Women in Wine Connect

An annual opportunity for the New Zealand wine industry to connect, learn, and celebrate achievements.

Let’s connect over morning tea, share updates, and hear wonderful stories from inspirational women. It is a great opportunity to continue our New Zealand Wine 2025 celebrations. Everyone is welcome regardless of gender.

Crowne Plaza Christchurch, Ellis, Gartner & Oram Room
Friday 29 August 2025 - 10:00 am - 11:30 am (timings to be confirmed)

More details to come.

You can check out the 2024 events here.

Speaker

Ali Adams, Chief Executive, ChristchurchNZ

Ali Adams is ChristchurchNZ’s Chief Executive. She leads the city’s economic development agency with the support of six general managers who lead teams in pillars that each support a vital part of the agency’s work. “Leading ChristchurchNZ is the best role in the world. It is a privilege to have that kaitiakitanga, that responsibility on behalf of all who call Ōtautahi Christchurch home now, and on behalf of my children and the children who will live here in the future. I love that I have the responsibility to help grow this amazing place.” Ali has a background in economic development, having led New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s work in Europe and before that, in the South Island. She has also worked in marketing, tourism, and sports leadership, spending four years as the domestic manager for New Zealand Cricket. A Cantabrian by choice since 2003, she started her business career as a brand manager for Unilever after graduating from Cambridge University with a first-class honours degree in natural science.

If you have any questions, please contact events@nzwine.com.
You can check out the 2024 events here.