🌅 One week to go. ⏰ At Sunrise Aotearoa, some of the best conversations start before you arrive. Inside Brella, our festival & networking app that uses AI-powered matchmaking to help you find your people early. See who’s coming. Connect with fellow Travellers. Book 1:1 meetings ahead of time. 🤝 Then, on the day, wander over to the Global Connections Zone, presented by HSBC Innovation Banking, where your meeting tables are waiting. A huge thanks to HSBC Innovation Banking for powering connections at Sunrise. Book a meeting through Brella, or say hello to the team in the Global Connections Zone. This is your moment. Join us? 🎟️ Grab your tickets & explore the full lineup 👉 lnkd.in/dRGNvjGK 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa is a window into the horizon. A gathering place where big ideas and bold visions of the future are shared by the people already building them. In two weeks, the doors open. ✨ Only a handful of tickets remain. If you’ve been thinking of joining us, this is your moment. Your people will be here. 🎟️ Grab your tickets & explore the full lineup 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 Bring your laptop. Bring the problem. Don't miss the workshop session at Sunrise Aotearoa 2026: ✨ Hands-on AI Optimisation: Caching, Evals and Architecture ✨ Pull up a chair with @OpenAI's engineering team as they share a look into where they’re heading, with live demos of the newest models and APIs. Then get hands-on. Engineers move between tables while you work on your own product, finding the right model for you, and taking an agentic workflow in Codex from a sketch to something that runs. For founders, operators and technical builders who have played with AI and now want it doing real work. 🎟️ Grab your tickets & check out the full program 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

Three weeks from now, we gather. To stretch the edges of what feels possible, together. 📣 Today, the full Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 program opens. Every speaker, every session, every time slot, laid out so you can begin mapping your day before you arrive. Explore the full program 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 These are the voices taking the stage: ✨ @_Timdoyle, Co-founder & CEO / Eucalyptus ✨ @benshewry, Owner & Chef / Attica ✨ Andrew Fraser, President / @halterHQ ✨ Malindi Maclean, VP Customer / @halterHQ ✨ @ConnorArchbold, CEO & Co-founder / @gotracksuit ✨ Lowry Gladwell, Country Lead / @airwallex ✨ Michelle Walshe, Co-founder & CEO / CoachMate ✨ @boxcardavid, Founder & CEO / @westmagco ✨ Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups, APAC / @OpenAI ✨ Indranil Sarkar, Director, Strategic Startups, APAC / @OpenAI ✨ @wwshaef, Venture Partner / @pearvc ✨ @simon_pound, Co-CEO / @PreviouslyCo ✨ Maya Pan, Co-founder / Growth NZ ✨ @BowenPan, Co-chair / Growth NZ ✨ Weiran Sun, Applied AI Engineer, Startup / @OpenAI ✨ Ned Swaney, Applied AI / @OpenAI ✨ Andrew Wierda, CEO / Nylon ✨ Ally Tang, Founder / PIXEL ✨ Promise Akindeju, Filmmaker / Lemon Time Studios & Alcova ✨ Niko Purdie, Chief KiwiHacker / KiwiHacks ✨ Tenaya Smerdon, Founder / Parallel Layers 🎟️ Final tickets are moving - this is the moment to join us 👉 thesunrise.live/ Auckland, we'll see you soon. 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

Set your alarms. ⏰ 📣 This Thursday, 8 October, we unveil the full Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 program. Every session. Every speaker. The whole schedule in clear view, so you can map out your path through Sunrise, moment by moment. 🎟️ Grab your tickets & check out the lineup 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 What's been building is now visible: a gathering of ideas, people and perspectives, all pushing at the edge of what feels possible. You've met the voices taking the stage. Today, the program opens up. ✨ 👀 Explore the full lineup of conversations waiting for you at Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 & grab your tickets. 👉 thesunrise.live/ Join us. Your people will be here. 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 At Sunrise, connections are formed before you ever step into the room. Brella, our Sunrise festival and networking app, uses AI-powered matchmaking to help you find your people early. Through it, you can: 👉 Discover who else is coming 👉 Match & connect with fellow Travellers 👉 Book 1:1 meetings onsite, ahead of time And when you arrive, find your way to your dedicated meeting table in the Global Connections Zone, presented by @HSBC Innovation Banking. A huge thanks to our friends at HSBC Innovation Banking for helping power connections at Sunrise. Book a meeting through Brella, or find the team at the Global Connections Zone to talk through your banking needs. The room is opening. Join us. 🎟️ Grab your tickets & check out the full speaker lineup. 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 Sunrise is where we gather to stretch our imaginations. To discover what's already being built at the outer edges of possibility. To remember the future is shaped by people who dare to dream it differently. 📣 Meet our next wave of dreamers stepping onto the Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 stage.👇 ✨ Connor Archbold, CEO & Co-founder / @gotracksuit ✨ Andrew Fraser, President / @halterHQ ✨ Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups, APAC / @OpenAI ✨ Indranil Sarkar, Director, Strategic Startups, APAC / @OpenAI ✨ Maya Pan, Co-founder / Growth NZ ✨ @bowenpan, Co-chair / Growth NZ ✨ Weiran Sun, Applied AI Engineer, Startup / @OpenAI ✨ Ned Swaney, Applied AI / @OpenAI ✨ Promise Akindeju, Filmmaker / Lemon Time Studios & Alcova ✨ Andrew Wierda, CEO / Nylon ✨ @boxcardavid, Founder & CEO / @westmagco ✨ Niko Purdie, Chief KiwiHacker / KiwiHacks ✨ Tenaya Smerdon, Founder / Parallel Layers 🎟️ Grab your tickets & check out the full speaker lineup. 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 The room is filling. The stage keeps growing. And we're only just getting started. This week, we're dropping a whole new wave of speakers. 👀 Keep an eye out for the next voices joining Sunrise Aotearoa 2026. Here's a reminder of who's stepping onto the stage so far.👇 ✨ @_Timdoyle , Co-founder & CEO / Eucalyptus ✨ Malindi Maclean, VP Customer / @halterHQ ✨ @benshewry , Owner & Chef / Attica ✨ Lowry Gladwell, Country Lead / @airwallex ✨ Michelle Walshe, Co-founder & CEO / CoachMate ✨ Warren Shaeffer, Venture Partner / @pearvc ✨ Simon Pound, Co-CEO / @PreviouslyCo ✨ Ally Tang, Founder / PIXEL 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

