DayBreak – Festival of Innovation 2026

If you’re ready to Make Shift Happen in 2026, lock Wednesday, 25 February in your diary and grab your Earlybird tickets NOW! 

Earlybird Ticket: $155 +GST and booking fees
Available until December 19th, 2025 or until sold out

Earlybird tickets for DayBreak Summit are strictly limited, and they will sell out! Tickets are also transferrable, so you can share your ticket with colleagues. 

Full Price Tickets: $215 +GST and booking fees
From December 20, 2025

Full programme details will be revealed soon, but here’s a taste of what’s on offer… 

Our keynote session:

• What’s this Shift? Turning Signals into Strategy with Futurist, Melissa Clark-Reynolds 

Other key speaker sessions:   

• How to grow a globally competitive business. Hear from a panel of leading exporters on what it takes to build a successful organisation. 

• Start-up secrets from the founders of four exciting local start-ups, all at different stages of their journey, from the Bay to off-shore success. 

A range of workshops, covering:

• Turning an idea into a scalable business 

• Being open to possibility: toolkit and mindset for change

• Leading within complex systems

• Engaging youth and communities in developing talent

• Examples and Experience of implementing AI

• Tools for using creativity to achieve change

• Building self managing teams through role clarity

• Intrapreneurship and innovation in large organisations  

Plus the other unique elements of the DayBreak experience, including:

• DayBreak Downtown Lunch

• The Sundowner - festival finale

• Encore Sessions

And if you want even more from your DayBreak participation, consider becoming a Patron. 

For more information of DayBreak 2026 head to daybreakfestival.nz