Past Events

2023

2022

The Hospital of the Future

The Hospital of the Future

Future healthcare must undergo transformational change warned Professor Yitzhak Kreiss, following an AICC (NSW) recent boardroom lunch on “The Hospital of the Future” hosted by PwC.

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2022 Australia-Israel Innovation Summit

2022 Australia-Israel Innovation Summit

Our Israel Innovation Showcase and Networking Reception on October 20 was a wonderful finale to the 3rd annual Australia-Israel Innovation Summit. We are thrilled that our 3 day program reached 700 people at both in-person and virtual events, with more than 30 amazing speakers from both countries sharing their insights on topics including climate tech, cyber security, crypto and decentralised finance, global supply chain innovation and the future of digital health.

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Navigating NSW’s Future – a View from the Opposition

Navigating NSW’s Future – a View from the Opposition

With NSW state elections scheduled for March 2023, attendees had an exclusive opportunity to hear NSW Shadow Opposition Minister and Member for Kogarah the Hon. Chris Minns MP share the Labor party’s ambitions and priorities on everything from education to healthcare.

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Annual Property lunch

Annual Property lunch

Following years of record-breaking growth, the residential real estate sector now faces rising interest rates, inflationary costs, supply chain uncertainty and a skills pipeline impacted by low unemployment levels nationally. Our annual Property Lunch event, with guest speaker Harry Triguboff and leading industry experts, explored the increased global uncertainty, combined with a 2023 NSW state election.

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Big super sizes up financial advice ‘opportunity’

Big super sizes up financial advice ‘opportunity’

Australian Financial Review: Speaking at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce event in Sydney on Tuesday the chairmen of Australia’s two largest superannuation funds have backed Treasury’s proposal to overhaul financial advice laws, as they flagged expanding the controversial advice services provided to members.

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Dynamic Learning Models of the Future

Dynamic Learning Models of the Future

The lines between study and work are no longer clearly delineated and universities must adapt to meet the new demands of lifetime learners said University of Technology at Sydney (UTS) Vice-Chancellor and President, Andrew Parfitt at a boardroom lunch hosted by PwC Australia.

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Corporates Must Step Up Technology Investment to Drive Environmental Sustainability

Corporates Must Step Up Technology Investment to Drive Environmental Sustainability

Technology investment can be a key driver in making corporations more sustainable, agreed sustainability experts Brett Shoemaker, Director Sustainability & National Agenda, Microsoft ANZ Faith Taylor, VP & Global Sustainability Officer, Kyndryl and Dr Jack Dan, Chief Strategy Officer, CDC Data Centres at a recent roundtable lunch with the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, hosted by Kyndryl, on Sustainability to the Core.

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Investing for Impact – Australia’s National Path Forward

Investing for Impact – Australia’s National Path Forward

Australian Financial Review: Mr Michael Traill told the AICC event, held the week after the federal election, …. A local version “would liberate things to be done ethically in the long term that drives returns that sit comfortably on the financial risk reward spectrum,” he said.

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Mapping Milestones on the Roadmap to Net Zero

Mapping Milestones on the Roadmap to Net Zero

Attendees had an opportunity to hear from Ian Learmonth, the CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation about the leadership of the world’s largest “green bank” in helping Australia reach Net Zero by 2050 and efforts to encourage sustainable cross sector investments for a greener future.

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Australia’s World Position and Economic Outlook

Australia’s World Position and Economic Outlook

Our guest speakers discussed the conflict in Europe, regional geopolitical & trade complexities and both federal and NSW state elections in the next 12 months . The challenges of COVID recovery, coupled with the need to meet major shifts in climate change settings, employment levels and a fluctuating Australian dollar, mean the ability for business to plan ahead is more complex than ever.

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Sydney World Pride Heralded to be Biggest Event Since the Olympics

Sydney World Pride Heralded to be Biggest Event Since the Olympics

Sydney hosting WorldPride in 2023 will put the city back on the international map as progressive, global and inclusive. This was the conclusion of Sydney WorldPride (SWP) CEO Kate Wickett and Margy Osmond, CEO of the Tourism & Transport Forum, who both recently spoke at an AICC (NSW) Boardroom Lunch on the Business of Pride, sponsored by PwC.

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Social Innovation Accelerator Propels Forward to Prevent Domestic Violence

Social Innovation Accelerator Propels Forward to Prevent Domestic Violence

The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce New South Wales (AICC) in partnership with Microsoft and Mission Australia, and a broad coalition of government, university, industry, service providers and victim-survivor advocates are creating innovative technology solutions to prevent domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia. 61 commitments were recently made to move the Social Innovation Accelerator to the next stage.

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Covid19 Learnings and the Future of Healthcare

Covid19 Learnings and the Future of Healthcare

Following an AICC boardroom lunch on The Future of Health Care – Innovation and New Models of Healthcare, supported by PwC, Professor Sir Edward Byrne, Global Chief Medical Officer at Ramsay Health Care shared some of his insights into healthcare models, future challenges and opportunities for collaboration between Israel and Australia.  

