The EU-China Business Association and the Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce have the pleasure to invite you to a webinar focused on the results of the annual Business Confidence Survey 2021 of European Business in China. The survey was conducted by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, in cooperation with Roland Berger.

This webinar will take place on June 24, 2021 at 11h00 am (Helsinki time).

After surviving the COVID-19 pandemic, European companies in China found themselves in a resurgent market that was able to get production back online, and are building resilience in China to secure their position in the market. However, the still-looming economic consequences of the pandemic, an increasingly politicised business environment, decoupling and tech divergence, and long-standing concerns over market access, SOEs and a level playing field still present major concerns to European companies moving forward.

Join the event to learn the latest data collected from the European business community in China in the following areas:

• The impact of the pandemic

• Revenue and profitability

• Supply chain shifts and decoupling

• The politicisation of business

• Decarbonisation

• RCEP

• Market access developments

• Level-playing field and SOE reform concerns

• IPR protection and enforcement

• HR concerns

Read more about the European Business in China - Business Confidence Survey 2021 - online event and register! Link opens in a new window.

Date and time: June 24, 2021, 11h00-12h00 am (Helsinki time)
Location: Online
Price for members: Free
Price for non-members: Free

Organizer:

Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce, EU-China Business Association

Date: June 22
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm HKT
Zoom webinar
Organizer: Finnish Chamber of Commerce HK

FinnCham Hong Kong would like to invite you to join our webinar called ”COVID Exit Planning: Preparing Your Organisation for the Post-Pandemic world” by Totti Karpela from Peace of Mind Ltd. (Hong Kong).

As we continue to navigate an uncertain future, organisations are asking themselves how to best prepare for a post-pandemic world.
Join Totti’s presentation as we discuss emerging trends and challenges facing organisations in the post-pandemic era, and how we can proactively address them.
We will look at how and why people might be reluctant to return to work, the role of personal and organisation resilience, crime prevention, mental health, and self-care.

More information and registration here

The future of workplaces

This 90-minute meeting will be organized as an interactive session, starting off as a panel discussion and then dividing into two concurrent breakout sessions. The following esteemed panel members will be bringing various perspectives on how their companies are shaping how workplaces are being adapted, redesigned or re-imagined altogether.

• Spacent – Antti Tuomela (CEO & Co-Founder)
• Halton Indoor Climate Systems – Bart Koniecek (Regional Sales Manager)
• Kone Canada – Kelly Leitch (President)
• Howspace – Troy Pfeffer (VP of Partnerships & Strategy)

This webinar will focus on how these Finnish companies are:

• giving people other options for where to do work that isn’t home or office;
• addressing interior air quality needs as people go back to the office and need to mitigate contagions;
• addressing new social distancing and air quality requirements for elevators; and
• allowing for better employee engagement and digital facilitation.

Agenda:
12:05 pm EST / 7:05 pm EETWelcome and introductions Marika Arovuo
12:10 pm EST / 7:10 pm EET Panel Discussion – Future of the workplaces
Facilitated by Johanna Tarvainen-Lee
1:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm EET
Breakout room discussions
1:20 – 1:30 pm EST / 8:20 – 8:30 pm EET Event summary and closing

Click here to register and read more about The Future of Workplaces- webinar! Link opens in a new window.

Event organizer: Canada-Finland Chamber of Commerce

NIH-HK is a supporting organization of “Scaling Hong Kong to Nordics – A Market Opportunity for Creative Digital Entertainment & Games”, organized by FinnCham, supported by Cyberport, and sponsored by CreateHK.

“Scaling Hong Kong to the Nordics” is to create go-to-market opportunities for scaling Hong Kong digital entertainment and game companies to the Nordic Markets. The 12 months programme design includes recruiting and identifying local start-ups and scale-ups in digital entertainment and game industry for the programme, preparing the participants for identifying business opportunities in the Nordics, identifying and engaging business partners for the participants, arranging a delegation to the Nordics and post-delegation activity in Hong Kong.

The programme aims to bring a positive impact and resources to the Digital Entertainment and Creative economy in Hong Kong.

Speakers:

Terence Leung
Senior Manager (Esports and Youth Team) @Hong Kong Cyberport

Olli Sinerma
Senior Advisor @Business Finland

Per Strömbäck
Spokesperson @Swedish Games Industry, Stockholm

Read more about the webinar and register here! Link opens in a new window.

