The Swedish–American Entrepreneurial Days has become the most important trade and networking event, providing an effective platform for trade and commerce between the U.S. and Sweden. Since 1997, the Entrepreneurial Days has enabled small, medium, and large companies to connect and develop new business.
The 2008’s Entrepreneurial Days in San Diego, April 7-9 attracted 400 participants, and over 500 business matchmaking meetings were pre-scheduled. At the E-Days in Stockholm, on September 15-16, 2008, over 430 participants in total attended with more than 130 people traveling from the U.S. representing 20 different U.S. states and we had more than 800 pre-scheduled business matchmaking meetings. In Savannah, April 17-19, 2009, more than 350 participants came, both from U.S. and Sweden, and over 600 matchmaking meetings took place. The E-Days in Sweden in 2009, was a special edition in partnership with TelecomCity during their event Catwalk09 held in Karlskrona September 16-17. Focus was on the telecom industry and approximately 250 participants came and 130 matchmaking meetings were arranged.
E-Days during 2010 was held on May 5-7 in Seattle as a special event during the Sweden Week. In November 8-10 it is time for Gothenburg in Sweden to host the Swedish edition of the E-Days.
The tools that are used to encourage business and trade between the two countries are among others; custom tailored business to business industry specific programs, business to business trade missions and business matchmaking.
For the past thirteen years the Entrepreneurial Days has not only grown larger, but has also become global in scope with American business leaders networking with their Swedish counterparts. What makes this business-to-business event so worthwhile and successful is that it brings together entrepreneurs and experts from a variety of fields – all sharing their expertise and knowledge of American and EU markets.