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Join this roundtable event to discuss common challenges and opportunities for innovative businesses when exporting your products and services overseas.
If your firm is involved in innovation and you have a product or service that you are looking to take to global markets, then this session will provide an exciting opportunity to share and discuss common issues and get advice from peers and trade specialists.
This event is suitable for exporting businesses of all sizes to support in further expanding your network and collaboration with likeminded businesses. By joining us you will:
- Hear from a local business that has experience of taking their innovative products and services to global markets
- Understand more about the export journey including how to select the right countries and how to determine the best ‘route to market’ for your business
- Discuss Practical considerations including how to protect IP or how to find out about product rules & regulations when venturing into new overseas markets
- Hear about the support available from organisations such as DBT, Warwick Innovation District and Innovate UK to help you on your way
Agenda:
09.30 - 10.00 - Arrival & Networking
10.00 - 10.05 - Welcome and Introduction to Innovation Opportunities to Midlands Businesses
10.05 - 10.25 - Exporting Success Presentation with Aurrigo
10.25 - 11.15 - Roundtable Discussion focusing on key issues
11.15 - 11.25 - Innovate UK - Global Business Innovation Programme
11.25 - 11.30 - Final Remarks from DBT & Warwick Innovation District
Meet the Speakers:
Miles Garner - Sales & Marketing Director,
Aurrigo International PLC
Aurrigo International Plc is leading the world in ‘first and last mile’ self-driving passenger and cargo carrying transport solutions. The company, which employs over 80 people across its UK HQ and has offices in Singapore, Australia, Canada and the US, has achieved global recognition for its Auto-Shuttle autonomous 8-seater vehicle and airside aviation baggage and cargo vehicle.
Miles is the Sales and Marketing Director with more than 35 years’ experience working within the automotive sector. He’s been instrumental in creating an international brand for the business and securing their involvement in some of the world’s largest driverless vehicle trials.
Through on the ground support by in country DBT teams, Aurrigo has exported autonomous vehicles to Canada, USA, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Norway. Mile’s advice to those considering exporting is ‘to spend time evaluating the competitor market in the country, contact the local DBT teams and government backed local invest departments’.
Scott King - UK Chartered and European Patent Attorney,
Barker Brettell LLP
Barker Brettell LLP are a top European intellectual property firm based in Birmingham. He specialises in the computer technology, telecoms, medical, physics and electronics sectors.
Scott works with a wide range of clients from small start-ups and individual inventors to multinational corporations. He has been involved in drafting and prosecuting European, UK and foreign patent applications, in addition to helping clients obtain registered design protection. Scott has experience in helping his clients identify patentable inventions within their innovations, in order to help them develop a robust IP strategy to gain protection for their ideas.
Rob Scott - Innovation Growth Specialist,
Innovate UK Edge
Rob Scott is an Innovation Growth Specialist with Innovate UK supporting growth and high growth companies in the West Midlands and throughout the UK. Rob has over 25 years’ experience in commercialization, cross-border investment, and export advisory in Australia, Asia, and the UK. He has delivered venture capital raising, grant writing and international business planning services across the technology spectrum. Rob was formerly the Managing Director of Australia Asia Technology Incubator. (AATI) which helped hundreds of Western startups, scaleups and SMEs better understand, enter, and succeed in key Asian markets. Rob has been as an advisor to government and industry, as well as to several key government funded programs. He has held senior executive roles for global professional services firms, including Ernst & Young for over 7 years and was the State Leader of EY’s China Business Group for the practice back in Australia.
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| Midlands Peer Network - Innovation & International Trade: Unlocking the Global Potential of Your Business | |||||
| Date: Thursday 1st February | |||||
| Time: 09.30am - 11.30am | |||||
| Location: Warwick Innovation District, Warwick CV4 7EQ | |||||
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| call: 0300 303 8955 | |||||
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Registration
Places at our event are limited, so use the link below to register your interest in joining us today.
Anything missing? If there is a particular challenge or issue you would like us to address, please let us know when you register.
For any other export related enquiries contact the Department for Business and Trade in the Midlands at dbtmidlands@businessandtrade.gov.uk or call our export support service on 0300 303 8955.
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Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the Government Department that helps UK based companies succeed in the global economy. We also help overseas companies bring their high-quality investment to the UK’s dynamic economy, acknowledged as Europe’s best place in which to succeed in global business.
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