AGENDA OF AGM-2009

 

1.       Confirmation of MOM of previous AGM (2008).

2.       Business arising out of the previous MOM.

3.       Endorsement of appointment of auditors for 2010.

4.       Approval of the audited accounts report.

5.       Approval of the annual budget for 2010.

6.       Dr. Zaeem’s Memorial, Speech By Student

7.       Chapter's (ComSoc, CompSoc) Reports by the respective Chairs.

8.       Student Branches Reports by the respective Chairs.

9.       IEEE Lahore Section Annual Report by the Chairman.

10.    Any other point(s) with the permission of the Chair.

11.    Keynote speech by Engr. Munawar Baseer Ahmad, Member IEEE & Former CEO PEPCO

12.    Awards & souvenirs.

13.    Dinner

 

 

About Keynote Speaker:

Munawar Baseer Ahmad is currently CEO of EMR-Consult (Energy and Management Resource Group). He is also the Team Leader for the Pakistan Power Sector Debt  Resolution Plan under a ADB Programme. He was appointed as the Managing  Director Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) in September 2007, a GOP Company set up for undertaking the reform & restructuring of Pakistan’s power sector and preparing the utility companies for corporate and commercial operations in a competitive environment. PEPCO manages fourteen (14) electric utility companies with revenues of US$ 5 billion plus. Before joining PEPCO, he was Managing Director Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd. (SSGC), Karachi for 5 years. SSGC is a public gas utility with revenues of US$ 1.5 billion and over 6000 employees. On joining SSGC in October 2002, he took several new and bold initiatives, most notably the preparation of a 5 year Natural Gas Development Plan and also a 25 year National Energy Plan, for

ensuring safety, security and sustainable energy supplies to the country. At SSGC he also effectively spearheaded a corporate transformation, and change management process based on technology empowered change with focus on industry best practices, and a customer centric culture based on “Service with a smile”. Under his leadership SSGC successfully undertook a three (3) year ICT transformation of about US$ 10 million, based on Oracle ERP solution integrated with a SPL World Group Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) system including CIS, CRM and GIS modules, which provided for the core for a state of art Customer Call / Contact Center. Oracle has showcased SSGC

implementation as a flagship site in its Leaders Circle for utilities applications worldwide.

He has 36 years diversified management, engineering, regulatory enactment and ICT application experience in the USA, Middle East and Pakistan. He has held positions of Managing Director / Chief Executive for the past 24 years and senior engineering and management positions earlier (1973 - 1984) in the USA and Middle East with the worlds leading multinationals in the technology, oil & gas and engineering industry; such as General Signal, SIP Parsons, Flour Engineers, Shell Engineering, Westinghouse, PME International, CGS (Pvt.) Ltd. and EMBA Corp. USA.

 

He holds a BSc Electrical Engineering degree from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, and a MSc Engineering and MBA from University of Houston, Texas, USA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in USA (Texas) and Pakistan, and a member of IEEE USA, Senior Member IEEEP, Petroleum Institute of Pakistan (PIP), Management Association of Pakistan (MAP) and was President Computer Society of Pakistan (CSP) Lahore. He was elected to TAU BETA PI and ETA KAPPA NU, Engineering Honour Societies in USA. He is a invited speaker and expert panelist at National and International Seminars and has presented over 30 papers in the past 10 years on Energy, Management & Technology applications.

 

 

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