43. Promoting UK Business through Expo 2025 with Rupert Daniels and Carolyn Davidson

GUESTS: Rupert Daniels, Director, Creative, Consumer, Sport and Education, Department for Business & Trade. Carolyn Davidson, Commissioner General for the UK Pavilion, Osaka Kansai Expo 2025. As hosts of Expo 2025, the global spotlight will be shining on Japan, and the Kansai region. In anticipation of this major event, we bring you and episode introducing the vision for Expo, looking at how we are also promoting business engagement and how UK companies can use EXPO 2025 as a platform to enter or expand their presence in the Japanese market.  Steve talks to the Osaka Kansai EXPO 2025 Commissioner General, Carolyn Davidson. Carolyn provides an overview of the plans for the duration of the EXPO. The episode also features a conversation between Carolyn and DBT Director for Creative, Consumer, Sport and Education, Rupert Daniels, while he was visiting Japan, to engage with existing and potential stakeholders of EXPO.  To find more information about OSAKA EXPO 2025 - you can visit our dedicated webpage where you will find further links and details of business tenders, theme weeks and the programme of events running up to and throughout the EXPO period:   https://exporttojapan.co.uk/sector/osaka-expo-2025/ ************************************ The Export to Japan Podcast series is supported by The Foundation for International Trade and Industrial Co-operation (ITIC).