Now in its eighth year The Corporate Affairs Forum examines leading edge innovation and best practice in corporate affairs and stakeholder engagement. It is a unique platform to drive awareness of emerging trends, practices and thinking about new approaches to corporate public affairs. 

This year, The Corporate Affairs Forum will take a deep dive into Public Affairs in the context of The Asian Century. 

Their forum include regional CEO dialogue and session topics like the "Years of Change in Corporate Public Affairs", "The New Dynamics of Trade", "Communications Strategies in a New Era: Securing and Defending the Social License to Operate", "Third Sector View", "ASEAN Integration: What it Means for Strategy" and "Government Affairs in a Multi-stakeholder Environment: Views from the field by practitioners in established and disruptive industries". There will also be drinks and networking sessions.

The speakers include Hans W. Vriens from Vriens & Partners, Paul Lynch from Prudential Corporation, Shiumei Lin from UPS Asia Pacific, Steve Galster from Freeland, Amb. Michael W. Michalak from the US-ASEAN Business Council, Jin Montesano from LIXIL Group, Deborah Elms from The Asian Trade Centre, Shweta Shukla from Unilever and David Katz from KKR Asia Pacific. 

Who should attend?
The Corporate Affairs Forum is an annual interactive conference designed for C suite professionals in public affairs, communications and corporate affairs. Their delegates include middle and senior representatives in roles such as Government Relations, Corporate Affairs, Public Affairs, Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Communications and CSR, Sustainability and Shared Value.

What Previous Attendees said?
80% of previous attendees said the conference exceeded their expectations. Some positive reviews that the attendees mentioned included that the forum was "highly interactive", "top-level insight", "an unrivalled platform for my profession" "well organised and effectively structured". One senior practitioner also mentioned that "No other professional forum hits the target so accurately in Asia Pacific".

For more information, contact Orachon Tanaka (Khun Pear) at events@publicaffairsasia.com or visit their website here.