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UKTI international advisor Ian Parker to speak at Go Global Conference in Manchester

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

June 16, 2011 | 3 min read

Ambitious marketing services agencies attending the Go Global Conference will hear from keynote speaker Ian Parker of UK Trade & Investment about the opportunities that exist overseas.

Ian Parker of UKTI will get the Conference started by talking to attendees interested in exploring the opportunities that exist for growing marketing businesses outside the UK’s shores about what support the organisation can offer them in their expansion plans, along with guidance and advice on what overseas marker can offer.

Mr Parker will be joined during the day by the China-Britain Business Council who will speak more specifically about the opportunities that exists in one of the planets fastest growing emerging markets, China.

Also, speaking during the one day conference at Manchester Art Gallery are a raft of marketing services agencies – Elmwood, Reading Room, Photolink, Orb International, BJL and Fifth Ring – all of whom have expanded their businesses into cities such as Dubai, Singapore, Sydney, New York, Paris and Mumbai in recent years.

The agency speakers will talk about how adding an international dimension to their UK operations has added turnover, opportunity and credibility to their businesses and offer advice and guidance on how to identify the right overseas market for your business, as well as outlining some of the challenges they faced and how they met those challenges to reap the rewards of going global.

Richard Draycott, Managing Director of MiNetwork, said: “I’m delighted to have Ian Parker of UK Trade & Investment coming along to Go Global to get the Conference started. I’m sure that the agencies coming along will be interested to hear what he has to say about the enormous opportunities that exist for them outside the UK market. The content during the Conference is being delivered by those people who have been on the ground building their business overseas so the advice and guidance will be genuine and down to earth.”

Tickets are still available for the Go Global Conference. To book simply visit the MiNetwork website where tickets are available to buy online.

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