Event Details
Aug 6
Toitoi - Assembly Ballroom
Harness the power of COLLABORATION
Shared Vision, Shared Value, Collective Impact
The CREATE Symposium 2026 will bring together leading creators and innovators to inspire, empower and activate collective impact through collaboration.
Together we will explore how we can harness the transformative power of collaboration for your business, your creative practice, whānau and your community.
We invite innovators, community leaders and creatives to come together, be inspired and experience true collaboration at a deep and meaningful level.
As one of our most humble and prominent innovators and creatives in Aotearoa, David Trubridge, will bring fresh perspectives on regenerative creative practice and challenge our thinking as we embark on a bold aspirational future for the next generation.
Dr. Jeremy MacLeod (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a leader in Māori language revitalisation and community development. His collaborative work reflects his deep commitment to preserving and promoting te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori across Aotearoa. Jeremy will lead us on an inspiring journey through his transformative programmes that connect language, culture, and wellbeing. His work ensures future generations can engage with and sustain the richness of te reo Māori.
It will be hands-on with Masterclasses and Tap into the expert roundtables led by local innovators, creatives and experts in their fields to share knowledge and insights on the transformative power of collaborating for collective impact. You will leave with resources, new connections and networks to further your creative ideas.
The event offers the opportunity for networking, sharing entrepreneurial stories, creative solutions to the big issues we all face and highlighting the benefits of weaving our collective regional strengths to ensure we thrive and flourish in regional New Zealand.
This year's symposium has partnered with The Profit and its Unleashed event series, which has sold out seven consecutive events over the past two years.
The partnership is a natural fit. Unleashed was built on the same premise as CREATE: that getting the right people in a room, with a clear purpose and genuine openness, produces outcomes that isolated organisations cannot achieve alone.
The partnership extends the conversation beyond the day itself. Participants will hear from a panel of national leaders sharing their journeys, offering the kind of candid, commercial insight that rarely makes it into formal keynote addresses.
This one is designed to be different.
The CREATE Symposium is brought to you by Ngā Toi Creative Hawke’s Bay in partnership with Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc and supported by Creative New Zealand.
