European Business Mingle
The British-American Business Council (BABC), the French American Chamber of Commerce (FACC) and SACC-Seattle are proudly announcing this event that will take place on Sept. 25, from 5:30-8:30pm. You are invited to join with European friends and colleagues for an evening of happy hour business networking at the Daily Grill, 629 Pike Street in Seattle. We will meet in the Pike Lobby Room to mix-n-mingle, talk business and make connections. Light appetizers will be served. No host bar. Enter to win a special door prize! Members pay only $10 so hurry up because this event will fill up quickly.
“Lusthus Midsommar” Warm-up
Join us for an evening of beauty, hospitality and heritage. Scandinavian Garden Pavilions is exclusively inviting you to experience the beauty and comfort of a genuine Swedish “Lusthus”, June 19th at 6pm.
Enjoy some wine and hors-d'oeuvre while Lena Lönnberg and Mark Hickling, founders of Scandinavian Garden Pavilions, tell us about the history and tradition of "lusthus" in Sweden. And see, first hand, the beautiful Herrgård Pavilion, hand-crafted in the north of Sweden, now available in North America.
Address: 1935 2nd St., Kirkland, WA 98033
Directions: From I-405 (heading north or south) - Take exit 18 for NE 85th St and drive west down 85th St. toward Kirkland. Continue into downtown Kirkland (as 85th changes name to Central Way) and turn right on Market Street. Drive north on Market Street for 1 mile and turn right on 19th Ave. Drive up the hill two blocks to 2nd Street and turn left. 1935 2nd Street is the 5th house on the left. Park anywhere on 2nd Street.
Seats are limited so please RSVP as soon as possible, latest by June 16th
Send an email to info@sacc-seattle.org sign up at Facebook or call ph 425-8292308.
For more information about Scandinavian Garden Pavilions visit www.scandinavianpavilions.com
SACC-Seattle Annual Meeting on March 20, 2013
ANNUAL MEETING
We are happy to announce that this year’s Annual Meeting will take place at the Cutter & Buck headquarters on 701 North 34th Street in Lake Union, Seattle on Wednesday March 20, 6:00 pm.
Program:
6:00 pm - Registration and networking
6:30 pm - Opening presentation
7:00 pm - Annual Meeting begins
Please R.S.V.P. to info@sacc-seattle.org no later than March 15, 2013.
Welcome!
Seminar IT Security: Exposing Cyber Attacks, February 22 2013
On February 22, 2013 SACC-Seattle invites you to a seminar at Swedish Cultural Center with the renowned IT Specialist Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti.
We will start at 10.45am-12.00 noon and Swedish chef Ann Margret will provide lunch after the seminar at 12 noon, as she does every Friday.
We hear about hackers making serious intrusions on major enterprises networks or how government websites are being subjected to cyber attacks by groups like “anonymous”.
This is only the tip of the iceberg which is visible to the public. In fact most nations are preparing for, what in general terms is called “cyber warfare”, where malicious code is used to infect and knock out vital organizations, enterprises and even nuclear power plants. The buzz word is APT “Advanced Persistent Threat”. Most famous to date is the Stuxnet case that put the world on edge this last spring.
Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti from the Swedish IT security consulting firm TrueSec, will explain further how this happened and how this can be prevented by using the Stuxnet case and other known intrusions as example. What can we expect for the future and what is the world doing to prepare itself to counter these attacks? Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti will start on a global level all the way down to our personal computer and cell phone’s security in order to better equip us to counter these problems on a corporate and individual level.
Bio Speakers: Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti are among the world’s foremost IT Security experts working with global enterprises on international missions.
When: Friday, February 22
Time: 10.45am-12 noon, for those who would like, lunch is available for purchase in the dining room after 12 noon (for menu please visit www.swedishculturalcenter.org).
Location: Swedish Cultural Center,1920 Dexter AveN. Seattle,WA98109
Cost: Free; for new/ renewed SACC-Seattle members 2013 and SCC members, 5$ for guests
RSVP: By e-mail to info@sacc-seattle.org or by phone 425.952.6299 please indicate if you plan to have lunch at theSwedishCulturalCenter after the seminar.
Please note: we need your RSVP no later than February 19, 2013!
Lucia Bal, December 15, 2012
Lucia Bal 2012
December 15
At
The Swedish Cultural Center
Program:
6:00 p.m. Welcome Glögg & Ginger Snaps
6.45 p.m. Lucia Concert
7.30 p.m. Traditional Swedish Christmas Dinner
8.30 p.m. Dance Floor Opens
Location: 1920 Dexter Avenue NorthSeattle, WA98109
Ticket (including dinner): $50SACC-Seattle members ~ $50 SCC Members ~ $55 Guests
No Host Bar
Parking: Free
RSVP: By e-mail to info@sacc-seattle.org, or phone: 425-952-6299
Payment: Issue a check to SACC-Seattle and mail to SACC-Seattle, 5350 Carillon Point, Kirkland WA98033
Payment and RSVP must be received by December 10,2012.
