Summit 2025
Join us to 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!
Our Summit is on the new dates of Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 September 2025 in Auckland and online – we hope you can make it! Registrations will open late June.
The Summit will have sessions spanning over two days. Attendees can join as many sessions as they can depending on their interest.
Day one: Tuesday 23 September
| Start | Session |
| 12pm | Mihi whakatau, welcome and lunch |
| 1pm | Concurrent sessions |
| Professional Development workshop: Leadership when working with people who have changed behaviours (certificates available for CPD hours) Led by our Dementia Learning Centre Director Caroline Bartle |
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| Workshop for people and whānau living with dementia mate wareware hosted by our Lived Experience Advisory Group | |
| Leaders Forum (invited guests) | |
| 4pm | Leaders panel |
Please join us for a networking event from 5pm
Day two: Wednesday 24 September
| Start | Session |
| 8.30am | Opening address and launch of refreshed Dementia Mate Wareware Action Plan (TBC) |
| 9.30am | People and whānau-led services Led by Dr Jo Hikaka and Elizabeth Duke |
| 12pm | Lunch |
| 1pm | Integrated primary and community dementia care Led Professor Ngaire Kerse and Dr Matthew Croucher |
| 3.30pm | Closing and karakia |
Registrations for the Summit will open late June.