Three main world browsing occasions will happen throughout the Southern Gold Coast in February.
The World Membership Championship will run from 13 to fifteen February at Snapper Rocks.
The World Browsing Conservation Convention 2026 will likely be held from 16 to 19 February at Southern Cross College.
The month concludes with the Gold Coast Open QS 4000, operating from 18 to 22 February at Burleigh Heads.
The convention sits between the 2 main browsing competitions, bringing athletes, consultants and organisers collectively through the busiest surf interval of the 12 months.
The occasions spotlight the Southern Gold Coast as a worldwide browsing hub and a centre for surf break safety.
Andrew McKinnon, President of Gold Coast World Browsing Reserve and host organiser, stated the timing displays the realm’s significance.
“What an excellent thrilling time for the Southern finish of the Gold Coast, the house of the Gold Coast World Browsing Reserve,” Mr McKinnon stated.
The convention will draw worldwide guests, audio system and researchers to the Southern Gold Coast.
Metropolis of Gold Coast will use the convention to unveil its Browsing Infrastructure Grasp Plan and its leisure water high quality monitoring stations program.
Native venues will host talks, exhibitions, movie screenings and guided experiences all through the week.
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Over 80 audio system will current through the four-day convention, masking coastal safety, shark mitigation, synthetic reefs, water high quality, and well being and well-being.
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Nineteen nations are represented, together with Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Guinea, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rapa Nui, Spain, the UK and the USA.
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Three main world browsing occasions will run throughout February, linking elite competitors with conservation and training.
Andy Mac, Life Member of Browsing Queensland, stated the convention program displays the depth of world surf analysis.
“It’s a stacked program with over 80 audio system from all around the globe speaking about coastal safety, shark mitigation, synthetic reefs, water high quality, well being and well-being amongst a various vary of matters through the four-day convention at Gold Coast Campus, Southern Cross College, sixteenth to nineteenth February,” he stated.
Excessive-profile audio system embody Layne Beachley, Nick Carroll, Tom Carroll, Ziggy Aloha McKenzie, Nik Sturdy Cvetich and Felipe Pomar.
Taking part organisations embody Save The Waves, Conservation Worldwide, Surfrider Basis, Surfers for Local weather, World Browsing Reserves, Nationwide Browsing Reserves and Surfline.
A big group of educational researchers, coastal engineers and ocean conservationists will current the newest research on managing surf breaks and defending browsing ecosystems.
The convention coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Gold Coast World Browsing Reserve.
The anniversary will likely be marked on Thursday, 19 February at The Collective, with Pink 40 Band, Peruvian dancing and a charity public sale supporting Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.
Public sale objects embody an Ian Byrne 6’2 channel backside swallow tail surfboard, an Emily Rose pyrographic wood turtle, and iconic Southern Gold Coast surf photographs spanning the Nineteen Sixties by to the 2025 TC Alfred swell at Kirra.
Public occasions proceed throughout the week, together with free surf movie screenings of “Belinda” and Patagonia’s “Salty Coronary heart: Ramon Navarro”.
Felipe Pomar will current his Surf Tip 100 program within the Bilinga Room at Rydges Gold Coast Airport on Saturday, 14 February at 4 pm, adopted by the launch of Steve Valliere’s Barefoot in Paradise Artwork of Surf portray exhibition. Admission is free.
Different actions embody a night-time tour of Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Astra Lumina, and vacation lodging prize attracts for Matanivusi Seaside Eco Resort Fiji and Villa Santai Rote.
Tickets for the anniversary celebration might be bought HERE, with full program particulars obtainable on the convention web site.