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2021

Our Food Future, The Protein Transformation

Our Food Future, The Protein Transformation

Join this interactive webinar with six Israeli companies leading the alternative protein revolution to learn:

-how Israel’s ‘start-up nation’ philosophy is underpinning the growth this rapidly growing sector;
-the latest technological innovations driving local and global expansion;
-how Israeli foodtech companies are forging a path to transform the global food system.

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2021 AICC Annual Property Outlook- Industrial Property – the way forward

2021 AICC Annual Property Outlook- Industrial Property – the way forward

Join Australia’s Industrial Property leaders:
Saul Resnick, CEO Australia & New Zealand, DHL Supply Chain, Christine Miller, Head of Supply Chain – Pacific, CBRE Advisory & Transaction Services, Industrial & Logistics and Philip Pearce Chief Executive Officer, ESR Australia in a conversation moderated by Tiki Fullerton, Editor at Large, The Australian Business Review

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Economic Update for NSW with NSW Treasurer the Hon. Dominic Perrottet MP

Economic Update for NSW with NSW Treasurer the Hon. Dominic Perrottet MP

While growth across New South Wales in the past year had been better than expected, the recent Covid-19 driven rolling restrictions and border closures have changed the outlook for future economic growth and stability.

Join NSW Treasurer, the Hon. Dominic Perrottet in this webinar discussion to learn how the uncertainty and economic damage associated with ongoing lock-downs will impact NSW’s longer term economic outlook.

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The Way Forward – with Australian Chief Medical Office Professor Paul Kelly and Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, Head of Public Health Services, Israel

The Way Forward – with Australian Chief Medical Office Professor Paul Kelly and Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, Head of Public Health Services, Israel

Join Australia and Israel’s top health leaders Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer – Australian Government Department of Health and Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, Head of Public Health Services – Israel Ministry of Health to hear how the lessons of the past year and a half in pandemic management will shape future urgent health care risk frameworks and design.

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The New Energy Security Landscape

The New Energy Security Landscape

There is no doubt that the world is passing through a period of great changes: tectonic changes in global politics, changes in technology and computing, and a rapidly changing climate.

Our fascinating panel of experts looked at what this new market structure looks like, what the risks are to our sovereign energy infrastructure and the protections that are needed to be put in place.

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Roundtable Discussion: Leveraging innovation and technology to fight domestic violence

Roundtable Discussion: Leveraging innovation and technology to fight domestic violence

The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce  in partnership with Microsoft Australia and the Embassy of Israel in Australia convened a roundtable to share the learnings from an “out of the box” approach to preventing domestic violence that was launched successfully in Israel by the Michal Sela Forum. This forum has created opportunities for collaboration between our Australian and Israeli partners, and also identified a working group with the objective of developing a relevant and related initiative here in Australia.

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Creating Australian industries of the future

Creating Australian industries of the future

There has been a lot of discussion through the pandemic about building sovereign capability in key areas as risk mitigation against the impact of fractured supply chains. It started with masks and ventilators but has become a broader discussion about technology supply chains, manufacturing capability and the development of globally competitive, strategic industries.

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2020

Australia-Israel Innovation Summit

Australia-Israel Innovation Summit

The 2020 Australia-Israel Virtual Innovation Summit was held to stimulate new thinking and expose innovative solutions to Australian organisations grappling with the challenges and accelerated disruption caused by the COVID-era. There were more than 40 Australian and Israeli business thought leaders speaking at the Summit with over 750 attendees from across 7 countries.

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When should a family business consider raising capital or selling?

When should a family business consider raising capital or selling?

As family businesses become successful and mature, their owners are often faced with the challenge of understanding how they may best set the future path for the business and themselves as owners. Join Anacacia Capital’s Managing Director Jeremy Samuel in conversation with Yumi’s Managing Director Michael Friedman, Leanne Hegarty, KPMG Enterprise Partner and moderator KPMG’s Keith Drewery.

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The Outlook for Australia’s Tourism Industry

The Outlook for Australia’s Tourism Industry

Join us to hear our expert panel, Phillipa Harrison, Managing Director, Tourism Australia; Kathryn Robertson, Regional General Manager Australia, Air New Zealand and Judith Crompton, CEO Asia Pacific, Cover-More, moderated by Dr. David Beirman, Senior Lecturer in Tourism in the Management Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney explore the future of tourism and especially business travel during and after COVID-19.

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How Australia can create jobs and return to growth by accelerating the transition to a clean economy

How Australia can create jobs and return to growth by accelerating the transition to a clean economy

Join our expert cross-sector panel comprising Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, CEO & Managing Director, Mirvac, Tim Reed, President, Business Council of Australia and Deanne Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, First State Super in conversation with Eytan Lenko, Chair, Beyond Zero Emissions as we discuss the opportunity that Australia has to set ourselves up for the next 50 years of economic growth

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The Future of Australian International Trade Relationships

The Future of Australian International Trade Relationships

Join us as former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop chairs an in-depth discussion with leading business figure Richard Goyder, who led Wesfarmers through a period of transformation and now tackles the challenges to Australia’s commercial and community life as chairman of Qantas Airways, Woodside Petroleum and the Australian Football League.

