Mr Munan is leading the committee organising the South Island Dairy Event, which will be held in Dunedin from June 25 to June 27.
The annual event aims to help dairy industry participants evaluate and apply knowledge and technology to their business.
The committee was finalising the programme and it was "looking pretty flash", Mr Munan said.
The event usually alternated between Canterbury and Southland, and was scheduled to be held at Stadium Southland in Invercargill.
However, with the rebuilding of the stadium, it was decided to shift the event to the University of Otago.
The event, which was a joint venture between South Island dairy farmers, Lincoln University and DairyNZ, had the theme "people, perception, pride", he said.
Mr Munan said it took people to run anything and whether the industry was getting the right people would be explored.
That tied in quite closely with the question "are we seen as a career of first choice or something you've got to do if you can't do anything else?" and also the perception of the industry.
Then there was pride, and he questioned whether dairy farmers had lost a bit of pride in their occupation.
They were "a bit browbeaten" after having the stick taken to them so much by the media and environmentalists.
But, by and large, dairy farmers had really got their act together, he said.
The environmental issue was always the big one and, while there was quite a way to go, farmers were getting better and should be proud of what had been achieved.
For those who were not getting it right, then the rest of the industry should be less accommodating and more condemning, he said.
Mr Munan said he had been in the dairy industry about 21 years, starting in the Waikato as "just a farm boy".
That was followed by a stint as herd manager job at Kaikoura and then lower order sharemilking in South Canterbury and North Otago, 50:50 sharemilking in South Canterbury and then a shift to South Otago.
He and his wife, Pip, were now in their sixth year in an equity partnership at Milton. He was still passionate about the dairy industry, saying it was hard work but a hugely rewarding career.
He recommended it for any young person but he also advised they gain a good education first. He graduated from Lincoln University with a bachelor of agricultural science degree.
"It does put your CV on top of the pile. You're never going to remember everything from every lecture . . . but it trains you how to get information and search information and how to problem solve as well," he said.
He was enjoying his involvement with organising the South Island Dairy Event. The committee held its first meeting in October last year.
Although it was being held outside its normal catchment, there seemed to be "a good buzz" about it.
The event usually attracted between 500 and 600 participants, he said.
It was a "full-on" conference, which catered for everybody, from those who had been in the industry for many years and owned multiple farms, to those "still wearing their first pair of gumboots", Mr Munan said.