I don't think freitasm has announced this in his blog this year.....

The IBM Forum is on again and starts next week.  Registration is free!

Wellington, 18 August, Wellington Convention Center
Auckland, 20 August, Sky City Convention Center
Christchurch, 25 August, Christchurch Convention Center

Lots of sessions there including sessions from VMWare, Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint and others.

Still a few spots left, register on the IBM website: http://www.ibm.com/events/nz/ibmforum/

(where they ask you how did you hear about forum, enter 'geekzone', where it says "if an IBMer told you about forum" enter 'angela' :) )

IBM Forum on Twitter: #ibmforum09 #ibmbizinsight