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Trade and Expansion and Sustainable Supply Chains
Featuring special guest Chris Dekker, Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership

This is not a webinar! This is a thought-leadership session where sharing challenges, solutions, pain-points and BIG ideas will be encouraged! Thought leadership is about tapping into your talents, experience and passion to answer the BIGGEST questions.

Saskatchewan is one of the most trade-exposed provinces in one of the most trade-exposed countries. The economic recovery here is highly dependent on what happens outside our borders, how can that risk be managed?

There is a trade-off between the efficiency and cost-savings that far-flung interconnected global supply chains offer us as consumers and businesses ( just-in-time inventory, cheaper goods) and the vulnerability that it creates when things go wrong. Diversifying trade away from a handful of big countries with virus epicenters ( US, China etc) will become more important than ever. How do we maintain the advantages of open and free trade while also building resiliency and redundancy into our supply chains?

Live Virtual Meeting & Discussion
8:30 Welcome and Opening Comments 
8:35 Chris Dekker Comments and General Discussion
9:55 Closing Comments