{"id":71801,"date":"2016-06-30T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=dabf42f73b4cf7bd6b691b25012d2508"},"modified":"2016-06-30T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:13:34","slug":"news-story-ukti-dso-leads-government-support-for-uk-smes-at-seawork-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71801","title":{"rendered":"News story: UKTI DSO leads government support for UK SMEs at Seawork 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"ukti-pavilion\">UKTI Pavilion<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> hosted the UKTI Pavilion which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>demonstrated <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr>\u2019s wide range of services available to UK companies seeking to win overseas defence and security business<\/li>\n<li>facilitated advice, information and support delivered by UK government colleagues from wider UK Trade and investment (UKTI), Department of Business and Skills (<abbr title=\"Department for Business, Innovation and Skills\">BIS<\/abbr>) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> were on hand throughout the show to offer export advice and guidance and to conduct 1 to 1 discussions with UK Small Medium Enterprises (<abbr title=\"Small Medium Enterprises\">SMEs<\/abbr>) on more specific issues. Staff covering a range of specialisms attended, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small Business Unit<\/li>\n<li>Events Team<\/li>\n<li>Military Export Team<\/li>\n<li>regional marketing representatives<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> Senior Media Adviser<\/li>\n<li>senior Naval and Army officers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> hosted over 50 individual meetings with UK companies and brokered introductions to other UK government colleagues to provide additional business help.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"international-delegations\">International delegations<\/h2>\n<p>The UKTI South East International Trade Team, led by Mark Hamson, hosted a number of sessions between UK companies and visiting overseas delegations from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>Barbados<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Brazilian delegation proved extremely popular and was engaged in a day-long series of meetings and stand visits that bode well for future export wins. It  was led by Lara Baptista, <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr> locally engaged Business Development Manager.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"other-government-support\">Other government support<\/h2>\n<p>In order to provide a well-rounded package of support for UK companies seeking defence opportunities we worked in closely with colleagues from the Ministry of Defence (<abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MoD<\/abbr>). The <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MoD<\/abbr> Defence Suppliers Service manager was based in the UKTI Pavilion throughout the show and the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MoD<\/abbr> Boats Team had a stand adjacent to the Pavilion. This led to a considerable amount of cross-referring <abbr title=\"Small Medium Enterprise\">SME<\/abbr> customers, ensuring that they got maximum value from UK government during their time at Seawork.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Harrison from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/export-control-organisation\">Export Control Organisation<\/a> was also on hand to offer advice on export licensing issues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Pavilion at Seawork 2016\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/53606\/IMG_20160615_130634__960x640_.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>UK Pavilion at Seawork 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"seawork\">Seawork<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seawork.com\/\">Seawork International <\/a> is the largest and fastest growing commercial marine and workboat event to be held in a working port. This annual conference and exhibition is in its 19th year and is an important fixture on the UKTI exhibition programme. <abbr title=\"UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation\">UKTI DSO<\/abbr>\u2019s looks forward to offering further support at the next Seaworks in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>If you are interested in attending future events contact <a href=\"mailto:sme.enquiries@ukti.gsi.gov.uk\">sme.enquiries@ukti.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKTI Defence and Security Organisation (UKTI DSO) once again supported UK defence and security companies at this years Seawork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}