Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Summit, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commence. You are invited as “Friends of SAUPO,” with special support from 2015 SAUPO Keynote Speaker Mr. Georgia Mui, Senior Advisor with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) & Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) at the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. APEC SME Summit will be a great forum for you to meet with SMEs from APEC’s 21 economies, and to learn how to do business with multinational corporations in their global supply chain. Special dialogues on financing will also be conducted. This event is FREE, please choose “SAUPO” as your source of attendance in the eventbrite registration, under “MUI-APEC-SME connection.”

Time: June 8th (Mon) & 9th (Tue), 2015; 8am-5pm 

Location: Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, 800 Spring St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308 

Panel Topics:

1. Facilitating SMEs Trade through Better Understanding of Non-Tariff Measures in the Asia-Pacific Region

2. Supply Chain Capacity Building for SMEs: Supply Chain Management, Cold Chain Storage and Technical Regulations

3. APEC SMEs Business Matching and Internship Consortium for Global Value Chain Integration

4. Other topics, such as healthcare, finance, etc.

Please register for this free event at:

http://www.muiapecsme06082015.eventbrite.com