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Why do world-leading cyber security and software firms choose to expand their businesses into Northern Ireland?

This short webinar explores how Northern Ireland delivers the talent, expertise and innovative environment technology firms need to scale successfully, remain competitive and support long-term growth.

The race to innovate, remain competitive and scale successfully in a fast-moving technology landscape means cyber security and software firms are reassessing how and where they build operations to support future expansion.

The webinar explores:

Challenges facing software and cyber security

Why do world-leading financial services firms choose to expand their businesses into Northern Ireland?

This short webinar explores how Northern Ireland delivers the talent, expertise and business environment financial services firms need to strengthen resilience, support growth and build long-term success.

With increasing pressure to meet regulatory expectations, access specialist talent, manage costs and support growth, financial services firms are rethinking traditional operating models and where they locate key functions.

The webinar covers:

Trends influencing financial services growth

Why do world-leading professional services firms choose to expand their businesses into Northern Ireland?

This 15-minute webinar explores how Northern Ireland delivers the talent, expertise and business environment professional services firms need to support growth, expand capability and build long-term success.

With increasing pressure to scale efficiently, compete for specialist talent, maintain quality and protect margins, professional services firms are reassessing where they build teams and support future growth.

The webinar covers:

Growth challenges facing professional services firms today
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This tutorial is for Northern Ireland food and drink businesses interested in exploring how halal certification can unlock new customers, markets and export opportunities.
It introduces halal compliance and certification, explaining how businesses can access growing global halal markets through recognised standards and export-ready processes. The session covers certification requirements, links to existing food safety and quality systems, and opportunities across Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries.

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This webinar explores the principles of effective workplace and plant layout, helping businesses review and optimise their premises and processes to improve efficiency, productivity and workflow. It outlines the six stages involved in organising your workplace to improve the flow of orders, information and materials through your operations.

The six stages are:
•   Sort
•   Set
•   Shine
•   Safety
•   Standardise
•   Sustain

Although developed for manufacturing environments, these principles can be applied across a wide range of sectors, including warehousing, retail and office-based businesses

Now may be the time to review and rethink the layout of your premises and business processes to improve efficiency, productivity and workflow.

This tutorial explains the principles that underpin good plant layout and will help you optimise the use of space, resources and movement within your business. Although developed for manufacturing, these principles can be applied to businesses in any sector, including warehousing, retail and office environments.

Inventory management is a set of processes which you utilise to oversee and organise your goods or materials in your facility.

The objective of this webinar is to provide you with an introduction to elements of Inventory Management and how that links into forecasting.

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This tutorial explains the new steel import controls being introduced by the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) from 1 July 2026, and what they mean for your business.

Through this tutorial, you’ll gain a clear understanding of how the new rules work, including tariff free quotas, additional tariffs and new EU requirements.

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Through this tutorial, participants will learn:

What is changing in UK and EU steel import rules
How new tariff-free quotas and 50% tariffs will be applied
What the EU’s new traceability requirements mean in

As the third largest economy in the world, Japan is excellent market for Northern Ireland businesses to export into Asia Pacific. It has been one of the last countries to retain COVID border restrictions, but Japan is now allowing business visitors to enter the market ahead of further relaxation of restrictions later this year. Featuring guest speakers from the British Embassy in Tokyo and Business Link Japan, this video tutorial focuses on the current economic climate and export opportunities presently available throughout a wide range of sectors. The tutorial is a recording of a recent

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China is the world’s second largest economy and the scale of opportunity for Northern Ireland companies is significant.

This webinar provides an overview of opportunities in China for Northern Ireland food and drink companies, alongside practical insights from in-market experience.

It explores China’s growing demand for high-quality imported food, intellectual property considerations, and the support available from Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Bureau. You’ll also hear from Lakeland Dairies on building a premium brand in China, including lessons on market entry, distributor

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China is the world’s second largest economy and the scale of opportunity for Northern Ireland companies is significant.

This webinar provides an overview of opportunities for Northern Ireland advanced manufacturing and engineering companies in China, combining market insight with real-world business experience.

The session explores China’s scale, policy-driven growth and sector-specific opportunities, alongside key considerations such as intellectual property and market entry challenges. You’ll also hear directly from Sensoteq about its China journey, including lessons on partnerships

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China is the world’s second largest economy and the scale of opportunity for Northern Ireland companies is significant.

This webinar cuts through the complexity of exporting to China and helps you understand how the market could fit into your business growth plans. It focuses on commercial opportunities, with a spotlight on the food and drink and advanced manufacturing and engineering sectors.

You’ll hear directly from two Northern Ireland companies already exporting to China as they share their journey, what they learned along the way and what they would do differently.

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The Northern Ireland Food and Packaging Industry is rapidly changing in response to consumer demand for more sustainable packaging. To meet this growing sustainability requirement there needs to be a closer collaboration between local government, research bodies, manufacturers, retailers and recyclers to identify innovative packaging solutions. Invest Northern Ireland along with The College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise and the Northern Ireland Food and Drinks Association are actively encouraging local collaboration by running a series of sustainable packing webinars entitled The

In all global Life & Health Science markets, regulatory compliance is an essential part of a company’s market entry strategy into a new geography. This tutorial will help Northern Ireland companies who want to enter the US market better understand the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), its requirements and how to successfully manage getting products through FDA registration.

