The Financial Services Council's tenth annual conference, FSC26: Amplify, runs 12-13 August 2026 at Auckland's NZICC - 700-plus delegates, 35-plus sessions and a Sir John Key keynote.
The Financial Services Council of New Zealand holds its tenth annual conference - FSC26: Amplify - on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 August 2026 at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in central Auckland. The FSC describes it as the flagship event for the country's financial services industry, built around the theme "Amplify" - the idea that the sector's collective voice can shape policy and outcomes in what the council frames as a pivotal election-year for New Zealand.
The FSC says the 2026 programme runs to more than 35 sessions with over 100 speakers and is expected to draw more than 700 delegates across the two days, with 12-plus CPD points available. The opening keynote is set to be delivered by former Prime Minister Sir John Key, reflecting on his government's decisions including the legacy of KiwiSaver, per the council's speaker announcements.
FSC26 is organised by the Financial Services Council of New Zealand, a non-profit membership body that describes itself as the voice of the financial services sector in New Zealand. Its membership spans life and health insurance, investment and funds management, KiwiSaver and professional financial advice. The 2026 event marks a decade of the FSC's annual conference; the council notes the prior edition, "Transforming for Tomorrow" (2025), drew more than 600 delegates across 36 sessions with 125 speakers, and that its 2024 conference was the first to sell out.
The conference is aimed at the financial services industry and the officials, regulators and politicians who set its operating environment. The FSC positions the programme around shaping policy and regulation, connecting members with decision-makers across government and the regulators, and strengthening financial literacy, inclusion and trust. The concurrent FSC Awards 2026 sit alongside the conference programme.
FSC26 moves to the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) - New Zealand's purpose-built national convention centre on Hobson Street - which the FSC notes is a new home for the event. The centre sits inside Auckland's central business district, which places much of the city's convention-grade accommodation within walking distance of the sessions. The FSC highlights that the venue is next to the new Te Waihorotiu train station on Auckland's City Rail Link, which is set to change how delegates move through the central city in 2026. For a two-day event of this size, the main external pressure point remains the airport transfer corridor between Auckland Airport and the CBD at the start and end of each day.
A 700-plus-delegate industry conference anchoring two days at the NZICC is exactly the kind of business event the national convention centre was built to hold, and the FSC's decision to move its flagship there is a marker of the venue's growing role in Auckland's events calendar. Landing a decade-milestone edition of a sector conference - opened by a former Prime Minister - underlines how New Zealand's professional associations are increasingly using purpose-built convention infrastructure to convene their industries at scale.
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