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Your Health NZ's Youth Health Conference is a real Hamilton fixture — but the 2026 edition isn't confirmed yet

MICE editorial — 02 September 2026 Hamilton Tier B

Your Health NZ runs a real recurring Youth Health Conference in Hamilton (the 2025 edition was held 31 Oct–1 Nov at The Pā, University of Waikato), but no 2026 edition or the AI-surfaced 9 October 2026 date is confirmed on the official site.

Youth Health Conference 2026

A "Youth Health Conference 2026" in Hamilton on 9 October 2026 has been surfaced by an aggregator and is not yet independently confirmed. The conference series itself is genuinely real and run by Your Health NZ, but no 2026 edition or that date is published on the organiser's official site — the current listing is still the 2025 event.

Who runs it

Your Health NZ, a Waikato-based health-services and nursing-education provider, presents the recurring School & Youth Nurse Youth Health Conference series. The 2025 edition, branded "Te Tūhono Rangatahi — Connect and Collaborate for Youth Wellbeing," ran 31 October–1 November 2025 at The Pā, University of Waikato, Hamilton.

Who it's for

School nurses, youth and social workers, guidance counsellors and deans, mental health practitioners, and community and allied-health professionals working with rangatahi.

Status of the record

Until Your Health NZ publishes 2026 dates, venue and programme, the 9 October 2026 listing should be treated as an unconfirmed date. An October 2026 timing is plausible given the series historically sits in late October, but this is not confirmed and the date field is left unset.

Why it matters in NZ MICE

A modest but repeat professional conference anchored to Hamilton's University of Waikato precinct and drawing a nationwide health and education delegate base — a genuine recurring regional business-events item, pending 2026 confirmation.

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