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Upcoming Events
WAIPA Events
WAIPA Regional Investment Conference 2008, 3-5 December 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The third WAIPA Regional Investment Conference, organized in collaboration with APEX-Brasil, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 3rd to the 5th of December 2008. The overall theme of the conference is: Foreign Direct Investment: New Scenario and Challenges. This event will present an opportunity for national and sub-national investment promotion agencies (IPAs) from the South American region to discuss global economic and investment issues. The event will count on global leaders that WAIPA regards as key-promoters of their respective countries as a destination for investment. Business leaders from very diverse sectors of industry and regions of the globe, as well as worldly recognized representatives from academia, there included nobel laureates.
This conference will provide networking opportunities and facilitate the exchange of best practices in investment promotion and IPA capacity building.
Training workshops will be organized in collaboration with WAIPA partners.
We warmly invite our members to attend and participate in this third WAIPA Regional Investment Conference! For registration, please see www.waipa.org or contact: alexandra.tokareva@waipa.org
WAIPA Workshop on “FDI Aftercare: Go up in the value chain of activities”, 27-28 November 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
WAIPA is organizing from 27 to 28 November 2008 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a regional training workshop on 'FDI Aftercare: Go up in the value chain of activities'. The training will be run by Ernst & Young. It will provide participating IPAs officials with tools to deliver meaningful aftercare service capacities. Topics covered by the programme include investment facilitation practices and techniques as well as tools to launch action plans.
The overall objective of this workshop is to further develop aftercare strategies for IPAs. Participants will be provided with a conceptual framework as well as some illustrations of corporate development service programmes.
The workshop programme will be available soon on the waipa website www.waipa.org
For registration and further information please contact Mrs. Alexandra Tokareva at: alexandra.tokareva@waipa.org or at the following telephone number: +41 22 797 26 63.
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