24 - 27 November, 2025

How to persuade your manager you should attend Digital Health Week NZ 2025 

Digital Health Week NZ 2025 is Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier event for digital health innovation, collaboration, and leadership. Taking place from 24–27 November 2025 at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre, this event brings together over 1,100 delegates, 200+ speakers, and 100+ exhibitors from across the health sector.

HiNZ are also celebrating their 25th anniversary and want to acknowledge this special milestone with delegates, sponsors, partners and the wider digital health community at the conference itself. This will be a unique opportunity to celebrate with HiNZ at their first South Island conference since 2015.


Email to get the green light to attend from your manager?

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

Kia ora [Manager’s Name],

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]

Attending the conference dinner or one of the post conference workshops would be additional but could be valuable learning and networking opportunities.

I’m confident that attending Digital Health Week NZ 2025 will enable me to bring back practical, innovative strategies and key connections that will add value to our projects. And I would be happy to discuss ways we can ensure a strong return on this potential investment. You can find more event details here.

Thank you for considering this request.

Ngā mihi,
[Your Name]