You're invited to Wao's Summit Programme Launch event, a friendly gathering of our audience, partners, volunteers, stakeholders, and supporters.
Early bird tickets released on the night!
$5 entry / koha is appreciated to help us keep this community event thriving.
The Wao Summit 2025 is a week-long festival of kōrero, walking tours, practical workshops, and community events across Wānaka and Queenstown—designed to ignite climate action, drive system change, and build stronger, more resilient communities. Grounded in the question, what kind of ancestors do we want to be?, this year’s summit takes the long view, looking 100 years ahead to reimagine how we live, lead, and thrive in 2125.
The programme features some of New Zealand’s most renowned experts alongside grassroots leaders, indigenous voices, and international change makers, offering insight, connection, and real-world solutions. From the opening Journey to 2125 panel to action-driven sessions on regenerative business, low-carbon building, food sovereignty and nature-based systems, the summit empowers attendees to turn knowledge into action.
Highlights will include the Better Building Day with green finance and construction resilience, Food Resilience Tours showcasing bioregional models, and the Better Communities weekend with neighbourhood-scale approaches to energy, water, housing and democratic engagement. Whether you're a business leader, builder, student, parent, or policymaker, the Wao Summit offers the tools, inspiration, and collective momentum to help shape a thriving Aotearoa—now and for generations to come.
Join us to discover the programme for this year's event and enjoy mingling over drinks at the fun and fabulous Rhyme X Reason Brewery.
To attend, please REGISTER by securing your free ticket from Humanitix. Limited capacity.