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We are excited to welcome you to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington for our first Āpōpō Congress.
Our Congress welcomes asset managers, engineers, project managers, surveyors, scientists, planners and more from a varied range of local government, consulting firms, suppliers, and central government organisations. We aim to gather as many people together to ensure that the sector works cooperatively and cohesively - to gather, share and learn together.
Our Congress theme - Te anga whakamua tahi | Moving forward together
The world of infrastructure asset management is a world of tomorrow. For all those involved in the infrastructure that underpins our communities’ well-being, connection, quality of life and standard of living throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring that those communities are sustainably healthy and thriving, not only today, but for the future as well, is what inspires and motivates.
To execute on this ambition we need to move forward with strength and knowledge, and the best way to do so is together - Te anga whakamua tahi | Moving forward together
Diary the dates, plan to attend, learn, network and enjoy being with colleagues who get the importance of what we do.
Our technical streams will explore the hard issues facing our profession through a lens of key te ao Māori principles
The 2024 Āpōpō Congress will explore the hard issues we are facing as a profession, through a framework of three key te ao Māori principles or themes.
Manaakitanga or care for others, Kaitiakitanga or the role of guardianship and stewardship, and Rangatiratanga or leadership, are essential principles to inform our work in addressing our hardest issues.
Taking a te ao Māori lens to our work reveals an alignment of practices, technologies and people with the fundamentals of a healthy, vibrant, sustainable and fulfilled society – supported by the infrastructure assets that enable it all to happen.
Some of the hard issues we will consider include:
- ensuring infrastructure asset resilience,
- enhancing our delivery capability through improved competency and capacity,
- meeting community aspirations for infrastructure enabled services,
- planning for demographic, climate and societal changes, and
- preparing for and responding to natural and man-made disasters
As a profession we must solve these hard issues, and more, while respecting our environment, our economic capacity and fiscal constraints, our cultural integrity, and the burden and benefits of today’s decisions for future generations.
If you are preparing your 'case' for approval to attend the 2024 Āpōpō Congress or NAMSDay, we have written some text that you can copy, paste and modify here.
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Full day conferencing with Networking Function in the evening
NAMSDay
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Full day dedicated to National Asset Management Support, with Āpōpō Awards Gala Dinner in the evening
Thursday 23 May 2024
Conferencing, concluding mid afternoon
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Key dates
Call for Abstracts - Closed
Registration - Open now!
Early Bird registration closes Tuesday 9 April
Congress - 21 – 23 May 2024