THE DETAILS
Date & Time
Friday 24 July, 7am–5.30pm
Venue
AUT Events Centre – WG Building
74 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
FULL PROGRAMME
Welcome — 8am
- Market Insights with Nevena Nikolic, Territory Manager NZ for NielsenIQ BookData
- Children’s Book Week with Juliette Blyth, Chief Executive of Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
- Children’s Book Week — The Workshop
Morning Tea
- The Keynote with Kate De Goldi, Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador
- Bookselling Scholars Report with Māia Te Whetū and Anna Hedley
- Email Marketing Masterclass with Glenn Edgley, Mailchimp & Spikemail
Lunch
- Bookshop Day 2026 artist & artwork unveiling
- Exit Strategy: Looking at modern bookshop succession with Link Business Brokers
- Succession Case Studies with Jenna Todd, Jay Lansdown and Graeme Holmes
- Q&A with Gavin Williams, ABA President and owner of Matilda Bookshop
Afternoon Tea
- Is the romance genre a bookselling bubble or bedrock? A panel discussion between publisher Kate Stephenson, author Jackie Ashenden and specialist bookseller Ruby Wallace from Enamoured Books.
- The Booksellers Brief: Three upcoming campaigns from your booksellers association with Renee Rowland and Naoise O’Donoghue
- Community Forum (45m)
- AGM
Cocktails & Catch-Ups — from 6pm
Wind down and catch-up with long-distance friends, or make new connections, over cocktails and canapes at the Sunset Rooftop Bar in the Sudima Hotel.
Venue
Sunset Rooftop Bar in the Sudima Hotel
10th Floor/63-67 Nelson Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010
A huge thank you to our generous Conference sponsors: HarperCollins Publishers Aotearoa New Zealand, Narseys Distribution, Libro.fm, and Te Papa Press. We couldn’t do it without you.