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Sir Ray Avery confirmed as after-dinner speaker at PANZ International Conference 2016: local publishing, global thinking

By March 1, 2016No Comments

Sir Ray Avery photoThe PANZ Conference Committee is delighted to announce that Sir Ray Avery GNZM, renowned pharmaceutical scientist, inventor, social entrepreneur and inaugural New Zealander of the Year in 2010 will be the guest speaker at the Penguin Random House dinner on Thursday 30 June.

Sir Ray has kindly donated signed copies of his autobiography Rebel With a Cause for all dinner guests.  For conference delegates dinner will included in your package and we will be offering tickets for the dinner only as we expect great interest in this inspirational speaker

PANZ International Conference 2016: local publishing, global thinking will be held from 9.30 am Thursday 30 June until 1pm Friday 1 July in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 128 Albert Street, Auckland. The Programme will be issued in April when registrations will open.

REMINDER: We have secured rooms at a preferential rate for PANZ Conference delegations BUT there are a limited number of rooms available at this rate and the hotel will release the rooms if our delegates don’t require them.

Follow the link below to secure the conference rate of $195 a night for standard rooms at the Crowne Plaza hotel.

Publishers Association of New Zealand