SelectUSA: Playing FDI Matchmaker
May 22, 2018This post contains external links. Please review our external linking policy.
Steven Meyers is the Director of Outreach and Communications for SelectUSA
The annual SelectUSA Investment Summit brings global business investors and economic developers together under one roof to spark job-creating foreign direct investment (FDI) deals. But beyond the four (large) walls of the 79,000-sq.-ft. Exhibition Hall, the core function of the Investment Summit is matchmaking, which happens digitally…and seamlessly. Next month, attendees will have access to a dynamic and user-friendly matchmaking platform, which is included with registration.
Most importantly, the platform—available via desktop and mobile app—will allow attendees to share information with other users, including meeting requests, exchanging virtual business cards, and searching for opportunities.
Digital matchmaking at last year’s Investment Summit played a critical role in bringing investors and economic developers together. Matchmaking at the Investment Summit – which featured more than 2,200 scheduled meetings – laid the foundation for job-creating investment projects across the country. One of those projects, a $100 million, 400-job distillery in New York, was borne out of talks between Romanian company Alexandrion and Empire State Development. Another, Takigawa Corp. Japan’s 180-job manufacturing plant in Bardstown, Kentucky, came about as a direct result of SelectUSA meetings at the 2017 Investment Summit.
We hope for more projects like these to be launched at the 2018 SelectUSA Investment Summit. If you are part of a U.S. economic development organization or an international company considering the United States as its next investment location, we encourage you to register for the top FDI event in the country. SelectUSA invites you to join us in June. Invest, grow, and succeed in the United States.
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