Conferences on January 20, 2015

Middle East and Africa promises astounding growth and potential in the insurance sector with the Middle East witnessing a rapid trend of mandatory health insurance in major countries along with an increased awareness for product innovations and enhancing the distribution channels. Emerging countries in Africa are witnessing a liberalised economy and political stability thus promising a healthy financial growth. The 5th Annual Middle East and Africa Insurance Summit will address burning issues and challenges faced by the MEA region and brainstorm on solutions that will achieve the vision to have a regulated, consolidated and lucrative business model in the dynamic and ever-growing insurance sector. Contact: Mohor Mukherjee T: +971 4609 1570 | E: mohor.mukherjee@fleminggulf.com

The Nordic card and payments markets are ranked amongst the world’s most developed. Although their economies have recovered well after the financial meltdown, they are still very much in a state of transformation when it comes to payment solutions. Building on the success of the 2014 event, SMi is proud to announce that the 14th Annual Nordic Markets and Future Payments Solutions Conference will take place the 19th - 20th January 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It will examine how the industry is being forced to ‘reinvent’ itself in response to increasing competition and impeding regulatory requirements - (SEPA and MIF caps), security measures and more importantly, the increase in the demand for immediate payment systems particularly the adoption of mobile and near field communication (NFC)...

What to expect – a taster - A comprehensive overview of European refining in a rapidly transforming global market. Influential refining market leaders and foremost experts will debate the current situation, developments and strategies in a declining European refining sector. Learn how to maximize the middle by discovering distillate trends in Europe. Find out what’s really moving jet fuel, diesel and gasoil markets. - Capitalizing on opportunities from regional and global imbalances of middle distillates. Discover whether Asia will continue to move barrels over to Europe, the impact of the US shale oil and gas revolution on global distillate dynamics, and investment growth, domestic consumption and export trends in the Middle East. - Lift the covers on middle distillate pricing, ...

GTD is the shorthand brand for “Getting Things Done®, the ground- breaking work-life management system by David Allen that provides concrete solutions for transforming overwhelm and uncertainty into an integrated system of stress-free productivity. This is a tactically oriented, hands-on seminar on how to get your GTD® system up and running. You will learn the fundamental GTD thinking process and start to build a trusted workflow system. No matter where you are in your GTD journey, you will find tremendous benefit from this dynamic one-day seminar. You will learn to: • Manage your workflow seamlessly with less stress • Set up a system so that none of your “to-dos” fall through the cracks • Get your email inbox to zero • Organize and make clear decisions about your projects and ...

In this interactive workshop you’ll discover some of the common mistakes leaders make when trying to leverage their time and grow their organizations. You’ll discover your own limiting behaviors and create specific actions that you can implement immediately to prepare for and enable growth. After the workshop we’ll put our two panelists on the hotseat to hear about their experiences starting out small and successfully growing their teams and companies. Shaun Johnson is the co-founder of the Startup Institute, a job training program that now reaches students in five cities globally. Brian McGinnis is the founder of Viewfinder, a photo-sharing app that was sold to Square in 2014. Agenda 6:00-6:45 PM : Networking 6:45-7:30 PM : Workshop 7:30-7:45 PM : Break 7:45-8:30 PM : ...

Enjoy dinner, drinks & a chance to meet fellow entrepreneurs and professionals, followed by an after-dinner talk and informal Q&A with Alex Semenzato, founder of FashTech and Market Development at Cortexica. Alex will talk about his journey, leading the FashTech community worldwide and developing the ‘visual search for fashion’ market for Cortexica - the world’s leading developer of image recognition and visual search technology.

Manufacturing involves an attempt to produce items that as closely as possible meet design specifications (e.g., size, strength, etc.). However, all production processes exhibit variation --- that is, no two items are identical. What method can we use to reduce such variation? The classic and still most widely used method is called SPC or "statistical process control". SPC is a statistical tool that objectively identifies when it is worthwhile to perform a formal investigation of manufacturing variation, in order to identify and reduce its cause. SPC continually adjusts its sensitivity in order to ensure that such investigations are performed only when there is a reasonable chance of identifying causes of variation. SPC also provides information that can be used to estimate what %...

Our choices shape our lives and our world. But in busy and complex times, how do we avoid falling into our usual patterns? How do we clear our heads and find new perspectives and see new choices? This event offers a space to reflect on the year to come in the company of others. It is designed in particular for people who may be confused by the social, financial and environmental turmoil of these times and want to be more powerful in making a positive difference in the world. it includes a mixture of exercises designed to develop our body, heart, mind and soul, individually and collectively. The exercises have been drawn together and developed by the facilitators, Debbie Warrener and Patrick Andrews, over the years from a variety of sources including deep dialogue, embodied work, ...

APCSSM 2015 is an international conference for state-of-the-art research in Social Science and Management. Asia-Pacific Conference on Social Science and Management 2015 will be held in Singapore during January 19-21, 2015. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Social Science and Management. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Social Science and Management related techniques.

The ICEIT Conference aims to provide a communication platform for scholars, professionals, academics and graduate students not only to present their recent and latest researches but also share their thoughts and discuss the future development in the field of engineering and information technology.