2011 Conference

Logo Designed by Andrea Wong - D'lish

New Zealand Food Bloggers Conference 2011 (NZFBC)
Date : Saturday 12th November 2011
Venue: The Tasting Shed, State Highway 16, next to Coopers Creek, Kumeu

Evening Venue: Cook The Books, Richmond Road, Grey Lynn

To confirm your attendance at the conference please purchase on line with PayPal below, if you don't have a credit card to purchase via Pay Pal please email me directly at allison@foodbloggersnz.com and I will send bank details for direct debit.

Places are limited so we are unable to hold any without payment.

REGISTRATION is now CLOSED for the conference

To book you place at Cook The Books for the evening event please book here. You must be attending the conference to be eligible for the evening event. $30 per person.

To pay by credit card please use the Paypal button below, to pay by direct debit please contact us on allison@foodbloggersnz.com

Below is the initial schedule with key speakers confirmed where indicated. There is still things to be finalised and the order of the day may change with the addition of a final guest speaker.

Schedule and planned events

9:00 Registration (volunteers please)

9.30 Welcome address - Allison Pirrie-Mawer

Cabana - with projector

9:30 Web Design and Web Optimisation – presented by Andrea Wong, D'lish

9:40 Social Media - presented by Jaco Swart

10:30 Morning Tea - Tasting Shed - Verandah Area

11:00 Food Writing - Writing for different media types, books, blogs, magazines, time for Q&A – presented by Alessandra Zechinni.

11.30 Blogger Q&A Panel - discussions around food blogging and how to promote Kiwi Bloggers

12:30 Lunch Break - Tasting Plates - Verandah

13:30 - Our Kitchen-Fisher Paykel - presented by Emma Boyd

14:00 - Food product demo and taste session – presented by Louise Fawcett, Pacific Harvest

15:00 Afternoon Tea - Coopers Creek vineyard wine tasting - nose to palate.

Cabana Area with projector

16:00-17.30 Food photography & styling workshop – presented by Bron Marshall

18.30 Dinner - Cook the Books - optional

The evening event will be at a low cost due to the generosity of Cook The Books and additonal sponsors

As soon as we have a cost for this we will advise all registered.

For accommodation we hope to help people via our Facebook page 'couch surf' with a local blogger if they wish. We will also suggest some local accommodation close to the event or the evening social dinner. Please feel free to email us any of your questions or chat to us on Facebook or Twitter.

Look forward to meeting the faces behind the blogs!

EVENT SPONSORS

We would like to offer a special thanks to the following sponsors...

The Tasting Shed