The New Zealand Internet Task Force holds its annual conference on 27-28 July 2026 in the Oceania Room at Te Papa, Wellington, pairing an open Community Day with a members-only day of threat-intelligence sharing.
The Annual 2026 NZITF Conference runs across Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 July 2026 at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. According to the organiser, the two-day programme splits into an open Community Day and a members-only day, reflecting the event's dual role as both a public-facing cyber-security forum and a trusted space for practitioner information-sharing.
While the directory listing files the event under the broad Technology sector, the organiser's own pages make clear its focus is specifically information and cyber security.
The conference is organised by the New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF), which describes itself as a non-profit organisation with the mission of improving the cyber security posture of New Zealand. NZITF states that its members work together to make the internet safer for all New Zealanders, building trusted relationships and sharing information across businesses, educational organisations, government agencies and community groups. Its published corporate-member roster spans major New Zealand banks, telcos, government departments and security firms, underlining the event's standing within the country's cyber-security community.
Per the organiser, the first day is the Community Day, open to infosecurity professionals, students and people looking to get into cybersecurity. It carries TLP:GREEN and TLP:CLEAR talks and is designed to help attendees understand information-security challenges and the latest research. The second day is reserved for NZITF Members and staff of NZITF corporate-member companies, subject to signing an NDA, and carries TLP:AMBER, TLP:AMBER+STRICT and TLP:RED material so members can share more specific detail on incidents, threat-actor research and defensive techniques.
NZITF also lists two optional workshops the day after the conference, on Wednesday 29 July 2026 and open to non-members: URLScan Training led by Daniel McNamara, and AI Hacking - Think Like an Attacker to Secure AI led by Will Frame.
The confirmed venue is the Oceania Room at Te Papa, 55 Cable Street, Te Aro, on Wellington's central waterfront. As context for delegate movement, the venue sits within Wellington's compact central city, placing it within walking distance of the CBD's hotels, restaurants and transport links along the harbour edge. Its central-city position means most conference accommodation and delegate travel is served by the surrounding Wellington central district rather than requiring dedicated transfers.
The NZITF Conference is a recurring fixture on New Zealand's business-events calendar, having run prior editions including a 2025 conference. As one of the country's principal annual gatherings of senior cyber-security practitioners, held in a national-institution venue in the capital, it illustrates how New Zealand's specialist professional communities anchor repeat conference business in Wellington.
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