Subject: Professional growth opportunity - request to attend Digital Health Week NZ 2025 in Christchurch 

I’d like to request approval to attend Digital Health Week NZ 2025, taking place from 24–27 November 2025 at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.

This event is recognised as New Zealand’s leading digital health conference, bringing together over 1,100 delegates, 200+ speakers, and 100+ exhibitors from across the health, technology, education, and research sectors. The conference offers a unique opportunity to engage with national and international leaders who are driving transformation in the health and disability system.Here’s how attending will benefit our team and organisation:

• Gain Insight into Cutting-Edge Innovations: I'll learn about the latest digital health tools, including AI, remote monitoring, predictive analytics, and systems integration. These learnings will influence how we think about our service design, delivery and engagement with consumers. The issues that will be discussed are all directly applicable to our current and future projects.
• Cross-Sector Collaboration: The event focuses on 'collabor-action' - bringing together key players from health, tech, policy, and community sectors to forge new partnerships and scalable solutions. I will make new connections that will inform our work and help us to 'lift and shift' good ideas that could work for our services.
• Enhance Strategic Capabilities: Sessions on leadership, data, integration, and change management will strengthen my ability to lead digital transformation and support our strategic goals.
• Customised Learning Path: The conference features multiple streams and optional deep-dive workshops (e.g. eNursing, eResearch, eAllied Health and Terminology and Data Standards), allowing me to tailor the experience to our team's priorities. I will be able to bring back new knowledge specific to our workforce and the services we deliver.

Approximate Outlay:

• Registration costs: [insert applicable registration rate - supersaver or earlybird]. You can view pricing here.
• Travel and Accommodation: [insert approximate total cost]
• Total Cost Outlay Cost: [insert total outlay]