When NAB chief Cameron Clyne decided he wanted an influential business audience to announce last month that the bank was going to drop overdraft charges, he chose a lunch at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle. That announcement generated enormous publicity for NAB – more than 330 articles, according to Google! And that’s one example highlighting why Trans-Tasman is seen as one of Australia’s leading business networking groups, attracting speakers that are guaranteed to pull a crowd from the big end of town: the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the chairman of Infrastructure Australia, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, to name but a few coming up later this year.

What’s interesting to us at Big Switch Projects is that Trans-Tasman has established a new sustainability group, the Australia-New Zealand Sustainability Circle.

Surely we have more than enough sustainability talkfests in Australia? Not according to Trans-Tasman’s Chief Executive John Weiss. He spoke to Big Switch Projects’ Managing Director Gavin Gilchrist about his new group.

Click here to see what John had to say to Gavin.