The European Chamber would like to invite you to attend the election of the South China SME Forum on Friday, 25 March 2022, via Zoom. The meeting will be a presentation on how to leverage the European Chamber Membership as an SME to benefit you and a presentation by the EU SME Centre about services they provide.

• 2022-04-01 | 10:00 - 12:00
• Online

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to the next meeting of the Standards and Conformity Assessment Working Group on Tuesday, 29th March, from 15:00 to 16:30. At this meeting, we will hold the chair elections, update you on a few Chamber developments and discuss the Position Paper plans.

• 2022-03-29 | 15:00 - 16:30
• online via Zoom

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to the next meeting of the Logistics Working Group at 15:00 am-16:00 pm, Thursday, 24th March 2022 via Zoom. At this meeting, we will hold the elections, update you on a few Chamber developments and discuss the Position Paper plans.

• 2022-03-24 | 15:00 - 16:00
• Zoom

The Human Resources Working Group is pleased to invite you to the meeting “Why Corporate Culture and Communication Matter when Adopting New Technologies”, which is taking place on Wednesday, 23 March, 10:00 to 12:00 (GMT+8:00, China time) at the European Chamber’s Shanghai office, as well as online via Zoom. At this meeting, we will also hold the 2022 chair elections.

• 2022-03-23 | 10:00 - 12:00
• Zoom (线上活动) | Shanghai Office, Unit 2204, Shui On Plaza, 333 Middle Huaihai Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, 200021 (上海市淮海中路333号，瑞安广场2204室)

The theme of this meeting will revolve around the hot issues of South China's manufacturing industry, such as COVID situation, supply chain management. At the same time, we will also invite participants to introduce and share the problems and issues encountered in production and operation.

• 2022-03-17 | 15:00 - 16:15
• Online (ZOOM meeting, the meeting link will be sent afterwards)

The European Chamber and the EU SME Centre are pleased to invite you to our next meeting, where SME Forum Chair and Consultant at Dezan Shira Marco Förster and EU SME Centre Advocacy Manager Ester Cañada Amela will discuss the key hurdles encountered by European SMEs in China, and how the EU SME Centre can support them grow in a challenging yet exciting market. The meeting will take place on Thursday, 17th December from 3:30PM to 4:30PM at Dezan Shira's office in Guangzhou.

• 2020-12-17 | 15:30 - 16:30
• Dezan Shira & Associates Guangzhou

The global pandemic has further accelerated the digital transformation of businesses resulting in increased reliance on e-commerce platforms, boom in the AI-related industries and digitalisation of production and delivery processes. With digitalisation of businesses, consumption too has increasingly moved online. Intellectual property (IP) is crucial to digital economy as it drives innovation and provides SMEs with comparative advantage over competitors. While digital economy brings about new IP risks like online infringements, it also creates new solutions for IP protection such as the use of blockchain technologies or reliance on sophisticated notice and take-down systems on e-commerce platforms or even the use of internet courts speeding up IP enforcement procedures. To be successful in digital economy, SMEs should focus on protecting their IP by adopting a comprehensive IP strategy taking into account the needs of digital economy.

• 2020-11-18 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Zoom Online Meeting

From the previous LEAN meetings, top management involvement has been discussed and all managers need and must be involved in LEAN activities and working on it on a daily basis. Awards were communicated quite in detail and pointed out different ways in different companies.

The third LEAN discussion will be in Andritz in Foshan. Andritz starts to use LEAN tools (partial of global initiatives) a few years ago with results to have low/middle-end fruits and they are working to shape the factory digitalization (real-time “data” talk to data) to have further improvement. The factory serves more than 10 different industries with all traditional manufacturing processes (Machining, Welding, Assembling, Casting, Forging and Painting) with Project / Product / Service Operation Modules.

• 2020-09-01 | 09:30 - 15:00
• ANDRITZ China Headquarter building

This meeting of the South China Healthcare Sub-Forum is to discuss the recent "Buy China" policies enacted with the support of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission and to determine what action to take moving forward.

• 2020-08-28 | 11:00 - 12:00
• European Chamber - Chinese Overseas Scholars Venture Building

The European Chamber Logistics Working Group is pleased to invite you to a working group meeting with Ms Cinzia Pasquale, founder of 4SUCCESS2EU, and Mr Alexio Picco, managing director of Circle Group, to discuss on the EU's response to COVID-19 in sustainable, green and inclusive connectivity.

• 2020-08-06 | 16:00 - 17:30
• online Zoom Meeting Platform