Ngā Hui | Events
Unconference 2025
The Global Entrepreneurship Network New Zealand is back in 2025 with our flagship Unconference and Workshops; two powerful days designed to ignite energy, spark collaboration, and supercharge Aotearoa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether you're a founder, researcher, investor, educator, or ecosystem enabler, this is your opportunity to learn, share what matters, and help shape a thriving future of entrepreneurship in Aotearoa.
Wee Should Talk!
WEE SHOULD TALK: A Women’s Health Week Event by JUNOFEM & Tend It’s time to talk, unfiltered, honest and long overdue. About incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain, and everything in between. Join us for an open and honest evening dedicated to pelvic floor health. We’re bringing together a panel of experts: a pelvic floor physio, a urogynaecologist, a women’s health GP, and our own JUNOFEM team. Together. we will explore real issues affecting women.
Quality Management System (QMS) – Basics – Accelerator Programme
Embark on a 3-month journey with Johner Institute New Zealand to master the intricacies of ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR 820 compliance through our Quality Management System (QMS) course, part of the Medical Device Accelerator programme. This immersive course is your blueprint for establishing a QMS that not only meets, but exceeds the standards of quality and regulatory compliance for your organisation.
Know your Customer, Know your Market Workshop
A lack of robust market validation is one of the most common weaknesses of healthtech businesses searching for investment. It can lead you to make the wrong product for the wrong customer and cause you to miss valuable opportunities.
NZ Association of Clinical Research 2025 Conference
Horizons of Health: Exploring the Future of Clinical Research
Raising the Bar
20 Talks. 10 Bars. 1 Night. Brought to you by the University of Auckland.
MedTech Explorer: TIKI Tour at Fale o Samoa
This TIKI Tour aims to build and strengthen relationships between Pacific communities, researchers, health professionals and technology developers to encourage future collaborations. This is an opportunity for Pacific voice to strengthen in HealthTech research, innovation and solutions and for you to introduce and showcase MedTech innovations to our Pacific community.
Queenstown Research Week 2025
Queenstown Research Week (QRW) will be held in Christchurch in 2025 at the new convention Centre – Te Pae. Consisting of several annual meetings of health research bodies such as, AWCBR, QMB, NZ Medical Science Congress, QMB, and several satellite events
Whaia te Tika Workshop Series
A workshop series hosted by Iwi United Engaged to support researchers to engage more effectively with Māori by providing a better understanding of Kaupapa Māori in a research context.
Vaka Moana Workshops
Join Moana Connect and Te Tītoki Mataora for the next Vaka Moana workshop series delivered across two days, aiming to support researchers in their awareness, understanding of, and responsiveness to the needs of Pacific communities.
GITEX Digi Health & Medical Fair Thailand 2025
Thailand’s leading medical and healthcare exhibition. Organised by Messe Düsseldorf Asia, the exhibition has been at the forefront of the industry since 2003, bringing together healthcare professionals, innovators, and industry leaders in a dynamic environment for collaboration, discovery, and business growth.
Commercial Planning and Strategy Workshop
Whether you’re making your first sales or planning for future market entry, the complex nature of healthtech supply chains can make health a tougher sector to plan for and succeed in than most. This workshop focuses on the principles of commercial planning, strategy and activation, to provide key knowledge and frameworks for excelling in the business development process.
ABI & Te Tītoki Mataora Summer Studentships - Application now open!
Kia ora, Kia orana, Noa'ia, Talofa lava, Mauri, Mālō e lelei, Tālofa, Ni sa bula vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Mālō ni, and warm greetings to all! The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) and Te Tītoki Mataora are proud to offer paid summer studentships to ambitious Māori, Pacific, and other tertiary students to experience what conducting research in health and medical technologies is really like. Students can be placed with established research groups at one of our partner institutions, and work in a range of fields including brain research, medical device and digital health design and development, experimental physiology, computational modelling, software/algorithm development, clinical translation of new medical technologies, and more.
International Life Science and AI Investival
From June 2–3, 2026, Germany’s capital will become a central hub for life sciences in Europe and across the globe. From biotech and TechBio to diagnostics and artificial intelligence – this is where bold scientific and industrial innovation meets capital and politics.