Join us in Oklahoma City!

April 24, 2025

Metro Tech Campus

1900 Springlake Drive, Oklahoma City, OK 73111

Registration  $200

Cost includes a networking luncheon. 

University Students – Free Registration with proof of enrollment (example .edu email or student ID)

Agenda

7:30AM –Registration, Light Breakfast and Visit Exhibitors

8:15AM–Welcome and Opening, Chuck Mills, Chairman of the Oklahoma District Export Council

8:30AM–Welcome by Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt’s Office

8:40AM–Global Tariff Trends–What the Future Holds for Trade, by Dr. K. Aleks Schaefer, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University.

9:10AM–Innovations and Opportunities in Foreign Trade Zones, by Vedrana Milakovic, Assistant Director of Planning & Economic Development at Citizen Potawatomi Nation

9:30AM–Supply Chain Sourcing, Strategic Partnerships and Vertical Integration, by Sharina Perry, Founder/Inventor Utopia Plastix Creator/Developer of The Utopia Model CEO Utopia Model Companies and Lee Graves, Chief Manufacturing & Logistics Officer at Simple Modern

10:00AM–Break to visit exhibitors

10:15AM–Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing and Exporting, by Gunnar Hood, Principal and Chief Digital Officer, WSI World

11:00AM–Q & A for all the speakers

11:10AM–Resources available to Oklahoma Exporters, with brief presentations from:

• US Export Assistance Center
• Oklahoma Department of Commerce
• EXIM Bank
• Oklahoma SBDC

11:55AM—Break before lunch

12:10PM–Networking Lunch  with Award Presentations

• Governor’s Award for Excellence in Exporting
• U.S. Export Achievement Award
• OK DEC Export Champion Award

1:00PM–Closing remarks, Chuck Mills, Chair 

SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE–see the levels here

Directions to the Venue:

The World Trade Conference will be in Rooms G, H, and I. The most convenient parking will be on the South parking lot, with entrance through the South Lobby.