The Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce was delighted and honoured to be part of the Sydney events on 14 and 15 February in conjunction with the high-level official visit led by HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, HRH Prince Daniel and HE Johan Forsell, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade.
The first event was held at the Government House hosted by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC Governor of New South Wales and Mr Dennis Wilson.
On the 15th of February Business Sweden organised an excellent Sustainable Mining Summit, showcasing our long legacy of bi-lateral trade. It was great to see how advanced Sweden and Australia are on the path to a net zero mining industry and the vast collaboration opportunities between our two countries.
The Summit was followed by a beautiful reception at the Museum of Contemporary Art hosted by HE Pontus Melander Ambassador of Sweden to Australia. Thank you Embassy of Sweden in Canberra and Business Sweden, the SACC is proud of being to be part of Team Sweden Australia and our joint collaboration to strengthen and grow business relations between Sweden and Australia.
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On 16 December the SACC Melbourne and the Danish Club invited members and guests to a special Nordic Christmas mingle event at Denmark House. It turned out to be a fantastic evening with great company and Christmas-inspired food served by Denmark House. There were also some very good prizes for the Christmas raffle sponsored by Tetra Pak, Denmark House and SACC.
Thank you to all sponsors and participants for making this a very special Christmas Event!
The SACC Melbourne Chapter is wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
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The Christmas Dinner – Julbord at the Moose Claremont, Perth WA on 14 December was a success with a sold out event.
All members and guests enjoyed the Swedish Christmas Buffet – Julbord prepared by the Moose Cafe + Restaurant in Claremont. There were also traditional songs to accompany the food and drinks with Figge Boksjö SACC Perth WA Chair as toastmaster. Thank you all for attending and making this a very special Christmas Event! Happy Christmas and New Year from the SACC Perth WA Chapter
Thank you all for attending and making this a very special Christmas Event!
Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and New Year!
SACC Perth WA Chapter
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What a great start to the festive season we had on December 1st at the BOLON Showroom in Paddington Sydney. Mark Andrews, MD The Andrews Group | BOLON Partner, presented the Bolon story, born in 1949 by textile waste turning into rag rugs. Today Bolon is a sustainable design-led innovator collaborating with designers and architects worldwide. Special guest Deputy Head of Mission, Per Linnér, Embassy of Sweden in Canberra gave us an update from Sweden. Another highlight of the evening was the Lucia performance from the Swedish School in Sydney.
Big thank you goes to Bolon and our Christmas present sponsors, Funkis Swedish Forms, Swedish School in Sydney, Nordic Fusion, Football Development Australia, Milla’s Vineyard Estate and Lewis Estate.
SACC Glögg and Lucia Event
It was our very great pleasure to host the SACC annual Christmas gathering in the BOLON showroom last week. The Lucia procession was certainly the highlight and we’d like to sincerely thank the children and teachers from the Swedish School for treating us to this special tradition.
We were delighted to welcome Per Linnér, Deputy Head of Mission and Malin Nilsson, Sweden Trade and Promotion Officer from the Embassy of Sweden in Canberra and of course, Jan Gardberg the SACC President and other board members.
Camilla Jennings deserves a special mention for pulling the event together at a very busy time of year. The involvement of Funkis (catering), Milla’s Vineyard Estate (Wines) and Nordic Fusion (Glögg and Raffle) was also greatly appreciated.
We’ve had some lovely feedback that the story of BOLON was well received and that the event was a great success. Being invited to be a part of the Swedish Australian community and to host in our beautiful space was certainly a highlight for The Andrews Group in 2022.
A message from the Andrews family
We look forward to building our connection with the community in 2023 and wish you a wonderful festive season.
Best wishes,
The Andrews Family and the Bolon Team
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Session 10 – KEY COMPETENCES AND SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE
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The Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with a record 11 European bilateral Chambers of Commerce, participated in the 8th annual European Tchin Tchin Networking Evening on Thursday 17 November 2022.
The event offered opportunities to celebrate the great bond between Australia and the European Union and grow the European Chamber network in Brisbane, QLD.
Over two days at the end of September, SACC gathered a few hundred academics, students, government representatives as well as business leaders and innovators, representing a large number of industries, for the first of its kind – the Swedish Australian Innovation, Technology and Design Summit.
The purpose of this Summit was to highlight Swedish innovation, technology, design and sustainability initiatives. We presented examples of key innovation breakthroughs and featured successful Swedish-Australian collaboration and knowledge exchange, R&D and creative business development between Sweden and Australia.Together with partners, we provided a platform to connect involved industries with relevant stakeholders within the corporate sector, government, academia and the research and development community. Through the summit, we raised awareness about the Swedish contribution to economic and technological development in Australia. We initiated new opportunities for collaboration within technology, design and sustainability to stimulate innovation and growth and to support a high-quality R&D ecosystem.