Date: 17 June 2021 (Thu)

Time: 10:00 (Helsinki) /03:00 PM in Hong Kong SAR

Language: English

Platform: Zoom Online Webinar

Organizer:
organized by FinnCham, supported by Cyberport, and sponsored by CreateHK

Welcome to the June edition of the Finnspace Virtual Coffee Morning.

Executive Director of the UN’s Global Compact Network UAE Rachel Panaino will brief us on the network’s commitments, activities and prospects for businesses, and how to establish a principle based approach to doing business and with that setting the stage for long-term success.
The event will conclude with open discussion.

Date and time: June 16 at 10am-11am UAE time

Registratiotion: admin@fbcuae.fi by June 15

See you there!

Koronaviruksen vuoksi yhteiskunnat ovat rajun muutoksen kourissa. Disruptio jyllää monilla aloilla mullistaen perinteisiä toimialoja ja luoden uusia liiketoimintamalleja. Käsillä on uusia mahdollisuuksia liiketoiminnan kasvuun myös alueemme yrityksille. Imuun mukaan pääsy kuitenkin edellyttää, että liiketoiminta on digitalisoitu ja yritysten tuotteet ja palvelut ovat helposti saatavilla. Mittavat elvytyspaketit eri puolilla maailmaa tulevat ohjaamaan myös investointeja ratkaisuihin, jotka edistävät digitalisaation edelleen vauhdittamista, vihreää siirtymää ja erilaisia kiertotalouteen perustuvia ratkaisuja.

Pandemian jälkeinen maailma on juuri nyt avautumassa ja maailmankauppa piristyy vauhdilla. Olettehan iskussa ja valmistautuneita keräämään satoa?

Menestyminen kansainvälisillä markkinoilla vaatii hyvää valmistautumista. Team Finlandin Road Show Pk-yritykset maailmalle – Iskussa koronan jälkeen -webinaari tarjoaa yrityksille ajatuksia, kokemuksia ja tietoa miten päästä tähän uuteen kasvuun mukaan.

Tilaisuus on tarkoitettu kaikille yrityksen kasvun ja kansainvälistymisen mahdollisuuksista kiinnostuneille ja se tarjoaa erinomaisen mahdollisuuden verkostoitua ja saada neuvoja oman kansainvälistymisloikan toteuttamiseksi.

Katso ohjelma ja ilmoittadu mukaan

Järjestäjät: Team Finland -verkosto, Pohjanmaan kauppakamari, Viexpo, Rannikko-Pohjanmaan Yrittäjät

Yhdistys järjestää yhdessä FinnCham Hong Kongin kanssa webinaarin keskiviikkona 9.6.2021 klo 9.00 Helsingin aikaa.

Webinaarin aiheena on Kiinan Greater Bay Area: mahdollisuudet suomalaisille yrityksille.

Greater Bay Area eli GBA sijaitsee Etelä-Kiinassa ja sisältää Hongkongin ja Macaon erityishallintoalueet sekä yhdeksän Helmijoen suiston alueella Guangdongin provinssissa sijaitsevaa Manner-Kiinan kaupunkia. Kiinan tavoitteena on luoda yli 70 miljoonan asukkaan alueesta maailmanluokan talous- teknologia- ja innovaatiokeskittymä, joka haastaa vastaavat alueet maailmalla (esim. Piilaakso, New York).

Hongkongin rooli on monipuolisin GBA:n rahoitus-, logistiikka- ja kaupankäyntikeskuksena. “Kiinan piilaakso” Shenzhen on alueen innovaatiokeskus ja Guangzhou taas kauppa-, ja teollisuuskeskittymä ja liikenteen solmukohta. Macaosta puolestaan halutaan turismikeskittymä.

Greater Bay Area on myös Kiinan varakkain alue. Lisäksi alueella on pisin kokemus kansainvälisyydestä muun muassa liiketoiminnan, matkustamisen sekä kuluttamisen kannalta. Hongkong on erinomainen välietappi muualle Aasiaan.

Tässä webinaarissa pääset kuulemaan siitä, millaisia mahdollisuuksia tämä kehittyvä ja kasvava alue tarjoaa suomalaisille yrityksille. Lifa Air ja Salli jakavat lisäksi parhaat oppinsa ja yritystarinansa.

