Overview

At a time when our world is in economic and geopolitical turmoil, it is essential for leaders from business, government and civil society to take an integrated strategic approach to making decisions which impact the future. ADC Forum has a 30-year history of bringing together leaders across all sectors to focus on the issues that are critical to our future prosperity.

GAIN INSIGHTS FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS
Learn from top executives, policymakers and thought leaders across diverse sectors, sharing strategies for impactful investments

DISCOVER INNOVATIVE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Explore emerging trends, new markets, and transformative projects that align financial growth with positive societal outcomes

NETWORK WITH PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEADERS
Connect with a global community of investors, entrepreneurs and change-makers committed to using capital as a force for good

BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Contribute to shaping the future of investment by engaging in critical conversations that address global challenges and drive meaningful change

INFLUENCE THE FUTURE OF IMPACT INVESTING
Share your ideas and collaborate with key decision-makers to shape policies and practices that promote sustainable and ethical investment

Integrated Strategic Investment

Repositioning capital for national resilience and capacity building
Investing amid geopolitical realignment and trade fragmentation
Harnessing AI to redefine productivity and business models
Building energy and climate-driven competitive advantage
Navigating the global economy across public and private financial
markets
Culture, information integrity, and institutional trust as global
assets

Program

As well as challenges, these times also present significant opportunities for decision-makers who have the courage to take a long-term perspective. To foster this, ADC Forum has re-focused its renowned annual leadership gathering to emphasise the importance of investment decisions – both private and public – in shaping our nation, in its global context, for the next fifty years.

This initiative will draw on ADC Forum’s network of leaders and foremost thinkers from Australia and around the world. Participants will be given privileged information and deep insights into the major issues and risks in a world in turmoil to help identify real long-term
opportunities to sustain our future. The discussions will explore emerging trends, new markets and transformative projects that align impactful investments with financial growth and positive societal outcomes.

Central to the program will be the opportunity for active engagement, with all participants being invited because of their calibre and status to make a substantial contribution to the issues we are confronting.
As well as the chance to totally immerse ourselves in the latest innovations and look over the horizon, this is an exceptional opportunity to make meaningful new connections as well as renewing friendships in an atmosphere which fosters free and open discussion
around a joint commitment to positively impacting on our future.

Speakers

The program will feature both domestic and international leaders from key sectors, top CEO’s, eminent academics and thinkers and decision makers. With more being added regularly, some of the prominent speakers we are already in discussion with for the program are as follows.

Anthony Scaramucci
Pamela Melroy
Lee Seng Huang
Ricardo Hausmann
Gillian Triggs
Yoshito Hori
Claude Smadja
Keyu Jin
Maria Wilton
Sir Paul Collier
Ronnie Chan
Simon Hickey
Vaclav Smil
Keun Lee
Joe Schoendorf
Dio Hershan
Saul Eslake
Jeffery Sachs
Stephan Fruehling
Admiral (Retd) Chris Barrie
Jonathan Berkshire Miller
Alan Kohler
Greg Medcraft
Trevor Brown

For more information on our speakers please see the complete brochure.

Brochure

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Contact

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Australian Leadership Retreat 2025