Are You Ready to Export? – 2025 Partners in Exporting Series Preview

Event description

This webinar will provide the season preview for the 2025 "Are You Ready to Export? – Partners in Exporting" Wednesday Webinar Series - the first of a ten-part webinar series beginning in December 2024 through September 2025. For 2025, the focus will be Partners in Exporting: how Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT) agencies collaboratively work together along with other organizations to support Washington businesses to export. These webinars will focus on the actual activities they cooperated with each other on, along with success stories of businesses they supported. Each month, one WEOT agency will have a moderated conversation with another organization that they partner with to support Washington businesses to sell their goods and services internationally.

Speakers will include:

• Allan Peterson, Washington Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
• Zara Castillo, Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACWA)
• Callum Cleary, Washington State Department of Commerce
• Liz Laxague, U.S. Commercial Service – Seattle
• Julie Johnson, Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA)
• Kelsey Anderson, Western U.S. Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA)
• Collin Bradley, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service
• Mitsu Saito, Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank)
• John Brislin, SBA Office of International Trade - Seattle

Wednesday Webinar Series
Wednesday Webinar Series with SBA Seattle District Office is an ongoing series of free, virtual, webinars covering a variety of topics to benefit small business owners. On the fourth Wednesday of each month is Are You Ready to Export? where we will be focusing on export assistance, featuring conversations with different members of the Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT).

Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT)
Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT) is a collaborative team of local, state, regional, and federal export assistance agencies who provide you with the tools and resources needed to sell goods and services internationally. WEOT was formed in 2013 in response to a national mandate for Federal Government Agencies to work with local resources to provide a higher level of support for companies conducting business international trade.