Australia & India
Business Meet 2026

Industry-Led Conversations on Growth, Investment & Execution

The 2nd edition of the “Australia-India Business Meet” will be held on 28-29 October 2026 in Sydney and 30 October 2026 in Adelaide. This edition’s aim is also to facilitate and offer impactful discussions in the pursuit of enhancing trade and investment partnership between the two countries. The huge potential that exists between the two countries are yet to be tapped. The bilateral trade potential is about AUD 500 billion, and the investment potential is over AUD 100 billion. The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed in 2020, and the Free Trade Agreement (ECTA) signed in 2022 are the two enabling document to achieve it. 

As India has seen tremendous growth in technology and manufacturing capabilities & the scale, it is time to think and work towards the idea of “Design in Australia - Make in India; and Design in India - Make in Australia” for the future partnership between India and Australia. 

The business event features B2B interactions, speeches, panel discussions, meeting experts, networking over Lunch and gala dinner, and a business golf round at St Michael’s golf club, etc

This year, the central theme is technologies that shape the future business between the two countries in the fields of Agri and Agri business, Energy including Renewable Energy, IT, Space and Defence, Advanced Manufacturing including Robotics, and IT & ITES. In addition, the 2^nd Australia India Business Meet has been designed as the next stage of the Australia–India Future Industries Series and the invitation-only Executive Roundtables held throughout the year.

While the roundtables focus on identifying the major business, infrastructure, workforce, technology, global capability centres in India and supply-chain shifts shaping the Australia–India corridor, the summit is designed to move those discussions toward practical business outcomes, partnerships, investment opportunities, and commercial execution.

The focus of the Business Meet is industry conversations around:

• where growth opportunities are emerging,
• how companies are adapting operationally,
• what future industries are scaling fastest,
• where Australia and India are commercially complementary,
• and what successful execution across the corridor increasingly looks like in practice.

The panels and discussions (as given below) have therefore been structured to be commercially focused, industry-led, and outcome-oriented, bringing together business leaders, investors, operators, infrastructure players, technology firms, universities, and government stakeholders to discuss practical pathways for growth, capability building, and long-term business engagement across the corridor.

Broader sectors/themes to be covered cut across all the conventional sectors viz., Defence and Space, Agriculture, Energy, Mining, Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Skilling, ICT, etc.

Artificial intelligence, Infrastructure and Productivity

Supply Chains, Security and Business Risk

The Skills and Talent Challenge

The Industries Driving the Next Phase of Growth

Focus Sectors