Ben Wooliscroft

Ben Wooliscroft

Auckland University of Technology and President, Macromarketing Society

Registrations for the 42nd Macromarketing Conference are now closed.

Notes and Suggestions for those planning to travel around New Zealand after the conference.

Macromarketing Conference 2017

“Marketing Systems’ Contributions to Society:
Past, Present and Potential”


Queenstown, New Zealand
19-22nd June, 2017

Macromarketing research concerns itself with the interaction among markets, marketing and society. There is little question that the market economy has contributed significantly to the material well-being of most people living in the developed world. That positive contribution may be at a tipping point with an obesity and diabetes epidemic, catastrophic climate change, the casualization of work, or the replacement of work with machinery or artificial intelligence, all on the near horizon. The market economy and marketing as a discipline have come under strong criticism in recent times (Galbraith, 2004; Klein, 2000, 2002) and in the past (Galbraith, 1958) simultaneously with glowing praise (Wilkie and Moore, 1999).

Conference Chairs

  • Ben Wooliscroft
  • Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft

Conference Information

Submission

General submissions for the conference have now closed.

If you are interested in participating at the conference or doctoral colloquium, please contact the conference organizers:

Registration

The link to the conference registration will be available, soon. Final day of online registrations: 12th June.

Category Description Fee
Conference registration incl. evening reception (19th June), all lunches and dinners (except dinner on day two)1 $850NZ
Pre-conference systems workshop 19th June afternoon; incl. lunch $60NZ
PhD students incl. conference, systems workshop, and PhD colloquium $550NZ
Early-bird registrations for PhD students and general conference registration (up to 30tth April) incl. a merino jersey

Conference Hotel

Please reserve your hotel room as soon as possible, as rooms will be released by the hotel (no payment required at this stage & cancellations permitted.)

We have a very nice hotel, The Heritage Queenstown where all sessions and all meals, except the second evening meal, will be shared. The conference fee includes the meals, except the second evening meal. The room rate includes breakfast and 1GB of wireless data per day per room.

To reserve your room, please go to http://www.heritagehotels.co.nz/booking:

  • hotel, Queenstown,
  • your dates, click ‘flexible dates,’
  • promo code: MACRO
  • your details & submit
The Heritage, Queenstown.
The Heritage, Queenstown. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)
The Heritage, Queenstown.
The Heritage during Winter, Queenstown. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)
The Heritage, Queenstown.
The Banquet Room at The Heritage, Queenstown. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)

Conference Room

The Heritage, Queenstown.
The Conference Room at The Heritage, Queenstown. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)

Conference Excursion

The Heritage, Queenstown.
Near Queenstown. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)

Queenstown

After the Conference

Opening Firework display at the American Express Queenstown Winterfestival 2016
Opening Firework display at the American Express Queenstown Winterfestival 2016. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)
Free concerts and events are highlights of the Winter Festival
Free concerts and events are highlights of the Winter Festival. (Photograph: The Heritage, Queenstown.)

Come for the conference, stay for the party

After the party, the World Marketing Congress is being held in Christchurch 27th June-1stJuly, see:

http://www.ams-web.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=683377

Notes

  1. There will be the option of booking evening meals and the activity for non-conference goers/partners, fee to be finalised. ↩