AI Events in New Zealand

Kia ora! Welcome to an active list of New Zealand’s AI events

This is your go-to resource for AI conferences, workshops, meetups, and hackathons across New Zealand. We track events hosted by universities, government, tech companies, and community organisations throughout the country.

Browse below for upcoming AI events in your region.

📅  AI Events around Aotearoa

⛵ Auckland

• 19 Aug

  • CIO Summit & Awards

  • AI to the World: Buillding AI-Powered Applications on Cloudflare

  • Build Club Launch Night: w/ Startup Club NZ & Airtree

• 20 Aug

  • Market Insights Report 2025 and leveraging with AI

  • Your Job’s Already on AI’s Hit List — You Just Don’t Know It Yet.

  • Should we embrace AI to enrich drawing practice in Aotearoa?

  • PB Preview - Robotics and Automation

• 21 Aug - Mastering AI Series - Introduction to ChatGPT For Organisations

• 25 Aug - Machine Learning & Supercomputing in Science

• 28 Aug

  • LinkedinLocal Auckland

  • New Zealand Agentics Meetup

  • A survey of Context Engineering for Large Language Models

  • GenAI & AI Security at Unitec

  • BA's Role in 2025: From Requirements to AI-native Strategy

• 2 Sept - Experience Heidi: A.I Medical Scribe for All Clinicians - Auckland South

• 4 Sep

  • Agentforce Summit Auckland

  • Rethinking Roles – AI, Ethics and the Future of Communications Teams

• 6 Sep - Let's talk AI

• 11 Sep - AI Lunchtime Showcase Sessions

• 16 Sept - Mastering AI Series - Introduction to ChatGPT For Organisations

• 17 Sep - AI Awards Ceremony

• 18 Sep

  • Innovating with AI & Data in Insurance

  • Aotearoa AI Summit

• 25 Sep - Machine Learning & Supercomputing in Science

• 8 Oct - Snowflake World Tour - Step into the future of AI and aps

• 9 Oct - AI Lunchtime Showcase Sessions

• 18 Oct - The Future Is Here; Will Privacy Keep Up?

• 21 Oct - Transform Data into AI-Powered Outcomes

• 25 Oct - Microsoft Future Now Auckland event

• 6 & 7 Dec - Auckland Digital Marketing Success Summit

• 4 Oct - Let's talk AI

• 1 Nov - Let's talk AI

• 6 Nov - AI Lunchtime Showcase Sessions

• 4 Dec - AI Lunchtime Showcase Sessions

• 6 Dec - Let's talk AI

🏛️ Wellington

• 19 Aug

  • Unlock the Power of AI: Save 10 Hours a Week in Your Business

  • AI in the Boardroom: The role of humans in an AI world

• 20 Aug

  • How Might AI Assist in Mediation and Arbitration?

  • Wellington Before9: Responsible AI - have we figured out what that means in practice?

  • Reimagine How Your Organisation Works with Microsoft Copilot Studio

  • PB Tech x Microsoft Copilot Event

• 26 Aug

  • AI in Action Report #3 Launch

  • Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI with John Chow

• 27 Aug - Songs For My Chatbot

• 28 Aug - New Zealand Agentics Meetup

• 12 Sep - Supercharge your Business Productivity with AI

• 16 Sep - Experience Heidi: A.I Medical Scribe for All Clinicians

• 18 Sep - Aotearoa AI Summit 2025

• 20 Sep - Art and AI: Brit Bunkley in Conversation with Megan Dunn

• 19 Aug - AI in the Boardroom: The role of humans in an AI world

• 26 Aug - Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI with John Chow

• 14 Oct - Capability@Lunch: ChatGPT Playbook for Behaviour Change

• 10 - 13 Nov - 30th ICDE World Conference

• 5 Dec - Supercharge your Business Productivity with AI

🌱 Christchurch

• 19 Aug

  • The Future of Content - AI, Auto-classification and Automation in Microsoft 365

  • The AI Tools Revolution: What's Actually Working in Marketing Right Now

• 27 Aug & 11 Sep - Generative AI Bootcamp

• 28 Aug - AI Exploration - Time To Play

• 30 Aug - Romancing AI

• 11 Sep

  • M2 AI Summit Christchurch

  • UXCHCH: Accessible design through AI?

• 12 Sep - M2 Women Conference

• 18 Sept - Business Canterbury | Westpac Smarts: Making AI Work for Business

• 25 Oct - ITP Christchurch – Towards an AI-Enabled Future New Zealand

🐑 Regional NZ

Kaitaia

• 27 Aug - AI ROI Workshop

Hamilton

• 26 Aug - AI Literacy for Communications, Marketing and Business

Palmerston North

• 26 Aug - Practical Prompting for AI - A hands-on AI Workshop

• 4 Sep - AI and ethics in governance

Timaru

• 21 Aug - AI Workshop – Transform your business in just 3 hours

• 2 Oct - Energise - AI in Education

Dunedin

• 30 Oct - Artificial Intelligence in Dunedin: Research, Industry, and Public Policy

Invercargill

• 23 Sep - AI for Business: Microsoft Copilot, three different events: Basic, Skills and Advanced

• 2 Oct - AI In Education: Innovation and Impact

🏠 Online

• 18 Aug - From Prompt to Product: Inside the AI Builders Circle

• 19 Aug - How to Strategize and Execute Your Job Search with ChatGPT in 1 Hour

• 20 Aug - The environmental impacts of AI

• 21 Aug - Product Foundry: Advanced AI Tech & Build Sessions

• 22 Aug - [AI Alliance] Better Expert Agents with Dana, Agent-Native Programming Language

• 22-23 Aug - AI Hackathon Festival

• 25 Aug - AI Explorers Circle - Build your product

• 26 Aug

  • Using Generative AI to support foundation/bridging ākonga

  • AI Powered Professionals Programme - Webinars

• 28 Aug - Foundry Projects, Elevating AI with Project-Centric Design

• 29 Aug

  • Student perspectives on AI in higher education

  • How to lead through the AI transformation in engineering

• 2 Sep - What can AI do for your business?

• 3 Sep

  • How Global Changes and AI Combine to Affect Our Clients

  • Engineering and AI Panel Q&A:2

  • AI for B2B Marketers: Supercharge Your Marketing with Practical AI Skills

• 4 Sep - Artificial Intelligence Impacts and Preparation for Māori - Perceptions

• 8 Sep

  • Getting Practical With Generative AI

  • AI for Newbies: Your Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• 9 Sep - Tech & the Future of Design - Getting Practical with Generative AI | Webinar 2 of 3

• 12 Sep - AI Fundamentals for HR

• 15 Sep - AI Ambassador Practical Workshop

• 16 Sep - The AI for business playbook

• 17 Sep - Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with artificial intelligence

• 23 Sep - What's New in A.I?

• 2 Oct - Artificial Intelligence Impacts and Preparation for Māori - Bias & Governance

• 22 Oct - Build your AI Agent workforce with Autohive

• 29 Nov - Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AI Forum) Annual Meeting

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