Building the Asia-Pacific Workforce for the Energy Transition: An RMIT Research Roundtable

28 Sep 2026
10:00am - 01:00pm
FREE
RMIT Asia Hub, Level 2/368/374 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Request an invite: email timothy.lawler@rmit.edu.au

This half-day roundtable, hosted by the RMIT Asia Hub with the Australian APEC Study Centre (AASC), brings together researchers to establish a research community on regional clean economy and workforce issues.

The clean energy transition depends on people as much as technology – the skilled workforce needed to build and operate solar farms, green hydrogen plants, electrified grids and retrofitted cities. That talent moves across borders, making workforce development a shared, regional challenge.

This half-day roundtable, hosted by the RMIT Asia Hub with the Australian APEC Study Centre (AASC), brings together researchers and expertise from across RMIT – including the Sustainable Cities Hub and colleagues working on energy, the built environment and the clean economy – to establish a research community on regional clean economy and workforce issues.

Building on the AASC's 2025 work on clean economy workforce and regional skills, the roundtable will map existing expertise across the university, identify shared research questions, and set a direction for future collaboration. The session will produce a summary paper outlining where the conversation goes next, laying the groundwork for future work, including support for APEC's upcoming Vietnam host year.

This is the first step in building lasting RMIT capability on regional workforce and clean economy issues – connecting researchers, deepening the university's expertise, and positioning RMIT to help shape the regional conversation.

This event is open to researchers and graduate students. If you would like to request an invite, please email timothy.lawler@rmit.edu.au

This event is part of the Energy Futures events season presented by the RMIT Regenerative Futures Institute.

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This half-day roundtable, hosted by the RMIT Asia Hub with the Australian APEC Study Centre (AASC), brings together researchers to establish a research community on regional clean economy and workforce issues.

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Building the Asia-Pacific Workforce for the Energy Transition: An RMIT Research Roundtable