This Training Needs Analysis tutorial equips you with the tools to identify essential skills for staff development, empowering your team to drive business success.

Delivered by Maeve Carabine, Skills Adviser for Invest NI, you will get an insight into the tools and techniques used by learning and development professionals to analyse training needs. This will enable you to increase productivity and improve the skills of your people through targeted training going forward.

Social Selling is the art of utilising social media platforms to engage with prospects and create sales conversations. This video tutorial will explore the fundamentals of social selling and how they can be integrated into marketing and sales activities for your B2B business. It is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with digital marketing agency, Digital Red.

The Latin America and the Caribbean region is home to a number of markets, each with their own diverse culture and economy. This video tutorial, in partnership with the Department for International Trade, features a series of videos from country directors introducing their markets and the export opportunities that are available for Northern Ireland businesses.

Funny but true, different personality traits resemble different animals at the zoo. This humorous tutorial explains how to become a more effective communicator and ultimately salesperson by recognising the variety of communication styles used by the animals in a zoo, and how using this information to adapt a sales pitch can lead to achieving better results.

This a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with International Synergies NI, the delivery body for Invest Northern Ireland’s Resource Matching service, and the UK’s Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP). Focusing specifically on the food sector, the 55 minutes long webinar discusses the economic and environmental benefits of waste reduction and physical resource matching.

In the past, selling online was traditionally associated with consumer-facing retail businesses. Now, a broader range of businesses are investing in e-commerce – particularly those trading with other businesses. This video tutorial will outline how e-commerce could work for your business, along with the associated benefits of selling your products and services online.

Invest Northern Ireland, in partnership with Business in the Community hosted this webinar on climate change to discuss what will it mean for business today and in the future, how we can mitigate any negative impacts and what opportunities will arise for economic development. The Energy and Resource Efficiency Team and guest speakers will highlight the need for businesses to take action now and advise on what support is available to help your business on its journey to tackle this critical issue.

Northern Ireland is at the forefront of education technology. Our vibrant Edtech sector delivers a wide range of state-of-the-art products and services to stakeholders across the UK and internationally.

In this webinar, we are joined by panellists from five Northern Irish organisations TextHelp, EventMap Solutions, Stranmillis University College, Firefly and the NI Edtech Collaborative Cluster.

They will share their key learnings from COVID19 and how they have made an impact on their service, users and customers through technology.

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The Windsor Framework set out new rules for moving goods between Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and Northern Ireland.

This agreement introduced several changes and new trusted trader schemes to ease the flow of goods primarily from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. It's important to understand how these changes impact on businesses in Northern Ireland and Great Britain and what is required to ensure compliance with the Windsor Framework.

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This tutorial features contributions from Peter Curran, Head of Dual Market Access and Jonathan Walsh, Director at Fortior

This webinar explores why Northern Ireland is at the forefront of attracting international companies and entrepreneurs, the current economic situation and potential future scenarios in South Africa and a panel discussion with current American and South African investors.

This webinar provides information, tips and resources to help companies address sustainability requirements within medtech, diagnostic and pharma sectors.

The speakers include Net Zero representatives from the Health Innovation network (formerly known as ASHN), NHS England, Almac and legal perspectives.

The aim of this webinar is to help you better understand the drivers toward Net Zero/carbon reduction for the pharma, diagnostic and medtech industries, carbon reduction reporting, NHS England’s “Greener NHS” strategy, NHS Evergreen Sustainable Supplier Assessments and how the pharma industry is

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Grow your business in Northern Ireland | Cyber Security and Software

Grow your business in Northern Ireland | Financial services

Grow your business in Northern Ireland | Professional services

Your gateway to the global halal market

Operational Excellence | Workplace Organisation using 6S

Plant Layout: Plan and choose the best plant layout

Supply Chain | Inventory Management & Forecasting

United Kingdom & European Union Steel Measures | What you need to know

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Learning objectives and benefits for businesses

Spotlight on Japan (2022)

Spotlight on China | Food and drink

Spotlight on China | Advanced manufacturing and engineering

Spotlight on China

Future of Food Packaging - Global Innovations in Sustainability

The FDA: Challenges and Opportunities

Training Needs Analysis

Practical Export Skills - Driving sales for your B2B Business through Social Selling Excellence

Introduction to the regions - Latin America and the Caribbean

How to pitch to different personality types

Food Sector Efficiencies - Reduce Waste and Costs

E-commerce - Reach new customers and boost your sales

Climate Change – The Opportunities and Risks for Your Business

Transforming the Learning and Teaching Landscape Through Edtech

Windsor Framework | Moving goods into Northern Ireland

Webinar: Why is Northern Ireland a location of choice for organisations looking to grow internationally?

Webinar | Navigating Green Success in Life and Health Sciences

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