A good conference rewards a little preparation. The TaxCore World Summit packs keynotes, technical workshops, case studies, and a great deal of high-value networking into three days on Denarau Island — and delegates who arrive with a plan consistently get more out of it than those who wing it. Whether this is your first Summit or your first trip to Fiji, here is how to make the most of 1–3 December 2026.
Before you travel
Sort the essentials early. Check your passport's entry requirements for Fiji well ahead of time; rules vary by nationality, and while many visitors travel visa-free for short stays, you do not want to discover otherwise at the airport. If you need a formal letter of invitation for a visa or for travel authorization within your ministry, request one from the Summit secretariat as soon as your registration is confirmed.
Book accommodation now, not later. A discounted delegate room block is held at the host resort and nearby Denarau Island hotels, but the rate and the rooms are limited and go on a first-come basis. The booking link and group code arrive with your registration confirmation.
Plan your arrival. The nearest airport is Nadi International (NAN), about twenty minutes by road from Denarau Island. Consider flying in on Monday 30 November so you are rested for the opening day — and so you can join the welcome reception that evening, which is one of the best networking moments of the whole event precisely because it happens before everyone's calendar fills up.
Pack for the tropics and the conference. December is Fiji's warm, humid season — expect daytime temperatures in the high 20s to low 30s Celsius and the odd short tropical shower. Lightweight business or smart-casual clothing covers the sessions and the social functions; add sun protection and a packable rain layer. And bring a laptop if you intend to follow along in the hands-on technical workshops.
Building your agenda
The program runs on a simple rhythm: keynotes from sitting commissioners and senior officials in the mornings, breakout tracks in the afternoons. The tracks span technical architecture, country case studies, policy and legislation, consumer-engagement programs, vendor accreditation, and data analytics — plus a dedicated track for small-island and emerging economies.
A few suggestions on navigating it:
Mix your tracks. It is tempting for technical delegates to live entirely in the architecture sessions and for policy delegates to stick to legislation and case studies. Resist that. The most useful insight at this Summit usually comes from the other side of your usual fence — the engineer who sits in on a policy session, or the commissioner who watches an integration workshop, tends to leave with the questions that actually move a national program forward.
Prioritize the case studies. Vendor slides describe how something is supposed to work. Country case studies describe how it actually went — including the parts that were hard. If your country is scoping or running a fiscalization program, these candid accounts from peers who have already done it are worth the trip on their own.
Use the app. The official Summit app carries the live agenda, speaker profiles, venue maps, and real-time announcements. Build your personal schedule in it early, and check it each morning for changes.
Making the networking count
This is where the real value compounds. Three deliberate habits:
Schedule meetings in advance. The delegate platform and event app include a meeting scheduler. Before you arrive, identify a handful of people you genuinely want to talk to — a counterpart from a country at a similar stage, a member of the DTI product team, a potential partner — and request time with them. Quiet meeting spaces are available on site for booked conversations.
Show up to the social functions. The welcome reception and the official Summit dinner are not optional extras; they are where relationships actually form. The hallway conversation after a session, and the dinner-table conversation that evening, are frequently what delegates remember a year later.
Come with one clear question. If you can articulate the single most important thing you want answered by the end of the three days — "how do we phase a rollout with limited connectivity?", "what does vendor accreditation actually require of us?" — you will steer your sessions and conversations toward it, and you will leave with an answer rather than a vague sense of inspiration.
After the Summit
When you are home, the work is consolidation. Selected keynote and plenary sessions are made available to registered delegates afterward through the delegate platform, so you can revisit what you missed and share key sessions with colleagues who could not attend. Follow up on the connections you made while the context is fresh — a short note within a week is worth ten you mean to send and never do. And if you need a certificate of attendance for your professional records or to justify the trip internally, you can request one from the secretariat.
See you on Denarau Island
The Summit is what you make of it. Arrive prepared, mix outside your comfort zone, treat the networking as seriously as the sessions, and you will come away with both the knowledge and the relationships to push your own work forward.
Not yet registered? Early-bird rates are available for a limited time on the official Summit website. We look forward to welcoming you to Fiji this December.