Program highlights

A balanced agenda will help attendees move from big-picture context to practical discussion, with space for emerging issues, collaboration, and reflection across the conference.

Hybrid education seminar with presenter and remote participants
16 November 2026- Pre-Conference day-

Pre-conference workshops

This year, the conference will be having the following 3 workshops:.

Statistics for HRECs- Prof Adrian Barnett

HREC/IRB/IEC Coordinators Forum- Sophie Gatenby and Sara Hubbard

Privacy in New Zealand and Australia- Emma Pond (NZ) and Andrea Calleia (Australia)

Days 1–3

Plenaries, Panels and Program Themes

Join plenary speakers, thematic sessions, panel conversations, and abstract presentations that focus on the following relevant areas.

AI in Research

AI in Ethics Review

Participant focused research and research review

Research in the Pacific, Aotearoa and Singapore

Oversight of research- monitoring, reporting, guidelines and regulations

Quality in Ethics Review

Non-biomedical research-methodologies and review

Consent- evolution and validity

Data, Personal Information, and privacy

Developments in clinical Trials

Other topics relevant to human research ethics

Presenter leading a professional hybrid meeting
Remote team participating in a web conference
Day 3

Conference Close

The Conference will close with a presentation of the Rob Loblay award, and a summary of emerging challenges, and ideas that can strengthen ethics review and research support.

Future directions

Shared learning

Conference wrap-up