Brightstar

06/04/2025

The 2025 New Zealand CFO Awards are now open for entries & nominations! The Awards recognise and celebrate the gold standard in leadership, innovation and performance in finance & business. We invite you to recognise your colleagues - teams and individuals - for their important work shaping resilience and success at an organisational level.

CATEGORIES ARE:

New Zealand CFO of the Year
Emerging Financial Leader of the Year Award
Finance Leader – Growth Entity
Best Finance Team of the Year Award
Excellence in Financial Reporting Award

View details at: https://brightstar.co.nz/events/cfosummit/

23/03/2025

Infrastructure New Zealand and Brightstar put on the Infrastructure Resilience Conference in March. It provided a call to action to progress resilience planning and to build community level adaptability.
View what the event was about here:
https://brightstar.co.nz/events/infrastructureresilience/

19/03/2025

Brightstar are enjoying working with Project Management Institute on this event, themed 'Empowering Our World'.

Register Super Saver by midnight, this Friday 21st March.

The ‘All Access Ticket’ includes:
*Welcome Function 6-7.30pm on 20 May
*Conference 21-22 May
*Awards Dinner on 21 May

Earn up to a total of 14 PDUs with the 2 Day Conference and a Masterclass.

View more at: https://brightstar.co.nz/events/nzpmconference/

10/03/2025

Time to get your nominees in.

Only 2 weeks to go!⏰ Nominations for the 2025 New Zealand Primary Industries Awards closing 24 March.

Celebrating the success of New Zealand Primary Industries and its supporters, the Primary Industries New Zealand Awards will take place in Christchurch at Te Pae, on 24 June 2025, a partnered event brought to you Brightstar and Federated Farmers.

Open to individuals, teams, and companies, the awards recognise those making a real impact in agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture, and beyond. These prestigious awards celebrate innovation, excellence, and collaboration across New Zealand’s primary industries.

The categories are:
⭐Rural Professional of the Year
⭐Emerging Leader
⭐Outstanding Contribution to New Zealand's Primary Industries
⭐Champion
⭐Team & Collaboration
⭐Science & Research
⭐Technology Innovation
⭐Food, Beverage and Fibre Producer
⭐Guardianship and Conservation Award (Kaitiakitanga)
⭐Plus, celebrating a 'Rural Hero of the Year'

To find out more, enter or nominate, head to: https://brightstar.co.nz/events/pinz/

06/03/2025

2025 marks 10 years since the enactment of the Health and Safety at Work Act. Happening soon, the National Health & Safety Leaders’ Summit [27-28 March, AKL] is one to explore the changing safety landscape, the new and emerging knowledge areas and skill domains required of safety leaders and their teams.
Book Now at: https://lnkd.in/gsuK3-u8

Thanks to HASANZ who have a register/directory available to make it easy to find qualified workplace health & safety professionals throughout New Zealand. Find out more about this here: https://lnkd.in/gAKkCdxk

17/02/2025

Are you in a non-technical job function working in OR with the New Zealand electricity industry?
This course will give a strong foundation knowledge and general understanding of how the NZ electricity industry operates from a technical, business & political perspective.

Learn about the principles underpinning electricity market functions, the roles of key industry players & regulators, impacts of potential reform and forces shaping the power industry. View course dates and outline at:
https://zurl.co/NSzUV

Or check out our other training courses:
https://zurl.co/g9esz

20/01/2025

Brightstar's popular course in March (virtual over 3 days), May (in-person WLG & AKL), August (virtual), November (WLG & AKL).

A practical guide to contract law, covering when a contract is required, when you might unknowingly have one, types of contracts, and the effect of statutes on your arrangements.

This course also scrutinises what happens when things go wrong, including how you can get out of a contract, options

for assessing damages and remedies for breaches. You will grasp the crucial ingredients required for a good contract, and gain tips for understanding contractual material.

March course starting soon.

View more at: https://brightstar.co.nz/contractlaw-for-nonlawyers/

08/12/2024

Brightstar staff enjoying a lovely lunch out with an abundance of food and wine. Happy Summer everyone!

18/11/2024

The future of management accounting! The virtual Management Accountant 2025 conference focuses on the most recent regulatory updates, strategic advancements that will share the future of financial management and sessions will explore cutting-edge insights.

**Navigation of economical finance challenges
**Understanding current trends & future directions
**Sustainability metrics & climate reporting
**Collaborating effectively – Intergenerational & across departments
**Cyber breaches

Super Saver tickets available until 20 December OR register with your colleagues utilising multi-buy pricing.

Go to:
https://brightstar.co.nz/events/management-accountant/

13/11/2024

AGENDA ANNOUNCED! The Framework for Reporting Climate-related Financial Disclosures has been in force for a year, and now provides a great opportunity to learn from this.

The 3rd Annual Sustainability & Climate Reporting Conference will dive into the technical aspects of transparent sustainability and climate reporting; supporting you to develop the systems and processes required to produce consistent and comparable information. While climate and carbon remain key, the event will explore all ESG dimensions, including biodiversity and social impact.

View more at: https://brightstar.co.nz/events/renew-sustainability-climate-reporting-conference/

21/10/2024

The New Zealand Electro Mobility Summit & Expo took place at the Auckland Showgrounds 16-17 October 2024.

The Summit explored how the crucial role sustainable transportation plays into New Zealand's zero carbon targets.

Some great networking also took place in the exhibition area, with people also checking out the ever evolving new products and services for this sector.

21/10/2024

For those in the energy sector... SAVE THE DATE! Downstream\25 will be in Christchurch this March 20-21, 2025.

View the draft programme here: https://www.nzdownstream.co.nz/page/programme