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Event Profile: Business Continuity-The Risk Management Expo showcases the practical solutions and products while exploring best practice, standards and strategies that will enable an organisation to protect it's vital assets, mitigate risk, manage crisis and recover after a disaster. Highlights: The show delivered a free-to-attend exhibition and very successful free to attend seminar programme all running alongside the Business Continuity Conference. Visitor's Profile: The exhibition brings together personnel from IT and facility management, to HR and C-Level delegates. It is aimed at anyone with a responsibility for their business, shareholders, reputation and staff, requirements of IT, physical security, planning, training, facilities management, regulation, resources and benchmarking that constitute responsible business continuity and governance. Exhibitor's Profile: Companies offering products and services for the following sectors: Recovery Services, Information Availability/Data Protection, Network Resilience, Business Continuity Planning & Implementation, Communication Solutions, Risk Management/Assessment Consultants, IT and Telecoms Continuity, Brand/Reputation Management Solutions, Training Solutions, Crisis Management and Emergency Planning Solutions, Compliance Solutions. Organizer: Reed Exhibitions 383 Main Avenue, Norwalk, United States of America. Tel: +(1)-(203)-8404800 Fax: +(1)-(203)-8404801

Event Profile: IX Investor is the leading event for active private investors and traders where they can gather together under one roof to learn new skills which will help them profit from the stock markets. Highlights: IX Lunchtime Debate & IX Investor Question Time-Live panel discussions with invited investment experts from UK and US followed by Q&A from the Audience. IX Conferences-There are ten conferences taking place at IX Investor. Each of these hour long conferences feature a panel of experts (up to six speakers) and a chairperson covering a range of up-to-the-minute investment topics. Free Investment Seminars. Visitor's Profile: Private Investors & Traders & other related industry professionals are the target visitors. Exhibitor's Profile: Exhibitors include Execution and Advisory Stockbrokers, Financial Websites & Data Providers, Trading Software & Tools, Spread Betting Companies, Financial Exchanges, Derivative Brokers, Wealth Management Companies, Independent Financial Advisors, FOREX Brokers, Land Investment Companies, Currency & Commodity Brokers, Financial Bookshops, SIPP Providers & Investment Funds, Mortgage Lenders & Banks, Property Investment Companies and Buy-to-Let Advisors. Organizer: The Information Exchange Limited 154 Bishopsgate, 4th Floor, London, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44)-(20)-78778790 Fax: +(44)-(131)-4664343

Retail Banking in Europe 4 to 5 March 2008 Retail Banking in Europe, United Kingdom Website: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/rbe/ Contact name: Rory McNeil In today's increasingly competitive marketplace retail banks are facing the challenges and opportunities associated with sector consolidation, as they forge a place for themselves in tomorrow's retail banking landscape. Expanding into new m Organized by: The Institute of Economic Affairs'

The conference, which is organized by Datamatix in association with our global partners, will explore innovative developments for Small and Medium Businesses in a global economy and provide delegates with the valuable opportunity to exchange ideas with international counterparts as to how a small and medium size business can best be positioned for local and global success. More than 500 business owners, entrepreneurs, economists, government and community leaders not just from the GCC region but also from Europe, North Africa and Asia are expected to attend the event, speakers and panelists will include leaders, sr. level executives from the Government and Private sector.

Standing at the cross-roads of the economic development, it becomes essential for the Government Organizations to cross examine their development programs and keep on introducing the most modern means of public services. The Conference on UAE e-Government Projects and e-Services Summit is being launched keeping in mind the announcement of the UAE 2015 Government strategy and its implementation. These Summit year after year are strategically designed to provide an opportunity for ministries; departments and agencies to improve eService delivery by better coordination, collaboration and planning.

