NZ Sarcoma Society Meeting 2026

Overview

The NZ Sarcoma Society Meeting 2026 is a biennial scientific gathering held on 27-28 November 2026 in Auckland. According to the Society's official meeting site, the programme opens with a pre-meeting dinner on Friday 27 November at Otto restaurant on Karangahape Road, followed by the main scientific meeting on Saturday 28 November at the Grand Millennium Hotel.

The official page states the meeting aims to share knowledge, discuss challenging cases, review recent advances in sarcoma care and strengthen national collaboration. The 2026 edition's guest speakers, named as Anthony Doyle and Fiona Maclean, focus on the clinical applications of artificial intelligence in sarcoma care across diagnostic imaging, pathology and multidisciplinary cancer care.

Who runs it

The meeting is run by the NZ Sarcoma Society, a multidisciplinary body of clinicians involved in sarcoma care, with Josh Kempthorne listed as convenor on the official site. The Society sits within the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA) sub-specialty structure, and the meeting is listed on NZOA's 2026 orthopaedic events calendar and hosted on NZOA's EventsAir platform.

Who it's for

The official site describes the audience as clinicians, researchers, nurses, allied health professionals and trainees involved in sarcoma care. As a biennial national meeting, it functions as the key New Zealand forum for the sarcoma multidisciplinary community to convene, present cases and review developments in the field.

The venue

The main meeting is held at the Grand Millennium Hotel (Grand Millennium Auckland), confirmed by the Society's official registration page and the NZOA events listing. The Grand Millennium is a central-city Auckland hotel on Mayoral Drive in the CBD, placing delegates within walking distance of Aotea Square, the Sky Tower precinct and Karangahape Road, where the pre-meeting dinner at Otto is held. As factual context for delegate movement, the CBD location keeps accommodation, conference sessions and the social programme in close proximity and is served by central Auckland public transport; its downtown position is a short drive from Auckland Airport via the Southern and Northwestern motorway network.

Why it matters for NZ MICE

The meeting is a compact, high-value medical congress that anchors New Zealand's sarcoma specialty every two years. It draws a national cross-section of oncology, pathology, radiology, surgical, nursing and allied-health delegates into central Auckland, combining a formal scientific day with an evening social function. For the NZ business-events sector it is a representative example of the recurring specialist medical meetings that fill mid-size CBD hotel conference space and support the wider Auckland hospitality and events economy.