Sallin Hanna Lehmuskallio (toimitusjohtaja, Salli Hong Kong ja Shenzhen) sekä Veli-Jussi Jalkanen (hallituksen puheenjohtaja, Salli) kertovat puheenvuorossaan Sallin matkasta Rautalammilta Shenzheniin. Suomalainen Salli kehittää tällä hetkellä markkinoiden terveellisintä istumakonseptia ja valmistaa siihen liittyviä tuotteita. Konsepti perustuu Salli Satulatuoleihin, sähkösäädettäviin pöytiin ja laajaan taustatietoon, jolla motivoidaan ja koulutetaan istujat saamaan uudenlaisesta istumisesta kaikki mahdollinen hyöty. Salli-tuotteita viedään jo noin 80 maahan.

Lifa Air on terveysteknologiayritys, jonka tavoitteena on tarjota puhdasta ilmaa kaikille. Lifa Air valmistaa Kiinassa hengityssuojaimia usealla tuotantolinjalla ja omaa pitkän kokemuksen niiden volyymituotannosta. Puheenvuorossaan tuotannon johtaja Eppu Mäkipää jakaa oppeja Kiinassa toimimisesta sekä Lifa Airin tavoitteesta viedä suomalaista terveysteknologiaa ja puhdasta ilmaa maailmalle.

Tervetuloa mukaan!

Webinaarin ohjelma ja ilmoittautuminen täällä.

In this second part of the Finland Talks -series Dr. Sari Arho-Harvrén, Senior Advisor of Business Finland, tells us about the European industrial sovereignty.

This webinar focuses on Business Finland’s new report European Industrial Sovereignty that analyzes what industrial sovereignty means for the European Union. In this webinar, Dr. Sari Arho-Harvrén also maps out some concrete actions that pave the way towards Europe’s industrial future.

The registration link for the event is here.
Event web page

We hope to see you all on 8 June.

Organizers: Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commerce and Embassy of Finland Bangkok

Women in Leadership

The Finnish Dutch Chamber of Commerce and the Norwegian Dutch Chamber of Commerce warmly welcome you to the event “Women in Leadership” on June 3rd at 16:00 – 17:30 CET. Join us to follow discussions with our guest speakers who reflect on their experiences and share their views on what is female leadership and what is its future. As a participant, you will also have an opportunity to engage in discussions and share your thoughts with others.

This topic is important to us since women have played a crucial role in history even though not always very well recognised. Today, however, female leadership is finally starting to gain recognition, as we have for example seen with the emergency response to Covid-19 in many countries such as Finland, New Zealand, and Norway. Despite the improvements, there is still work to be done and therefore we want to support the topics of gender equality.

Our speakers include Ann-Nina Finne, Global Public Affairs Leader at Ikea, and Ellen Aarvaag Groeneveld, Managing Director at Elkem Maritime Center. More speakers to be announced. The event is moderated by Andrea Orsag.

Programme

• Welcome and opening the event

• Introduction of the speakers

  • Ann-Nina Finne, Global Public Affairs Leader, Ikea

  • Ellen Aarvaag Groeneveld, Managing Director, Elkem Maritime Center

• Panel discussion

• Q&A session

• Closing

Read more here

Register for the event here

Organizer:
The Finnish Dutch Chamber of Commerce and the Norwegian Dutch Chamber of Commerce

Time              3rd June 2021 at 9 – 11 a.m.

Place             Teams (online event)

The event is free of charge but needs registration at latest on the 1st June 2021 here.
Teams link will be sent to the registered participants on the 2nd June 2021.  

Recovery and Resilience Facility will make €672.5 billion in grants and loans available for public investment and reforms in the 27 member states. The recovery plan is expected to lead the way out of crisis, address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to foster the green and digital transition and to lay foundation for a modern and more sustainable Europe.  

This webinar will focus on national recovery and resilience plans in the Baltics and Finland and
how these countries will allocate the resources.  

The webinar is co-organized by the Finnish Chamber of  Commerce in Latvia, the Finnish Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce,  Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Finland, Enterprise Estonia, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia.  

