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Spotlight on North East Asia: Materials Handling

With the rise of the materials handling sector in North East Asia, this tutorial dives into new developments in the industry across Japan, Korea and Taiwan to provide helpful insights on the export opportunities available in the region.

In-market professionals and industry specialists zone in on the latest multi-market trends, highlighting how to capitalise on the increased demand in the sector amid rising awareness of the government’s push towards recycling and better use of building materials and forest resources.

Viewers are also introduced to N-Expo (The New Environmental Exposition) May

Spotlight on India | Agri-Tech

Overview

This tutorial will shed light on the opportunities available to local agri, agri-tech and allied industries in India. It will also provide insights into future developments, equipping you with the knowledge you need to make informed decisions when considering selling your product or service in the Indian market.

Key speakers

In this tutorial Saikiran Vedula, Regional Manager, Invest Northern Ireland; Dhurv Sharma, Invest India; Guarav Singh, T&A Consulting and Colin Hassard, International Trade Advisor, Invest Northern Ireland discuss export opportunities for Northern Ireland agri

Spotlight on India

India is one of the fastest-growing major economies and continues to register strong GDP growth, despite global challenges. With its vibrant and expanding consumer market, India is slated to be the world's 3rd largest economy by 2030. 

In this Spotlight event, in-market specialists discuss the current export opportunities and challenges for Northern Ireland businesses in the market, showcasing the latest in-market macroeconomic trends and insight into several sectors, while also sharing the potential obstacles for entering the market and how to overcome them. 

While wider opportunities are

Spotlight on Egypt

Egypt, a market at the nexus of the African, Arab and Mediterranean centres, is poised to be at the forefront of growth for emerging economies. With a large domestic market and consumer base, strong GDP growth and a large, educated workforce, Egypt has become one of the most promising markets in which to do business. 

In this Spotlight event, in-market specialists, such as from the Department for Business and Trade, explore the current export opportunities and challenges for Northern Ireland businesses in the market, while providing insight into the latest in-market macroeconomic trends for

Spotlight on Canada

As the second largest country in the world by area with a population of over 40 million people, Canada is an ideal place to target and sell your product or services to consumers.

Canada has a highly developed and competitive market with similar business practices to Northern Ireland, and strong economic and cultural ties with 14% of the Canadian population claiming Irish heritage.

This video tutorial is a recording of a live webinar and focuses not only on the emerging trends and exporting opportunities for local businesses in the market and how to approach them, but also addresses the

Spotlight on Australia | Med-tech and Digital Health

Overview

Australia's life and health sciences sector is a prominent player in the Asia-Pacific region and fast becoming a world-leading location for the sector – particularly in med-tech and digital health.

It is a market that offers transparency in its regulations, commitment to research and clinical trials, and welcomes international collaboration.

This tutorial highlights the latest market developments and trends in the sector, as well as an update on the current regulations and opportunities for exporting Northern Ireland businesses

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Key speakers

Richard Ennis, Regional

Spotlight on Australia

Northern Ireland companies can find a world-leading location for Life and Health Sciences in Australia. It is a market that offers transparency in its regulations, commitment to research and clinical trials, is investing in digital health infrastructure and product and welcomes international collaboration. This tutorial features an expert panel of speakers addressing logistical and compliance issues and sharing commercial opportunities within the sector with a nod to the Biotech & Biopharma sectors. This tutorial is a recording of a recent webinar.

Social media trends for your business in 2024

Stay ahead of the curve and elevate your brand's social presence with insights on artificial intelligence, social sustainability, the rise of Threads, video dominance and micro-communities and hyper-niche targeting.

This video tutorial is a recording of a live webinar previously delivered by Invest NI in partnership with Declan Murtagh from digital marketing agency Brilliant Red Digital. It highlights the most innovative, important trends for 2024, along with how you can implement them in your business.

Social Media Trends in 2023 for your Business

Social media is an effective way to maintain a connection with your customers.

It is an ever-changing landscape and every year trends and new ways of communicating emerge. In 2023, expect to see the end of third-party cookies, social media communities, content going full screen, chatbots, and micro influencers. This video tutorial will highlight how you can implement these and more into your business. This is a recording of a live webinar previously delivered by Invest NI.

Resilience, Recovery & Resource Matching

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. The 58 minute long webinar details the free service, which offers opportunities to convert wasted materials of one business into a resource for another, how it works and how you can access it. There are seven chapters and these will take you just over 58 minutes, but you can do it in your own time or one chapter at a time.

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious awards for UK businesses, recognising business excellence across the UK in Innovation, International Trade, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). In partnership with The Queen’s Awards Office, Invest NI recently hosted an Information Session highlighting the Awards to local businesses. This video tutorial is a recording of the event.

