown Airport (ZQN), the main air gateway to the region with domestic and trans-Tasman services, and it operates its own lake water-taxi across to the central Queenstown waterfront. Co-locating the meeting immediately before the Motility Symposium lets delegates travelling from around the country attend both events on a single trip south.
For the New Zealand business-events sector, the meeting is a clear example of Queenstown's pull for small, high-value medical and scientific gatherings, and of the efficiency of clustering allied specialist meetings back-to-back in one resort destination to concentrate delegate travel and accommodation demand.
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