Venue: Wrocław University of Economics and Business  ul. Komandorska 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław, Poland (and online)

24th November 2026

9:00 – 9:20 – Opening speeches
9:20 – 10:20 – Keynote session: After the EU–India Trade Agreement: The New Geoeconomics of the Indo-Pacific (Speeches by HE Ambassadors and Special Guests)
10:30 – 10:50 – Presentation of „Trade in a Bottle” project
11:15 – 13:15 – Academic panels (presentations of research and discussion)
13:15 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 – Academic panels (presentations of research and discussion)

25th November 2026

9:00 – 11:00 – East-West inQube Breakfest: Scaling from Poland to Asia (and vice versa) – an event co-organised with the academic business incubator
11:00 – 12:30 – Polish-Indian student debate

The 15th Asia-Pacific International Conference (Strategic Autonomy in a Multipolar Indo-Pacific: Trade, Security and the Reordering of Global Value Chains) takes place during a period of significant change in the Indo-Pacific economic order. The EU–India Trade Agreement, signed in January 2026 after nearly two decades of intermittent negotiations, illustrates these wider changes without encompassing them. The Agreement was concluded under pressure from US tariff policy, China’s growing strategic assertiveness, and the weakening of the WTO; in this respect, it is an instrument of open strategic autonomy. Brussels and New Delhi sought to reduce structural dependencies and to diversify their economic partnerships in a multipolar setting. It was paired with a separate EU–India Security and Defence Partnership, covering maritime security, cyber resilience, and defence-industrial cooperation. Trade policy in the Indo-Pacific can therefore no longer be examined in isolation from questions of security, technology, and foreign policy.