18 April 2012
Britain, Great for Business in Gothenburg
BSCC in co-operation with UK Trade & Investment, West Sweden Chamber of Commerce, the British Embassy and SCC arranged a conference in Gothenburg at Clarion Post Hotel on Wednesday 18 April. The theme for the conference was to promote UK as an investment destination and business partner for Swedish companies. The event was to encourage the appetite of entrepreneurs in Gothenburg and west Sweden to establish new and expand existing business in the UK.
As the 18th of April marked 100 days to the opening of the Olympic Games, we had a panel discussion with Triple Jump Olympic Gold medallist Christian Ohlsson, Lisa Ericsson and Astrid Gabrielsson, competing in London 2012 sailing 470 class, Stefan Lindeberg, Chair of the Swedish Olympic Committee, Elisabeth Ström, Communication Director, Vattenfall and Peter Klock, CEO of GKSS discussing sponsorship and training. We also had a keynote speech on the business legacy of the Olympics with speaker Paul Woolston, Senior Partner of PWC in the North East and Chairman of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership
Other areas that were discussed were electricity and energy Markets with speaker Anders Dahl, Head Business Division Renewables, Vattenfall; Business climate, market opportunities and success factors in UK/Sweden, including practical guidance with speakers: Fredrik Häggström, Country Manager UK, Swedish Trade Council; Sapna Chadha, Head of Electronics, Communications & Financial Services, UKTI; Johan Trouvé, CEO, West Sweden Chamber of Commerce; and Caroline Theobald, Honorary Consul for Sweden, Chairman North East Chapter, Swedish Chamber of Commerce. These were followed by Case Studies from financial services we had speaker Pär Boman, CEO, Handelsbanken, property
Christel Armstrong, Stena Fastigheter. These speakers then had a paneldiscussion moderated by Britt-Marie Mattsson.
A full report will be presented in the next Newsletter.
Thank you everybody for a lovely day!