Come join us at the beautiful Beast and Butterflies restaurant at M Social and have a great time with your peers!

Connect with your peers and enjoy a delicious breakfast. You will also learn from our guest speaker, Kirsten Patterson, who will talk about the “Five issues facing the boardroom in 2023”.

Find out how you can use AI tools like ChatGPT to support your work. What other AI tools are on the horizon, and how do they work? We will also have a discussion about the impact of these AI tools for our profession, and society. How do we navigate ethical concerns over creativity, integrity, plagiarism, fake news and more?

Join the celebration of the annual PRINZ Awards at Maritime Room! This prestigious event will celebrate the achievements and excellence of our members in the field of public relations and communication.

Brought to you by the PR Institute of NZ (PRINZ) and the Waikato Branch of the Institute of Directors.

Warm up this winter with a tipple with your southern PR colleagues at the Little Fiddle and hear from the new PRINZ CEO Susanne Martin, who is down from Auckland Head Office.

Are you looking to move closer to your organisation’s leadership team? Then join us for our professional development series on public relations strategy and evaluation.

Studying towards a Communications or Marketing degree and keen to hear about where a job in the PR industry could take you? Or, sitting there thinking to yourself ‘what on earth have I got myself into? Come along to this interactive panel event where you’ll hear from five young PR professionals about their experience in the communications and marketing sectors.

There is a lot of interest in the impact that generative AI will have on all sectors, including communications, media and content creation. Join us for this exclusive Q&A event at NZME’s iHeart Radio lounge. BusinessDesk Publisher and General Manager, Matt Martel will discuss how the country’s journalists and commentators are making the most of this technology.