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Lunch & Learn : Business opportunities with Canada’s developing country trading partners

April 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Please join OWIT-Ottawa and Cowater International
for a presentation on business opportunities in Peru, Colombia, Paraguay and across the Asia-Pacific region and a roundtable discussion about current projects and tips on how to build a team to compete successfully for projects.
April 27, 2021
12:00pm
Founded in 1985, Cowater International is a leading global development consulting company headquartered in Ottawa with corporate hubs in Brussels, London (UK), Montreal, and Nairobi. Cowater International currently administers three aid for trade projects for Canada and the UK. Under these projects, Cowater International contracts individual experts and consulting firms on a competitive basis to work with governmental and nongovernmental partners across the developing world to implement their trade and development agendas.
Cowater International is partnering with OWIT-Ottawa on this event to increase the number of female experts and women-owned firms that bid for, and successfully implement, these projects.
AGENDA
Welcome and introductions 
Jennifer McMullan, VP Outreach, OWIT-Ottawa
Opening remarks
Samantha Torrance, Executive Vice-President, Governance and Economic Reform, Cowater International
Business Opportunities in 2021
Phil Rourke, Project Director, EDM and CTIF
Expert Deployment Mechanism for Trade and Development (EDM)
Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Phil Rourke
Ann Penner, President, Three Point Perspectives and former Member, Canadian International Trade Tribunal
Topic: Working with Cowater in Vietnam and Colombia
Pernille Fischer Boulter, CEO and Founder, Kisserup International Trade Root
Topic: Working with Cowater in Colombia and Bangladesh 
Vicki Campbell, Senior Program Manager, EDM
Topic: Tips on bidding on EDM project
John Karalis, Program Manager, Trade and Investment Advocacy Fund (TAF2+)
Topic: Bidding successfully on international trade and development projects
Concluding remarks
Cowater International, OWIT-Ottawa

Details

Date:
April 27, 2021
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT