- Make sure you register early – you get in; get to skip the queues, and get half price entry.
- Recognise that this is an international meeting point: business is global and global businesses are participating at this event. Here you can find a lot of business development and product servicing programmes all in one place at one time.
- Realise it’s going to take time to do that: So you need to invest the time and that means the prep work – research who you are going to see, make an appointment with them, use the Gulfood programme to plan your time and set up an itinerary.
- Leave some time to do what I call window shopping: It’s great to create your agenda and plan who you are going to see beforehand but one of the great things about shows like this is to give yourself some time to walk around and go ‘wow, I hadn’t thought of that’ or I can see that’s drawn a crowd, what’s the enthusiasm that’s been pulled through that and can I represent that?
- Take advantage of the new Gulfood mobile app to plan your route!
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