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Thanks for joining us at the 2025
Aotearoa AI Summit: Putting the intelligence in our hands!
The Aotearoa AI Summit was New Zealand’s essential AI gathering, uniting industry leaders, researchers, policymakers, and innovators to explore cutting-edge advancements and real-world applications of AI.
The one-day summit featured keynotes, panels, and workshops spanning AI ethics, innovation, business, and emerging tech—showcasing how AI is transforming sectors like healthcare, finance, agriculture, and government.
Highlights from the 2025 Summit included:
Government announcement: A national AI platform (up to $70m via IAT) to accelerate research-to-market, plus the Auckland Bioengineering Institute–Oden Institute collaboration on AI-powered virtual human models.
Sovereign AI momentum: A clear NZ Inc call for resilient, sustainable compute—GPU capacity, data centres, and architectures that bring compute to the data.
From vision to value: Practical playbooks on governed data, disciplined use-case portfolios, and engineered, production-ready systems (expert/agentic AI) delivering measurable outcomes.
People-first adoption: Leaders showed how skills, workflow design, and transparent validation practices are the rate limiters—and the unlock—for scaling AI safely across sectors.
With a strong focus on collaboration and knowledge-sharing, the summit delivered exceptional networking opportunities for AI professionals, startups, investors, and decision-makers—and set a clear path from intent to execution for Aotearoa’s AI ecosystem.
The Aotearoa AI Summit is brought to you by AI Forum NZ and NZTech and it’s a must-attend event for New Zealand’s artificial intelligence ecosystem.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Aotearoa AI Summit 2026 offers a dedicated space to explore the role of artificial intelligence in shaping a responsible, inclusive, and innovative Aotearoa. It is an opportunity to engage with a diverse and informed audience, share insights, and build meaningful connections across sectors involved in the development and use of AI.
Congratulations to our Aotearoa AI Awards Winners
The Aotearoa AI Awards recognise individuals, teams, and organisations making meaningful contributions to the development and application of artificial intelligence in Aotearoa.
Check out our 2025 summit & awards highlights:
Thanks for joining us at the Aotearoa AI Summit & Awards 2025.
Special thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors and delegates for making our summit so successful.
We look forward to seeing you in 2026!
