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Invitation to MSL's World Metrology Day Celebration 2025

Event | 20 May 2025

Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to build connections and hear from an exciting range of speakers

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This year, World Metrology Day (WMD) is commemorating the anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention in Paris(external link), in 1875. This treaty provides the basis for a worldwide coherent measurement system that underpins scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international trade, as well as the improvement of the quality of life and the protection of the global environment.

The theme for WMD 2025 is:

Measurements for all times, for all people – chosen to highlight the importance of measurements in shaping our past, present and future.

The Press Release can be viewed on the International Bureau of Weights and Measures(external link) (BIPM) and the International Organization of Legal Metrology's (OIMLs) official website here(external link). 

MSL, in partnership with the Metrology Society of Australasia (MSA) and MBIE Trading Standards, invite you to join us for one (or both) of the following events. Entry is free, but tickets are limited.

Please register here(external link) on the MSA website

Preliminary Programmes:

 

Afternoon – Technical Expo(external link)

20 May | 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Rutherford House, 33 Bunny Street, Wellington

From 12:00 pm – Registrations㇑Meet and Greet㇑Light lunch

12:30 to 2:00 pm Session 1

Radiation measurement in NZ
Glenn Stirling; Senior Scientist – National Centre for Radiation Science
Measurements for the NZ electricity grid
Adrian Green; Contract Manager – Revenue Metering – Omexon New Zealand
NZ Metrologist of the Year Award, Sponsored by DE Group
Cynthia Lendrum & Daryl Pettit – Metrology Society of Australasia


2:00 pm – Coffee break

2:30 to 4:30 pm Session 2


Measurements for medical devices
Igor Shvarchuck; Principal Engineer – Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Adoption of metrology in the observation of atmospheric gases
Gordon Brailsford; Principal Technician – Atmosphere – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Panel discussion
Stephen O'Brien – Trading Standards㇑Sebastian Doelle – MBIE/SNZ㇑Brian Young – IANZ㇑Annette Koo – MSL


Throughout the programme we will also spotlight the past, present and future of the measurement capabilities held at MSL

  

Evening – Celebrate 150 Years of the Metre Convention(external link)

20 May | 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm | MBIE, 15 Stout Street, Wellington

From 5:00 pm – Registrations㇑Meet and Greet㇑Light refreshments


Join us to acknowledge the significance of our measurement system, how it keeps us safe, ensures fairness in trade, and underpins innovation and development

 

 

Interview | This special guest helped bring NZ into the metric age!

Celebration | NZ's participation in the Metric Treaty

Look forward | What promise does quantum measurement hold?

Measurement | Underpinning industry success

 

 

Enjoy the short programme

Share some light refreshments

Interact with our special guests and speakers

Check out interactive displays

 

 We acknowledge and thank our partners:

 

 

    Trading Standards