Big turnout expected for Investment Week event

THE upcoming Papua New Guinea Investment Week is expected to involve 2,000 delegates and 400 exhibitors in Port Moresby next week.
According to Business Council of PNG executive director Douveri Henao, the week-long meeting was a new concept.
Instead of hosting multiple conferences throughout the year, Henao said the different series of events and discussions had been compiled into a five-day programme.
The week would begin with the 35th Australia-PNG Business Forum and trade expo on Monday and Tuesday.
This will be followed by the second Speakers Investment Summit (Wednesday), the PNG-European Union business conference (Thursday) and the UN ESCAP 15th Asia-Pacific Business Forum on the final day.
The Australian PNG Business Council (APNGBC) said the PNG Investment Week meeting was expected to open new markets for the country.
APNGBC chief executive officer Materua Tamarua told The National that: “There is a fair bit of excitement. There is more value to it for those people who are attending.
“Value in terms of the people you meet, the content you receive, the diversity in that content, the exclusive information, the participation in important dialogue like the Speakers Investment Summit they will discuss, the controversial fire-up bill, foreign investment review authority bill and the IPA amendments.”