Wednesday 7 Nov

Thursday 8 Nov

Friday 9 Nov

Saturday 10 Nov

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT EXPOSITION

PACIFIC ISLANDS TRANSPORT FORUM

0800-0900

Registration

Registration

Registration

Registration

0900-1000

Opening Session: Inspirational Item (10 mins)

Formal Opening Remarks & Chief Guests’ speeches

Special Presentation – Setting the Scene

Session 6

Summary Day 1 (10 mins)

Transport Policy: Technology, Infrastructure, and guiding
the market

PIDF-hosted Green Growth Panel
: What constitutes sustainable growth in the Transport
Sector?

1000-1030

Arrival of Expo participants and allocation of booth space,
set-up of exhibition areas, and preparations for Forum

MORNING TEA BREAK

1030-1130

Session 1

Continue Scene setting

Session 7

Cross-cutting themes:

Health, Nutrition and Food Security

MCST-hosted Panel
:

Low carbon shipping: from the global to the local,
SWIRE/MCST Cerulean Project signing

1130-1230

Session 2

Progressive strategies and technologies employed globally

Session 8

Issues, challenges, and opportunities

– Land

– maritime

Private Sector Roundtable
: Lessons Learned, Ways Forward

1230-1330

LUNCH BREAK

Critical Mass Cycling Ride
(QED) – Lap from USP Campus Stadium around Ratu Sukuna Park
back to ICT Centre

1330-1430

Session 3

Linkages – SDGs, NDCs, Trade & Economics

Session 9

Financing the transition; options for funding and
incentivising early leaders (incl. GCF)

1430-1530

Session 4

Linkages between transport sub-sectors: Land – Sea – Air
and improving logistics

Session 10

Needs & Gap Analysis

(How do we get there?)

Research Fair:
Results and Award Ceremony followed by Q&A between
Private Sector and Research Students

1530-1600

AFTERNOON TEA BREAK

Formal closure of Expo

1600-1700

Session 5

Innovative Solutions

Session 11

Visioning

– 2030 goals

– 2050 goals

Clean up and closure

1700-1705

Declaration
Drafting team appointed

Session 12

Plotting the Course for the Future: Declaration drafting
review

1705-1730

Expo & Research Fair
student research technology demonstrations and expo viewing

1730-1800

Film Screening
Cars vs. Bikes

Laucala and Tony de Brum Declarations

CLOSING of Forum

1800-1900

Reception

1900-2000

Welcome cocktails and buffet

2000-2100

Clean up and close