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Get in the room with the people who move business here

More than 80 events and trainings a year, from Tauranga’s biggest monthly networking evening through to practical training and the region’s premier business awards.

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Business After 5 networking event guests

Business After 5

Our Business After 5 (BA5) events are a Chamber staple. Hosted by a member, these evening networking events happen on the first Wednesday of the month, and are some of our most popular ways to build new connections. If you have a new product, premises, or exciting news, consider the BA5 as part of sharing your story with the wider business community.

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Business @ Breakfast

Our Business @ Breakfast events are our morning version of the BA5. They generally have a more intimate audience, where attendees get to know a business in a smaller, less intimidating setting. Like our BA5s, they are also free for Chamber members.

Business Women’s Network event audience

Business Women’s Network

Business Women’s Network is the leading business community for women in the Western Bay of Plenty. BWN hosts popular events such as our spring and autumn networking lunches, and our annual Speaker Series conference in June.

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Training

We work with local providers, who are experts in their fields, to offer webinars, workshops and courses throughout the year that will increase capability and confidence for you and your team.

Tauranga Business Awards gala dinner

Tauranga Business Awards

Be inspired by the region’s industry change-makers and innovators at the Bay’s premier black-tie business event. See who will join our strong alumni of past award business excellence winners. For more information and tickets click here.

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Leadership

Our events feature local and nationally recognised leaders, providing insights into issues critical to the regional and national economy. Gain informed perspectives and the opportunity to engage with key topics shaping the business landscape.

What’s coming up

21OctTrainingDigital Marketing: Google Ads + SEOBoost your online visibility with this hands on, foundational digital marketing workshop. Designed for business owners, this session builds your un...9:00 to 1:00pm
Tauranga Business Chamber - 58 Cross Road, ...
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22OctTrainingThe NXUS Experience Leadership & Communication TrainingThe NXUS Experience - Leadership Workshop  Transform the way you lead – in moments that matter most. The NXUS Experience is a high-impact, full day...8:30 to 5:30pm
NXUS, Level Two 14 Hamilton Street, Tauranga
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22OctNetworkingChamber's 122nd Annual General Meeting - for membersTauranga Business Chamber is an incorporated society. As such, we are required to hold an annual general meeting (AGM) for our members to engage wi...4:30 to 6:00pm
Deloitte Tauranga: Northern Quarter, Level ...
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28OctNetworkingToi Ohomai: Employers and Student Careers and Volunteer ExpoThis event is organised by Toi Ohomai Meet Future Employees. Not Just Future Job Seekers. Looking for apprentices, trainees, interns, graduates, vo...11:30 to 1:30pm
Toi Ohomai Windermere Campus
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29OctTrainingAI Business Essentials MasterclassThe AI Essentials Masterclass is a full day workshop offering Bay of Plenty businesses a practical introduction to AI. We will explore AI concepts,...9:00 to 5:00pm
Tauranga Business Chamber - 58 Cross Road, ...
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30OctTrainingAI for Business Growth: Strategies & Practical ApplicationsThis advanced masterclass is the essential next step for businesses that completed the AI Business Essentials Masterclass. A full-day, hands-on wor...9:00 to 5:00pm
Tauranga Business Chamber - 58 Cross Road, ...
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Want to host a Business After 5?

It is the single best way to get a room full of local business people inside your operation. We handle the promotion and the logistics.

Host a Chamber event

Hosting a Chamber event is a great opportunity to let the business community know who you are and what you do. We have a range of event options available. If you’re interested in hosting an event, contact our events team below to discuss options.

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Tracy Hayson

As Managing Director and owner of Hayson Knell, Tracy brings over 20 years’ experience building a successful Tauranga-based planning consultancy into a nationally respected firm.

Alongside her business leadership, Tracy is an accredited RMA Commissioner and brings broad governance experience, including the NZ Planning Institute’s BOP branch and the Otūmoetai Intermediate Board of Trustees.
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Rochelle Lockley

Rochelle is the General Manager Communications for Port of Tauranga Limited, New Zealand’s largest port, joining the executive team in September 2020. Before that she spent 15 years operating her own strategic communications consultancy.

A former journalist, she has worked in communications in London, New York, Sydney, Auckland and Tauranga over the past 30 years.
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Rachel Withington

Rachel is an Associate in the Property and Commercial team at Holland Beckett. With more than a decade of legal experience in Tauranga, she has advised clients locally and nationally on a wide range of matters.

Rachel is passionate about supporting the growth of the Tauranga region and the success of its business community.
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Morgan Wynniatt

Morgan brings experience from both advisory and industry roles, including senior positions at BDO and financial accounting work with Seeka.

Her focus is on tax planning, financial reporting, and advisory support, with a particular interest in international tax and more complex structures. She works with clients across agribusiness, property, manufacturing, and Māori corporations.
Chad Wallace

Chad Wallace

Chad specialises in all things property: subdivisions, developments, horticulture and farm sales, retirement villages, and local authority work. He also acts for one of New Zealand’s largest group home builders, so he’s deeply familiar with the real-world pressures of getting deals over the line.

He helps clients untangle complexity, weigh up risks, and make sure what’s been agreed is actually reflected on paper.
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Brook Carrington

Brook is a Pre-Construction Manager at Livingstone Building. With over 20 years’ experience in the commercial construction sector, Brook brings proven leadership, strategic thinking, and practical problem-solving skills.

His career has been built around managing complex projects, working alongside diverse stakeholder groups, and delivering outcomes that balance vision with practicality.
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Stevan Chand

Treasurer

Stevan is a Chartered Accountant and strategic business advisor with extensive experience in external audit, business advisory, and commercial leadership across Fiji and New Zealand.

As a Partner at PKF Tauranga, he provides business coaching and strategic support, virtual CFO services, budgeting, forecasting and cashflow management, and tax compliance and planning.
Linda Finlay – Treasurer

Jamie Lunam

Vice Chair

Jamie has been a local SME business leader across several organisations and industries in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato for 15 years, with expertise predominantly in the primary and manufacturing sectors.

Being an active part of Chamber activities over the years, including head judge for the Tauranga Business Awards, has given Jamie great insight into the wider business ecosystem in Tauranga.
Rochelle Lockley

Debbie Ireland

Chair

For the past 16 years, Debbie has grown her Tauranga-based business Digital Workplace Results (formerly ShareThePoint Ltd), a premier Microsoft 365 Training Provider.

She enables businesses to understand that real change is achieved by empowering people and using technology as an enabling tool. Debbie is well known for “making things happen”, and her experience as a small business owner brings valued perspective.