SACC organise a number of events every year ranging from business seminar and webinar series on current topics, to the next generation of Australian-Swedish business, casual networking forums, breakfast seminars, lunches, educational seminars and social events around Swedish festivities. We have some exciting events and business seminars planned for 2020 in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, so remember check the up coming events on this site. The annual Swedish Business Awards will take place towards the end of the year at the SACC Christmas Event in Sydney.
We are constantly planning events with interesting topics and speakers. If you are interested in sponsor an event or seminar please contact us.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND WEBINARS
AI – Key Trends and Developments to Expect Next – 1 May at Hexagon’s new North Sydney office
SACC Sydney After Work 22 May 2024
Conversation with Jesper Brodin CEO INGKA Group IKEA – Swedish Chambers APAC Virtual Event 14 March
Summary and recording
The world around us is changing – and quickly. The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat rather a living reality, which impacts us all – our shared home, the planet and our lives in ways we could never imagine. To preserve a livable planet we need to transform into a net-zero future. At the same time, digitalisation and new technology is changing how industries operate at high speed. All of this means both challenges we have never experienced before as well as many new opportunities.
We were proud to present Jesper Brodin, CEO, Ingka Group IKEA, as our guest at the recent Swedish Chambers APAC CEO Series Event on 14 March 2023. In this exclusive session, Jesper shared how the Ingka Group IKEA tackle the biggest transformation in IKEA history, how they approach the global challenges the world is facing today and how they are committed to leading the way towards a more sustainable business model for the industry.
The conversation with Jesper Brodin will be led by Camilla Bullock, Board Director, Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce (SACC) and CEO, Emerging Payments Association Asia.
LISTEN TO THE FULL RECORDING HERE
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Jesper Brodin is the President and CEO of Ingka Group, IKEA. Ingka Group, formerly know as IKEA Group, is one of the world’s largest home furnishing retailer and owns and operates more than 400 IKEA stores in 32 markets (FY21) under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Ingka Group was founded by Ingvar Kamprad and is a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise systems and in addition to operate IKEA Retail, the company consists of Ingka Centres and Ingka Investments. Jesper started his IKEA career in 1995 as the Purchase manager in Pakistan, IKEA Group. During the years he has held different roles such as assistant to Ingvar Kamprad and Anders Dahlvig, CEO at the time, Business area manager Kitchen and Dining as well as his recent role as Managing Director for Range & Supply, Inter IKEA Group. He has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Jesper is married to Lena and they have three children. His passion is music and the sea.
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CAMILLA BULLOCK
Camilla is the CEO and co-founder of Emerging Payments Association Asia. She has a long career in the financial technology industry and often talks about coming home when she started her work in the payments industry. Payments is the part of the financial service’s that touch people’s lives every day, and through EPA Asia work lives can be improved. The payments industry offered her an opportunity to combine her passion for fintech and humanitarian questions. She is loving her role where she can combine intellect, creativity with enthusiasm and energy to connect people, create opportunities and ideas from the apparently abstract connections she sees between situations, businesses, problems and people. When she was twelve months into setting up EPA Asia she was approached and asked the question why there were so few women involved in the program. She was taken by surprise. Running fast and creating on the go, she had forgotten to reflect if the people they engaged were male or female. She there and then set the goal of reaching a 50% gender balance in the association. Project Meet-Her started as a series of lunch events with the goal to involve female thought leaders in the EPA Asia agenda. COVID-19 forced EPA Asia to adopt the program, it has evolved and is now an online event series that will result in a book – Meet Her – She knows Payments.
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SWEDEN – WINNERS OF THE NORDIC OPEN GOLF DAY 2023
The Nordic Open Golf Day has become a popular and sold out event within the Nordic and Estonian business communities. A great “day in the office” with fantastic networking opportunities in a relaxed setting, but the competition for the trophy is still on!
Female and male players, at all levels, take part in a mix of corporate and individual teams. The game is Ambrose, meaning each player hits from the tee-off and then chooses the best ball and continues from there with every player again hitting from this spot. The combined strokes are then counted for each team minus the team handicap to calculate the overall Ambrose score. Via the Moore Park Golf app players could follow the interactive scorecards and live leader board, which added to the comp.
The Nordic Open Golf Day Trophy winner for 2023 was Sweden with corporate team EQT Partners, with Matt Woodman, Harry Byrnes Howes, James Webb and Ryan Ter. The runner-up prize was also awarded to a Swedish team with Mikael Dahlgren, James Jennings, Carl Wallberg and Daniel Hallgren. Finland came in on third place with team Freely, Miksu Vaittinen, Mikko Mannerkorpi, Anssi Paatero and Will Crisp. Last year’s winning team SignUp Software, Sweden kept their spot in the trophy lineup in 4th place, with Magnus Perri, Michael Dawkings, Lachlan Jones and Svante Meijer.
Congratulations to the overall comp winners!
The Individual prizes female and male for Nearest to Pin and Longest Drive were won by Emma Karkvik, Volvo Car Australia and Jerry Yin, EQT Partners. Congrats, fantastic effort!
All players had a chance to win a brand new Volvo C40 Recharge Pure Electric with a hole-in-one on hole 10. No players were lucky or skilled to hit the hole in one but there was a close very attempt this year!
The on-time award sponsored by Galvin Watch Company went to Eero Toivanen, Business Finland. A Harahorn G&T was handed out to everyone who hit the green on hole 15 and there were some great lucky door prizes to be won by all players and lunch guests.
During the day we also ran the Nordic Putting Competition, which took place in front of the clubhouse throughout the day for golfers and lunch only participants. The winner of the 2023 Putting comp with a HiO was Lachlan Jones from team SignUp Software, runner up was Julian Gaillard from Veolia and second runner up was Ryan Ter from EQT Partners.
Well done to all who took part in the Nordic Putting comp!
Guest of honour at this year’s Nordic Open Golf Day was the Ambassador of Finland to Australia, HE Satu Mattila-Budich, who in her speech highlighted the importance of the Nordic collaboration and what a great joint effort this event resulted in.
The Nordic and Estonian Chambers were delighted and especially thank Ambassador Mattila-Budich and Mr Martin Henrik Budich for taking part in the Nordic Open Golf Day 2023 networking lunch.
Danish Connect was represented by their President David McLellan, Anssi Paatero represented FACC, EACCI by President Marianna Jolla, NACC by President Sophia Demetriades Toftdahl and SACC by President Jan Gardberg and Camilla Jennings General Manager, SACC.
Thank you to all chamber representatives and volunteers for your support and contribution to making this event happen!
We would like to express a special thank you to all Event Sponsors; Volvo Car Australia, Fiskars, Freely, Elekta, EQT Partners Australia and SignUp Software.
A big thank you also goes to all Prize Sponsors; Galvin Watch Company, BourkeHood, Harahorn Gin, Beeautify, Caddie Snacks, Fika, Nordic Fusion, Marimekko, Milla’s Vineyard Wines and Moore Park Golf. A final thank you to all participants and to the Nordic and Estonian Chambers for kicking off this event for the 7th year and to Moore Park Golf Club for hosting this annual event.
We look forward to next year’s Nordic Open Golf Day, which is planned to be held Friday 1 March 2024. We welcome new event ideas, feedback and if you would like to get involved please contact us: sacc@swedishchamber.com.au
See the event summary with images here
Swedish high-level delegation in Sydney 14-15 February 2023
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.
Nordic Christmas mingle event in Melbourne
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!