This year’s 2-day programme features the Aftercare Masterclass on Day 1, where we explore how leading IPAs have carved unique approaches to maximize value, turning these into their Aftercare superpowers, and the Forum on Day 2 focused on the the theme Aftercare in the new world setting, where we address how practitioners and policymakers are responding to uncertainty. Scroll down to learn more details.
Day 1 – Masterclass 2025.
Finding your superpowers: Wednesday June 4th, 2025
This year’s Aftercare Masterclass explores how leading IPAs have carved unique approaches to maximize value, turning these into their Aftercare superpowers. Through this session, you’ll uncover and hone your own.
Programme DAY 1:
Welcome Remarks
àAftercare Framework: Unpacking the bigger picture for long-term growth
Carolina Arriagada Peters – Cities & Collaboration
Aftercare has many definitions that go beyond selling the location for a second time but link it with competitiveness and resilience. This session will provide an overview of post-investment’s frameworks, how it does/does not link with economic development and unpack the main narratives that foster an investment life-cycle approach to post-investment as a driver for sustainable growth.
àThe Puzzle of Regional Coordination
Speaker: Marielle Balk – Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA)
The dividing line between what national, regional and city actors offer to established foreign companies is sometimes opaque, even for FDI practitioners and can appear as time-consuming in the eyes of foreign companies trying to be efficient in their public sector engagements. Coordinating these many efforts is a puzzle only a few have mastered. This session will present the case study of the Netherlands and how they coordinate multiple stakeholders to provide efficient, streamlined and value-generating services to multinationals.
àThe why, what and how for talent attraction
Speaker: Daniel Rosenberg – Copenhagen Capacity
Delve into Copenhagen Capacity’s 13-year experience in international talent attraction. This presentation will highlight the critical importance of attracting international talent to Denmark, the innovative concept of ‘employer place branding’, and the successful strategies for securing funding and advocating for the international talent agenda. Discover how Copenhagen Capacity has balanced its efforts in attracting international companies and investments while fostering a welcoming environment for global talent.
àSuperpowers: Best Practices from around the world
Speaker: Several IPAs and start-ups
There is nothing like exchanging best practices with those who tested their innovation on the ground. This session presents a carefully curated mix of case studies from around the world of IPAs who are paving their way in a wide range of Aftercare topics. Expect to be inspired by the work of your international peers and gain new tools form start-ups developing new products that fuel company growth.
Strengthening Backward Linkages – Empowering Domestic Businesses through Investor Connections
Speaker: Dhaval Gore and Daniel Swanko
How can IPAs connect domestic businesses with global investors, fostering a thriving local innovation ecosystem? One such way is by leveraging data-driven insight to identify expanding businesses that are aligned with a region’s priorities and support these domestic enterprises in securing capital for growth. This proactive engagement strengthens backward linkages, ensuring that foreign investments stimulate local supply chains, skills development, and innovation. Attendees will gain practical insights into creating sustainable partnerships that benefit both investors and local economies.
àLet's hear it from them: Spanish investors reflecting on their growth
Moderated by our Spanish hosts Andalucia TRADE, ICEX and Malaga Open for Business
Aftercare is all about working with investors to unleash growth. As such, our Forum would not be complete without the presence of foreign investors. This panel curated by our Spanish host and partners, will feature foreign investors based in Spain who will share how their companies are evolving in times of unprecedented change, how they are responding to changing contexts and how they would like to see FDI services and IPAs evolve to match their evolving needs.
àDivestment: what happens when they leave?
Speaker: Palitha Konara-Essex University
Foreign divestment – the process by which multinational enterprises (MNEs) withdraw or scale down their investments in a host country- highlights the footloose nature of MNEs, reflecting their tendency to swiftly relocate operations in response to shifting economic, political, or regulatory conditions. This mobility enables MNEs to maximize profits, enhance efficiency, reduce risk exposure, and adapt to evolving market dynamics. However, it can also destabilize host economies. This session will offer insights into the drivers and consequences of foreign divestment, along with pointers for effective divestment policymaking and support services.
