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| EVENTS CALENDAR Rose Global Advisors' Events Calendar highlights relevant seminars, conferences, and other events of interest to business professionals. If you would like more information regarding an event we have listed or would like to submit an event, please email us. | 1 September 2010 | Export Opportunities in Brazil! - Federal Way, Washington Brazil is the largest country and economy in South America with significant ties to the United States. The U.S. is Brazil's largest trading partner and the demand for U.S. products is high. In 2008, bilateral trade between the U.S. and Brazil reached US$ 53 billion, with Brazil importing US $25.6 billion worth of U.S. goods and services. Although Brazil offers excellent export opportunities, a complex business structure and business culture based on personal relationships, means that U.S. companies will see the most success when they invest time in building relationships in Brazil, conducting in person visits, one-on-one meetings, attending local trade shows and working with Brazilian companies. The U.S. Commercial Service Brazil has nine U.S. officers and over 50 Brazilian staff responsible to help U.S. companies conduct research and build in-country connections. Their services aid U.S. companies enter the Brazilian market and develop their export presence. Last year, Brazil assisted U.S. companies and developed around 500 distinct export successes. | | 2 September 2010 | Business Opportunities with Indian Delegation of Various Wood & Wood Based Products - Seattle, Washington A delegation of 11 CAPEXIL member companies is travelling to the US and is interested in expanding their product line and forming strategic partnerships with US companies. These delegates represent companies that export wood, plywood and related products. CAPEXIL is the premier International Trade Facilitation Council under the Indian Ministry of Commerce focused on enhancing India’s Global Trade & to promote the export of Indian products across the world. In collaboration with the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle the CAPEXIL delegation will host a B2B buyer seller meeting. This event will feature a presentation by CAPEXIL about the wood and wood products industry in India, and structured one on one networking to follow. | | 7-8 September 2010 | Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 - Washington, DC Join us at the Gov 2.0 Summit with leaders and decision makers to refine the concept of government-as-platform and explore the ways in which it can be used for transformation; to create a community of Gov 2.0 leaders who can push change forward and outward year-round; and to answer the call to strengthen our democracy. Gov 2.0 Summit is brought to you in partnership with O'Reilly Media, Inc. and UBM TechWeb and moderated by O'Reilly CEO and founder, Tim O'Reilly and Dick O'Neill of Highlands Group. | | 9 September 2010 | Thailand: Growth Opportunities - Seattle, Washington The seminar will be hosted by Ms. Ajarin Pattanapanchai, Deputy Secretary-General, who, for many years, has been instrumental in formulating investment promotion policy and involved in various high profile investment developments in Thailand. She will be presenting on the progressive trade and investment policies, financial incentives, and business services the Thai Government currently offers US companies. The industry focus will be on high - tech sectors, with emphasis on life sciences and renewable energy sectors. In addition, an expert from these sectors is planning on giving an update on the current developments and support programs available to US companies. | | 21 September 2010 | The National Summit on Information and Communication Technologies - Tashkent, Uzbekistan We would like to invite you to participate in National Summit on Information-communication technologies "ICT Summit 2010", which will be held for the 8th time on 21st of September, 2010 (tentative) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. ICT Summit is one of the most important events of the Information and Communication Technologies Week "InfoCom" that is held in Uzbekistan annually in September.
This year, just like years before, ICT Summit will open the Information and Communication Technologies Week "InfoCom". Its plenary and sectional sessions will cover the most important issues in the ICT field, including trends and major developments in regulatory policy, progress and challenges in implementation of national ICT development programmes, best practices of ICT deployment in various sectors, issues of infrastructure development and other most critical areas. | | 27 September 2010 | TechNW - Seattle, Washington TechNW is a meeting of the brightest minds and most innovative technology companies in the Northwest. It is the region's high profile, must-attend forum for learning, business development, and networking. Intellectual and creative interaction among industry leaders provides critical insights into the future of ever-evolving tech sectors, many that originated and continue to thrive right here in our backyard. | | 8 October 2010 | Ai Investment Climate Summit 2010 - Washington, DC The Africa investor Investment Climate Summit, in association with the World Bank Group, is a business forum designed to facilitate action, to highlight and address project specific investment climate challenges and shed light on Africa's investment success stories. This summit will bring together private investors with significant investment projects, subject to regulatory challenges, to debate practical solutions to advance those challenges in partnership with donors, the African Union, NEPAD, REC's and African policy makers. Through facilitated discussions the Summit will look at sector specific and regional investment projects that can support Africa in job creation, regional integration and enhance Africa’s competitiveness as a global investment destination. | | 12 October 2010 | International afterhours Clean Tech Meetup - Bellevue, Washington What do solar power and China have in common? Find out at the first after hours international clean tech meet up. We're bringing clean tech and international together for the first time. Who knows what will happen? Drop by after work, enjoy some appetizers and a cash bar at this first clean tech meet up in Bellevue. | | 9 November 2010 | International Predictions 2011 - Seattle, Washington Ms. Leila Butt Leila Butt is a Senior Economist in the East European department of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Country Analysis and Forecasting division. Leila specializes in political and economic developments in Eastern Europe, with a focus on the Czech Republic and Hungary. Leila is Deputy Manager of the EIU’s Country Risk Service, which produces regular analysis and ratings for sovereign risk in 100 countries worldwide. She also works on product development related to the company's country credit risk offerings. She is responsible for monitoring and appraising the EIU's assessments of currency and sovereign debt risk in the countries in Eastern Europe. Prior to joining the EIU, Leila worked as a statistical analyst for a risk management consultancy where she carried out credit risk management analysis of client banks in emerging markets. Leila holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. | | 10-11 November 2010 | M4D - Mobile Communication Technology for Development - Kampala, Uganda HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden) in cooperation with Makere University (Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology) in Kampala, invites you to the 2nd International Conference on M4D - Mobile Communication Technology for Development. M4D2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of Mobile Communication Technology for Development. The conference is the 2nd international conference in M4D following the inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008 (http://m4d.humanit.org/2008) and M4D in East-Africa 2008 (http://m4d.kcl.co.ug). M4D will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion forums, and demos. The conference will take place at Protea Hotel in central Kampala. | | 13 November 2010 | 12th Annual Africa Business Day Forum - Seattle, Washington | | 6-9 January 2011 | 2011 International CES - Las Vegas, Nevada With more than four decades of success, the International CES reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive. The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,200 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. |
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