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The major decisions behind U.S. expansion, before one move creates problems for the next.
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
PT
Cross-Border Conference 2026 opens with this keynote before the day moves into specialist sessions on immigration, operations and hiring, legal and compliance, trade and tariffs, intellectual property and go-to-market strategy. Each of those sessions covers one piece of U.S. expansion. This keynote covers how the pieces connect and the sequence businesses need to get right before the specifics matter. Attendees who start here carry a framework into every session that follows, and avoid missing the sequence issues that turn small oversights into costly problems later.
How the major decisions behind a U.S. expansion connect and affect what happens next
Which structural, tax and operational decisions deserve attention early in the expansion process
Where businesses commonly create unnecessary cost, risk or complexity when key steps are missed
Kyle Lodder is the Founder and CEO of Lodder CPA, where he advises cross-border businesses on the tax, accounting and financial decisions involved in entering and operating in the U.S. While other speakers each cover a single area of expansion, Kyle's day-to-day work puts him across all of them at once: structure, tax, operations and compliance, and how those decisions affect each other as a business grows. That broader view is whyKyle opens the conference..
Kyle's keynote sets the stage for a broader conference focused on the decisions international businesses and their advisors face when entering and growing in the U.S. Explore additional sessions covering immigration, U.S. operations and hiring, legal and compliance issues, trade and tariffs, intellectual property and U.S. go-to-market strategy throughout the day.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
Virtual Conference
