Unlocking pathways to prosperity: access and opportunity for all
Future-proofing trade: the new digital and green economies
Digital and Innovation Working Group
AI Applied (AI+): AI solutions transforming traditional sectors
Digital Currency: Landscape and implications
Quantum Technologies: Foundations, impacts and commercial progress
Digital Now and Next: Digital Trust Advisory knowledge exchange and thought leadership
Sustainability Working Group
Enhancing food security and agri-tech innovation
Achieving smarter and inclusive healthcare
Fostering resilience and sustainability in mining
Promoting just, ambitious and realistic energy transitions
Connectivity Working Group
Physical connectivity: strengthening water, land and aviation connectivity and enhancing people mobility
Institutional connectivity: progressing the establishment of the Sustainable Infrastructure Evaluation System, promoting interoperable regional digital infrastructure and mutual recognition of payment standards and strengthening coordination of trade and supply chain rules
People-to-people connectivity: encouraging education exchange and cooperation across the region, fostering a supportive regional ecosystem for youth entrepreneurship and promoting cross-border multicultural communication
Finance and Economics Task Force
Building the ecosystem for digital finance
Mobilizing private capital for strong, sustained and resilient growth
Supporting the implementation of the Finance Ministers’ Incheon Plan
New Zealand is chairing APEC in 2021, and Rachel Taulelei will be the Chair of ABAC. To do this effectively, we need to:
ABAC Priorities for 2022
This year, ABAC has adopted the theme “Embrace. Engage. Enable.”
Embrace the reconnected world with endless opportunities.
Enable in collaborating on new ideas, creativities, and possibilities.
Engage digitised, sustainable, and inclusive new transformational models.
The 2022 work programme will focus on the following priorities:
ABAC Priorities for 2023
The ABAC USA theme for 2023 is “Equity. Sustainability. Opportunity.”
The 2023 Work Program will have the following initial areas of focus:
ABAC Priorities for 2024
The ABAC Peru theme for 2024 is “People, Business, Prosperity”. The 2024 work programme will have the following initial areas of focus:
‘Bridge. Business. Beyond’ is the theme for 2025:
The 2025 Work Programme has the following focus. View our Members’ presentations here.
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