PayPal to Participate in Prime Minister’s Digital Economy Forum

October 4, 2012

Jeff Clementz, Vice President of PayPal Australia will be one of 40 CEO’s and attendees across Australia participating in the Prime Minister’s Digital Economy Forum on October 5, 2012.

The Forum will focus on how Australia can maintain an edge in the growing digital economy, and look at ways to improve Australia’s competitiveness and productivity, building on the Government’s National Digital Economy Strategy and Productivity Agenda. The National Digital Economy Strategy has set a goal for Australia to become a leading global digital economy by 2020.

The forum will be hosted by the Prime Minister, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy and Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Financial Services, Bill Shorten.

The Prime Minister will open the Forum, with sessions to address these key issues:

  • The success of innovative digital organisations;
  • The opportunities and challenges of a digitally enabled world; and
  • Thinking about work in the digitally engaged world.

The forum can be viewed by live webcast at the Prime Minister’s website: http://www.pm.gov.au/digitalforum