Welcome to the First International Conference on Economic and Management Perspectives organized by International Economic Society. This major international event will be held in Famagusta, North Cyprus from October 16-19, 2008. The conference will be held at Salamis Bay Hotel Congress Center. The conference will address a range of important topics. The conference will include numerous papers by academics and researchers from around the globe. The thematic contributions of this conference will be on new perspectives and developments in the fields of economics and management. Thus, this will provide opportunity to present and share papers with other colleagues from different countries. Conference participants are welcome to submit abstracts in the initial stage and full papers once their abstracts are accepted. All conference papers will be published in e-proceedings. On the other hand, full papers will undergo a peer review process and will be evaluated by a team of referees to be published in Conference Proceedings. Furthermore, papers accepted for Conference Proceedings will be considered for publication in the regular issues of International Journal of Economic Perspectives which is published by International Economic Society.

We kindly invite you to participate in the IXth conference in the series of: „Corporate Finance Management – Theory and Practice” organized by the Department of Corporate Finance and Value Management and the Department of Public and International Finance of Wroclaw University of Economics held on 19-21 May 2008 in Karpacz, Poland. Particularly we invite scientists and practitioners, whose fields of interests encompass the following issues: investment decisions of companies financial decisions of companies liquidity management in company risk management in company international finance in companies’ management real estate – financing and management Papers submitted for conference with the content of 20.000 signs maximum, after qualification process will be published in Wroclaw University of Economics Journal: 'Prace Naukowe Akademii Ekonomicznej we Wroclawiu'. Registration fee is 1100,00 z³ (about 400 €) and covers: costs of conference materials and publishing, two days full board and accommodation, barbeque party with life music and official dinner. Reception of participants starts on 19th of May 2008 at 12:00 p.m. The conference is over after closing session on 21st of May 2008, midday. The registration of participant for conference can be done by login on the conference web page (http://zafin.ae.wroc.pl/), The deadline for registration and turning in papers is 15th of October 2007. The book with conference materials will be published before the conference. The papers sent after the deadline will be published in the conference materials of next conference in 2009. The deadline for making conference fee payments is 1st of April 2008 for the account given below (the subject of payment must be indicated as ZAFIN 08). Please send the confirmation of payment by fax. The invoices will be sent right after posting the payments to the conference account. Conference account: Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. 17 Oddzia³ we Wroc³awiu SWIFT: WBKPPLPPAXXX PL 07 1090 2529 0000 0006 3400 0503 ZAFIN 08 Yours sincerely Prof. dr hab. in¿. Wies³aw Pluta Prof. dr hab. Bogumi³ Bernaœ

Second International Training Workshop on Econometric Modeling and Data Analysis 2008 (SITWEMDA 2008) is organized by International Economic Society (IES) for academicians as well as professionals from public and private sectors. After completing the first International Training Workshop on Econometric Modeling and Data Analysis 2007 (which attracted participants from Malaysia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria), IES is now proud of offering this second event. Econometric modeling and data analysis preserves its prior importance in academic sector to publish high quality papers in top ranked international peer reviewed journals and to contribute to research related courses as well as theses in graduate levels. Econometric analysis is also important in public and private sectors for forecasting and estimation about future trends. Having the importance of econometric modelling and data analysis, IES now organizes the second ITWEMDA Series to train and improve the skills of academicians in publishing high quality papers and train professionals to do forecasting in their job markets through the latest econometric and statistical modeling techniques. By attending this training program, participants will also be able to collaborate in publishing joint papers for high quality and international peer reviewed journals such as the ones in Social Science Citation Index. Econometric Views (EVIEWS) 6.0 statistical software will be used during this workshop. Furthermore, the book of "Applied Econometric Time Series (Walter Enders, 1995)" and the article of "Bounds testing approaches to the analysis of level relationships (Pesaran, Shin and Smith, 2001)" will be the major references of this international training workshop.

Internal employee communications, the web, logos, brand experiences and much more to create, build and maintain a successful brand. The GCC National Branding Strategies Summit will address the regional industry trends and the latest branding issues to help today's GCC corporate leaders compete more successfully in the battle for customers.

Various GCC stock markets have attracted large investments as many GCC countries decided to open their capital markets to GCC citizens and in some cases to foreign investors. At the same time, the regional stock markets are showing massive fluctuations and it affected the investor’s confidende and trust in the regional stocks. In this regard, this conference addresses major issues, risks and opportunities for investors in the GCC stock markets.