The 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Chronobiology Society was held from the 23rd – 24th of October 2017 on Waiheke Island in New Zealand, off the coast of Auckland. Our two keynote speakers Professor Russell Foster, (University of Oxford) and Professor Steve Kay (University of Southern California) gave compelling talks representative of their respective influence on the field of circadian biology. We closed the conference with a dinner at the beautiful Goldies Estate.​