Together with co-host, the University of Technology Sydney, in their stunning Great hall, we held 10 sessions offering in-depth knowledge on a number of engaging topics (see full program here). The event covered many topical focus areas, and the sessions included thought-leadership panellists, who all provided the audience with perspectives that were both informative and educational as well as provocative.
Official dignitaries included The Hon. Alister Henskens, SC MP, New South Wales Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, Minister for Sport, Minister for Skills and Training, and Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology. Guest of Honour was Ambassador of Sweden to Australia, HE Pontus Melander.
The common denominator throughout the entire summit was sustainable innovation, sustainable design and development and how government and different industries are working towards a net zero future.
So, what did we learn?
We learnt that we need to consider the human impact of innovation.
That many businesses and official agencies have the ambition to commence their sustainability journey but they don’t know where to start.
We also learned that we need to shift the business model, with circularity at the core of each process in the business.
We learned that there’s a full shift in business and for example in construction: we used to build things, now we are solving problems.
We learned that for innovations to be affordable – or they won’t be used. And if it is not easy to use – it won’t be used.
We learned that if we want to accelerate the adoption of 5G, we need to own the problem, know the problem and then find out how technology can solve the problem. We need a digital vision and replace old solutions with something smart, not just replace an existing model.
The carrying theme throughout the sessions was collaboration and how working together across sectors can but also even with traditional competitors to share lessons learned and build broad and viable solutions.
During the session on sustainability in fashion, we learned some confronting statistics. 70% of all clothes bought in Australia are deposited into landfill within 12 months after purchase. This number has more than doubled since year 2000, and Australia has the second position in the world of fashion waste per capita in the world, with 15 kilos per capita.
We also learned that we are all part of the solution for a net zero future and that we need to create citizenship around sustainable behaviours.
The manufacturing model is also rapidly adopting to meet more sustainable sourcing of raw materials, or rather, materials to not only recycle but also to reuse and re-manufacture.
We also discussed how our cities will become smarter and in doing so, also become more sustainable and indeed, safer. Utilising data within the whole transport sector already is delivering incremental change, in particular in safety. By enabling different road users to collaboratively, capture and transmit data, vehicles and vulnerable road users like cyclists, delivers robust outcomes and prevent avoidable accidents.
The two days were packed with generous sharing of best practice and absolutely evoked more bilateral as well as local collaboration and new networks.
The SACC is proud to have played an active role in establishing new business connections between Sweden and Australia and supporting knowledge sharing and business opportunities for more than one hundred years. And now also in the area of sustainability.
The Nordic countries have collectively been called “the Silicon Valley of Europe” for innovation, sustainability and green economy. SACC will continue to invite and engage members to explore pathways forward towards a net zero economy and enable trade and knowledge exchange between Australia and Sweden.
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The SACC Melbourne Chapter kicked off their quarterly networking event series with a great line up of topic speakers on 10 August.
The event offered unique opportunities to meet and network with members and contacts from the Swedish-Australian business community while listening to the following topic speakers sharing their expertise on diversity and inclusion.
Joseph Ghaly, CEO and Founder of Brilliant Women Global, shared insights on how both Sweden and Australia are tracking on their diversity and inclusion journeys and what they can learn from each other.
Beverly Stacey, Country HR Manager at ABB Australia, spoke about ABB’s diversity and inclusion strategy, with a focus on a topic that she is extremely passionate about which is ABB’s engagement with indigenous Australia including some of the learnings that she has made on this journey.
Sarah Goss, Head of Innovation, Ericsson Australia & New Zealand, provided insights into Ericsson’s diversity and inclusion journey with a focus on gender equality, highlighting some key learnings and also sharing some personal experiences on the topic, acquired throughout her extensive career at Ericsson.
Thank you to all who attended the event that and a big thank you to our speakers who shared their insights on various aspects of Diversity and Inclusion. Attending guests represented SACC member companies, including ABB, Axis Communications, Brilliant Women Global, Ericsson, Essity and Pagero.
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The UTS Tech Lab is a new-generation research facility supporting collaborative, industry-led research partnerships that have the potential to drive innovation and growth in the IT and engineering industry. Industry partners benefit from access to the multidisciplinary facility and equipment, academic and professional teams and additional project resources through PhDs and student interns.
The UTS Tech Lab facilities cover many areas of collaboration within different industries, here are a few of the areas/facilities:
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After two years of lockdowns and restrictions hindering us Swedes to do what we do best, we were finally able to meet up at Bronte Park to make frog sounds and jump around the Maypole! The YP Board was excited to see over 50 people attend the event. We were prepared and had stocked up on blue and yellow ponchos for everyone, but in some magic way La Nina let the sun shine on us and we could enjoy the whole afternoon under clear skies. Herring, strawberry cake and the rest of the Midsummer essentials on the table, ‘5-kamp’, dancing around the maypole, singing and laughing – we had it all! Thanks everyone for coming!!! What an afternoon!!!
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