AACCI

A leg up from Industry

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Sean Keenihan (ACBC), Paul Finn (AACCI) and Jing Lee (AACCI) offer Chinese Students access to industry in an innovative new program

The China Student and Industry Program (SIP) event was held on Tuesday 13 September 2011. The first Student and Industry Program Event for students from China was a great success for the University of Adelaide Development Alumni China Student and Industry Program with support from Australia China Business Council (ACBC) and the Australian Asian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AACCI).
This was the first year Paul Finn (AACCI Treasurer) Fundraising & Development Manager of the Adelaide University Development Alumni organised the event for this group and the interest was overwhelming with all available student places (100) being taken up within 14 hours of the invitation being forwarded. The positive feedback means the event will run again next year.
The event was opened with an insightful presentation from guest speaker Mr Jing Li, a University of Adelaide graduate and Head of the Asian Desk (Adelaide) for RBS Morgans Limited. Jing stressed the importance of networking with the business community well before graduation.
He was followed by Mr Sean Keenihan, another graduate of the University of Adelaide, partner at Norman and Waterhouse and the SA President of the Australia China Business Council (ACBC). Sean recognises the value that international students offer South Australia and provided indepth advice on how to network.
An important aspect of the event was networking with industry experts. Industries represented including international trade, commerce, engineering, manufacturing, education and property development. This was run along the lines of a “speed dating” event – except that it was “speed networking”. The industry representatives sat with small groups of students and conversed with to them for approximately 15 minutes offering career and employment advice and tips. The students repeated the process with 12 industry specialists including TACDC General Manager Conan Fahey who shared his career path and professional experiences in Australia and China.

Conan Fahey with Adelaide University Students

Students sought guidance about:
advice on getting into their chosen industry
non-academic skills employers are looking for
how to take advantage of opportunities
how to land the important first job after study

Becky Li - Marketing Project Manager at Education Adelaide

Welcome to the Australian Asian Chamber of Commerce

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Since 1996 the AACCI’s vision has been :

“To be a peak representative body of Asian business, by working together to create strategic alliances and by establishing a deeper trust and friendship across the different cultural regions.”

The AACCI can provide business matching, business intelligence, business development services, and trade mission and event management and most importantly is able to act as an entry point / conduit for South Australian and other interest groups looking for long term business opportunities in Asia.

The AACCI is the only business organisation in South Australia which represents all of Asia.

The AACCI has supported the arts and we have curatored a variety of multicultural and community focused art exhibitions, internationally acclaimed dance and theatre performance that have including Red Poppy, the Yalong Tibetan Song and Dance Troupe and the Guiyang Acrobatic Troupe.

In 2009, the AACCI has become a proud supporter and financial sponsor of the Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe of China that will perform at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide October 2009.

The AACCI has been a “catalyst” for fundraising activities and events for wider causes outside our local community that have included the Adelaide Zoos “Pandas on Parade” project, the Sichuan Earthquake Appeal, the Guangdong Flood Victims Appeal, The Premiers Olympic Games Appeal and the South East Asian Tsunami Appeal.

Conan Fahey wins CITCSA Outstanding Achievement Award

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Conan Fahey wins CITCSA award 2010, pictured with Tom Koutsantonis, Minister for Mineral Resources Development

Conan Fahey, TACDC General Manager was presented the Council for International Trade and Commerce South Australia (CITCSA) 2010 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT BY AN INDIVIDUAL award.

The Council for International Trade and Commerce SA Inc (CITCSA) is the peak body for the thirty nine international chambers of commerce and business councils located in South Australia.

Irena Zhang wins CITCSA Outstanding Contribution Award

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Congratulations to President Irena Zhang from the Australian Asian Chamber of Commerce (AACCI) for winning the Council for International Trade and Commerce (SA) CITCSA Awards Outstanding Long-Term Contribution award.

Conan Fahey, Ivan Kaukov, Nathan Gray, Irena Zhang, Benjamin Liew, Mia Dion, Peter Feng and Charles Tran.

The International Chamber of the year award was won by the Australian Indian Business Council AIBC
Prominent QC Mr. Brian Hayes was awarded International Business Ambassador of the Year.
Food and Wine Award went to the Italian Chamber

The AACCI won best dressed table and and AACCI Vice President Mia Dion won Best dressed.