Announcing EA Summit: New Zealand 2025 - Applications Open Now
The largest EA NZ event ever will take place on Saturday, September 27th in Christchurch, NZ.
Apply now! We are very excited about NZ’s comparative advantages and this one-day conference is the best NZ opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and discover actionable ways to make an impact.
You can expect:
World-class speakers and workshops covering a broad range of cause areas, including global health, disaster-resilient food systems, AI safety, economics of charitable behaviour and chicken welfare. These speakers bring deep connections to Aotearoa and worldwide, as well as diverse perspectives from both within and outside traditional EA circles.
Spark collaborations and 1-on-1 meetings organised through Swapcard.
Leave with a network of professional contacts to easily reach out to for informal project feedback.
More info on our website here. Overseas applications welcome, and 2025 is a particularly good time to do remote work from NZ with recent visa changes.
Application Process
Applications open now—don’t miss the early bird tickets! Here’s what you can expect:
Complete a short application (~5-15 minutes). We collect basic details about your interests, engagement with effective altruism or other relevant experience.
Our team will review your application. We aim to be in touch within 10 business days.
Register for the conference (~10 minutes). If you are accepted, you’ll receive an email with a link to register and confirm your place at the conference. You’ll be asked for dietary requirements and other logistical details, such as if you are interested in volunteering.
Full event details will be available in the Swapcard app closer to the conference. We’re in the process of designing the second half of the event program and want to hear from you! If you have ideas for specific speakers or topics, let us know through our speaker referral form.
If you know someone who might want to attend the conference, please share this event with them and encourage them to apply! Email us at summit@effectivealtruism.nz with any comments, suggestions, or questions.
See you there!
Gavin, Ruben and the rest of the EA New Zealand Summit Team 🇳🇿
I’m thrilled to have an EA conference in my home town (thanks @Gavin Bishop 🔹 and @Ruben Castaing for leading this event)!
For those of you who are considering coming—a little (biased) plug from me:
The EA Christchurch and the EA Aotearoa New Zealand communities have been active for 10 years now, with a handful of very engaged EAs who have dedicated their careers to EA-aligned work of various types (community building, donation funnelling, civilisational resilience, AI safety, animal advocacy, probably other things too that I’ve forgotten), and many other engaged EAs have been involved in the past and have flown the coop for their high-impact careers. While our community is small in global standards I think we are pretty impressive by per-capita and by per-unit of resources invested. And we’re very friendly and supportive too! So it would be lovely to see people join us!
While the conference is just a single day, a few of us are planning to also have some more relaxed social activities on Friday night and Sunday, so try to come for the whole weekend if you can.
Nau mai, haere mai!
Love it wish I was around!
Hype 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