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.
The New Zealand Power Summit returns to Auckland on 24-25 November 2026, convening the senior decision-makers steering the country's electricity system through its net-zero transition. According to organiser IQPC, the summit sits at the centre of New Zealand's energy ecosystem, drawing generators, network and lines companies, retailers and traders, large energy users, regulators, iwi and community energy advocates, and the technology vendors supplying the grid.
The summit is produced by IQPC, the International Quality & Productivity Center. IQPC describes itself as a global business-events company founded in 1973 that runs more than 1,500 conferences, large-scale events and training programmes each year, operating through offices across six continents. New Zealand Power Summit enquiries are handled through IQPC's Australian office.
IQPC positions the event as a gathering of more than 100 energy leaders. Its own line-up confirms a strongly NZ-centric roster of chief executives and senior operators, including Caroline Ovenstone (Alpine Energy), Jason Franklin (Powerco), Nigel Barbour (Orion NZ), Alice Pettigrew (Eastland Generation), Stephen England-Hall (Genesis), David Knight (Transpower), Brett Horwell (Meridian), Marko Simunac (Vector), Marcos Pelenur (EECA), John Carnegie (Energy Resources Aotearoa) and Michelle Polglase (Ara Ake).
The organiser frames the agenda around grid resilience and system planning, electrification, decarbonisation, regulatory reform and energy equity, alongside enabling technologies such as distributed energy resources, battery storage, demand-side management and AI. IQPC also flags roundtables and VIP networking sessions as part of the format.
IQPC confirms the summit will be held at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, 128 Albert Street, in the Auckland CBD. The hotel's own meetings team lists a ballroom seating up to 400 guests, divisible into two, within a suite of around ten to eleven function spaces - capacity consistent with IQPC's stated scale of 100-plus delegates.
The venue's central-city position places it within walking distance of Auckland's main hotel stock, dining and the waterfront, and a short drive from the transport spine running through the CBD. Auckland Airport, New Zealand's largest international gateway, sits roughly 30 to 45 minutes south by road from the city centre, with scheduled coach, ride-share and taxi links into town. For an out-of-town delegate audience, that combination of a single CBD base and a direct international airport is the practical draw. These details are reported as logistical context, not as an endorsement of any transport provider.
A repeat, nationally focused corporate conference that locks in a confirmed CBD hotel and a credible slate of sector chief executives is exactly the kind of mid-scale, high-value business event that anchors Auckland's conference calendar in the shoulder-season weeks of late November. Its energy-transition remit also ties it to one of New Zealand's most active policy and investment conversations, giving it recurring relevance beyond a single edition.
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