Executive Forum 2001
26-29 September - Montreux, Switzerland
Is Your Trade Support Network Working?
Programme
Day 1 -
Wednesday, 26 September
9:00 - 9:30 hrs: Informal Session:
National Export Strategy and
the Network
(a review of the conclusions of Executive Forum 1999)
Overview: Brian Barclay, Coordinator, Executive Forum
9:30 - 10:00 hrs: Informal Session:
The Network in the Digital
Economy
(a review of the conclusions of Executive Forum 2000)
Overview: Ramamurti Badrinath,
Director, Division of Trade Support
Services, ITC
10:00 - 10:30 hrs: Informal Session:
Market
Analysis
Tools for Trade Support Networks
Overview:
Friedrich von Kirchbach, Chief, Market Analysis
Section, Division of Product and Market Development, ITC
14:00 - 15:30 hrs: Informal Session: Is Our
Trade Support Network Working? - Canada's Response
(a presentation and question and answer
session)
Moderator:
Joseph
Smadja, Deputy
Executive Director, ITC
Presenters:
Brian Oak, Director,
Strategic Planning, Trade Commissioner
Service, and Coordinator, Team Canada Inc.,
Ottawa, Canada
John
Treleaven, President, Saskatchewan
Trade and Export Partnership, Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada
Barbara Mowat, President, Impact
Communications Ltd., Abbotsford, British
Columbia, Canada
16:00 - 18:00 hrs: Executive Forum Opening:
Welcome,
Introductions and Rules of the Debate
Moderator:
J.Denis
Bélisle, Executive
Director, ITC
Presenters:
Sok Siphana, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Perrin Beatty, President,
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters,
Ottawa, Canada
Mr. Ablassé Ouedraogo,
Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization, Geneva,
Switzerland
18:30 hrs: Reception
Day 2
- Thursday, 27 September
8:30 - 10:00 hrs: First Plenary Session:
Responding to
Client Needs: Implications for the Trade Support Network
Moderator:
David
Syz, Secretary of State,
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Bern,
Switzerland
Presenters:
Suhel Ahmed Choudhury, Secretary,
Ministry of Commerce, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi,
Executive Director and Member of the Board, Japan External
Trade Organization (JETRO), Tokyo, Japan
10:30 - 12:00 hrs: First Breakout Series:
Best
Practice Scenarios - Serving Client Needs
-
The Network's Fundamental Challenge: Addressing
Conflicting Objectives
Moderator:
Philip Williams, ITC
Presenters:
Andrew Crosby, Programmes Director,
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable
Development (ICTSD), Geneva, Switzerland
Fabrizio Onida, Immediate
Past President, Italian Institute for Foreign Trade.
Currently Professor, Bocconi University,
Milan, Italy
-
Who's the Client? Segmenting and Prioritizing
Moderator:
Sarah McCue, ITC
Presenters:
Brian Oak, Director, Strategic
Planning, Trade Commissioner Service, and Coordinator,
Team Canada Inc.
Zdenak Kovac, Director, Small Business Development
Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia
-
Establishing Credibility: A "Full
Demand" Response
Moderator:
Brian Barclay, ITC
Presenters:
K.T. Chacko, Executive Director,
India Trade Promotion Organization, New Delhi, India
Lalith Gamage, Executive Director, Tradenet Sri
Lanka, Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Colombo,
Sri Lanka
-
A Trade Support Network for Exporters of
Services: What's Different?
Moderator:
Morten Scholer, ITC
Presenters:
Doreen Conrad, ITC
Eliseo Temprano, President, Temprano,
Young and Ward Architects Inc., Ottawa,
Canada
14:30 - 16:00 hrs: Second Plenary Session:
Structuring the Network: Technical and Operational
Priorities - Network Implications
Moderator:
Peter Walters,
Director, Division of Product and Market
Development, ITC
Presenters:
Peter Richter, GTZ Adviser,
AGEXPRONT, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Raj Makoond, Director, Joint Economic
Council, Port Louis, Mauritius
16:30 - 18:00 hrs: Second Breakout Series:
Focusing
the Network
-
Is there a Market for Competency Development?
Moderator:
Brian Barclay, ITC
Presenters:
Osman Atac, ITC
E. Collins Boateng, Executive Secretary, Ghana
Export Promotion Council, Accra, Ghana
-
Quality: Standards First, then Move up the Value Chain
Moderator:
Sabine
Meitzel, ITC
Presenters:
Shyam Gujadhur, ITC
A. Aziz Mat, President, Institute of Quality, Malaysia
(IQM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
-
Supply Chain Management: Where Does It Begin and End?
Moderator:
Ian Sayers, ITC
Presenters:
Alan Day, Executive Consultant, Accenture, London, UK
Johan Laman Trip, Director, Laman Trip &
Partners, Bathmen, Netherlands
-
Information: But What, For Whom and How?
