On September 9, 2026, more than 300 health and safety leaders packed Auckland's NZICC for ePIC 2026 to get answers to an important question: what if we stopped managing safety and started leading it?
Back at its third edition, this year's event took on the theme Safety Rewired: Transforming H&S through Care, Leadership, and Technology, with eight speakers spending the day making the case for what that actually looks like in practice.
The calibre of conversation in that room stood out, from our own ecoPortal team to the clients, partners, and guests who filled every seat. People brought sharp questions and honest experience in equal measure, and it made for a genuinely engaged crowd.
MC Craig Bleakley was a presence throughout, but his opening remarks did the real work of setting up what was to come: a day built less like a lineup of talks, and more like one story unfolding in chapters.
Let's explore some of the highlights brought by each one of our speakers and the lessons we can take from them.