Thursday 1st May 2025 @ 5:30pm - 7pm Overview Calling all Auckland-based PRs – what better way to celebrate nearing the end of the week…

A successful speech can change the world, but it starts with a blank page. This workshop empowers speechwriters to assemble their ideas, find their voice, and earn their audience's attention. It demystifies the speechwriting process, including the crucial planning phase when writing speeches for others, and encourages purposeful, effective storytelling.

As we shift into Generation AI, mastering public relations strategy and evaluation is crucial. Over four mornings, this online course explores the latest methodologies for crafting and assessing effective strategies. With generative AI models reshaping our professional landscape, acquiring these skills is not just beneficial, it is essential if we are to guide organisational leadership with expertise and insight.

20th & 27th May 2025 @ 9:30am - 12:30pm (2 x morning sessions) Overview In this interactive online workshop, we cover the principles for preparing…

This Fellows & Life Member’s Dinner is a fantastic opportunity to get together with your peers and catch up on news and events for the year.

Shifting Kiwi attitudes to the risk of harm is a significant challenge for any engagement campaign, but it’s one that ACC has met head on with ‘Have a hmmm’. Four years on, this recognisable campaign is still driving behaviour change and positively impacting New Zealanders.

At this breakfast session, hear from the social marketing experts behind the ‘Have a hmmm’ public engagement programme, which aims to connect New Zealanders to interventions that support their wellbeing and protect them from injury.

SOLD OUT You can’t avoid it a minute longer – it’s time to integrate AI into your daily work. This highly practical session offers the guidance and space to experiment with the AI-driven tools that have revolutionised practice. Delivered live online, this course provides public relations and communication practitioners with essential knowledge, hands-on experience and time to experiment with the AI tools transforming our sector.

Thursday 5th June 2025 @ 5:00pm - 6:30pm OverviewCalling all Tauranga-based PRs – what better way to celebrate nearing the end of the week than…

As we shift into Generation AI, mastering public relations strategy and evaluation is crucial. Over four mornings, this online course explores the latest methodologies for crafting and assessing effective strategies. With generative AI models reshaping our professional landscape, acquiring these skills is not just beneficial, it is essential if we are to guide organisational leadership with expertise and insight.

Knowing how to edit writing – whether it’s your own or someone else’s – is a crucial skill to have, yet it’s rarely taught. The course is filled with practical exercises – as soon as a technique is taught, you’ll then be able to practice it.

This exclusive PRINZ event offers PR professionals a rare opportunity to hear directly from senior media executives at TVNZ, NZME, RNZ and Stuff. Each executive will provide a 10 minute update on the latest developments in their organisation, followed by an engaging panel discussion on the evolving media landscape in New Zealand and what it means for PR professionals in 2025.