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Webinar: Join WorldCC to celebrate NAIDOC Week

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World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC) will host a webinar with Alliance ICT during NAIDOC Week, to celebrate this year’s theme of ‘Keep the fire burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.’

The one-hour ‘WorldCC Foundation: Celebrating collaboration with Indigenous business leaders for NAIDOC Week 2024’ event will take place on Thursday, 11th July at 3:00 PM AEST.

Alliance ICT’s presentation will include a panel of Indigenous-owned businesses as they discuss support for other Indigenous businesses, challenges, successes and the relevance of the journey towards reconciliation, including a look at the way forward, strategies for fostering success and case studies.

Key takeaways will include:

  • Challenges Indigenous-owned businesses are facing and how they can be supported
  • Positive outcomes and how they have been successful
  • Insights into how to be successful in interactions with Indigenous businesses in the future

Hear from Maka Kama (Alliance ICT), Else-Beate Bright (World Commerce & Contracting), Rina Abbott-Jard (Suncorp), Simon O’Toole (Alliance ICT) and Grace Ferguson (Winya Indigenous Furniture).

Register now