Behind the boldest ideas in the room are people working quietly in the background, making sure the harder, less visible parts hold together. @legalvision_law is one of them. They work alongside founders, VCs and growing businesses, helping them tackle legal challenges, manage risk and keep moving forward. If you're building something and need a steer, you can catch their team at Sunrise Aotearoa 2026. 🎟️ Check out the speaker lineup so far & grab your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

The lineup is taking shape. 🌅 Here's a reminder of who's stepping onto the Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 stage so far. Builders, storytellers, technologists and creatives who are stretching the edge of what feels possible. ✨@_Timdoyle, Co-founder & CEO / Eucalyptus ✨ Michelle Walshe, Co-founder & CEO / CoachMate ✨@benshewry, Owner & Head Chef / Attica ✨ Lowry Gladwell, Country Lead /@airwallex ✨ Malindi Maclean, VP Customer / @halterHQ ✨@wwshaef, Venture Partner /@pearvc ✨ Simon Pound, Co-CEO /@PreviouslyCo ✨ Ally Tang, Founder / PIXEL Much more still to come. 👀 🎟️ Check out the speaker lineup so far & grab your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

Some futures feel impossible, right up until someone starts building them.⁠ ⁠ 🌅 Sunrise gathers the people doing exactly that, and today, that gathering grows.⁠ ⁠ The next wave of Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 speakers is here. 📣 ⁠ ✨ Lowry Gladwell, Country Lead / @airwallex ✨ Malindi Maclean, VP Customer / @halterHQ ✨ @wwshaef, Venture Partner / @pearvc ✨ Ally Tang, Founder / PIXEL ✨ Simon Pound, Co-CEO / @PreviouslyCo More builders. More dreamers. More reasons to be in the room. Check out the full speaker lineup so far & grab your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live/ 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

✨ A softer space for wilder dreams. ✨ This is Sunrise Aotearoa 2026. A day to widen your imagination. To think stranger, wonder longer, and leave more ambitious than when you arrived. Here's a look back at the last one. 👀 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

Fourteen years on, our belief hasn't changed: generational companies will be built by Aussies and Kiwis, wherever they are in the world. Today we're announcing our sixth fund: over $1 billion to keep backing their founders from the very first cheque through to global scale.

Different perspectives. Different obsessions. Different ways of imagining what comes next. Sunrise is where they come together. ICYMI, here is a glimpse at just some of the voices shaping Sunrise Aotearoa 2026. 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

We're hiring a Brand, Storytelling and Community Lead at Blackbird. A full-stack storyteller who finds the story, then writes, designs, shoots and edits it into the world. Stories run rich here, from our founders to Sunrise. Come and tell them. 12 month contract, Australia. blackbird.vc/careers/brand-s…

Sunrise is about stretching the edges of what we believe is possible - and learning from the people already building beyond them. 📣 Today, we open a first glimpse into Sunrise Aotearoa 2026: the minds, worlds and ideas that will shape this year's gathering. Meet the first voices stepping onto the stage: 👇 ✨ @_Timdoyle, Co-founder & CEO / Eucalyptus ✨ Michelle Walshe, Co-founder & CEO / CoachMate ✨ @benshewry, Owner & Head Chef / Attica 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 Ambition starts with imagination. Sunrise exists to stretch yours - to gather founders, builders and dreamers in one room, and remind you the future is shaped by people willing to imagine it differently. 🐣 Discounted Earlybird tickets (15% off General Admission) to Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 close tomorrow, Wednesday 12 August at midnight. 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 2026 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland #SunriseNZ26

🌅 Thinking about joining us at Sunrise Aotearoa 2026? ⏰ Earlybird tickets (15% off General Admission) are on sale now and close next Wednesday, 12 August, with only a small handful left. And next Thursday, our first speaker drop lands. 👀 Until then, here's a look back at the magic of Sunrise Aotearoa 2023, and a glimpse of what awaits. 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 2026 📍 ASB Waterfront, Auckland 🎟️ Get your tickets 👉 thesunrise.live #SunriseNZ26

📣 PSA. Discounted Earlybird tickets for Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 have officially landed. 🎟️ A short window of 15% off General Admission, available until midnight Wednesday 12 August (or until they disappear). 🐣 Secure your spot 👉 thesunrise.live 🌅 Sunrise Aotearoa 2026 🗓️ Thursday 29 October 📍 ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland Your people will be here. Join us. #SunriseNZ26