Italy Cultural & Business Exchange

Opportunity from OWIT and World Trade Center Arkansas: a Women’s Business & Cultural Exchange in Italy designed to bring together accomplished women from the United States, Italy, and the broader World Trade Center network. 

 

This will be much more than a business trip. It is being designed as an immersive experience that combines international business development, trade and commerce's, cultural exchange, relationship building, and meaningful professional connections; all while experiencing Italy through the perspective of the women who live, lead, and do business there.

 

Participants will have opportunities to:

• Connect with Italian executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals.
• Participate in customized B2B meetings based on individual business interests and objectives.
• Expand international networks and identify opportunities for trade, partnerships, investment, and collaboration.
• Strengthen global business acumen and cultural intelligence through firsthand experiences.
• Engage in conversations about how women lead, build businesses, and navigate professional environments across cultures.
• Experience Italian culture, food, fashion, history, and hospitality in a way that goes beyond traditional business travel.

The experience can be customized to meet your needs. Participants do not have to attend every component of the program. We can coordinate B2B meetings and professional engagements around individual objectives, and you may join the delegation at the point that best fits your schedule.

  

We would also be delighted to share this opportunity with the World Trade Center Women's Group, individual World Trade Centers, OWIT chapters, and other women's business organizations interested in participating or collaborating. 

 

Our goal is to create an experience where business and culture genuinely intersect, where participants return home with new relationships, a broader understanding of international markets, greater cultural awareness, and potential business opportunities.

  

And, quite simply, this is intended to be a bucket-list trip. The kind of professional experience that creates opportunities and memories that last well beyond the journey itself.

 

If this opportunity is of interest to you or your organization, please reach out. We would be happy to discuss the developing itinerary, potential B2B opportunities, and ways the experience can be tailored to your business and professional goals.

 

For more details, please feel free to reach out to "Ayari Torres-Reyes" at atorresr@uark.edu.