Global Chamber Phoenix International State of Metro Phoenix 2023

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Global Chamber® International State of Metro (ISOM) Phoenix

Thursday, November 2, 2023... 3:45pm AZ. Join us!

How are we doing with international business in metro Phoenix? We create a realistic report card and grade it, from multiple angles, with leaders in the know... like Jeanine Jerkovic, who has created, and will present this year's report card.

For the first time this year the research will have been supported by a Thunderbird student, Araash Ashish Mehta thanks to the support of Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, who offered that process at last year's event. Join us in the Global Forum at Thunderbird.

This year we also will feature important updates from Ukraine (Igor Novikov) and Israel (Tal Zilberberg). And we'll have a roundtable of global business updates including a preview of the February 23rd 3rd Annual Global Semiconductor Summit at Global Chamber.

The international report card has been delivered in the past by a who's who of economic development leaders including Rodrick Miller, Chris Camacho, Rudy Vetter, Hank Marshall, Rick Buss, Rob Millar, Susana Trasente and more.

Attend in-person to connect with leaders doing business globally. Hear from exporters and more! 

International State of Metro Phoenix 2023

Thursday, November 2, 2023, 3:45-5:30pm

In-Person at Thunderbird, Room Global Forum (1st F)

3:45-4:00pm     Welcome

• Global Chamber® Phoenix / Global Chamber® Tucson

4:00 - 4:55pm   Global Report Card and Q&A

• Jeanine Jerkovic - Economic Development Director at City of Surprise
• Araash Ashish Mehta - Student at Thunderbird School of Global Management

4:55 - 5:10pm    Global Updates

• Israel - Tal Zilberberg at Global Chamber Tel Aviv (by zoom)
• Ukraine - Igor Novikov at Singularity U, former aide to President Zelenskyy (recorded, more)
• Global Education - Chamnan Lim at Thunderbird School of Global Management

5:10 - 5:30pm    Global Roundtable

• City of Phoenix update: Rita Marko - President/CEO at Phoenix Sister Cities
• Autonomous Vehicles/Ag AZ - Stirling Pascal at Stream Realty
• More Member Updates
  • Exporting/Exporter Update
  • Mexico/LatAm Opportunties
  • Africa and Asia Opportunities
  • World Korea Business Convention Recap
  • Global Chamber Phoenix Advisory Board Nov 15, 2023
  • Global Innovation Summit January 18, 2024
  • Asian Festival Jan 12-13, 2024: Winnie Kho Kaplan
  • 3rd Annual Global Semiconductor Summit Feb 23, 2024
• 2024 Preview: Jeffrey Garza Walker - Executive VP at NAI Horizon

Facilitation...

• Connie Kadansky - President at Exceptional Sales Performance & Advisory Board Chair at Global Chamber® Phoenix
• Doug Bruhnke - Founder/CEO at Global Chamber®

City Sponsors - Thank You!

Chairman Sponsor - Thank You!

Speaker Bios 

Jeanine Jerkovic - Economic Development Director at City of Surprise

Jeanine Jerkovic is a regional municipal business development leader with more than 10 years of experience in economic development. She is skilled at program development and management, marketing & communications, opportunity/lead generation, entrepreneurship coaching, competitive market analysis, international trade/export, public policy development, media relations, grant and proposal writing, and possess a strong deal-closing skill set. The City of Surprise has an active economic development program that attracts international companies from around the world.

Igor Novikov - Former adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Igor was in the room for conversations related to criminal activity that led to a U.S. President being impeached. Igor brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue of innovation in Eastern Europe. Over the course of two years, Igor’s lectures and workshops attracted an audience of over 150,000 people and he is considered Ukraine’s leading keynote speaker and futurist.

In addition to his work at Singularity University, Igor’s mission is to develop the world's first attention marketplace with his main technology project, Payphone. Igor’s primary research areas explore the convergence of behavioral science, economics and storytelling and include his concepts of Gamified Transfer of Learning and Dynamic Motivation.

Before Payphone and Singularity University, Igor founded for-profit and social impact organizations in a range of domains including: artificial intelligence, peer to peer lending, blockchain, human rights, international development, carbon offsetting, and solar energy. Igor has a degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tal Zilberberg - Executive Director of Global Chamber®

Tal is an international digital marketing and networking expert with extensive expertise in the areas of innovative digital tools. He is also the Executive Director for the Global Chamber® Israel – Tel Aviv, an organization that helps members in 525 metro areas worldwide, and growing, bridge new global business opportunities.

Tal is the Co-Owner and C.E.O of GreenBook USA Inc, a highly creative digital marketing and software company, providing tools and smart solutions to Businesses, Service providers, Organizations, Associations, and Unions.

Chamnan Lim is Senior Director of Global Partnerships for the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. She has over two decades of experience working for international organizations and academic institutions. She built collaboration efforts and supported program evaluation and curriculum reviews for international education providers for the US Department of Defense. She played a key role in coordinating Global Political Economy programs at Occidental College. A former Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank, she received the President’s Award for Excellence for her work in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, reducing debt levels in Uganda and Vietnam, among other countries, and for the United Nations Development Program, on aid coordination in Cambodia.

