Forbes Australia has announced its inaugural Forbes Australia Icons & Investors Summit, taking place on Friday, 13 September at the Hyatt Regency, Sydney.
The Summit will present heavyweights of Australian business, property and investment in conversation with Forbes Australia, with a lineup of speakers including founder and managing director of Meriton Group, Harry Triguboff AO; chairman and managing director of Competitive Foods Australia, Jack Cowin; portfolio manager of Tribeca Investment Partners, Jun Bei Liu; managing director of BlackRock, Chantal Giles; director of Forbes Global Properties, Tracey Atkins; managing partner at McVay Real Estate, Sam McVay; and more speakers to be announced.
The speakers will convene for roundtable conversations focused on answering one question: “Where are you putting your money?” (inspired by “Where I’m Putting The Money”, a column in Forbes Australia).
Harry Triguboff AO has overseen the construction of more than 77,000 residential sites, won a number of awards for his contributions to the Australian property industry, and is a well-known philanthropist.
Chinese-born, he spent the first 15 years of his life in Tientsin (now Tianjin), south of Beijing, before coming to Australia where he attended Scots College in Sydney. He went on to own a taxi fleet and milk run before building his first block of apartments and establishing Meriton at 30 years old in 1963. He appeared on the cover of the April/May 2024 issue of Forbes Australia.
Forbes Australia editor-in-chief, Sarah O’Carroll, said the aim of the Icons & Investors Summit is to understand how wealth experts are navigating the massive disruption to traditional industries and to learn where the money is going.
“This is a rare opportunity to hear from Australian icons Harry Triguboff and Jack Cowin, whose transformative impact on their industries and decades of experience navigating market disruptions will offer invaluable lessons,” she said.
“Attendees will also hear from a lineup of property and wealth experts, typically reserved for the market’s elite. Forbes Australia is facilitating an intimate environment for high-level conversations focused on wealth creation and the future of wealth distribution. This event embodies the very essence of Forbes, and I’m thrilled to be presenting it.”
Returning with its third naming-rights sponsorship with Forbes Australia, NAB Private Wealth is the presenting sponsor of the Icons & Investors Summit in collaboration with JBWere and nabtrade.