Doing Business in the UK
Presented by UK Trade & Investment Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Hilton Hotel 255 South West Temple Salt Lake City, UT
7:30 a.m. Registration & Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Master of Ceremony, Lew Cramer President & CEO, World Trade Center Utah
Remarks Spencer Eccles, Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Economic Development Elizabeth Goryunova, Director of International Relations, Salt Lake Chamber
Panel David Fiscus, Director, Export Assistance Center, U.S. Commercial Service Mark Garfield, Senior Vice President, International Banking, Zions Bank Susan Haird, Deputy CEO, UK Trade and Investment Representative of Fitzgerald & Law, UK legal and accounting firm Q&A and Networking
9:30 a.m. Closing Remarks and Finish
Register by October 22 at www.slchamber.com/calendar or by calling 801.532.8080
- The UK has the least number of barriers to entrepreneurship in the world and has the third least barriers to trade and investment in the world.
- The UK is a world leader in innovation, ranking second only to the US for the quality of its research base.
- More than 3000 companies increased R&D activity in the UK as a result of UKTI support in 2008-09.
- The UK has four of the world’s top 10 universities.
- The UK is Europe’s top location for R&D.
- The UK has won 70 Nobel Prizes and has an excellent track record of scientific discovery – ranging from the steam engine to the molecular structure of DNA and the mapping of the human genome; to the more recent world-leading advances like DNA finger printing technology which is revolutionizing forensics.







