Business and investment events covering a diverse range of key industry sectors are lined up for Papua New Guinea throughout 2015. Here are some of the highlights from our events calendar.

Delegates attending the 2014 Papua New Guinea Advantage Investment and Infrastructure Summit

The major international investment event on PNG in 2015 will be the Papua New Guinea Advantage Investment and Infrastructure Summit, co-hosted for the fifth year by the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Advantage International.

This year, it will be staged at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre in Queensland, Australia on 27 and 28 August—just before PNG’s 40th anniversary of Independence.

The 2015 Pacific Games in July will undoubtedly be a major event for many businesses, as it will bring visitors from across the Pacific. Plans are under way for a one-day Pacific investment Seminar on 2 July, just before there Games begin, also co-hosted by the Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Business Advantage International.

Bilateral events

Lae’s reputation as a venue for major events will continue to grow with the 31^st Australia Papua New Guinea Business Forum & Trade Expo on 17–19 May, during which, political and business leaders from Australia and PNG will descend on Lae to discuss business and economic opportunities and issues. The bilateral event is co-hosted by the Business Council of PNG and the Australia–PNG Business Council.

For north Queensland and PNG businesses looking to network, Tradelinked Cairns and PNG holds monthly evening business networking functions in both Port Moresby and Cairns. The Cairns events are scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month; the POM event on the third Tuesday of each month.

Industry sector events

In Brisbane, Roads Australia’s event on the Challenges and Contracting Opportunities in PNG’s Roads Sector on 12 March is already a sell-out. The event will aim to discuss and attract Australian industry players to bid for road projects in PNG.

Opportunities for education in Australia will be the focus of the Australian Education Roadshow between 5 and 11 June , which will visit Port Moresby, Lae, Madang and Wabag.

While PNG’s major mining investment event happened last December in Sydney and isn’t scheduled again until 2016, the PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum holds mining and petroleum seminars in PNG in alternate years. This year’s seminars are tentatively scheduled for 24 to 27 November in Port Moresby.

Elsewhere in the region, the Australian Pacific Islands Business Council will host the 11^th Australia–New Caledonia Business Forum on May 4, while the Australian–Solomon Islands Business Forum is set for Honiara on June 15–17 and the Australia Fiji Business Council forum will take place on August 16–18 in Sydney.

For more information on upcoming events in PNG and around the Pacific, visit our online Events calendar at www.businessadvantagepng.com/events/