Events

Hosted by Global Affairs Canada and EntrepreNorth and inspired by Weaving Our Worlds Together, this Lounge event brings together Indigenous women entrepreneurs, international partners, government representatives, and business leaders to connect and build meaningful relationships. 

Through facilitated, small-group discussions, participants will share experiences and explore opportunities for trade, investment and cross-border collaboration.

Designed to foster practical connections and knowledge sharing, the Lounge creates new pathways for global business and economic co-operation.

The 2026 Indo-Pacific Forum is taking place as Canada actively considers the next phase of its Indo-Pacific Strategy. Since the Strategy's launch in late 2022, Ottawa has increased Canadian visibility in the region and laid the groundwork for robust and meaningful co-operation with various Indo-Pacific partners. 

The task now, of course, is to follow through on these commitments – not only to reap the benefits of what these partnerships can deliver for Canadians but also to demonstrate that Ottawa's Indo-Pacific focus is not wavering amid upheaval in its relationship with the United States or the appeal of closer ties with Europe.  

The day’s discussions will benefit from the insights of APF Canada’s Indo-Pacific Research Fellows – experts from Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam – on issues that are at the heart of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, namely, trade, investment, and resource partnerships; defence and security co-operation; and frontier technologies. These discussions will equally benefit from the participation of some of Canada’s top foreign policy thinkers. 

The day will open with remarks from Jeff Nankivell, APF Canada's President & CEO, and conclude with a keynote address by Dr. Evan Feigenbaum of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, followed by networking among the Forum’s participants.

How ready is the Indonesian business community to seize the opportunities offered by the Canada-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)? Findings from the Kadin Indonesia Institute survey show that 84.4 per cent of respondents have either never heard of or know very little about the Agreement. Interestingly, a majority of respondents are already able to identify potential sectors and channels for doing business with Canada.

Through a collaboration between the Kadin Indonesia Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, these findings are highlighted in the Insights Paper “Indonesian Business Perceptions of the Indonesia–Canada CEPA,” exploring the gap between business awareness and the utilization of Canada-Indonesia CEPA opportunities.

Details to Follow. Email events@asiapacific.ca 

Join us Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8:30 a.m. at Université de Montréal for a discussion on evolving security challenges in East and Southeast Asia, from traditional security concerns and maritime security to cognitive warfare, with APF Canada Indo-Pacific Research Fellows Natalie Sambhi of Verve Research and Ronan Tse-Min Fu of Academia Sinica. 

PolyMonde, in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Le POINT (Polytechnique International), invites you to join us for a forum dedicated to the strategic and economic issues facing South Korea. The conference will provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges South Korea is facing within the context of Canada's own middle-power perspective. 

Canada-in-Asia: Momentum Taipei kicks off the 2026 Momentum series in Taiwan with a focus on the energy and materials foundations of advanced technology manufacturing. 

Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem accounts for a growing share of national electricity demand, with credible estimates placing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) alone at close to 8 per cent of total consumption. 

Taipower's own chairman has captured the policy in three words: electricity is competitiveness. The supply side is under strain. Taiwan holds approximately 150 days of oil reserves but only about 11 days of spare LNG. The demand side is moving fast. TSMC has brought its RE100 commitment forward to 2040 with a 60 per cent renewable target for 2030, and Taiwan intends to tender 15 gigawatts of offshore wind between 2026 and 2035.  

Canada is arriving with a track record and the intention of answering what comes next. Energy technologies, LNG, renewables, critical minerals – all are services and goods Canada can partner with Taiwan on to support Taiwan’s semiconductor and advanced manufacturing ecosystems. 

This Momentum event seeks to illuminate the needs and the pathways for co-operation.

Canada-in-Asia: Momentum Tokyo closes the 2026 Momentum series with a focus on the energy and materials foundations of Japan's economic security. 

Japan's semiconductor, electronics, photonics, and battery firms make the wafers, chemicals, magnets, and optics that global technology runs on, and they import almost every element that goes into them, along with the power to process them. 

Fabrication is an electricity business before it is a chip business. The supply side is concentrated. METI records that, pre-Iran war, Japan depended on the Middle East for more than 90 per cent of its crude oil imports, and the 2026 Strait of Hormuz disruption turned a structural exposure into an operational one. On materials, the March 2026 Canada-Japan Comprehensive Strategic Roadmap registered both countries' grave concerns over economic coercion and over export restrictions on critical minerals and established a bilateral Economic Security Dialogue on the premise that "economic resilience is vital to both national security and long-term prosperity."

Canada has cargoes already sailing and new capacity coming online. LNG, LPG, heavy crude, uranium and small modular reactors, germanium, gallium, indium and rare earth metals – all are goods and services Canada can supply to underwrite Japanese advanced manufacturing. 

This Momentum event identifies the needs and the pathways for co-operation, three months before APF Canada's annual Canada-in-Asia Conference (CIAC2027) convenes in Singapore.