Chamnan is a Cambodian refugee who came to the United States at the age of five. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a married mother of four children: Steven, Caitlyn, Nathan, and Jasmin. She will be sharing information on the innovative 100 Million Learner Initiative by Thunderbird - the vision, the innovation and the IMPACT. More on the 100M Learner Initiative HERE.

Connie Kadansky - President at Exceptional Sales Performance

Connie Kadansky is the President of Exceptional Sales Performance, providing sales coaching in diverse industries. She is a recognized expert in identifying and eliminating Sales Call Reluctance™, the emotional hesitation to prospect and self-promote. Connie's global experience includes training for the Women in Parliament in Rwanda, and through United Nations grants, she facilitated 26 sales and public speaking training events in Trinidad West Indies for multi-national companies. In October 2022 she facilitated sales training for 47 branch managers for ABSA bank in Kenya. Connie has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, and Forbes. Thousands of sales pros have graduated from her programs, benefitting from increased sales and enriched career satisfaction. Connie is a Master Certified Coach, Positive Intelligence® Certified Mental Fitness Coach and an ORSC trained coach.  https://www.exceptionalsales.com/PQforyou

Jeffery Garza Walker - Executive Vice President at NAI Horizon

As Executive Vice President at NAI Horizon, Jeffrey focuses on expanding the firm's capabilities in global portfolio services through key industrial clients with requirements in Latin America. Additionally, he assists companies in Latin America seeking to place operations within North America. His background as a Senior VP at Cresa and Senior Director of Corporate Real Estate in North/Latin America with a top tier 4PL logistics company provides a capable skill set and 15 years of experience in commercial real estate brokerage/ development. 

Besides this advisory board, Jeffrey serves on the ASU MRED Real Estate Council, the ASU W.P. Carey Business School Mentor Program, the ZoomInfo Customer Advisory Board, and as the MBEIC Vice Chair, for the Pacific Southwest Minority Development Council. He has previously worked with Habitat for Humanity, the YMCA and served on the Salvation Army Board of Directors. Jeffrey is a U.S. Armed Forces Veteran and Phoenix Business Journal 40 under 40 recipient. He received his master’s in Real Estate Development from Arizona State University (in the inaugural year of the program), an MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix, and a bachelor’s in Spanish from Montana State University. 

Doug Bruhnke - Founder/CEO of Global Chamber®. Doug is a global entrepreneur dedicated to helping members of Global Chamber® successfully reach new markets across 525 metros - everywhere! He is a two-time expat with Dupont in Tokyo and Singapore with over 30 years of global business experience in nearly all countries and segments. Doug is also regional advisor for U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a member of Arizona District Export Council, British American Business Council of Northern California and more. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University, and is co-inventor on 5 patents. Doug was born in Mount Kisco, New York and now is based in Scottsdale, AZ and Palo Alto, CA. Hear the Global Chamber® story here.

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... connecting member businesses to new opportunities and advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC.

Attend in-person at 401 N 1st Street, Phoenix. Parking is available at street meters all around the downtown ASU campus. There are many spots available at this time of day, and most is availabe at the rate of $2.50 for 2 hours. Also consider parking garages, which are $20. The AZ Republic Parking is adjacent, though remember that you'll need to come around to the 1st Street side via Polk Street for the main entrance to Thunderbird.

• AZ Republic Parking - 455 N 2nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004
• Sheraton - 340 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004 – It’s right next to the AZ Republic Parking
• Chase Parking - 160 E Monroe St, Phoenix, AZ 85004 and the ASU

Previous Years (2007 - 2022)

 2022... Report card by Susan Trasente, City of Peoria

2021... Report card by Hank Marshall, then at City of Phoenix.

 2020... Mayor Jim Lane and Rob Millar, City of Scottsdale

 2019... Rick Buss, City of Peoria - International Report Card

2018 with then Mayoral Candidate Kate Gallego, Daniel Valenzuela, Heather Ross & Jeanine Jerkovic 

 2017 Mayors Greg Stanton (Phoenix), John Lewis (Gilbert), Sharon Wolcott (Surprise) and John Giles (Mesa).

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Here's our first International State of the Metro in 2007 with Rodrick Miller, GPEC

International State of the Metro began in 2007 with Rod Miller of GPEC at Jobing.com HQ, well before the formation of Global Chamber! Remember AZIGG? Arizona International Growth Group. We like Global Chamber Phoenix better ;-)

Along the way the keynote speakers have been Rudy Vetter, Chris Camacho, Hank Marshall, Jeanine Jerkovic, Rick Buss and Rob Millar have shared their thoughts. Rudy started the report card process 10 years ago. With the formation of Global Chamber in 2014, we've had more business and government leaders weighing in... including Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane, Surprise Mayor Sharon Wolcott, Gilbert Mayor John Lewis, Mesa Mayor John Giles, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, U.S. Rep Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Rep Matt Salmon, Mayor Kate Gallego, City Councilleader Daniel Valenzuela, Alfredo J. Molina of Molina Fine Jewelers and more. Thank you all!