09.00 Opening
Timo Vuori, Executive Director of International Chamber of Commerce in Finland and Executive Vice President of Finland Chamber of Commerce   

09.05 Estonia
Klen Jäärats, Director for EU Affairs at the Government Office

09.25 Finland
Laura Vartia, Senior Financial Adviser, Ministry of Finance
09.45 Latvia
Armands Eberhards, Deputy State Secretary on EU Funds, Ministry of Finance of Latvia

10.05 Lithuania
Paulius Baniūnas, Deputy Director of the EU Investment Department, Ministry of Finance

10.25 Panel discussion
Estonia: Tõnu Mertsina, Chief economist at Swedbank
Finland: Mauri Kotamäki, Chief Economist, Finland Chamber of Commerce
Latvia: Mārtiņš Āboliņš, Economist, Citadele Bank
Lithuania: Aleksandr Izgorodin, Independent economist

 11.00 Closing
Timo Vuori, Executive Director of International Chamber of Commerce in Finland and Executive Vice President of Finland Chamber of Commerce 

Timo Vuori will moderate the event.

WELCOME.  

ADBI in collaboration with the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (Viet Nam), are hosting a virtual conference, which is a regional side event of the World Circular Economy Forum. Details are provided below:

• Title: Circular Economy in Emerging Markets: Unlocking the Potential for Green Recovery in Developing Asia

• Date: 2 June 2021 at 14:00 – 17:00 (Japan Time, GMT+9)

• Location: Online (Zoom Meeting)

• Expected Participants: Government officials from Asian region (open registration for anyone interested) and global experts in the field

• Background: This virtual conference will feature a high-level panel discussion on the question, “From linear to circular – what will it take?" This will be followed by presentations of innovative research on critical aspects of circular economy: regulatory and legal frameworks, regional and country policies, opportunities for the private sector, and innovation in cities to promote circular economy approaches.

See here (Pdf) who the panelists are . Pdf opens in a New Window.

Read more about the Virtual Conference and register here. Page opens in a New Window.

Organizer:
ADBInstitute, Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment (Viet Nam)

A FREE Webinar discussing the objectives, and opportunities of trading under the AfCFTA.
Register via https://lnkd.in/dqC78nQ

-Can the AfCFTA deepen the economic and political relations between Nordic countries and their trading counterparts in Africa?
-What is the objective and impact of the AfCFTA for Finnish/Nordic SMEs? Are there any challenges or threats for foreign companies, investors, and stakeholders?
-Can Nordic countries play a key role in advocating the implementation of the AFCFTA?

Join us for this webinar as we shed some light on these thoughts and explore the opportunities for mutual partnerships under the AfCFTA for companies, investors, and stakeholders.

FinnCham Network is represented by Ms. Tuuli Saarela, Finnish hBusiness Council West Africa.

Business Finland ja Finnish Business Council in Shanghai FBCS toivottavat tervetulleeksi Vientiasiakirjat Kiinan kaupassa -koulutustilaisuuteen 1.6.2021.

Webinaari on maksuton, mutta edellyttää etukäteisilmoittautumista 30. toukokuuta 2021 mennessä. Kaikille ilmoittautuneille lähetetään osallistumislinkki päivää ennen tilaisuutta. Ilmoittaudu mukaan täältä!

Kiina on maa täynnä liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia ja kasvun elementtejä suomalaisille yrityksille, mutta onnistumisen edellytyksenä on riittävän hyvä ja ajantasainen tietämys vientimuodollisuuksista.

OHJELMA

(Suomen/Kiinan aikaa):

09:00-09:30 / 14:00-14:30 Rekisteröinti

09:30-10:10 / 14:30-15:10 Esitys (Jukka Säikkälä)

10:10-10:30 / 15:10-15:30 Case-yritys

10:30-10:45 / 15:30-15:45 Q&A

Vientiasiantuntija Jukka Säikkälä Helsingin seudun kauppakamarista valottaa muun muassa seuraavia kysymyksiä:

• Huomioitavaa vientikaupassa, mukaan lukien vientirajoitukset sekä vapaakauppasopimukset ja alkuperäasiat

• Ajankohtaista vientikaupan määräyksissä ja olosuhteissa, muun muassa korona, konttipula

• Vienti Kiinaan, asiakirjamääräykset

• Kiinan CCC-sertifiointi

• EU:n Access2Markets

• KauppakamariTiedon Ulkomaankauppa & Maatieto – Verkkopalvelut Kiinan viejän apuna

Huom! Tämä koulutus on vain suomeksi!

OSALLISTUMINEN ON MAHDOLLISTA MYÖS PAIKAN PÄÄLLÄ

Aika: Klo 14:00-15:45 Kiinan aikaa

Paikka: Kokoushuone SISU, FinChi Innovation Center, Room 401, Building 2, 690 Bibo Road, Pudong District Shanghai

Lisätietoja ja ilmoittautuminen tilaisuuteen täältä