The University of Waikato offers unique and purpose-built options for conferences, workshops, meetings and events and is easily accessible from Hamilton’s Central Business District.
Whatever the occasion the University of Waikato has a venue and meeting package to meet your needs.
Conferences in Hamilton
Conference spaces at the University of Waikato can accommodate 10-700+ delegates, including lecture theatres and breakout rooms with state of the art audio-visual equipment. Accommodation, formal reception venue and catering options are also available.
Conferences in Tauranga
Conference spaces at the University of Waikato, Tauranga campus can accommodate 10-200 delegates, including a large, multi-purpose hospitality space, Lecture Theatre and Teaching Rooms, with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment, and a commercial kitchen.
Weddings
The University of Waikato offers full on-site wedding ceremony and reception options, including a Chapel, unique grounds with beautiful gardens for photos and a lakeside reception venue.
Meetings and product launches
Consider a University of Waikato venue for product launches requiring the X factor, an industry networking event or a small team meeting.
In addition, the University of Waikato offers a broad range of conference and event facilities including:
- Six purpose built venues
- The Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts
- State of the art audio-visual equipment
- Seating capacity from 20-394 with over 100 lecture theatres
- Video conferencing facilities
- On-site technicians
- On-site caterers
- 695 single rooms for delegate accommodation
- Gym facilities, swimming facilities, tennis courts, extensive sports fields
- Chapel
- On-campus parking with reasonable rates for delegates.
Our Conference Managers will work with you to ensure your event is successful; from inception to completion to customising each element to meet your needs, the University of Waikato provides full event and venue services.
Events
Kotahitanga – “E kore teenei whakaoranga e huri ki tua o aku mokopuna!”
Date Monday 13 July – Friday 11 September 2020
Location Calder & Lawson Gallery, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato
We must provide our children and their children a better platform than the one we inherited. [1] While the roots of the Kiingitanga were sown in divided and bloodied soil…
Date Thursday 20 August – Thursday 12 November 2020 Location The Wellbeing Hub
We are on the hunt for more donations. Suit Up aims to provide our students with formal wear for when they need it. If you have any formal wear to donate…
Anthropology Seminar – 20 August 2020
Date Thursday 20 August 2020 Time3:10pm – 4:10pm
Location University of Waikato – Room K.G.06 & via Zoom ( Meeting ID: 719 684 2758 / Password: @nthr0 )
Colonial mappings of corruption: the dirty South and the clean North Each year, Transparency International – the biggest player in the global anti-corruption “industry” – publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index…
Philosophy Seminar – 20 August 2020
Date Thursday 20 August 2020 Time3:10pm – 4:10pm
Location University of Waikato – KB.07
The metaphysics of taste disagreement Despite the old de gustibus adage, we disagree about taste all the time. But what is it to disagree about a matter of taste? At first glance…
Date Friday 21 August – Friday 13 November 2020
LocationThe Wellbeing Hub
We are on the hunt for more donations. Suit Up aims to provide our students with formal wear for when they need it. If you have any formal wear to donate…
DateSaturday 22 August 2020
Time 4pm – 8pm
Location Gate 2B Carpark, Knighton Road, The University of Waikato
Street food and stalls for all. Come along and grab a bite to eat, listen to local music, and check out the stalls. Based at Gate 2B carpark on Knighton…
Date Monday 24 August – Monday 16 November 2020
LocationThe Wellbeing Hub
We are on the hunt for more donations. Suit Up aims to provide our students with formal wear for when they need it. If you have any formal wear to donate…
Date Tuesday 25 August – Tuesday 17 November 2020
Location The Wellbeing Hub
We are on the hunt for more donations. Suit Up aims to provide our students with formal wear for when they need it. If you have any formal wear to donate…
Date Tuesday 25 August 2020
Time 9am – 6pm
Location On Zoom
Computer Science honours and masters students present their dissertation research projects. Please make contact for the Zoom ID
Aotearoa Migration Research Network & Mobilities Network – Seminar Series 2020
Date Tuesday 25 August 2020
Time 11am – 12pm
Location Zoom ( https://waikato.zoom.us/j/634605835 )
Demographic Disruption – And why Immigration has become so important Since the end of the Global Financial Crises in 2012, the shape of New Zealand’s demographic profile has changed significantly…