Alzheimers NZ Summit 2025
Alzheimers NZ Summit 2025
Solving the Dementia Challenge with People, Partnership and Innovation will explore the latest news, updates and insights over two jam-packed days.
Dates: Tuesday 23 September and Wednesday 24 September 2025
Venue: Grand Millennium Auckland, 71 Mayoral Drive, Cnr Vincent Street, Auckland and online
Join us to inspire, inform and connect the people and organisations working to improve the lives of people living with dementia mate wareware, their whānau and the wider sector.
We’re excited to invite you to join a cross-sector conversation that brings lived experience, clinical expertise, policy thinking, and community innovation into one shared space!
The Summit will have sessions spanning over two days. Attendees can join as many sessions as they can depending on their interest.
Please review the Summit programme below, then click on the yellow 'Register now' button above to join us in-person in Auckland or online.
The Alzheimers NZ Summit 2025 event is managed by our event partner, Verve. For questions about the event please email: alzheimers@verve.co.nz.
DAY ONE: TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
| Start Session |
| 12pm Mihi whakatau, welcome and lunch |
| 1pm Session 1 - Concurrent Sessions |
Professional Development Workshop: Leadership when working with people who experience distress/changed behaviours (certificates available for CPD hours) Led by our Dementia Learning Centre Director Caroline Bartle |
‘Nothing about us without us – Co-designing change together’ workshop (in-person only) Hosted by our Lived Experience Advisory Group |
Leaders Forum (in-person invited guests only) |
| 4pm Panel
discussion:
Shifting the dial for dementia support (for everybody) |
| 5pm Networking event (in-person only) |
DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
| Start Session |
| 8.30am Opening, launch of refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan (TBC) and address from Associate Minister of Health Hon Casey Costello |
| 9.30am Session 2 - People
and whānau-led services Moving from good to great by transforming person-centred care to person/whānau-led Led by Dr Joanna Hikaka and Elizabeth Duke |
| 12pm Lunch |
1pm Session 3 - Integrated
primary and community dementia care What integrated care means, why it matters and how to make it work Led by Professor Ngaire Kerse and Dr Matthew Croucher |
| 3.30pm Closing
and karakia |