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The 76th annual New Zealand Statistical Association Conference will be hosted by the University of Auckland, December 14-16 2026.
For more information, and to register, please see https://www.stats.org.nz/nzsa2026/index.php.
The conference will run from 1pm Monday the 14th to 5pm on Wednesday the 16th.
Wednesday afternoon will deviate a little bit from the usual NZSA format, with 3 options:
Survival Analysis Workshop (Thomas Lumley) • VGAM Workshop (Thomas Yee) • Women in Data Science Event
Please register for a workshop if you plan to attend as the workshops are subject to minimum registrations.
If you are a woman who is making their first NZSA presentation, or presenting for the first time after a gap of 5 years or more, consider applying for the Women in Data Science NZ award. Entry closes on 15 November. Details are here.
The 2025 NZSA Awards Recipients were:
The NZSA Newsletter, Issue 94, April 2026, is available here.
We have three webinars on our YouTube channel
- Recruitment Process with Tim Cooke from Potentia
- Crafting Your Data Science Journey by Dr Anjali Gupta
- Career progression: Commonalities & differences from academia to industry