The Export Festival CZ 2016: the unique event to promote international cooperation starts in three weeks

Prague, 23. 5. 2016: The fourth year of successful presentation, information and contact action promoting international trade and export – The Export Festival CZ 2016 –  will take place on 15 – 16. 6. 2016 in Prague Holešovice – Křižíkovy Pavilony. Besides the traditional series of lectures about the latest information from the area of promotion of international trade, the participants will have opportunity to find their business partners effectively in an organized series of business meetings – B2B Event in this year. The exposure section of the festival is accompanied by a supporting program consisting of presentations of participating countries, tasting exotic dishes and beverages and ethnic art exhibitions. In total more than 80 operators from 30 countries around the world will be introduced in frame of the lecture and exposure program.

The fourth annual meeting of companies and institutions to promote export is organizing in cooperation with its partners in the Association CzechInno, this year in Křižíkovy Pavilony in Prague – Holešovice.

The event is conceived as a display of interesting information and contacts with attractive supporting program, the visitors can enjoy the opening ceremony covered by the highest representatives of the participating countries – for the Czech Republic it will launched by President Milos Zeman, who will join the representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of foreign Affairs and other participating countries ambassadors with local sponsorship for the Czech Republic.

In the second part of the first festival day the expositions of the companies presenting their products and services designed for international business cooperation will be inaugurate and at the same time series of business meetings – B2B Event – in which the participants will have the opportunity to meet with more than 100 partners from 30 countries will be organized.

The second day of the festival will be dedicated to the territorial workshops of individual states. In frame of these workshops innovations in the field of export and import or possibilities of foreign investments in participating countries for Czech entrepreneurs and for foreign investors in the Czech Republic will be introduced. There will also be exclusive opportunities of bilateral cooperation and international business news from territories with business potential. exclusive opportunities bilateral foreign trade cooperation and news from territories with commercial potential. The workshops will be divided into three sections, within which more than 20 countries worldwide will be presented to participants in dynamic presentations.

At the same time export wizards will be allowed to demonstrate their magic – Czech companies and institutions offering specific products or services with potential for use in foreign markets.

The whole festival will combined by the accompanying program consisting of exhibitions of Czech and foreign companies and institutions offering their products and services, including art exhibitions, showcases of culture and tasting exotic dishes and drinks originating in the participating countries. which this year will, for example, Moldavian and Chilean wines, Moroccan tea, Vietnamese coffee, Cuban rum, Mexican guacamole or dried meat from South Africa. This year Moldavian and Chilean wines, Moroccan tea, Vietnamese coffee, Cuban rum, Mexican guacamole or dried meat from South Africa will be included.

“At the request of numerous participants of our festival and the embassies themselves we open our event and the countries of the European Union this year. We see this countries as closest partners of the Czech Republic and also potential allies in the search for partners in non-European countries”, says the the Board of Management of the CzechInno Association, David Kratochvíl about this year of the Export Festival 2016 “.

“This new had a great success with the embassies of EU countries in the Czech Republic and we believe that the participants of the Festival will appreciate it – because from the B2B meetings and lectures they can carry exclusive information that can be instantly used in their business,” says David Kratochvíl.

Detailed information about the purpose and the program of the event are available on the website www.czechinno.cz and www.festivalexportu.cz.

The CzechInno is an association of legal entities established to support the Czech business. It is a traditional promoter and organizer of the competition visionaries, whose annual goal is to reward innovative achievements in Czech businesses and organizing the Smart Business Festival which supports smart and innovative approach to business and the Export Festival CZ aimed at obtaining information and contacts for international trade.

The general partner of the Export Festival 2016 is the Czech Export Bank which is a specialized banking institution established to support the financing of export activities. The main event specialist partners became CzechInvest, the company Bibby Financial Services, Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences as a coordinator of the Enterprise Europe Network of the Czech Republic, the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship. The Media partners are Regie Radio Music, owner of the broadcast stations Frequency 1, Europe 2, BBC Radio and multimedia project named Zet, the publishing house Economia, which is the publisher of Hospodářské noviny, Ekonom and iHNed.cz, Empresa Media, the publisher of the magazine Week,  provider of TV Barrandov and Trade magazines News and Innovative entrepreneurship and technology transfer.