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Venue The conference will be held at The University of Auckland which is located in the CBD of the city of Auckland. The University is within close walking distance to downtown Auckland.Maps of New Zealand and of Auckland can be found via: www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/ Please click here for a PDF download of the Conference location map. This details the Waipapa Marae, the Owen G Glenn building (Auckland Business School) and car parking facilites. Business School, The University of Auckland Owen G Glenn Building
The new 74,000 square metre complex (including car park) dominates the Grafton Road side of the city campus and has views of the Auckland port, Rangitoto and the Auckland Domain. The Owen G Glenn Building is architecturally striking, with the internal ASB Atrium scaling seven storeys and suspended social bridges connecting the upper levels.
The teaching and presentation facilities within the OGGB are high class with latest technologies and comforts. Below is an example of a large lecture theatre.
Waipapa Marae (cultural focal point)
There are certain Māori protocols pertaining to the marae and buildings. Food is not consumed on the marae forecourt nor inside the meeting-house as the area is regarded as tapu (sacred). Shoes are not worn inside. Toilets and showers are available immediately alongside the meeting-house. A large dining hall named Reipae complements Tānenuiārangi. This is where the evening dinner will be held. Those people wishing to sleep in the meeting-house should register this request on the Registration page. This is available from 9pm Sunday (after the evening gathering in the meeting house) although visitors can bring their luggage in earlier, after the welcome. This will end at 4pm Wednesday. Visitors will sleep communal style on mattresses on the carpeted floor. A sheet and covered pillow are provided. Visitors bring own towels and sleeping bag/duvet. Overseas visitors should contact us if they wish us to buy a duvet on their behalf. The conference venue is less than 100 metres away. Cereals and cooked breakfasts are available on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 7am-8am. The daily cost for bed and breakfast is NZ $40. Marae Accommodation
Auckland City is the largest city in New Zealand’s with approximately 1.4 million people in the greater Auckland region. The city spans a large region and between two harbours. For further information regarding Auckland city please click here.
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The Business School’s new purpose-built, architecturally designed Owen G Glenn Building (OGGB) provides students, academics, staff and industry contacts one centralised place to work and learn, encouraging greater interaction and opportunity for fresh initiatives. 
On the lower levels teaching and learning facilities and study areas take precedence. The OGGB offers state-of-the-art teaching, learning and research spaces, two 600-seat lecture theatres in a dedicated auditorium complex, large fully digitised and equipped case-rooms, computer labs and quiet areas for relaxation and study. For further information, key facts regarding the venue, please click 
The symbolic conception of Tānenuiārangi the meeting-house on Waipapa Marae, was formulated by the tohunga whakairo Pākariki Harrison. The primary ancestors of the house are the ancestor-gods, with whom students of all tribes can identify. Around the walls are the captains and priest-navigators of the canoes that brought the ancestors of the different tribes to New Zealand in the fourteenth century. Also included in the house is Tangi'ia, an ancestor who connects the major islands of the Pacific with New Zealand. Thus, the house is pan-Pacific as well as pan-tribal.
