Partner Events
The World Trade Center Tacoma is pleased to partner with several organizations throughout the region to cross-promote events we believe could be of interest to our members. Please note, partner events appear in chronological order, below. Keep checking back for more events!
From our Member: Tacoma Sister Cities
International Film Festival
Every Thursday, February 2 – April 12 | 6:15pm Cultural Program | 7:00pm Film
Blue Mouse Theater, N. 26th & N. Proctor St, Tacoma, WA
Join us for incredible films, cultural events and anniversary celebrations from the Tacoma Sister Cities
Fees:
$10 per ticket
$100 for season tickets
For tickets and information, click here
From our Member: World Affairs Council
Classroom on the World: Human Trafficking: Washington’s Hidden Problem
Wednesday, February 15, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Bates Technical College Auditorium
Entrance off Earnest Brazill St, between 11th and 13th., Tacoma, WA
Human trafficking—both forced labor and sex trafficking—is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world today. This form of modern day slavery is tied with arms as the second largest international criminal industry behind drug dealing. Washington State, for various reasons, has become a hub of this activity. What can you do to be vigilant to its presence? Who can you contact in the community for information? How can you help individuals at risk?
Join Kathleen Morris, Program Manager with Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN), Seth Kirby, Director of OASIS, Pierce County’s support center for lesbian and gay youth, Ashley Metzger, Detective with the Special Investigations Unit of the Tacoma Police Department, and Dani Geissinger-Rodarte, Victim-witness Specialist with the FBI’s Innocence Lost Task Force, as they address this issue and discuss the problem, at-risk populations, legal implications and support services available, among other topics.
This promises to be an important and compelling program, and we hope you’ll join us.
Fees:
$20 for teachers – includes 3 clock hours, teaching resources and buffet dinner
$5 for general public
Complimentary for students and WACT Members
For more information, click here.
From our Member: Pacific Lutheran University
Our Thirsty Planet: 2012 Wang Symposium
February 23, 4:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m., & February 24, 9:15 a.m.- 4:15 p.m.
Pacific Lutheran University
12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447
This year’s symposium at PLU addresses the theme of water–a resourse we are over-exploiting and over-using and yet the very resource upon which we must depend to survive.
The biennial international symposium at PLU is one of the ways the Wang Center for Global Education supports the university’s goal of being an ever more globally focused university. Through presentations by professionals, hands-on practitioners, authors and academics, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on the largely invisible global challenges posed by our most precious resource — water. The 2012 Symposium keynote speakers are Maude Barlow and Terje Tvedt.
Fees: Complementary
For more information, click here
From our Partners: The Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington and World Trade Club Seattle
A Conversation About Asia
February 28, 2012, 5:00p.m. – 7:00p.m.
World Trade Center - Seattle, 2200 Alaskan Way #410, Seattle, WA 98121
This talk is led by Ex-Im Bank Director Patricia M. Loui. She will lead a discussion to promote U.S. Exports to Asia, where she has over 30 years of expertise. She served as a development planner and training officer for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as well as a planning consultant with the United Nations Educational Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Southeast Asia. Throughout her Pacific Rim-focused career, Loui has lived and worked in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, the Pacific Islands, Phillippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Please come to this conversation in order to better understand the growing trade market between the United States and Asia.
Fees: $30 for World Trade Club Members
$35 for Non-Members
$27 for Students
From our Partners: Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) & Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle
Seminar: Complying with U.S. Export Controls
June 14 & 15, 2012, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn, Sea-Tac International Airport, 17338 International Boulevard, Sea-Tac, WA
This two-day program is led by BIS’s professional counseling staff and provides an in-depth examination of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The program will cover the information exporters need to know in order to comply with U.S. export control requirements on commercial goods. We will focus on what items and activities are subject to the EAR; steps to take to determine the export licensing requirements for your item; how to determine your export control classification number (ECCN); when you can export or re-export without applying for a license; export clearance procedures and record keeping requirements; Export Management System (EMS) concepts; and real life examples in applying this information.
Presenters will conduct a number of “hands-on” exercises that will prepare you to apply the regulations to your own company’s export activities. This program is well suited for those who need a comprehensive understanding of their obligations under the EAR.
Fees: $445
For further information please contact:
Tamara Thorhallsson
tamara@seattletradealliance.com
(206) 389-7301