No late registrations will be accepted!
The Euro-Crisis
The Department of Scandinavian Studies presents:
State Secretary Gunnar Oom
Swedish Ministry of Trade
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Douglas Forum, Bank of America Executive Education Center, 4th floor
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Gunnar Oom is State Secretary to Minister for Trade Ewa Björling. He has served in this position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since November 2010. Prior to his appointment, he served as Mayor and Chairman of the Municipality Board ofDanderyd, Sweden from 2003-2010. Mr. Oom has held a number of positions within the private sector in Sweden, including Business Developer and Chief Investment Manager, with NCC BOT; Director, Project Finance, with Vattenfall AB; Managing Director, Idhammar System; and Managing Director, SveaBanken. He speaks English, German and Russian.
This event is free and open to the public.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, actives, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206-543-6450/V, 206-543-6452/TTY, 206-685-7264/Fax,
Pan Nordic Event at Nordic Heritage Museum
The Swedish-American Chambers of CommerceSeattle
Presents
Pan Nordic Event
6.00 pm, November 1, 2012
at the
NordicHeritageMuseum
We welcome you to an evening to celebrate the Nordic community in Seattle and to learn more about the Nordic business culture with our extraordinary panel consisting of Nordic consuls and prominent business leaders.
Program:
6:00 pm-6:45 pm Networking and exhibition: Eight Seasons in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi People.
6:45 pm- Dinner Buffet & Panel Discussion
Panel topic: Business practices here in the Pacific Northwest as compared to those of the Nordic countries, synergies and dissonances.
Panel: Honorary Consul of Norway Kim Nesselquist, Honorary Consul of Finland and President, Finnish-American Chambers of Commerce Matti Suokko and Honorary Consul of Sweden Lars Jonsson.
Moderator: Per Noren, VP at Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Location: Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 NW 67th Street, Seattle, WA 98117
Ticket: $35 SACC-Seattle members ~ $35 Nordic Heritage Museum members ~ $40 non SACC-Seattle members
Parking: Free
RSVP: By email to info@sacc-seattle.org, 425-952 6299
Payment: Issue a check to SACC-Seattle and mail to SACC-Seattle, 5350 Carillon Point, Kirkland WA98033
Payment and RSVP must be received by October 26, 2012
in order to facilitate for catering!
Iran, Israel and the threat of war –with Trita Parsi, September 12, 2012
Iran, Israel and the threat of war –with Trita Parsi
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Location: Swedish Cultural Center,1920 Dexter Avenue North, Seattle,WA98109
Time: 11.30am-1.30pm
Room: Three Crowns Dining Room (up stairs)
Price: $20 SACC-Seattle members/ $25 Non members (Lunch buffet included) Payment in cash or check.
Free parking
RSVP: info@sacc-seattle.org No later then Friday September 7,2012
Consulate of Swedenand SACC-Seattle invites you for an afternoon of foreign policy discussion at the SwedishCulturalCenter. With us, we have the Swedish, Middle Eastern expert, Mr Trita Parsi. Based in WashingtonDC, Mr Trita Parsi is in Seattleon brief visit to talk about his latest book “A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran”.
Mr Trita Parsi will devote the lunch to talk about the most recent events inIranandIsrael, the escalating threat of military action and the implications forUSAin the middle of pending presidential election.
We will end the session with open floor questions to Mr Parsi.
Don’t miss out on this extraordinary occasion!
Trita Parsi is the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007) as well as his latest book -A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (Yale University Press 2012).
Parsi has followed Middle East politics through work in the field and extensive experience on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations. He is frequently consulted by Western and Asian governments on foreign policy matters. Parsi has worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN, where he served in the Security Council, handling the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan and Western Sahara, and in the General Assembly's Third Committee, addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
Parsi studied for his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. In addition to his PhD, he holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from Uppsala University and a Master's Degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as an adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and as a Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC (http://www.tritaparsi.com/ ).
Join SACC-Seattle at the annual Seattle Chamber event, All-Young Professional Network, at the Seattle Center, August 22, 2012
Don’t miss the largest Young Professionals event of the year!
Date: Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: The Armory at Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle WA98109
Fee: $20 pre-paid ($25 after 8/20 and at the door)
Please visit the following link for registration and more information: http://www.seattlechamber.com/Events/EventDetails.aspx?articleID=2670
Or on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/330164693737413/
Hope to see you there!