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Inspiring and knowledgeable speakers

We're currently bringing together an exciting and diverse lineup of speakers for the Aotearoa Animal Rights Gathering 2026!

Across the weekend, participants will have the opportunity to explore some of the most important and thought-provoking issues facing the animal rights movement today. Through inspiring presentations, practical workshops, and engaging discussions, attendees will gain new skills, fresh ideas, and valuable connections to help strengthen advocacy efforts across Aotearoa.

Sessions will cover a wide range of topics, from community outreach and campaign strategy to animal rights history, movement-building, and creating lasting social change.

We're delighted to begin introducing some of our speakers and presenters. Keep an eye on this page as we continue to announce additional thought-provoking sessions and special guests in the lead-up to the gathering.

 

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Chris Delforce - investigator of animal abuse
 

 Chris is an Australian animal rights advocate, investigator, filmmaker, and founder of the https://www.farmtransparency.org/ an organisation dedicated to exposing animal exploitation and advancing transparency within animal agriculture. Over the past 16 years, Chris has investigated more than 100 farms, slaughterhouses and animal exploitation facilities across Australia and internationally. He is also the writer, director, and editor behind the award-winning feature documentaries Lucent (2014) and Dominion (2018) 

We'll be releasing more about Chris's sessions at the conference soon.

Matt Coffey

Matt Coffey - exposing animal exploitation

Matt has been documenting animal abuse in Te Wai Pounamu, the South Island, for over a decade. He supplied footage to the documentary Milked, and the videos he took depicting cows suffering in mud instigated the 2019 government task force on winter grazing. Matt will be presenting a workshop for activists on:

# The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and their failures to enforce the Animal Welfare Act 199 

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