The SEA-LAC Trade Center initiates the Seminar Series named as “ SEA-LAC Talk”, which seminar details is related to trade and investment in the Southeast Asian and Latin American regions in several aspects. The concept of SEA-LAC Talk is talk show style which offers the initiative ideas, sharing opinions, and giving knowledge to people who are interested in Trade and Investment in SEA and LAC countries. In each series, the SEA-LAC Trade Center invites guest speakers who have experience in trade and investment in SEA and LAC countries from several industries to share their opinions and knowledge. The first series of SEA-LAC Talk is “How to do Business with Mexico”. The guest speaker is Mr. Tello Valencia, Managing Director of Bangkokmex Business Consulting.

Due to differences in several aspects, namely culture, language, and business etiquette, trade and investment between Latin America and Southeast Asia have been slowly developed. Therefore, the SEA-LAC Trade Center invited Mr. Tello Valencia, Managing Director of Bangkokmex Business Consulting to share business experience in Mexico, offer the strategies of communication and negotiation with Mexicans, and share the success/failure cases of doing business in Mexico to ASEAN people. (Mr. Tello Valencia is a Mexican mixed Canadian businessman who is expert in Business Negotiation with Mexicans.)