CNN partners with
MAP for 10th Management Convention
Karachi,
3rd January 2006 – Cable News Network
(CNN) has entered into an agreement with the Management
Association of Pakistan (MAP) to partner and promote
Pakistan’s biggest corporate summit, the 10th
Management Convention, scheduled to be held in Karachi
from the March 6 – 8 2006.
The theme of this
premier event is ‘Leadership, Innovation,
Entrepreneurship’, and it aims at promoting
close interaction between the business leaders from
Pakistan and abroad.
As per the agreement,
television advertisements of the convention would
be aired on the regional beam of the news television
network from the mid of January to beginning of
March, when the event is to be held.
Mr. Shafiq Ahmad
Siddiqi, Chairman of the Convention Sub Committee
of MAP said that the 10th Management Convention
is poised to be the biggest management and corporate
event of Pakistan and an invitation has been extended
to the President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf
to inaugurate this three day event, which will host
statesmen, corporate leaders, business heads and
strategists from across South Asia, Middle East,
Europe and USA. He hoped that CNN’s association
with Pakistan’s largest management convention
would further the agenda of projecting a soft image
of Pakistan in the international community.
Hamza Wasi Hashmi
of Octara said that it is a rare opportunity for
an event management company in Pakistan to be given
such a huge project and Octara would go all out
in making this event a memorable success.
Some of the internationally
renowned speakers who have confirmed their participation
in the event include Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, former
deputy prime minister of Malaysia; Dr Walter Kuemmerle,
professor of business administration, Harvard Business
School; Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, federal minister
for investment and privatization; Kito de Boer,
managing director, McKinsey and Company Middle East;
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, Governor State Bank of Pakistan;
Tariq Kirmani, chairman, Pakistan International
Airlines; Abdullah Al Daboos, director general,
Emirates Post, UAE; Mahboob Mahmood, adjunct professor
INSEAD and CEO Knowledge Platform; Major General
(Retd) D.N. Khurana, director general, All India
Management Association; Samina Rizwan, regional
director, Oracle, SAGE; Dr Madan Kataria, founder,
Laughter Yoga, India; Nadeem Naqvi, CEO, AKD Securities
Private Ltd. and many others from across the world.
The Event Managers
for the 10th Management Convention are Octara –
A Division of TCS Private Limited while the other
Media Partner of the event is the leading business
monthly of the Gulf “Oman Economic Review”.
Sponsors of the event include English Biscuit Manufacturers,
AKD Securities, and Pakistan International Airlines
while TCS Private Limited and Dot Panacea are strategic
partners.