àLeadership: the 7 traits of a successful Aftercare
Speaker: Filippo Giabbani – Invest in Tuscany
àWrap-up and closure of the Masterclass
* programme is subject to change to accommodate speaker's needs
Day 2 – Forum
Forum 2025.
Aftercare Capacity Building: Thursday June 5th, 2025
As the world faces multiple crises with geo-politics, this year’s programme highlights how working closely with established investors strengthen the local business fabric and increases economic resilience in a highly dynamic FDI context.
From 08:00 to 18:00
Programme DAY 2:
Welcome Remarks
àOpening by Andalucia Trade
àKeynote
Keynote speaker: Laith Altimime – President, SEMI Europe
The global semiconductors industry is worth §600bn, employs 2M people, with the industry is on exponential growth to exceed $1T by 2030 this would require and additional workforce of 1.5 million. It spans various sectors—ranging from design, equipment and materials, and manufacturing to assembly and testing, supply chain and raw Materials —and each of these sub-sectors contributes to the broader strategic importance of semiconductors. As linchpin of modern economies, semiconductors touch everything from consumer electronics and industrial machinery to medical to defence systems and national infrastructure.
The keynote speech dives into implications of increasing deglobalization on the semiconductors industry and how this shapes the priorities of corporate boardrooms. The keynote will address the headwinds facing the industry exponential growth and the opportunities for collaborations across all sectors of the value chain. It will provide the view of an industry as a key enabler of all industries that understands that value chains are country blind and will outline that what is at stake is significantly bigger that locating the next expansion plant in one or another location. Expect honest industry talk, effects of the EU Chip Act on corporate growth and call for bold action from home economies.
àGeopolitics and how it affect international business
àInnovation for competitiveness and how to link Aftercare & R&D
àNurturing VVIP Investors, Growing Economies: the key to lasting FDI
Speaker: Michael Charlton – Sure Summit Solutions
This session will address Why Aftercare Matters and is more than just problem-solving and will cover how targeted proactive investor aftercare can drive economic growth, prevent investor exits and turn satisfied investors into powerful ambassadors for your jurisdiction. Featuring real-world case studies he will unpack best practices, from key account management to tailored expansion support. Join this session to discover how structured VVIP aftercare can maximise investment impact and ensure your jurisdiction remains top of choice for reinvestment.
àReindustrialization and Aftercare: betting on territorial resilience
Speaker: Lucia Garcia Callealta – LHH, Andrés García – Sifdi
An increasing focus in both developed and developing economies , reindustrialization and territorial revitalisations seeks to strengthen the industrial production capacity of territories affected by corporate exits, closures of facilities, relocation or decarbonization. This session explores how data helps in identifying risks of business closures, how to implement successive investment cycles and what institutional frameworks support this work.
àAdvocacy: what is it what Multinationals do?
Speaker: Maria Rosa Rotondo – Political Intelligence
International businesses strategically deploy advocacy to shape the regulatory landscape and improve investment conditions in the countries they are vested in. Their efforts will tackle social, economic, regulatory, and political dimensions, creating foundations for sustainable long-term growth. Through bespoke stakeholder engagement, coalitions and strategic partnerships, foreign companies amplify their influence to pursue their and their partners’ objectives more effectively. This session unpacks how this multifaceted advocacy approach enables them to not only advance their business interests but also catalyse positive societal transformation.
àOpen mic: The Next Wave of Aftercare Value Creation
This session is designed as a brainstorming opportunity to jointly discuss how to further develop Aftercare. Where can the industry get funding from? What else can be done? Are there options to do joint Aftercare programmes? What does it take to take foreign-investor-centred private-public-collaboration to new heights.
àWrap-up and closure of the Forum
* programme is subject to change to accommodate speaker's needs
2025 Timetable
*to be confirmed closer to the date.
Wednesday June 4th:
Thursday June 5th:
08:00 to 18:00 Aftercare Masterclass at TecnoIncubadora Maire Curie
20:00 to 22:00 Welcome Dinner
08:00 to 18:00 Aftercare Forum at TecnoIncubadora Maire Curie
