Place: Doltone House, Sydney

Date: 26th August 2010

Topic: "The shifiting focus of global trade for Australia"

Speakers:

- H.E. David Daly. Ambassdor of the European Union Delegation to Australia

- Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Austrade

For the first time 6 European Chambers of Commerce & Industry, SACCI being one of them, jointly organised a business luncheon related to Australia"s global trade relations and how the previous focus on Asia ist now shifting towards Europe. Over 130 guests of all Chambers have attended this inaugural event and benefited from this excellent networking opportunity.

Place: UBS, Sydney

Date: 11th August 2010

Topic: "Asia - Australia's Future"

Speakers: Warren Tease, Deputy Head of Fixed Income (Australia), Managing Director UBS Global Asset Management and Robert Walsh, Managing Partner Fragomen

Once again the 'Europeans at the Gallery' event was a big success!

Date: 25th July 2010

Place: National Gallery of Victoria

Place: Marriott Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland

Date: 24th June 2010

Great interest from the Swiss business community attracted SACCI's first ever business dinner in Zurich, Switzerland. For the first time, all three key organisations (SACCI, OSEC and Austrade) involved in the promotion of bilateral trade and investment between Switzerland and Australia joined forces and invited interested Swiss businesses to find out why they should be doing business in or with Australia. The guest of honour was HE Peter Tesch, Australian Ambassador to Switzerland.

Presenters were:

Nicola Watkinson, Senior Investment Commissioner, Europe, Austrade

Fabian Heller, Economist, Credit Suisse

Beat Knoblauch, Beat Knoblauch & Associates

Event supporters: Austrade & OSEC

The next day, Ambassador Peter Tesch together with Senior Investment Commissioner Nicola Watkinson invited key decision makers to a Private Wealth Roundtable and Business Luncheon.

Place: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sydney

Date: 9th June 2010

3 Countries, 3 Industries, 3 Companies: "What have we learnt? How sustainable are we now?"

One more time SACCI invited to a Panel Discussion in cooperation with the German & French Chambers of Commerce.

Key note speakers were Mr Frederic Guerard (Novartis), Ms Anke Koeckler (Volkswagen Group) and Mr Simon Gardener Lee (SITA Environmetal Solutions). MC for the evening was Mr Paul Koenig (European Australian Advisory Group).