YOU ARE INVITED!

Book your place now for the 2023 New Zealand Plumbing Conference, 3-5 May at Te Pae in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Online registrations are open now at www.plumbingconference.org.nz

There’s so much value to be gained from attending—for personal growth, business advice, and industry knowledge. Network with your peers, share, learn and be inspired.

Keynote speakers for the 2023 event are:

Jason Gunn—TV personality and communications coach

Dr Michelle Dickinson—Nanogirl, innovator and adventurer.

All conference sessions and activities are included in your registration, plus morning teas, afternoon teas and lunches in the trade exhibition space. Registration also covers the evening social events:

Mico Welcome Night at the Christchurch

Transitional Cathedral

Marley and Dux Fun Night

New Zealand Plumbing Awards Night, sponsored by Plumbing World.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME*

Note: This year's event sees a format change, with the Master Plumbers AGM at 10am on the Wednesday.

Wednesday 3 May

8.30am Conference registration desk opens

9:30am Morning Tea

10am-12pm Master Plumbers Annual General Meeting

New Zealand journalist and storyteller Jehan Casinader will MC the conference sessions.

WHEN: 3-5 May 2023

WHERE: Te Pae Convention Centre, Ōtautahi Christchurch

COST (EX GST): $995 Master Plumbers member rate; $1,095 Business Partner rate

BOOK: www.plumbingconference.org.nz

Thursday 4 May

8:30am Opening Karakia

8:45am Keynote Speaker: Jason Gunn

10am Master Plumbers update from CEO Greg Wallace

10:30am Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition

11:15am 'State of the Sector’ Discussion Panel

12:30pm To be confirmed

1:15pm Lunch & Trade Exhibition

2:15pm 'Sustainability’ Discussion Panel

3pm Growing the Industry Discussion Panel

4pm Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition

6:30pm Marley and Dux Fun Night at Wigram Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Friday 5 May

8:30am ‘Future Fuels’ Discussion Panel

9:30am Keynote Speaker: ‘Nanogirl’ Dr Michelle Dickinson

10:45am Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition

11:15am 'Women in Plumbing’ Discussion Panel

12:15am Trade Exhibition Prize Presentations

12:30pm Lunch

1pm Afternoon Leisure Activities: International Antarctic Centre Golf Driving Range Competition

6:30pm 2023 New Zealand Plumbing Awards Dinner, sponsored by Plumbing World – MC Hilary Barry

*SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Get to know the Master Plumbers team with our quick Q&As.

RoVE, and the dreaded C****-19. Not to mention the plumbing industry plays such a crucial role in preserving public health!

What people do you enjoy being around? People that are passionate about what they do but don’t take themselves too seriously, are kind and have a great sense of humour.

Who inspires you?

New Members

A very warm welcome to new Master Plumbers member businesses:

NAME: Jason Goei

ROLE: Operations Manager

What does your role entail?

Working with our amazing team on the development and delivery of our professional services and resources keeps me busy! My role is centred around assisting with the delivery of the Master Plumbers’ strategy through products and services for members, our training department, the administrative team, events, complaints, and key stakeholder relationship management.

What part of your role do you relish?

Getting to work with such amazing people!

Why Master Plumbers?

Master Plumbers is at the forefront of supporting the PGD industry through critical issues, such as the adoption of future fuels,

Very cliché, but regardless, my dad inspires me. He grew up in severe poverty in Bandung, Indonesia, having to rely on scholarships to further his education and find his place in the world. Now he’s happily retired after a career in the oleochemical industry.

What’s your happy place?

My current happy place is in the ocean on a glassy day and 7+ meters of underwater visibility (with preferably heaps of crayfish around).

If you could invite round any famous person, dead or alive, who would it be?

Would have to be Anthony Bourdain!

What would you give them to eat?

Would have to be a classic nasi goreng from the street food cart outside where my grandparents used to live in Bandung.

What’s a perfect weekend?

A weekend of cooking, eating and drinking with friends and family—preferably somewhere warm and by the ocean.

Be In To Win Big On World Plumbing Day

Milwaukee have risen to the occasion once again, with a fabulous $9,000-worth of prizes to give away to celebrate World Plumbing Day on 11 March 2023! Winners will be drawn on 13 March and are in to win:

FIRST PRIZE:

$4,000 RRP tools of your choice

SECOND PRIZE: $3,000 RRP tools of your choice

THIRD PRIZE: $2,000 RRP tools of your choice.

How to enter

For details, visit www.masterplumbers. org.nz/membership/world-plumbingday-competition

Be in to win Milwaukee tools of your choice with the Master Plumbers World Plumbing Day prize draw to acknowledge the indispensable work plumbers that plumbers do all around the world!

Allround Plumbing and Gas – Auckland

New Era Plumbing and Gas Fitting – Auckland

Tradespec NZ Ltd – Auckland

Williams Drainage and Civil Ltd – Auckland

Redi Plumbing Ltd – Waikato

Bishop Plumbing and Gas – Bay of Plenty/Coromandel

Premier Heating – Taranaki

Clearwater Plumbing –

Wellington

V Plumbing – South Canterbury

WANT TO JOIN?

Master Plumbers is here to support all businesses in the plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying industry. Members are Quality Assured and backed by the Master Plumbers Guarantee. We offer a wide range of business resources, health and safety, HR & technical support, plus training and member discounts—and we advocate for our members as a collective industry voice. Get in touch today!

Alana Fourie 021 985 894 afourie@masterplumbers.org.nz

Or contact 0800 502 102 admin@masterplumbers.org.nz