We will be at the Michael Fowler Centre - 111 Wakefield Street, Pōneke/Wellington.
We will be located at the Michael Fowler Centre. The Michael Fowler Centre is located at 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington Central.
Details of these hotels and how to book are below. Please note that you will need to book your own accommodation.
Walking Time to Michael Fowler Centre: 6 minutes
Location: 90 Cable Street, Wellington
Select “BOOK” in the top left hand corner,
Select your hotel, enter your dates and number of people
Click on “I HAVE A CODE’
In the “CORPORATE ID” field enter your corporate ID: TAHT2025
Click “CHECK ROOMS”
Walking Time to Michael Fowler Centre: 12-13 minutes
Location: 75 Featherston Street, Wellington
To access your special rates please visit this website and follow the steps below:
Select your hotel, enter your dates and click ‘Check Availability’.
Enter number of guests & click ‘I have a code’.
In the ‘Corporate ID’ field enter your booking code: TAHT2025.
Click ‘UPDATE’.
Your special rates will appear on the rates screen.
Walking Time to Michael Fowler Centre: 12-14 minutes
Location: 110 Fitzherbert Street, Wellington
Hotel information is available on their website.
Please use this link for booking with special rates.
Hotel information is available on their website.
Please use this link for booking with special rates.
You can book through these four hotels using this link.
Discount will apply to any nights booked between Tuesday, 29/04/2025 and Friday 02/05/2025.
Accommodation rates, terms and conditions:
15% Discount on our flexible rate of the day.
Rates and accommodation are subject to availability at the time of booking.
Bookings can be cancelled up to 14 days prior to arrival at no charge. Any cancellations after this point is charged in full.
Full pre payment is required at 14 days prior to the arrival date.
Rates are non-refundable.
Must be booked via online link provided.
The link will be available to book up to 14 days prior to 29/04/2025.
Walking Time to Michael Fowler Centre: 10 minutes
Location: 2 Grey Street, Wellington
Please use this link for booking with special rates.
Walking Time to Michael Fowler Centre: 2 minutes
Location: 110-116 Wakefield Street, Wellington
Accommodation bookings can be made directly on the hotel’s website by entering the Promo code TA25.
This discount is only available for the stay dates between Tuesday 29th April 2025 – Friday 2nd May 2025.
This special rate does not apply to any reservations made online or through any third-party travel agency like Booking.com etc.
Rooms will be available to book using this discount until Sunday 30th March 2025
Alternatively, bookings can also be made via phone or email
• Email: reservations@westplaza.co.nz
• Phone: 0800 731 444
Is there a discount if I am bringing a group of kaiako/kaimahi?
Please contact us at huitaumata@teakatea.co.nz if you have 3 or more staff attending and we will provide you with a group discount code.
Is the Thursday evening dinner included in the ticket price?
Āe - as we place high value on whakawhanaungatanga, anyone who registers for the Hui Taumata has a dinner ticket included.
Te Āti Awa
Originally hailing from Waikanae and proudly affiliated to Te Āti Awa, Ben spent much of his life in the Wellington region before settling in Te Awamutu. With a primary passion for Te reo Māori me ōna tikanga, particularly in relation to his people, Ben has consistently aligned his professional career with Mātauranga Māori. His diverse roles have encompassed te reo Māori education publishing organisations, tertiary providers, government education entities, and post-treaty settlement trusts and iwi lands-based trusts. This commitment to Mātauranga Māori has guided his professional journey.
Kemp Reweti is the Manahautū (Chief Executive) of the Pūhoro STEMM Academy, a pioneering Māori-led initiative dedicated to empowering rangatahi through exposure and pathways into STEMM - science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and mātauranga (STEMM). Under his leadership, Pūhoro has grown from serving 97 rangatahi across nine schools in 2016 to now serving over 3,000 rangatahi across 90 schools and 11 regions, fostering a new generation of Māori innovators and leaders in STEMM fields.
Kemp's commitment to rangatahi development is evident in Pūhoro's initiatives, such as the Nōku Te Ao programme, which provides Year 13 students and Tertiary rangatahi with international exposure to STEM and opportunities to engage with other indigenous communities globally. Alongside the Pūhoro team, Kemp Reweti continues to forge pathways that enable the next generation of Māori STEMM practitioners to thrive, grounded in their own cultural identity and equipped to contribute to the brightness of the future ahead.
Dr Ruakere Hond is a longstanding advocate of te reo Māori revitalisation and a key supporter of the Parihaka community. He was instrumental in working to achieve reconciliation between that community and the Crown, and he has held several leadership roles in Māori language organisations, including Te Reo o Taranaki, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, and Te Ataarangi. He has served two terms as a member of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori and is a past board member of Te Mātāwai, which leads the implementation of the Maihi Māori language strategy.
Nēpia is an Associate Professor in History at Massey University but taught History for twenty years previously at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. He has been a longstanding co-chair and member of Te Pouhere Kōrero a Māori/Iwi Historians collective established in 1992. Nēpia served two consecutive terms as president of the National Oral History Association of New Zealand (2016-2020) and s member of the International Oral History Association Council (2021-2024). His most referenced work Rethinking Oral History and Tradition (OUP, 2019) won the US Oral History Association book prize in 2020, and inspired his current co-edited collection on Global Indigenous Oral History Methods and Ethics (forthcoming 2026).
