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• Navigating a World of Bitcoins, Cryptocurrency, and the Blockchain: What is it and how is it influencing international trade?

  • When
    Friday, October 25, 2019
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    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Design Resources, 7007 College Blvd, Suite 500, Overland Park, KS 66211
  • Spaces left
    5

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  We've all heard of Bitcoin, the most widely known cryptocurrency, but what is the Blockchain technology behind it? Why is it considered so revolutionary and disruptive?  And why is international business so central to the applications on Blockchain, far beyond financial?   Ilya Tabakh, Kansas City scholar, entrepreneur, and Blockchain thought leader, will take us through where we are and where we are going!

  

  Ilya Tabakh

  CEO of Blockchain Productivity, Inc.

  Organizer of blockchainkc.org

  Come join us for breakfast on October's Fourth Friday to talk about Bitcoin blockchain with Ilya, a thought leader on this quickly changing technology, and its implications for international business.

  Free parking is available on site.

  
  

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• How to Avoid the Perils of International Trade

  • When
    Friday, November 22, 2019
  •  
    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Commerce Bank, 1000 Walnut Street, Kansas City MO 64106

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  The ITC is pleased to sponsor an engaging discussion on mistakes companies have made in importing and exporting. The benefits and the positive results about international trade are popular topics, but what happens when it goes wrong? 

  
  

  We will discuss real life stories of mistakes companies have made and how they responded. A local company wired $17.2M to a fake company, another shipped product to what they thought was an auto dealership in Russia (it was an apartment building), and what happened to a local company that missed the tariff deadline in China by 3 hours. Learn how companies dealt with missteps in fraud, commercial risks, credit, political, shipping and more.

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  Dave Clark
  Vice President
  ARI Global, Inc.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Brian Gordan
  Senior Vice President & Manager International Banking Group
  Commerce Bank

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Sponsored by Commerce Bank

  

  Breakfast provided.

  Park in the garage at 910 Walnut Street or at 1025 Main Street. Download a map. Bring your parking ticket to the event and receive a sticker that will waive the parking fee.

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