ASEAN-Australia Special Summit – KWM’s response for CEO roundtable discussions

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The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit presented a profound opportunity for Australian businesses to engage in a dialogue with our neighbours about deepening of our trade and investment relationships, and taking further steps to collaborate across key areas, resulting in increased regional security and prosperity.

It is an exciting time. Feeding off disruption and change, the ASEAN and Australian partnership continues to strengthen. As a firm, KWM is committed to supporting investment in evolving and expanding physical and digital trade corridors to further leverage significant growth opportunities for our clients and the Australian economy.

To continue exploring, challenging and thinking about what we can create and build, we submitted three responses to the following discussion areas of the Business Summit's CEO Forum:

  • Agri-Food supply chain logistics;
  • Future energy supply chains;
  • Digital transformation in services and industry.
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