Latest Events 2010
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
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Sept 21st
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Exporting to India Our speaker for the evening is Phil Tandy of ATRADIUS, (which is a credit Insurance and Risk Management Company - with responsibility for International Trade - specialising in Asia) and from his experiences Phil will be giving us an overview of Trading with India. |
Miah’s Indian Restaurant 137 St Helens Road Swansea. SA1 4BL |
Previous Events 2010
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
| June 22nd at 5:30pm |
Exporting to Germany
Our speaker for the evening will be Malcolm Davies, who is the Trade & Invest Manager, at |
Aspers Salubrious Place Wind Street Swansea. SA1 1EE |
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May 18th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to South Africa Our speaker on Exporting to South Africa is Duncan Bonnett who is a partner at South African research and consulting firm, Whitehouse & Associates and has twenty years of experience in conducting research, both in the academic and commercial environments. |
Castellmare Braclet Bay Mumbles SA3 4JT Click for a map |
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April 20th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Czech Rebuplic Our guest speaker is Paul Sinclair who is a Trade Advisor covering Mid and West European countries.
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Guildhall Commitee Rooms 3a/3b, Swansea. SA1 1PE |
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March 23rd
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Malaysia Nicola is IBW’s South East Asia Partner and she will be giving a general overview of trading with Malaysia plus a mention on Singapore and Thailand. |
Lord Mayor’s Reception Room, Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PE |
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February 22nd
at 5:30pm.
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AGM Exporting to South America We have a unique opportunity to talk to these country specific experts on the following markets; Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. Our Main Speakers are: Alfredo Fierro: who is from Argentina and will be telling us about trading with his country. Chris Wall: from UKTI Fiscal Incentives Programme will be talking about Mexico and Brazil They will be followed by our Support Speaker Bill Fraser: IBW Head of Americas Team will be telling us about Latin America and the IBW Support Services |
Lord Mayor’s Reception Room, Guildhall, Swansea SA1 4PE |
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February 2nd
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Exporting to China With the Chinese New Year on 14th February it will give us an opportunity to have an early celebration of the Chinese ‘Year of the Tiger.’ We have two speakers for the evening: Shelly Zhu: who is the IBW Trade Consultant for China, and she will be talking about the current trading situation and opportunities. Jane Wang: who works with international students at Swansea University will talk about her knowledge of the Chinese markets and cultural awareness. |
Oriental Garden, Swansea Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 3AX |
Previous Events 2009
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
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December 8th
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to Korea - Our speaker for the night is: Sungho Choi: Dean of International Development, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, Bridend, South Wales |
Committee Room 2 County Hall Oystermouth Road Swansea SA1 3SN |
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November 2nd
at 5:30pm.
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Exporting to the Middle East - We have three experts who will be giving presentations on trading with the Middle East. The team are doing a series of awareness raising seminars in Wales and similar to our last event on ‘Europe’ they will be coming along to give presentations on the overview of the area and how to do business. Our speakers for the night are: Lee Jennings: Vice President (Middle East) International Business Wales, UAE, who is based in Dubai Dennis Clarke: a leading associate consultant providing strategic support to SMEs throughout Wales via IBW and has had considerable experience in Egypt Paul Gilbert: is an entrepreneur with a number of Directorships with a wide experience particularly with Libya. |
Village Hotel Langdon Road Swansea SA1 8QY |
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September 22nd
at 6:00pm.
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European Forum - There will be numerous In-Market Country Experts available to answer questions together with a networking session. Thomas Heinrich, AHP GmbH & Co KG |
National Waterfront Museum Maritime Quarter Swansea. SA1 3RD. |
| Tuesday 9th June at 5:30pm |
Exporting to Russia - Speaking will be Philip Owen, Director of Volga Trading, who specialises in the Russian Market and Maria Leshchnskaya, Trading and Investment Advisor at the British Embassy in Moscow |
Hurns Brewing Co Alberto Road Century Park Swansea Ent Park SA6 8RP |
| Tuesday 28th April at 5:30pm |
Exporting to China - Speaking will be Mark Jones, China British Business Council CBBC. |
Oriental GardenVictoria Quay |
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Tuesday 24th March at 5.30pm The event will start at 5.30pm with a reception followed by the welcome of the Lord Mayor Cllr Gareth Sullivan. |
Website Launch - Speaking will be Professor Brian Morgan, Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Cardiff School of Management at the University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC) where he is Director of the new Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre (CLEC).A demonstration will also be given of the new website together with the forum. |
George Hall The Guildhall, |
| Tuesday 24th February at 5:30pm |
AGM and Exporting to the USA - Speaking will be Bill Fraser, Ron Cole, Paul Ciggers from International Business Wales (IBW) America’s team.
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Village Hotel Fabian Way Swansea SA1 8QY. |
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Tuesday 20th |
Exporting to India - Speaking will be Dr Paul Davies, who is a Member of the UK Indian Business Council (UKIBC). |
Karma Indian Restaurant 3 Victoria Road, Swansea. SA1 3NE. |
Previous Events 2008
| Date | Speakers | Venue |
| November 2008 | Exporting to Scandinavia Speaking was Ken Evans from Handlesbanken and Rhys Jones from Rhys Jones Images. | Cross Keys St Marys Square Swansea |
| October 2008 | Exporting to JapanSpeaking was Gavin Hamilton | Wasabi Sushi Bar Uplands Swansea |
| September 2008 | Queens Award for Enterprise Speaking was Stephen Brice, David Moore and Patrick Gee. | Village Hotel Fabian Way Swansea SA1 8QY. |
| February 2008 | AGM/HealthcareSpeaking was Mike Younghusband from BBI Healthcare and Jayne Wheeler from Cyden Ltd. |
Technium Swansea |
| January 2008 | Arts and Crafts Speaking was Carol Francis from Structural Change and Anna Lewis CIRIC Swansea Institute. | Swansea Museum |
