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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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Overview

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 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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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.

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

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This tutorial will provide an introduction on what to consider when beginning your Supply Chain sustainability journey. It will provide practical insights and skills to help implement more sustainable practices and drive better business outcomes.

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In this tutorial, Jimmy Moore, Mark Cahill and Stephen Drummond, Senior Supply Chain Advisors from Invest Northern Ireland, discuss sustainability within the supply chain.

Learning objectives and benefits for businesses

Participants will be provided with:

An overview of supply chain sustainability
Why change? Meeting the needs of the

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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.

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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

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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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Richard Ennis, Regional

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.

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.

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.

This is a recording of a recent webinar developed in partnership with The Sales Practice Ireland. The tutorial discusses how effective selling skills are a necessity for any business when it comes to selling your product or service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), is a simple but powerful Lean technique for reducing waste in a manufacturing process. It’s a systematic approach that enables organisations to dramatically reduce set-up time or change-over time. It provides a rapid and efficient way of changing the machine set-up in a manufacturing process from one product to another.

By the end of this short video, you’ll be able to:

Explain the concept of SMED
Describe the process steps for applying SMED

Typically, 90% of the lead time between order receipt and delivery is not adding value for the customer.

This video will cover how to map your business processes from receipt of an order until you are paid for it which will help to identify what these non-value adding activities are which waste time, energy & resources.

The process map is also a useful tool which can be used to help with problem solving.

The cost of having poor quality performance can be up to 15% of your sales, but they’re so much more than rework and scrap levels as many of the costs are hidden.

It’s accepted that people, machines & systems can make errors, however some of these mistakes will result in defects which may end up as rejects with your customers or even lead to a safety incident.

This video shows how using effective Mistake-Proofing devices & systems in your process will detect mistakes that occur before they are passed to your customers & in some cases, prevent errors from being made in the first place, thereby

There are activities within your processes, which consume energy, time, money & people resources in your business, but without adding any value for your customers. There are internal non-value adding activities, or wastes, within your business processes which increase the lead time from receipt of a customer order until you are paid for it, as well as external wastes which are experienced directly by your customers.

The intent of this webinar is to help you to identify and reduce or eliminate these non-value adding activities.

Gathering facts & data makes solving problems easier & considerably faster as it helps create clarity by removing ambiguity, thereby helping you to identify & address the root cause of the problem instead of repeatedly firefighting to treat the symptoms.

This webinar will take you through seven simple, visual, quality tools, which can be used for data collection & analysis, including how to use each of the tools, how to choose the best one, and how to interpret the trends & patterns you have observed.

It’s not always easy to tell if your business has had a good day or if the daily targets have been met. Getting your people involved in daily problem solving and process improvement activity can also have huge benefits for the business.

In this video Catherine will cover some of the benefits of using visual management in your business by making the condition of your processes obvious at a glance.

She will describe how to get your people involved in daily problem solving & process improvement activities as well as improving 2-way communication of targets, expectations & issues using daily

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Spotlight on China

Spotlight on China | Advanced manufacturing and engineering

Spotlight on China | Food and drink

CE Marking Electrical

Supply Chain | Sustainability

Spotlight on India | Agri-Tech

Spotlight on Australia | Med-tech and Digital Health

Practical Problem Solving - Improve your way of working

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

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

Practical Export Skills: Planning and Delivering Effective Online Meetings

Practical Export Skills: Pitching to Win

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

Practical Export Skills: How to Craft a Perfect Elevator Pitch

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

Pitch Optimisation: Develop and deliver a sales pitch

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Operational Excellence | Workplace Organisation using 6S

Operational Excellence | Standard Work

Operational Excellence | Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)

Operational Excellence | Process Mapping

Operational Excellence | Mistake Proofing

Operational Excellence | Identifying Improvement Opportunities (Waste Walks)

Operational Excellence | How to use the 7 Quality Tools

Operational Excellence | Creating a Visual Workplace (Visual Management)

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