Moderator:
Nadia
Hebboul, ITC
Presenters:
Paul Kelly, ITC
José Luis Liranzo, Programme Manager,
Trade Information, Caribbean Export
Development Agency, Barbados
Dinner Discussion:
-
The Strategy-Maker's Trade Support Network: Basic
Requirements
-
The Exporter's Trade Support Network: Basic
Requirements
Day
3
-
Friday, 28 September
8:30 - 10:00 hrs: Third Plenary Session:
Coordinating
the Network - Who, What and How?
Moderator:
Ramamurti
Badrinath, ITC
Presenters:
Mr. Antonino Laspina,
Director, Promotion Department, Italian
Institute of Foreign Trade
Zachary Gichohi, Deputy Chief Executive,
Kenya Export Council, Nairobi, Kenya
10:30 - 12:00 hrs: Third Breakout Session Series:
Coordinating
the Network
-
Leadership - A Public or Private Sector
Responsibility?
Moderator:
Doreen Conrad, ITC
Presenters:
Mr. Batmunkh Dagva, Deputy Director
Department of Trade Policy and Cooperation
Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Ricardo Estrada Estrada, Executive President,
Corporación de Promoción de Exportaciones e
Inversiones (CORPEI), Guayaquil, Ecuador
-
Why Strengthen the Trade and Finance Linkage?
Moderator:
Carlo
Cattani, ITC
Presenters:
Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr., President, Philippines Exporters Confederation (Philexport),
Pasay City, Philippines
Osei Boeh-Ocansey, Managing Director, Pioneer Food Cannery Ltd.,
Tema, Ghana
-
Why Strengthen the Trade and Investment Promotion
Linkage?
Moderator:
Joseph Smadja, ITC
Presenters:
Andrew Proctor, Regional Programme
Manager, Asia Pacific Regional Office, Foreign
Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), Sydney, Australia
Geoffrey Da Silva, Chief Executive Officer,
The Guyana Office for Investment, Georgetown,
Guyana
-
The Role of the National Trade Promotion
Organization: Is There One?
Moderator:
Philip Williams
Presenters:
Raúl Argüelles,Vice-President,
Export Promotion, Banco Nacional de Comercio
Exterior (BANCOMEXT), Mexico City, Mexico
Thomas Aquino, Undersecretary,
Department of Trade and Industry, Manila
Philippines
14:30 - 16:00 hrs: Fourth Plenary Session: Is My
Trade Support Network Working?
- Does the Answer
Lie with Structure, Systems or People?
Moderator:
Hendrick Roelofsen,Director,
Division of Technical Cooperation
Coordination, ITC
Presenter:
James Van Wert, Senior
Adviser for Policy Planning, US Small Business
Administration, Washington DC, USA
Qamar Beg, Secretary of Commerce, Ministry
of Commerce, Islamabad, Pakistan
16:30 - 18:00 hrs: Fourth Breakout Session Series:
Maintaining
Network Performance
-
Attaining Network Efficiencies - What's the
Technology Dimension?
Moderator:
Philip Williams, ITC
Presenters:
Sarah McCue, ITC
Femi Boyede, Chief Executive, Koinonia Ventures Ltd.
(KVL), Lagos, Nigeria
-
Ensuring Network Sustainability -Who Should Pay for
What?
Moderator:
Doreen Conrad, ITC
Presenters:
J. Treleaven, President, Saskatchewan
Trade and Export Partnership
Alvaro Aguilar, General Manager, Technical Services
Division, AGEXPRONT, Guatemala City, Guatemala
-
Performance Measurement Tools: What Works?
Moderator:
Jean-Claude Piers de Raveschoot, ITC
Presenters:
Ken Watson, Rideau Strategy
Consultants Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
Mike Hannah, Manager - Government Relations and
Policy, Chief Executive's Office,
New Zealand Trade Development Board
-
Performance Measurement Tools: What Doesn't Work?
Moderator:
Paul Kelly, ITC
Presenters:
Anton Said, Manager,
Business Information and Technology, Malta
External Trade Corporation Ltd. (METCO)
Guy
M'Bengue, Chief Executive Officer,
APEXCI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Dinner Discussion:
-
E- Facilitated Networking - Why and How?
-
E- Promotion - What are the Implications for the
Network?
Day
4
-
Saturday, 29
September
8:30 - 10:30 hrs: Group Working Sessions (5 groups):
Is Your Trade Support Network Working? - Conclusions and
Recommendations on Best Practice
11:00 - 12:30 hrs: Fifth Plenary Session:
Review of
Conclusions
Moderator: J.Denis Bélisle, ITC
Lunch Discussion:
Where Do We Go From Here?
Closing
Top
of page