• What sort of mayor do we need?
• How will this affect business
• Will we be better able to: address social disparities? Implement economic development initiatives? Weather the global financial storm?
• Will we get better "Auckland" policies? How will the new governance arrangements improve infrastructure and address public amenities and public spaces?
• Will we: gain public sector efficiencies? Reduce costs? Reduce rates? Rationalise services?
• Has the "Local" been put back into local government?
• What does this mean for: Maori? Pacific peoples? New immigrant groups? Aucklanders? The rest of the country?
• What are the chances of Auckland becoming a "world class city"?

The Royal Commission's recommendations are likely to set in motion some of the most significant changes to local government in New Zealand since the beginning of European settlement. It's hugely important that what the Royal Commission recommends is well understood and has broad-based public support. All the signs are that the Commission will produce a package which, if well implemented, will provide a platform for improving Auckland's, and through Auckland the whole of New Zealand's, economy and society.

This conference is your opportunity to hear both what the Royal Commission recommended and why, and the views of a range of outstanding business, community and academic leaders on what this means for the Auckland region.

This conference is a ‘must attend’ event for anybody who wants to be part of the solution.