Practical Steps for Reducing Energy Consumption

In this webinar, Alastair Nichol, Director of Element Consultants, Dayna McCreadie, Senior Energy Policy Officer, Consumer Council and Invest NI experts discuss solutions and support for businesses seeking to reduce their energy consumption, contribute towards Net Zero and ultimately, save costs.

This is a recording of a live webinar previously delivered by Invest NI’s Energy and Resource Efficiency Team as part of a series informing Northern Ireland businesses of solutions and support available to reduce carbon emissions and contribute to the Green Economy.

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CE Marking Electrical

Overview

This tutorial is based primarily on the Low Voltage (LV) and Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directives. It provides guidance to compliance and assists participants to determine the route that is most appropriate, cost-effective and efficient for their product. For most companies, the marking is a self-certification process and involves an evaluation of the product or equipment against a relevant standard.

Key speakers

In this tutorial, Colin Graham, from Invest Northern Ireland’s Technical Advisory Unit, and Simon Barrowcliff, Senior Technical Specialist from Element Materials

Practical Problem Solving - Improve your way of working

Companies are facing unique problems and challenges and are often uncertain about what steps to take to ensure their business runs as efficiently as possible. This webinar is designed to help you solve problems better, create an action plan and hopefully prevent those problems from coming back.

Practical Export Skills: Social Commerce – Selling on Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram

This is a recording of recent webinar developed in partnership with digital marketing agency Brilliant Red. The amount of time people are spending on social media platforms on a daily basis has risen significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar outlines the methods and benefits of selling some or all of your products online via a social media platform.  
 

Practical Export Skills: The New Normal – Rebooting your value proposition

This is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with The Sales Practice Ireland.  The tutorial discusses how strong value proposition is fundamental to successful selling and promotion. It also provides examples of how businesses have rebooted their Sales & Marketing messages, improved Customer Retention and won New Business using a New Value Proposition.

Practical Export Skills: Pitching to Win

This tutorial is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with Marcomm Training. The tutorial will guide you through the pitching process - from the crucial foundations of understanding a client’s needs and requirements, the vital preparation stages and the delivery of a confident, stylish presentation. 

Practical Export Skills: How to create a Social Media Strategy in Five Simple Steps

This is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with digital marketing agency Brilliant Red. The tutorial highlights the practicalities of having a Social Media Strategy and why your business should have one. It will also lay out the blueprint of a future proof Social Media Strategy that will stand the test of time, and focus on getting the right formula for personalisation, content, brand awareness and influencing the customer journey.

Practical Export Skills: How to Craft a Perfect Elevator Pitch

Having a strong ‘elevator pitch’ is crucial in selling your product or service. This tutorial demonstrates how to craft an elevator pitch which effectively communicates your ideas, so you can maximize the interest that others have in you and your business. 

Practical Export Skills - How to build brand awareness for your company on Social Media

This is a recording of recent webinar developed in partnership with digital marketing agency Brilliant Red. Social media is an effective way to maintain a connection with your customers. The webinar highlights the importance of strong brand awareness for your business across your organisation’s social media platforms and provides actionable steps and ideas on how to increase brand awareness using Social Media. 

Pitch Optimisation: Develop and deliver a sales pitch

Pitching skills are essential for the development, growth and success of any business. This tutorial will provide you with quality advice on how to prepare and structure your pitch, explore persuasive presentation through verbal and nonverbal communication as well as visual aids to allow your business to continue to prosper and grow.

Opportunities

What is the Green Economy and what is the opportunity for Northern Ireland businesses? Why should we act now?

This webinar looks at what the green economy means, both domestically and globally, the policy drivers and some of the technologies that are going to be deployed in achieving green economy ambitions. It covers the main sectors that are relevant for Norther Ireland and relevant for our industries and how we can leverage on this opportunity to grow our local and domestic base, touching on the key actions and opportunities for the sector.

Operational Excellence | Workplace Organisation using 6S

During the COVID-19 crisis, social distancing requirements had a significant impact on workplace layout, exacerbating the existing problem of limited floor space in many businesses. 

The intent of this webinar is to take you through the six stages involved in organising your workplace to improve the flow of orders, information & materials through your process. 

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

Operational Excellence | Standard Work

Creating a standardised process can have huge benefits for a business – Customers receive product & services of a consistent quality standard and it’s easier to price jobs & meet deadlines when you know how long jobs take, no matter who is working on them. 

This video will give you an understanding of what standard work is, how to prepare it, and the benefits of having it in place for your processes. It also covers how to balance your work to remove or even reduce bottlenecks in the process.