Friday, April 29, 2011

HKCBA National Canada - Hong Kong Business Forum

HKCBA organizes this biannual “Canada-Hong Kong Business Forum” event to encourage Canadian business – particularly the small and medium enterprises - to take the opportunity and initiative to expand their business activities by taking advantage of the exciting opportunities that are available .. now.. and increasingly in future .. in the rapidly growing China marketplace. And to assist by providing advice and example as to how they may do this, in confidence and safety, using Hong Kong as their business platform to other parts of China and South East Asia.  At the 2009 HKCBA National Canada-HK Business Forum in Vancouver British Columbia, over 35 prominent speakers and over 470 guests attended.  The 2009 National Forum also won the "Best Conference Award" by the British Columbia Event Industry and the "Best Initiative Award" by the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide.
 
Get more information at: http://calgary.hkcba.com/forum/

Thursday, April 28, 2011

#FITTConference

Early bird rates end in just over a week! Take advantage of these great discounts before they're gone. http://bit.ly/FITTConference

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

#FITT Conference

Don't miss FITT's AGM which will follow the luncheon on June 7th with keynote Peter Hall, VP and Chief Economist, EDC

#FITTConference

Today is the final day to book under the FITT hotel block at the  Holiday Inn Plaza La Chaudiere! http://bit.ly/FITTConference

Thursday, April 21, 2011

#FITTConference

New speaker profiles have been added to the site. Read up on our expert speakers at http://bit.ly/FITTConference

Expert Panel Session

Make Canada's Free Trade Agreements Work for Your Company – with panelist, Gustavo Zentner, CITP, President, International Point of Commerce Inc. #FITTConference

New Roundtable!

FITT is pleased to welcome Mary Anderson to our roundtables with her talk, What is supplier diversity? Is this a tool that you might use when selling to giant clients? A must attend topic for women business owners.  #FITTConference

New Roundtable!

FITT is pleased to welcome Ray Joyce to our roundtables with his talk, The Challenges of Doing Business in the United States. #FITTConference

Monday, April 18, 2011

#FITTConference

Only two weeks remain to take advantage of early bird rates! Register today at http://bit.ly/FITConference

Thursday, April 14, 2011

FITT - EDC Internship Application Deadline

The FITT - EDC Internship application deadline is tomorrow. Be sure to get your application in on time!

Islamic Trade Finance Webinar

Thanks to all who participated in this afternoon's webinar, as well to Dany Assaf and  Dr. Mohammad Fadel for their insightful presentation.
An archive of the session will be available shortly.
 

#FITTConference Trade Compliance - Exporting

FITT is pleased to announce that Maggie Weaver will be presenting an in-depth session on Export Trade Compliance at this year's event http://bit.ly/FITTConference

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Join FITT at @SupplyChainCan 2011

Get a free pass to the Supply Chain Canada trade show at http://www.fitt.ca/about/newsList/SCL2011.htm

Supply Chain Canada invites you to attend the Annual Conference and Stay for Free!

Don’t let reduced travel budgets keep you from connecting with your peers and learn from industry experts. With our new special offer, Stay for Free program, Supply Chain Canada will cover your hotel accommodations* when you travel to attend our annual conference."

Details:
For anyone that travels more than 600km with copy of your airline ticket tSo attend, and registers for the full conference regular rate, that they will receive 2 days free at our official hotel Good for overnight booking with check-in May 9, and check-out May 11. Additional nights pre and post conference can be booked at the special rate of $139 (based on availability).

Contact Sharon Vernon at 905-695-0123 x214 or 877-892-9010 to book your hotel room today!





Trade show now
double in size for 2011

Click here to see the list of over 80 exhibitors.








Conference Keynote Presentations

Tuesday, May 10
8:15 - 9:15 am
Kevin O’Leary, CBC Dragon, Host of BNN’s SqueezePlay, Renowned Venture Capitalist


11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Craigg Ballance, President, e-finity group inc.

3:45 – 4:45 pm
Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, Chief of Maritime Staff and Commander of the Canadian Navy

Wednesday, May 11
8:05 - 9:05 am
Kate Vitasek, Faculty, University of Tennessee

11:20 am - 1:00 pm
Robert Hogue, Senior Economist, RBC Royal Bank

3:30–4:30 pm
Michael Buckley, Director Logistics IHQ, cirque du Soleil ®

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Monday, April 11, 2011

#FITTConference

Discounted student registration rates, made available by EDC, are still available for this year's event. Don't miss out! http://bit.ly/FITTConference

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

#FITTConference

New roundtable announced: Selling to Large/Complex Accounts – Leroy Lowe, CITP, Nova Scotia Community College.

Monday, April 4, 2011

#FITTConference

Join us for the 14th National FITTskills Awards! View this year's winners at http://bit.ly/FITTskillsAwards

Friday, April 1, 2011

Expert Panel Sponsor

FITT is pleased to welcome Ottawa Business Journal as an Expert Panel Sponsor at the #FITTConference Thank you OBJ!

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