SWEDELINK Newsletter Summer 2023-2024

What an eventful year we had with the SACC!

In this final edition of the SWEDELINK Newsletter for 2023 we summarise the year, present the winners of the Swedish Business in Australia Awards and images from the festive Swedish Christmas Dinner on 23 November in Sydney. We also highlight New SACC Company Members and our Chapter events and activities across Australia.

Thank you to all members, board and committee members, chapters, fellow chambers, friends and partners within the business community.

We wish you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

Read the newsletter with links here or click on image below: https://www.swedishchamber.com.au/?na=view&id=27

Swedish Lucia & Christmas Dinner at Moose Claremont, Perth 13 Dec

Members and guests of the SACC Perth WA Chapter enjoyed a beautiful Lucia performance and Christmas Dinner on the actual Lucia Day 13 December.

The sold out event took place at the Moose Cafe + Restaurant in Claremont where a traditional Swedish Julbord – Christmas Buffet – was served. Members and guests were welcomed by SACC Perth WA Chapter Chair Joseph Olsson, Jonas Edner presented the amazing Christmas spread and the “snapsvisor” sing-along songs were led by toastmaster Pia Nilsson, SACC Perth WA Board.

Special thanks go to Jonas Edner and his team at Moose Cafe & Restaurant for hosting and the Swedish School in Perth for the amazing Lucia performance.

 

Christmas Mingle Event at Denmark House, Melbourne 8 Dec

On Friday 8 December, the Melbourne Chapter of SACC, hosted a Christmas drinks evening at Denmark House.

The event, proudly supported by Tetra Pak, brought together members of the Melbourne Swedish community and representatives from SACC member companies. The guests were treated to traditional food and beverages from Sweden and across Scandinavia.

The SACC Melbourne Chapter would like to thank Tetra Pak for sponsoring the event and also for the contributions made towards the prizes for the Christmas raffle.

The SACC Melbourne Chapter would also like to like to thank the team at Denmark House for the wonderful hospitality.

 

 

NEW START UP MEMBER – CLEARITT

Clearitt is game-changing Fintech. Founded upon the principles of fairness and integrity. We exist to evolve and level the playing field of business finance, and channel power back to SMEs. Bringing clarity and ease to payment processing, helping to free up time, cash flow and capital. Removing barriers so businesses can focus on what they do best.

See the introduction in pdf format here: https://www.swedishchamber.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Introduction-of-Clearitt.pdf

Contact details:

Richard Johnsson, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Email: richard@clearitt.com

Andreas Grosund, Chief Operating Officer

Email: andreas@clearitt.com

Web: clearitt.com

NEW SMALL BUSINESS MEMBER – MENTIMETER

 

Mentimeter – Make your meetings count

 

Mentimeter is an audience engagement platform (AEP) that makes it easier to listen and to be heard by transforming passive audiences into active contributors. Mentimeter is fundamentally changing the culture of presentations, lectures, and workshops in business and education from talking to listening. Whether on-site, remote, or hybrid, Mentimeter creates a unique, transparent, and engaging experience for everyone.

Since launching in 2012, Mentimeter has grown from a group of four founders to a 250+ person company with two offices on two different continents. In this time, more than 280 million people have gathered opinions, questions, and thoughts through our platform. The platform is used by 95% of Fortune 500 companies.

Mentimeter was founded with the ambition to fundamentally change corporate and education culture from talking to listening. By engaging every voice in the room, Mentimeter allows organizations to harness their full potential, enabling informed decision-making. Whether in-person or remote, Mentimeter helps to transform passive audiences into active contributors through engagement tools, including polls, comments or reactions, to boost inclusivity, productivity and engagement to help organizations achieve optimal business and learning outcomes. In just two years, Mentimeter has seen 178% sales growth with a more than 400% increase in enterprise customers.

Mentimeter changes traditional linear communication to engaging interaction with tools developed for the three different stages of a presentation and meeting, namely prepare, engage, and follow up. According to Mentimeter’s new study on meeting participation and engagement, people want more ways to engage. In fact, 71% of meeting participants want anonymous ways to engage in meetings; a core value proposition of Mentimeter.

Contact details:

Ashleigh McFarland, Director APAC

Email: ashleigh.mcfarland@mentimeter.com

Swedish Christmas Lunch, Brisbane 7 Dec

On 7 December, Teresia Fors, SACC Vice President and Chair of the Brisbane QLD Chapter welcomed all guests to a Swedish Christmas Lunch at Hundred Acre, St Lucia Golf Links. The restaurant is beautifully overlooking the golf course in an open setting with nice breezes flowing through. The Swedish owners of the restaurant created a delightful and traditional Swedish menu with herring, toast Skagen and Gravlax. About 20 attendees enjoyed a perfect Christmas lunch in the Queensland summer heat.

Speaker of the day, Povel Torudd, Managing Director of Berkeley Communications Australia and Chief Business Storyteller APAC, gave a valuable presentation about cyber security today and tomorrow. Thought-provoking stories about cybercrimes and cyber incident communications kept everyone intrigued throughout the lunch.

The event offered a great opportunity to meet with SACC members and other contacts from the Swedish-Australian business network in Queensland.

The SACC Brisbane chapter wishes everyone a happy holiday season and look forward to seeing everyone again in 2024!

 

NEW CORPORATE MEMBER – HITACHI ENERGY

 

Hitachi Energy – Advancing a sustainable energy future for all

 

 

Electricity will be the backbone of the entire energy system. Together with customers and partners, we are shaping collective action to provide the needed technologies, new ways of thinking and new ways of working. By combining advanced digital solutions and services, such as Hitachi Lumada, with our energy platform, that is built on unique domain expertise and experience, we are helping to make the energy system more resilient and secure.

Hitachi Energy serves customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.

We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 40,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of over $10 billion USD.

Contact details:

Bernard Norton, Managing Director

Hitachi Energy Australia

Email: bernard.norton@hitachienergy.com

NEW CORPORATE MEMBER – OX2

 

OX2 – A fully integrated provider of renewable energy solutions at scale

Founded in Sweden in 2004, OX2 develops, constructs, and sells renewable energy solutions at scale in 13 markets around the world, including Australia. They also offer asset management services to wind and solar farms during its operation.  

 

Their project development portfolio consists of in-house developed as well as acquired projects in onshore and offshore wind, solar, and energy storage, in various phases of development.

OX2 acquired Australian renewables developer ESCO Pacific in May 2023, and have been bringing their wealth of expertise in green field project development to Australia ever since.  They plan to scale up their operations in Australia through acquisitions in solar and energy storage and hope to expand their operations to onshore wind while exploring opportunities in offshore wind and hydrogen production.

OX2 Australia is based in Melbourne and has more than 30 employees. OX2 is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Main Market since April, 2022 and has more than 475 employees globally. 

 

Contact details:

Rachel Watson, Country Manager Australia

 Email: rachel.watson@ox2.com

Web: www.ox2.com.au