Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen addressed Latin American trade ministers during the Inter-American Development Bank's Regional Policy Dialogues in Washington on 29 November 2018. Suominen spoke during an event organized by the IADB with the Latin American Internet Association and Google, at Google Washington DC offices. Her presentation focused on Nextrade's extensive empirical work with such organizations as IADB ad USAID, on how Latin American companies are digitizing and using

As part of the work stream of the Alliance for eTrade Development supported by USAID and managed by Business for eTrade Development, Nextrade CEO and Business for eTrade Development Kati Suominen presented the Alliance's findings of research on the optimal mix of policies to catalyze ecommerce development to officials of the Kenyan trade ministry officials on 4 December 2018 in Nairobi. See more on Alliance's groundbreaking policy work here.