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Thursday, 29 October 2026
19:30
APK Welcome Reception by Deutsche Bank
Friday, 30 October 2026
08:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30
Word of Welcome by Peter Adrian, President of German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK)
09:35
Opening by APK Chairpersons and Host Country
Roland Busch, Chairman of Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business / President & CEO of Siemens AG
Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
10:00
Opening Panel “How do Global Power Shifts impact the economic relations between Germany and the Indo-Pacific?” by APK Chairs Roland Busch, Katherina Reiche and Asia-Pacific Economic Ministers
11:00
Coffee & Networking
11:20
Keynotes
12:05
German-Asia-Pacific Trade Scenarios in 2030
12:35
AHK Business Lunch Sessions
14:30
Driving Innovation
15:30
Startup-Pitch and Tech Talk: German Asia-Pacific Startup Award
17:00
End of Conference Day
18:30
Korea Evening
Saturday, 31 October 2026
08:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:00
Break-Out Sessions
09:45
Tech Talk: Industrial AI
10:30
Geopolitical and Geo-economic Challenges and Opportunities for German Asia-Pacific relations
11:15
Coffee & Networking
11:35
Corporate Financing in Asia: Thriving Amid Geopolitical Risk
12:20
AHK Business Lunch Sessions
14:00
Oxford Style Debate
15:00
Coffee & Networking
15:30
Corporate Resilience in Asia-Pacific: Strategies for SMEs and Multinationals
16:30
Closing of the 19th APK
