Venue: Michael Fowler Centre, 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington. 

The biannual DEANZ conference is the premier conference in Aotearoa New Zealand for leaders and practitioners involved in open, flexible and distance learning. The 2012 conference theme was 'Shift Happens' with three themes of resilience, relevance and reform:

• Resilience: dealing with uncertainty and coping with changes you can and cannot influence.
• Relevance: providing education that is relevant to the context and culture of the learner
• Reform: moving to better futures for all, through recognising political, social, economic and personal drivers.

We have uploaded some of the main speakers’ presentations at http://www.deanz.org.nz/home/index.php/deanz-conference-2012/conference-2012/2012-speakers. Other session presenters have made their work available in their own pages linked to from the programme page at http://www.deanz.org.nz/home/index.php/deanz-conference-2012/conference-2012/2012-programme.