Wednesday 02 October
15:40 - 16:10 | Women in Business Theatre
PANEL: How Female Led Businesses are Scaling to International Success
Hear firsthand how these female business leaders turned their companies into successful businesses selling internationally. Hosted by Irina Shmakova, Export Academy Adviser from Department for Business & Trade. The session will include experience and advice from Elizabeth Vega OBE, Group CEO of Informed Solutions Ltd and Helen Tonks MBE, Co-Founder of Hydraulics Online on the following:
- How to start your export journey and take those initial steps into a global market?
- How to secure new international customers?
- How to build brand awareness in new international territories?
- As a successful businesswoman have you experienced any barriers to doing business? And do you have any tips on how to overcome them?
- What support did they have and how did the Dept for Business and trade help?
- Do you have any success stories from working with the DBT that you would like to share?
Hosted by Irina Shmakova, Export Academy Adviser from the DBT, come along to this session and find out more about how to grow your business and the free support from the UK Export Academy. There will also be a Q&A session as part of this event.