Summit 2025

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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!

Dates: Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 September 2025
Venue: Grand Millennium Auckland and online

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 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 for people and whānau living with dementia mate wareware hosted by our Lived Experience Advisory Group
Leaders Forum (invited guests)
4pm	Panel discussion: Shifting the dial for dementia support (for everybody)

Please join us for a networking event from 5pm

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	People and whānau-led services: Moving from good to great by transforming person-centred care to person/whānau-led Co-led by Elizabeth Duke and Dr Joanna Hikaka
12pm	Lunch
1pm	Integrated primary and community dementia care: What integrated care means, why it matters and how to make it work Co-led by Professor Ngaire Kerse and Dr Matthew Croucher
3.30pm	Closing and karakia