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Accelerating R&D in NSW – with insights from Israel

Accelerating R&D in NSW – with insights from Israel

Join our expert panel The Hon. Gabrielle Upton MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the NSW Premier, Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, New South Wales Chief Scientist & Engineer and Avi Luvton, Acting VP, International Collaborations Division, Israel Innovation Authority as we discuss the way forward to accelerate R&D commercialisation in NSW whilst drawing on insights from the Israel model.

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Domestic Violence and Financial Abuse – what can business do to help

Domestic Violence and Financial Abuse – what can business do to help

Our expert panel will discuss how the banking sector has been working to support customers and employees facing family and domestic violence and the challenges ahead for the sector, particularly during the COVID-19 period and beyond. Please join us to consider how learnings from the banking sector might be applied in your organisation.

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The Future for Sydney post COVID-19

The Future for Sydney post COVID-19

Join the Greater Sydney Commission’s Chief Commissioner, Geoff Roberts, and CEO, Dr Sarah Hill, as they discuss how the challenges and opportunities posed by recent events will impact the outlook for Sydney and the Commission’s objectives in the period ahead.

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What a post Covid-19 world means for investing in commercial and industrial real estate

What a post Covid-19 world means for investing in commercial and industrial real estate

Please join our expert panel Antony Green, Head of Real Estate ANZ, Macquarie Capital, Ross Lees, Head of Funds Management, Centuria Group, Camilla Bradley, Director, International Capital – Australia, JL and Moderator: Jason Huljich, Joint CEO, Centuria Group for a timely discussion of the outlook for investors in the commercial and industrial property sectors during COVID-19 and beyond:

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COVID19: a turning point for education

COVID19: a turning point for education

Professor Attila Brungs in conversation with Jillian Segal AO. So how is the University sector adapting and innovating in the face of the biggest virtual, economic and physical disruption it has ever faced, including the risks posed to research by plunging overseas student income?

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Eminent Israeli thought leaders discuss innovation and tech post-COVID

Eminent Israeli thought leaders discuss innovation and tech post-COVID

Hear from our panel, Dr Ami Appelbaum, Chief Scientist and Chairman Israel Innovation Authority; Chemi Peres, a pioneer of Israel’s tech ecosystem and Managing General Partner Pitango Venture Capital; Yifat Oron CEO LeumiTech, Bank Leumi’s high-tech arm and Meir Linzen, Managing Partner Herzog Fox & Neeman, Israel’s premier law firm about the role that government, business, venture capital, and research institutes are playing to drive Israel’s innovation response to the crisis and opportunities for collaboration with Australia.

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Avi Issacharoff, The Creation of Fauda, a Personal Journey

Avi Issacharoff, The Creation of Fauda, a Personal Journey

Hear Avi Issacharoff in conversation with Deanne Weir, the Chair of the Sydney Film Festival and Hoodlum, an Emmy and BAFTA award winning production company. Together they will explore how Avi’s experiences as a soldier, writer, political commentator and journalist helped to shape the creation of Fauda.

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Accelerating virtual healthcare in Australia

Accelerating virtual healthcare in Australia

with Karen Borg, CEO, HealthDirect Australia, Dr. Kean-Seng Lim, President, Australian Medical Association (NSW) and Richard Taggart, CIO, Sydney Local Health District – NSW Health. Please join our expert panellists to hear how COVID-19 is having a substantial impact on Australia healthcare models through accelerating virtual care innovation and deployment across all healthcare sectors.

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A tale of two innovation ecosystems

A tale of two innovation ecosystems

Israel and Australia face COVID-19 with Dr Michelle Deaker, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, One Ventures and Ronen Nir, General Partner Viola Ventures. This session compares and contrasts the COVID-based realignment of ecosystems in Australia and Israel and looks at where the opportunities lie in the post-COVID world, and the industries most likely to thrive.

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Innovation in times of crisis

Innovation in times of crisis

COVID-19: a turning point for Virtual Health Care – Lessons from Israel. View this webinar to learn about Sheba’s COVID-19 response through the ARC Innovation Program. Its zero-touch telemedicine toolkit is being actively deployed at Sheba to support patient communication, monitoring, management and physical examination both in hospital and at-home.

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2019

2018

2017

Cyber-Security Briefing

Cyber-Security Briefing

Cyber-Security Briefing6 December 2017Technology Leaders Discuss Key Issues in Cyber-Security for Business At the Australia-Israel Chamber of...

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2017 Chairmen’s Review Event

2017 Chairmen’s Review Event

2017 Chairmen's Review Event29 November 2017The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce held its annual Chairmen’s Review event at The Star in Sydney...

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