On the 17th November, the Lisbon Municipality and Invest Lisboa, in association with AICEP and the Portuguese Embassy, organized in London the event Lisbon: Exploring an Emerging Atlantic Business Hub. The event started with a morning presentation by Manuel Salgado and Graça Fonseca, Vice Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Lisbon for Economy on the opportunities for investment in Lisbon, followed by case studies presentations and testimonies by Zeinal Bava from PT, Eric van Leuven from Cushman & Wakefield and Javier Gândara from easyJet. This event was followed by interviews with LUSA and Financial Times fDi magazine and a restricted lunch to potential investors and leaders of the Portuguese community in London, at the Portuguese Embassy. In the afternoon, again at the Portuguese Embassy, a meeting was held for the Portuguese community.
Below are the presentations and video used in this promotional activity:
Invest Lisboa is a partnership between the Lisbon Municipality, the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Portuguese Business Development Agency.
We have solutions for your investments in Lisbon. Our personalized, confidential, and free of charge services include:
Identifying business opportunities, partners and locations;
Supporting investors throughout the decision-making process, providing information and contacts in local and national institutions;
Contributing to the simplification of administrative proceedings;
Mobilizing partners around the design, development and implementation of projects that guarantee the best investments for Lisbon;
Organizing visits to suitable premises for the location of companies.
Last week we started our Twitter Campaign. My friend, Andrew Wong recently left Yahoo in San Francisco to Co-found, Moonlight Marketing, a company specializing in social media marketing.
The great thing about being an internet startup is that the world is our market and with technology, I can work from anywhere and be connected to anyone on skype. I can operate and manage a company from my blackberry and I can work with people who are talented – no matter where they are located.
Andrew is one of these talented people! He helped launch Yahoo’s APT exchange platform for display advertising. In one week his company has connected us to like-minded people around the world who share my passions in life: fashion, contemporary art and photography, design, social responsibility, philanthropies, boutique design hotels, spas, organic lifestyle, independent music, films and venture capital. In one week, I am following 1000 people and 400 people are following and tweeting me with messages like “Hey Claire, great to connect to you, we love organic bamboo fashion materials too!” and …Hi Claire- “Keep me posted, we believe in social responsibility too.”
Andrew did his due diligence and asked me a lot of questions. One of them was: “From all the cities you lived in- which is your favorite? Taipei, Houston, New York, Hong Kong, London, Milan or Lisbon?”