Associate Professor Richard Manning is a former secondary school teacher. He has been the recipient of various academic awards and scholarships, including a prestigious New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship, awarded by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. Richard is particularly interested in researching how Critical and Indigenous pedagogies of place can be applied to support inter-disciplinary efforts to address traumatic histories, Treaty of Waitangi, and Indigenous education issues locally, nationally, and internationally. Alongside Associate Professor Nēpia Mahuika (Massey University), he is currently a Principal Investigator for a Full Marsden Fund research project titled: Ngā Hanganga Mātua o te Whakaako Hitori: Critical Pedagogies for History Educators in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Starting out in 1934, Furnware has been creating spaces to learn and grow by designing and building high-performing, innovative school furniture so children can thrive in the most inspiring learning spaces imaginable. We are passionate about education and consider students our most important customers. We research, design, and build school furniture that’s flexible, mobile and multipurpose. Most of all, it’s functional and performs in the classroom improving student comfort and concentration.
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Tēnei te mihi maioha atu kia koutou katoa i runga i ngā āhuatanga o te wā. Ka mihi ki o tātau mate e heke tonu nei, e heke tonu nei. Kua tangihia, kua mihia, kua poroporoakitia ratāu, no reira e ngā mate takoto mai rā, takoto mai rā i roto i ngā ringaringa o to tātau kaihanga. Ka hoki mai kia tātau te hunga ora, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātau katoa.
Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi plays a distinctive and crucial role in tertiary education, providing an opportunity to learn based on the values of āhuatanga Māori according to tikanga Māori. Strong relationships with our communities of interest – in Aotearoa and internationally – drive the relevance of our academic programmes, teaching and research.
New Era Technology is a trusted provider of tailored IT solutions, delivering innovation and reliability to businesses and kura across New Zealand. With expertise in managed services, cloud solutions, cyber security, and BYOD, we help organisations thrive in a rapidly evolving digital world. Backed by a global network and local knowledge, we pride ourselves on delivering flexible, scalable solutions that drive efficiency, enhance collaboration, and enhanced student learning. Whether it’s transforming IT infrastructure or enabling smarter ways to work, New Era is your partner in success.
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Network for Learning is a crown-owned company, providing fully funded, faster, safer internet to more than 2,500 schools and kura and 900,000 tumuaki, kaiako and ākonga across Aotearoa New Zealand. Our safety and security solutions, including web filtering, firewalls, DDoS protection, email security, segmented networks, and cybersecurity services, help schools keep ākonga safer online. To help manage your school’s online environment, our new self-service platform, MyN4L, features smart and simple tools that show what’s happening on your network and let you make changes in a few clicks. Whether you’re an IT professional or a staff member helping out with IT at your school, MyN4L provides you with more visibility and more control. Learn more here.
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Crestclean offers consistent and reliable commercial cleaning services that always leave your premises clean, fresh, and hygienic.
Established in 1996, CrestClean has gained an excellent reputation as a highly trained and capable cleaning service provider. From large multi-site corporates to industrial premises, Healthcare, schools and offices, our team of over 2300 personnel clean for over 6300 customers nationwide.
Crestclean’s strong corporate operating systems bring discipline to our commercial cleaning services. Our Regional Managers provide the customer interface, ensuring that you receive a consistent quality service from a motivated cleaning team.
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Maori Artist, Tamoko - Kirituhi. Please message Kauri through his Facebook or Instagram page to book in advance.
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Huia Publishers
Huia Publishers is a Māori owned, independent publisher producing innovative and inspiring books and resources. Since 1991, our purpose has been simple and uncompromising – we share stories that resonate with our people, that reflect our experiences and that value our culture and language.
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Ahu Boutique
Māori inspired clothing, gifts and jewelry.
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XMT Creations
At XMT Creations we're passionate about creating educational Māori resources for the home and the classroom.
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Jeanine Clarkin
Jeanine Clarkin is a pioneer of Māori fashion in Aotearoa, having started her eponymous label over 27 years ago. Jeanine's design story is one where success and integrity have been woven together to create a design history and practice that encompasses Haute Couture to Slow Fashion using vintage Paraikete and preloved garments to enable the embodiment of high energy fun with a low impact on papatuanuku.
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Tātou Prints
Tātou Prints celebrates te ao māori through contemporary māori art that focuses on re māori revitalisation and continuing traditional pūrākau being shared.
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Māori by Design
Beautiful Taonga and a lovely selection of Maori Arts and Crafts. Taonga Maori, Pounamu, Bone, Whale Bone, Kakahu, Potae.
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Tuitui Designs
Providing Māori art and Taonga to the world.
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Kereru Pounamu
Ka mahi mai a Emry Kereru kei roto ki te tohu o Kereru Pounamu, no Kai Tahu me Ngapuhi, he kaiwhakairo o nga taonga kohatu ia. Nga matauranga o te wahi pounamu, nga kete wananga ki onamata, me te whakairo tuturu ki te whakapapa, tenei te kaupapa. Kua tikina nga toka no Te Waipounamu ia, ki roto a te ture tikanga, me kua hoki era ia ki te nohoaka o Te Whanganui a Tara mo te mahi o te whare kohatu. E arohaina rawa e Kereru, te hoaka o te mere, me nga ahua o te whakairo o te Tai Tokerau.
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L. Eyes and Co
Kākahu,pōtai, mōwhiti and peke.
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Cuzy T
Cuzy T Wear You Belong is an Iwi and Hapu Clothing brand with an American style.Visit their website here.
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