Small Businesses Growing Global October twenty second
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that's one session. I don't remember what we're calling it. Oh, small, it's uh called Small Businesses Growing Global. It is October twenty second. And we are in your district, Commissioner Moore, we are at the uh That hotel over there in uh fifty six?
Um okay I'm gonna tell you where it is here in a second. Well I'll I'll look I'll get the name of that. And I'm really excited because we have a very distinguished group coming. We have Juan Jose Sabinez, who's the Council General of Mexico. We have Andreas Siegel, who's the Council General of Germany. And we have Rodrigo da Costa Fonseca, who's the Deputy Council of Brazil. And then we um our one of the the
opening session is gonna be uh given by Manny Mancia, who I I've known for a number of years. He's a like a legend in the world in international trade. He's with um DEO and he handles all the uh international um business for the state. And um, so his title is Senior VP of International Trade and Business Development for Enterprise Florida. And uh we also have Sandro Murtas, who's with the Small Business Administration,
the U.S. Small Business Administration. Eileen Rodriguez with the Small Business Development Corporation. Dan Björk with the US Commercial Services and Joseph Bell also from Enterprise Florida. So it's free. It does require registration and you can go to the PASCO EDC website to sign up. It's from 8 to 12, October 22nd at the Hyatt Place, Tampa Wesley Chapel. So, um, Our
purpose is to help our our local businesses learn how to deal with international trade. The world is your market and um we wanna we wanna help you learn how to grow. It's amazing that we have federal Agencies who will give you money to go vis do a trade mission. They're called Gold Key. They'll they will go to the they have people in the different countries. Who will um look for your customer
base. And so when you go on one of these gold key missions You they have all the meetings all set up for you and they've already vetted all these companies that are potential clients for you. So you'll have a day or two. Packed with meetings with potential clients, and then these other agencies will help you learn how to deal with shipping and And all the all the intricacies of doing trade in another country because the um It's uh it's a little complicated, but but they're here. Your federal
government, your state government's here and ready to to help you. Make your business a success overseas. So real excited about it. Um our last two, we you know we were standing room only. It's been a while since we did it. So you can attend in person, but there's a limited amount of seats in person, or you can attend virtually, but you must register. So October twenty second.