Learn how to make globally competitive products at this Smart Exporter export and trade strategy forum

If you're interested in how to grow your business and increase profits through international markets, then this is a must attend event.

Join our series of export and trade strategy forums taking place throughout 2012.

How to attend

Register your interest in this free Smart Exporter strategy forum 

Who should attend?

These free to attend events are open to all Scottish businesses who want to increase their business profitability and growth through international markets.

What are the benefits from attending?

  • Hear from speakers sharing their experience, concerns, challenges and opportunities in global markets
  • Learn the importance of international growth to add value to your business
  • Access a range of free support to help your business prepare, plan and develop its international growth

Guest speaker profiles

Our guest speakers will discuss how they have implemented an effective strategy to ensure they profit from new markets.

William Wood, Sales & Marketing Director & Co-Founder, Sciencesoft

Sciencesoft is the Glasgow based world-leader in 3D visualisation and analysis software for the global oil and gas industry.

Sciencesoft’s products helps engineers analyse results by quickly producing 3D images of a company’s oil or gas field. Their products are the main prediction tools used by engineers in petroleum companies to forecast future oil and gas production.

Sciencesoft has achieved an annual growth rate of 25 percent since 2002 and overseas sales account for 90 percent of the company’s turnover. As well as winning the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category, Sciencesoft’s team won the John Logie Baird Innovation Award for its newest software package.

William will present an interactive session in how Sciencesoft targeted international customers using a Glasgow based sales team and how they continue increasing sales during this challenging economic climate.

Pete Higgins, Founder and CEO, UWI Technology

How many times have you gone into the bathroom cupboard or refrigerator to get the medicine or jar of food and been unsure how long a container or jar has been opened? UWI Technology have invented a label that shows how long the jar has been opened for and states when the ‘use within’ period has been lapsed.

Founder and CEO Pete Higgins, will delight the audience with his interesting insight into how his innovation was developed and how UWI Label has attracted wide aclaim in a number of awards such as the Vibes and Barclays Awards 2011.

Pete recently took part in an trade and export strategy workshop and will discuss how this has been integrated into their business plan.

Smart Exporter trade skills programme is delivered by Scottish Development International (SDI) supported by the European Social Fund.