ITC at the Geneva Trade Week

The International Trade Centre will contribute to the Geneva Trade Week with several events highlighting the support needed by small businesses to recover and become more resilient.

Speakers include on 30 September Ms. Dorothy Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, on 'Collaborating to rebuild resilient innovation ecosystems – the role of tech hubs' and on 1 October the new Executive Director, Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton, at her first official engagement. Organized by the new Geneva Trade Platform, the online event takes place from 28 September to 2 October 2020.

Events organized or supported by the International Trade Centre include:

Tuesday, 29 September, 15:00-16:30

• Ensuring Food Security & Sustainability: What Role for Trade?

Wednesday, 30 September, 9:00-10:30, parallel sessions

• Collaborating to rebuild resilient innovation ecosystems – the role of tech hubs
• Trade in support of circular economy, sustainable development and green recovery post ­COVID-­
• Gastronomy in tourism supply chains: Shrinking the Distance between Farmer and Consumer

Thursday, 1 October

13:00-14:30

• Plenary: Trade and…

17:00-18:30

• Agri-Commodity Financing Gaps: How National Development Banks can Respond

Friday, 2 October

11:00-12:30

• Achieving SDGs through Voluntary Sustainability Standards: What role for public procurement and trade policy?

13:00-14:00

• Closing Plenary- What More Is Needed?

Register and find the full programme here 

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