On Tuesday 26th January, over 35 delegates joined us to learn about business opportunities in South East Asia at Holiday Inn Norwich. The venue provided a spacious setting where delegates were able to network over tea & coffee, followed by 3 presentations from expert speakers discussing the key areas of trade in South East Asia; Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Norfolk Chamber’s International Trade Manager, Julie Austin welcomed delegates to the event and thanked UKTI for sponsoring the event before introducing Ximena Florian, Overseas Business Network Advisor UKTI East of England. Ximena explained to delegates who the Overseas Business Network are and what services they can provide to UK companies.
Next up we had Anh Luong, Vietnam Overseas Business Network Partner who went into great detail about what Vietnam and Malaysia are looking to invest in. Anh explained whilst sectors such as education, retail, manufacturing are great opportunities to the UK there are still challenges which companies will face when trading with these areas.
We then took a short break and treated delegates to tea and cake to help them process the information just received.
The second half of the event was spilt into two more presentations in which Ximena Florian covered trading opportunities in Indonesia and Singapore, followed by a presentation from Roy Dallison, UK Representative of the British Chamber of Commerce Philippines, who discussed the opportunities the Philippines offer and also shared some success stories of UK companies trading in the area.
The presentations delivered by these industry experts are now available to view at your leisure. https://norfolkchamber.co.uk/sites/default/files/chamber-event/files/south_east_asia_presentation.pdf
We closed the event with a short Q&A, after which, many delegates took this opportunity to talk further with the speakers and get in some final networking to make those all-important contacts.
