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#SunriseNZ26 is well and truly under way 🌅✨

This year 500 Travellers have joined us in Aotearoa to embark on a day of strange and dreamy encounters.

Peep one of this morning sessions hosted by @airwallex with Andrew and Malindi from @halterHQ 🐄🌱✨

🌅 One week to go. ⏰

At Sunrise Aotearoa, some of the best conversations start before you arrive.

Inside Brella, our festival & networking app that uses AI-powered matchmaking to help you find your people early.

See who’s coming. Connect with fellow Travellers. Book 1:1 meetings ahead of time. 🤝

Then, on the day, wander over to the Global Connections Zone, presented by HSBC Innovation Banking, where your meeting tables are waiting.

A huge thanks to HSBC Innovation Banking for powering connections at Sunrise. Book a meeting through Brella, or say hello to the team in the Global Connections Zone.

This is your moment. Join us?

🎟️ Grab your tickets & explore the full lineup 👉 lnkd.in/dRGNvjGK

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026
🗓️ Thursday 29 October
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

#SunriseNZ26

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa is a window into the horizon.

A gathering place where big ideas and bold visions of the future are shared by the people already building them.

In two weeks, the doors open. ✨

Only a handful of tickets remain. If you’ve been thinking of joining us, this is your moment.

Your people will be here.

🎟️ Grab your tickets & explore the full lineup 👉 thesunrise.live

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026
🗓️ Thursday 29 October
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

#SunriseNZ26

🌅 Bring your laptop. Bring the problem.

Don't miss the workshop session at Sunrise Aotearoa 2026:

✨ Hands-on AI Optimisation: Caching, Evals and Architecture ✨

Pull up a chair with @OpenAI's engineering team as they share a look into where they’re heading, with live demos of the newest models and APIs. Then get hands-on. Engineers move between tables while you work on your own product, finding the right model for you, and taking an agentic workflow in Codex from a sketch to something that runs.

For founders, operators and technical builders who have played with AI and now want it doing real work.

🎟️ Grab your tickets & check out the full program 👉 thesunrise.live

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026
🗓️ Thursday 29 October
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

#SunriseNZ26

Three weeks from now, we gather.

To stretch the edges of what feels possible, together.

📣 Today, the full Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 program opens.

Every speaker, every session, every time slot, laid out so you can begin mapping your day before you arrive. Explore the full program 👉 thesunrise.live

🌅 These are the voices taking the stage:

✨ @_Timdoyle, Co-founder & CEO / Eucalyptus
✨ @benshewry, Owner & Chef / Attica
✨ Andrew Fraser, President / @halterHQ
✨ Malindi Maclean, VP Customer / @halterHQ
✨ @ConnorArchbold, CEO & Co-founder / @gotracksuit
✨ Lowry Gladwell, Country Lead / @airwallex
✨ Michelle Walshe, Co-founder & CEO / CoachMate
✨ @boxcardavid, Founder & CEO / @westmagco
✨ Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups, APAC / @OpenAI
✨ Indranil Sarkar, Director, Strategic Startups, APAC / @OpenAI
✨ @wwshaef, Venture Partner / @pearvc
✨ @simon_pound, Co-CEO / @PreviouslyCo
✨ Maya Pan, Co-founder / Growth NZ
✨ @BowenPan, Co-chair / Growth NZ
✨ Weiran Sun, Applied AI Engineer, Startup / @OpenAI
✨ Ned Swaney, Applied AI / @OpenAI
✨ Andrew Wierda, CEO / Nylon
✨ Ally Tang, Founder / PIXEL
✨ Promise Akindeju, Filmmaker / Lemon Time Studios & Alcova
✨ Niko Purdie, Chief KiwiHacker / KiwiHacks
✨ Tenaya Smerdon, Founder / Parallel Layers

🎟️ Final tickets are moving - this is the moment to join us 👉 thesunrise.live

Auckland, we'll see you soon.

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026
🗓️ Thursday 29 October
📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland

#SunriseNZ26