Entries by Sam Kaplan

Upcoming Events

PNW Education and Workforce Summit   Seattle Southside Chamber  April 27, 2023  7:30am-9:30am  https://www.seattlesouthsidechamber.com/events/details/2023-pnw-education-workforce-summit-5085       Vietnam Export and Supply Chain Diversification   World Trade Center Tacoma  May 4, 2023  3:00pm-5:00pm  https://wtcta.org/event/vietnam-export-and-supply-chain-diversification/       Building Bridges to Global Markets  World Trade Center Seattle  May 9, 2023  8:45am-12:00pm  https://www.wtcseattle.com/events/2021/building-bridges-to-global-markets      WCIT 2023 Trade Summit  Washington council on […]

Assessing Skills Gap with Chmura

Your Center of Excellence for Global Trade and Supply Chain Management is one of a number of Washington State Centers of Excellence involved in a pilot project giving us access to real time data and analytics provided by CHMURA. CHMURA is providing the Center with software tools to allow us to dig deeper and really understand the supply chain workforce on the local and national […]

Securing Supply Chain Summit

After three years, your Center of Excellence for Global Trade and Supply Chain Management, in partnership with the Center of Excellence for Homeland Security and Emergency Management, are once again planning our annual Securing the Supply Chain Summit. The 2022 summit will be held on Tuesday October 18th at Highline College’s Mount Constance Conference room in […]

I Wish…Vietnam

By Blaine Marc Relatado (B.A.S. International Business student, North Seattle College) An affordable study-abroad program, what is it like? Winter quarter was about to end, and I was taking the train on my way to work. I was checking my email and saw a message from one of my instructors. It was about a study-abroad […]

Directors Note Fall 2022–Vietnam

Students Thrive in the Global Economy Thank goodness global analysts aren’t coroners. They have declared globalization dead so many times over the last ten years that it certainly would have been buried alive like an Edgar Allen Poe global horror story if we had listened to them. Vietnam is alive with the sounds and sights […]

Director’s Note–Fall 2021 The Chain

Mentoring for Success We all need mentors, some of us more than others. I’ve been fortunate throughout my life to have mentors throughout my life, from when I worked on trade policy in Congress to business ventures to even back in college when Charley–you remember him?–mentored us into having a deep appreciation of the late, […]