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Australian Leadership Retreat 2025
Integrated Strategic Investment
14 – 17 August 2025
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
Learnt from top executives, policymakers and thought leaders across diverse sectors, sharing strategies for impactful investments
DISCOVER INNOVATIVE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Explored emerging trends, new markets, and transformative projects that align financial growth with positive societal outcomes
NETWORK WITH PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEADERS
Connected 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
Contributed 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
Shared your ideas and collaborated 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 drew on ADC Forum’s network of leaders and foremost thinkers from Australia and around the world. Participants were 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 explored emerging trends, new markets and transformative projects that align impactful investments with financial growth and positive societal outcomes.
Central to the program was 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, it was 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 featured both domestic and international leaders from key sectors, top CEO’s, eminent academics and thinkers and decision makers. Some of the prominent speakers in the program are as follows.
- Anthony Scaramucci
- Pamela Melroy
- Seng Haung Lee
- Gillian Triggs
- Yoshito Hori
- Maria Wilton
- Sir Paul Collier
- Simon Hickey
- Keun Lee
- Joe Schoendorf
- Dion Hershan
- Saul Eslake
- Jeffery Sachs
- Stephan Fruehling
- Admiral (Retd) Chris Barrie
- 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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