Main questions

• What are the barriers to success?
• How can partnerships be used to ensure that local firms present the right mix of skills to their clients on sustainable development issues?
• How does the reality of globalization compare with the picture presented by the keynote speaker for the World Trade Organization?

Objectives and outcomes
 
Learn the opportunities for delivering sustainable development engineering services to an international market.

• What does globalization do for the market in sustainability services: help or hinder?
• What are the requirements to deliver successfully?
• What are the risks?
• Identify and discuss the issues, barriers to success.
• Discuss the opportunities for engineering design to be done out of country.

Panel speakers
 
Speakers will discuss how globalization impacts the market for sustainability services, giving examples.

• Global regulators
  • World Trade Organisation to speak on how to creating a level playing field for global business
  • United Nations Development Programme speaker to examine the UNDP Millennium Programme as test for sustainability in a globalised environment
  • Representative of an international trade and development organization 
• Global business
  • Representative of a consulting engineering company that has delivered sustainability services internationally. from firms in countries with advanced infrastructures capable of addressing global business to speak on the opportunities and challenges of globalisation to a developed consulting engineering firm 
  • Emerging global players from India and China to speak on how to develop capacity for the global market and to talk about the business model that has worked best in China.
  • Those areas that have difficulty resisting globalisation (Africa, Third World) to address whether globalisation is a curse or cure.