Are you a manufacturing and engineering business or working with these businesses to grow your international profile and explore investment trends and opportunities?
If so, join the Invest in Leicester team, fDI Intelligence and the Department for International Trade, as our expert speakers explore and highlight signals, opportunities, and trends in international investment with a sector focus on Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing.
Here’s what you can learn
- Key and emerging global manufacturing and general FDI trends and how the UK has positioned itself to exploit these trends, including looking at key source markets and how Leicester & Leicestershire are performing.
- Has the pandemic and EU exit changed the priorities of these trends in the UK?
- How the Midlands manufacturing sector is shaping up globally and what are our regional & local strengths?
- How to ensure your business keeps up with the crowd and drive competitiveness, profitability and ultimately its investment attractiveness.
- Practical tips for your business and networks in an ever- changing sectorial landscape
- Overview of the incentives landscape
Our Speakers
Mark Goldby, Department for International Trade
Mark is a specialist Consultant for the Government’s Department for International Trade (DIT) for the Midlands Region. Mark has nearly 30 years of manufacturing & leadership experience in the electronics industry, initially with corporate giants GEC Plessey Communications & Siemens. Mark is Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Manufacturing Network and sits on several regional and local advisory boards supporting the manufacturing sector as well as Non-Executive director roles. Mark also provides specialist consultancy drawing upon his sectorial and international trade expertise and is a strong advocate for technology & innovation. His excellent business networks are invaluable in helping new investors quickly feel at home in the region.
Chris Knight, fDi Intelligence & Wavteq
Chris Knight is the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Wavteq. Chris has been working in the field of foreign direct investment and advising governments for over 15 years. Chris is an expert in the benchmarking of locations, as well as analysing and interpreting FDI trends worldwide. Chris is also an expert on how to market and promote a location globally. Chris has worked with locations all over the world on a variety of lead generation and strategy projects. As well as this, Chris is the SVP for fDi Intelligence in UK and USA, working with Economic Development Organisation’s with data products and GIS mapping.
Chris has worked with hundreds of Investment Promotion Agency’s worldwide in all aspects of foreign direct investment including lead generation, event organisation and management, best practice in investment promotion and location benchmarking propositions.
We look forward to welcoming you,
Invest in Leicester Team