MetroConnect Company Profile: Rough Draft Brewing - This is part of a weekly series featuring a profile on one of the 2016 MetroConnect Program companies. MetroConnect is dedicated to helping local San Diego businesses go global and is presented by JPMorgan Chase. According to a policy brief released by National University Sys... more

MetroConnect Company Profile: Solatube World Sales - This is part of a weekly series featuring a profile on one of the 2016 MetroConnect Program companies. MetroConnect is dedicated to helping local San Diego businesses go global and is presented by JPMorgan Chase. A pioneer in renewable energy, San Diego is home to some of the... more

WTC San Diego unveils 2016 MetroConnect cohort - SAN DIEGO, CA, USA - San Diego Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer, World Trade Center San Diego, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and business and civic leaders unveiled the 15 companies selected to participate in the MetroConnect Program, a comprehensive support program to help local companies... more

Northern Neighbor: Toronto/SD trade relationship - By Sean Barr, senior vice president & only in-office Canadian SAN DIEGO, CA, USA - EDC traveled to Toronto last week with our peers from Atlanta and Minneapolis to meet with metro leaders from across Canada. Facilitated by the Brookings Global Cities Initiative, the conver... more

The city on the hill, SD in DC - WASHINGTON, DC, USA - This week, World Trade Center San Diego (WTC San Diego) traveled to Washington DC for the SelectUSA Investment Summit. For the first time ever, San Diego had an organized and coordinated effort for the nation’s foreign investment summit. In partnership w... more

SAN announces nonstop flight to Switzerland - First, Germany. Now, Switzerland. Q2 was chock-full of global wins for San Diego. The San Diego International Airport recently announced a new nonstop service to Zurich, Switzerland. Edelweiss, a Swiss leisure carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa, will operate flights... more

Worth Names San Diego a 2016 “Worth Destination" - This week, the Worth Group announced that San Diego has been named as a 2016 “Worth Destination.” Featured in the June/July issue of Worth magazine, San Diego is among 15 cities lauded for civic leadership, quality of life, business climate, sustainability, entrepreneurial com... more

National Maritime Day highlights maritime industry - By Katie Schoenauer, World Trade Center San Diego For eighty-three years May 22 has been proclaimed as National Maritime Day in order to honor the transatlantic trip the SS Savannah undertook – the first ever steamship to do this. It is also a day to recognize and celebrate t... more

From the Road: a note from Stockholm - SAN DIEGO, CA, USA - by Nikia Clarke, director, World Trade Center San Diego WTC San Diego is on the road again, with a focus on deepening channels of connectivity between global cities around trade, investment, innovation and thought leadership (as well as herring, it turns ... more

San Diego's blue tech economy has global reach - By Matt Sanford, director of economic development Walking around the trade show floor at Oceanology International in London, it was apparent that many of the companies in attendance have a presence in San Diego. From startups like Assure Controls and Ocean Aero to some of the... more