Austrade’s senior trade commissioner in Hong Kong Peter Osborne to speak as CCI’s ‘Doing business with China’ seminar and cocktail function, July 27 at the CCI Function Centre. Bonnie Shek, director (Australia & New Zealand), Hong Kong Trade Development Council, will also be speaking at the event. Dr Barry Green, directorate general for research of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, to speak at an Australian Institute of Energy luncheon titled ‘Fusion energy and the ITER project, the next step to a sustainable future’, July 27 at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel. National Productivity Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald to speak at Leadership WA’s breakfast seminar titled ‘Leadership in the third sector’, July 28 at the Burswood Convention Centre. Dr John Heilig, principal of Brisbane-based technical consulting and vibration monitoring services company Heilig & Partners Pty Ltd, to speak at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics seminar on development and production blasting in underground mines, August 2 and 3 at Hotel Ibis. Leading Asia-Pacific business consultant Robin Speculand, founder and CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy Intl, in Perth for one day only to host a workshop titled ‘Bricks to bridges’ on August 3. Steve Vamos, managing director of Microsoft Australia, to speak at an Australian Information Industry Association seminar about the ICT industry, August 21 at Fraser’s Restaurant.