TBIC News

Around the SelectUSA Investment Summit 2026, TBIC visited member communities and partners in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Indiana, and Georgia.

Before the Summit, TBIC attended the Select Hampton Roads event hosted by the Hampton Roads Alliance and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. The program provided valuable insights into the region’s strengths in defense, energy, aerospace, logistics, and related industries. Following the Summit, TBIC continued with meetings in Chattanooga, Dalton, Rome, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Gainesville.

The visits offered an important opportunity to strengthen relationships with TBIC members and partners, gain updated insights into regional assets and developments, and better understand the local value propositions TBIC represents to European companies. These conversations are essential to TBIC’s work of connecting European companies with the right U.S. communities and supporting long-term transatlantic investment.

SelectUSA may be over, but the conversations are far from finished! Through TBIC’s FDI Recruitment Program, we connected 20 of our members with European companies attending the Summit. The meetings opened the door to many valuable conversations around U.S. expansion plans, location needs, and next steps, and created strong new connections between our members and companies exploring the U.S. market.

It was also great to see so many familiar faces from across the transatlantic investment community and to welcome many of you at our Transatlantic Happy Hour together with JESCO, Inc. and Offit Kurman. This was our most successful Happy Hour yet, and we are grateful to everyone who joined us and made it such a great evening.

Thank you to everyone who met with us, joined us, or stopped by throughout the week. We look forward to continuing the conversations started at SelectUSA!

What an incredible day at the Transatlantic Business & Investment Conference—our largest event to date! We brought together over 100 U.S. EDOs, FDI experts, site selection consultants, and European representatives, all focused on strengthening transatlantic business ties and exploring opportunities for U.S. expansion.

The day kicked off with insightful opening remarks and a keynote presentation that set the stage for engaging discussions on foreign direct investment and transatlantic relations.

A standout session highlighted the importance of FDI-ready infrastructure, focusing on both physical and human assets as key drivers for attracting international investment. Another highlight was the success story of a major FDI project in Alabama, which demonstrated the power of collaboration within the TBIC network to bring international companies to U.S. communities.

Our panel on attracting international companies provided valuable strategies for marketing regions globally and positioning them for success in the site selection process.

Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors, and attendees who helped make this year’s conference a success. We can’t wait to continue the conversation at TBIC 2025!

TBIC once again hosted a booth and scheduled company meetings for its members at this year’s SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C.

This year’s Summit brought us in contact with more than 25 companies from several European countries and industries, especially e-mobility, food processing and advanced manufacturing industries. At our joint Transatlantic Happy Hour with Jesco Construction and Offit Kurman we brought together more than 80 guests and we were able to facilitate many valuable connections and grow the transatlantic network of our participants.

It was truly a pleasure to participate this year, and we will certainly be back next year to offer our exclusive FDI Recruitment Program once again!