CIBSE NZ | Christmas Breakfast

Celebrate the CIBSE NZ Christmas Breakfast on 20 November 2026 with networking, breakfast and inspiring tales of adventure from Rod Slater! An Inspiring Morning of Connection, Conversation and Adventure Join fellow building services professionals for a morning of delicious food, meaningful conversations and industry fellowship. Celebrate the year with the CIBSE community while hearing an extraordinary story of adventure, discovery and resilience from this year's guest speaker, Rod Slater. Meet Our Guest Speaker: Rod Slater Rod Slater is an accomplished architect, artist, yachtsman and motorcycling enthusiast whose life has been shaped by adventure and exploration. After earning a Master’s degree in Architecture from Montana State University, he built a diverse career spanning construction and entrepreneurship. Having sailed from the United States to New Zealand in 1991–1993, Rod has since travelled the world, including a recent circumnavigation aboard his yacht, Vela Dera. He also documented his motorcycle adventures in his 2022 book, Two Years on Two Wheels. Drawing on his experiences, Rod will share insights on environmental challenges, life at sea, human resilience and creative problem-solving. Event Programme • 8:30 am: Registration, breakfast and networking • 9:00 am: Guest presentation by Rod Slater (45 minutes) • 9:45 am: Audience Q&A (10 minutes) • 10:30 am: Event concludes Why Attend? • Connect with fellow building services professionals and the wider CIBSE NZ community. • Enjoy a relaxed Christmas breakfast and valuable networking opportunities. • Gain fresh perspectives on resilience, environmental challenges and creative problem-solving. • Hear fascinating first-hand stories from an architect and world sailor whose adventures span continents and oceans. Join us for an inspiring morning of stories, connections and Christmas cheer. We look forward to seeing you there! CIBSE ANZ technical events are supported by Seber Recruitment Group. Seber provide permanent and temporary recruitment solutions in Australia and the UK across the design engineering industry. Specialising in all Building Services and Civil & Structural disciplines for Junior to Director level positions. Their specialist team comes with over 10 years of experience and is passionate when it comes to what we do best... recruiting! www.linkedin.com/company/seberrecruitment CIBSE Privacy Notice The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers ('CIBSE') is committed to protecting your privacy, and takes its responsibilities regarding the security of members' and customers' information very seriously. For the purpose of registering you for this event and providing you with further information in relation to this event we will process your personal data within our customer database. On the basis of legitimate interest we may use your data to inform you of similar events in the future and to promote services, activities and commercial objectives that are designed to support the science, art and practice of building services engineering . For more information about how we process any personal information that we collect about you, how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy please view our privacy notice. CIBSE Event Behavioural Policy CIBSE wants all attendees to feel welcome and included at our events. We ask attendees to keep in mind that they are within a professional environment when at CIBSE events and they are expected to always demonstrate professional behaviour modelling high standards of ethical conduct, honesty and integrity to protect the reputation and standing of CIBSE. CIBSE will not tolerate or allow any discriminatory or disrespectful behaviours by any person during CIBSE events, including bullying, harassment or sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes at our events. Where alcohol is provided, attendees are expected to know their limits and drink responsibly. The provision of alcohol should not be taken as an endorsement by CIBSE for attendees to drink excessively nor for any resulting improper conduct or activity. By registering for this event, you agree to abide by the CIBSE Event Behavioural Policy. Event Photography By attending this event, you acknowledge that you may be photographed or filmed. These images may be used to promote the organisation's work and future events. If you do not wish for your image to be taken, please notify the event staff immediately upon arrival at the event.