Events

ASR presents and promotes events that address issues affecting Australia’s services sector. These include workshops, networking functions and ASR’s annual Services Summit.

Upcoming events:

Previous events:

  • ASR-AIIA Telework Seminars - 9 May 2012

    The AIIA and ASR 2012 Telework Event Lunch Series – an initiative of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) will involve a discussion panel over lunch headed by noted technology journalist Brad Howarth. The Telework events will be held in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Gold Coast (QLD), Newcastle (NSW), Melton (Victoria), Mt Gambier (SA) and Mandurah (WA) over the period June to August. The first event will be in Adelaide on Tuesday 5 June 2012.

  • ASR AGM and Dinner Weds 9 Nov, Sydney - 9 November 2011

    ASR AGM and Dinner Weds 9 Nov
    The AGM dinner is an opportunity for ASR members and guests to meet the incoming ASR Board and hear from guest speakers Ian Birks (Chairman of the Government’s IT Industry Innovation Council) and Felicia Mariani (CEO Australian Tourism Export Council).

  • ASR lunch with members interested in China mission and next steps - 26 September 2011

    China 2.0 Mission and next steps – Building networks for success in China’s fast growing services market,
    Monday 26 September 2011
    Start: 12.00pm for 12.15pm. Finish: 2 pm
    Venue: Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance
    Level 8, 600 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000

  • COAG's Services Reform Agenda - How can it be sped up? - 23 August 2011

    Paul McClintock, Chairman of the COAG Reform Council, speaks to members about new ideas to revitalise regulatory reform for Australia’s services sectors.

  • New direction for Austrade: CEO Peter Grey speaks to ASR members - 27 July 2011

    Identifying new opportunities for Australian businesses, and navigating ‘behind the border barriers’.

  • PECC/ADBI Conference on "Trade in Services: New Challenges for the 21st century" - 1 June 2011

    The papers and presentations from the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Conference on “Trade in Services: New Challenges for the 21st” century”, which took place in Hong Kong 1-3 June, are now available online.

  • 2011 Services Symposium and Summit - 23 March 2011

    The 2011 Services Symposium and Summit (SSAS), an annual summit between parliamentarians, business leaders and policy makers that examines the barriers to growth of the services industries and their international competitiveness, took place in Canberra on 23 and 24 March.

  • Forum on standards, conformance and services - effect on trade and productivity - 26 October 2010

    This Forum brings together Australia’s leaders from Australian standards and conformity assessment bodies, who will explain the latest developments in service standards in Australia and internationally. Presented by the Australian Services Roundtable and the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University.

  • Global Services Summit 2010: Breaking the Deadlock on Services Trade and Investment - 22 September 2010
  • Services trade and competitiveness workshops - 20 September 2010