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The inaugural “Make It With Mexico” conference brings together stakeholders from both sides of the border to discuss complex business and policy considerations around a simple idea:
We Should: Make It With Mexico.
The conference is modeled after the Independent Voter Project’s Business and Leadership Conference, held each year in Hawaii for the last two decades.
We encourage participants to bring their families, to stay the weekend, and to dress casual.
The Independent Voter Project believes that a more relaxed setting encourages more open conversation, honest dialogue, and more opportunities to build the authentic relationships necessary to advance good ideas.
The issue-tables are intentionally broad to invite open conversation. Conference participants, and their legislative counterparts, will ultimately control the direction of the dialogue at each table. General topics this year include:
Welcome Reception
Guests and families included
Welcome Notes
Issue Tables
Legislators participate at issue tables on a rotating basis. Guests can observe.
Cross-Border Visit to Manufacturing Facility
Transportation and dinner provided
Optional: Reception
Guests and families included
Welcome Notes
Issue Tables
Legislators participate at issue tables on a rotating basis. Guests can observe.
Day trip to Cross Border Xpress facilities
Guests and families included. No children.
Closing Dinner
Guests and families included. No children.
Optional: Post-conference Overnight Trip to Valle de Guadalupe. Various stops from Baja to Tecate. Transportation and lodging provided. Guests and families welcome.
SIMNSA Facilities Tour
Guests and families welcome.
Brunch at Caesar's Hotel in Downtown Tijuana
Brunch sponsored by SIMNSA
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The Make it With Mexico conference is an educational conference for legislators and industry representatives. Lobbying is strictly prohibited. Rather, the intimate format of the conference, and familial participation throughout, is designed to encourage authentic conversation and relationship building.
The conference is modeled after the Independent Voter Project’s successful Business and Leadership Conference held for the last 18 years. Throughout those years, the most productive and impactful issue-tables are those that throw away the powerpoint presentations, in favor of conversation you would have at your dinner table.
The conference is an opportunity for those in industry and government to identify win-win-win opportunities; those that are good for electeds, business, and everyday people on both sides of the border.
