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in this issue... meet mike - FIG’s new Director of IT 1

FIG conference agenda 2

itinerary 3/4

meeting scheduler 5

vote for your ‘star fig’ 6

early-bird draw 7

inter-app… coming soon 8

meet mike...

We have appointed one of our long-serving developers, Mike Garcia to man-

age all FIG IT project development as FIG IT Director on a full-time basis. Mike

is based in the Philippines and joined our FIG Conference in Bangkok a few

years back.

Mike is an accomplished developer and has huge experience in delivering

highly complex website/database projects at government and corporate level.

As our FIG IT requirements become ever more sophisticated, Mike will oversee

development of our FIG ‘Platform’ and will be working with you all to ‘join you

all together’ as a cohesive working group.

Mike will be available through our Interforwarder App in the very near future…

Although Mike cannot attend our meeting he will be making a short video

presentation and may ‘pop-in’ by Interforwarder for a quick video-chat…

FIG Admin has outlined our long-

term business plan and objectives

during previous conferences. To

see an overview of our future

plans take a look at our new FIG

Handbook >>

http://www.figgroup.net/

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Mike Garcia - FIG Director of IT

agenda 3 march

During our 3 hour presentation we plan to introduce our latest resource, our In-

terforwarder ‘App’ which will help all FIG Partners to stay in touch with each

other - with their existing workforce and project groups and with a whole new

circle of friends and working colleagues.

We will discuss our current workload and plans for the future and as a ‘central

point of discussion’, we will present our plans to ‘connect’ (certain) FIG Partners

to form a truly ‘multi-national’ operation.

We plan to build a FIG Platform able to ‘connect’ your existing systems allowing

significant visibility of our supply chain and will enable many useful services such

as ‘tracking’, billing and accounting, warehouse operations etc. Perhaps the

most ambitious element of our plan is to allow direct access to your (selected)

client base and ultimately to provide a full ERP system with inventory control

through the whole supply chain and with the capability to connect to your cli-

ent’s existing ERP systems.

We will review developments on this topic presented by some of our FIG Part-

ners and decide between us which features you would like included in our FIG

Platform.

The world of logistics is changing…

FIG is changing too…

Are you ready for change?

FIG Annual Conference 2015

Itinerary

2 March - Evening Reception

19:30 - 22:30 Al Shams (10th Floor)

Dress: Smart Casual

Meet your FIG colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks

and canapés with a fantastic view over Dubai Creek. FIG Ad-

min will distribute name badges and introduce any ‘first-time’

delegates to our FIG family.

3 March - FIG Annual Conference

09:00 - 12:00 (Al Khor - 20th Floor)

See ‘Agenda’ (Previous Page)

Dress: Smart Casual

LUNCH (12:00-13:30)

One-on-One Meetings (20min Sessions)

13:30 - 15:10 - (Al Khor - 20th Floor)

See ‘Meeting Scheduler’

Evening Activity

16:00 - 22:00 (appx.)

Dress: Casual / allow for cool evenings… suggest san-

dals (footwear)

Join us for a trip into the desert for a little ‘dune-bashing’

followed by supper under the stars...

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FIG Annual Conference 2015 - Dubai 4 March - One-on-One Meetings

(40min Sessions) 09:20 - 12:00 & 13:20 - 16:00

Lobby Café - Dress: Smart Casual

In a change to our normal programme and by pop-

ular demand, we are offering ‘extended sessions’

for our second period of ‘one-on-one meetings’

with each meeting lasting for 40 minutes. These

sessions are intended for ‘in-depth’ discussions on

pre-determined topics. The Lobby Café offers a re-

laxed venue and lunch is served from 12:00-13:20.

Dinner / Cruise

20:00 - 22:30 (Al Mansour Dhow)

Dress: Smart Casual

A relaxing cruise along the ancient waterways of

Dubai with supper and beverages & a little light

music. Enjoy the night air with your FIG family

SMOKING POLICY:

There is a dedicated smoking area on the ground

floor of our hotel. Smoking is also permitted in

the bar ‘Up on the Tenth’.

During our Dhow Cruise - smoking is permitted

on the upper deck.

Al Mansour Dhow - Relax...

meeting scheduler

Our (very clever) FIG Meeting Scheduler will be released in just a few hours.

For those of you using this resource for the first time - don’t worry - you can

build your complete Meeting Schedule in just a few clicks and print your sched-

ule ready for our FIG Conference.

We have changed our system slightly this year… rather than have two days of

‘intensive’ meetings, we have set-up our first ‘One-on-One session with just

FIVE 20 minute sessions (3 March PM)- these sessions are intended for ‘getting

to know you’ meetings and are ideal for ‘first-time’ attendees to meet our FIG

family.

Our second session of One-on-One Meetings are for a whole day - EIGHT 40

minute sessions for more detailed meetings (4 March).

Additionally there are numerous opportunities to meet delegates during ‘social

events such as our ‘desert excursion’, Evening Reception and Gala Dinner. It is

sometimes more productive to get to know your colleagues in a more ‘relaxed’

environment.

ALL DELEGATES WILL BE NOTIFIED BEFORE RELEASE OF OUR FIG MEETING

SCHEDULER...

To Book Your ‘One-on-One’ Meetings…

Just login to your member’s page and click on ‘Book Meetings’… then just fol-

low the simple instructions - don’t forget to print your schedule and bring it to

the conference.

Lost or forgot your login? Just ask Emily...

are you our star fig partner?

Your chance to vote for your favourite FIG Partner…

Who gives you great service on a regular basis?

Simply send us an email titled ‘Star FIG’ with your nomination…

One entry only from each member…

FIG Admin will add their contribution and select our ‘Star FIG’

Winner will be announced during our Dubai Conference.

Do it NOW! >> admin@figgroup.net

‘early-bird’ draw

You may remember that the ‘first ten’ delegates to register with our ‘Early-Bird’ dis-

counted rate will be entered into our free draw with a chance to win back their con-

ference fee GBP£895.00.

The draw will take place during our FIG Conference and the lucky winner will be re-

funded immediately after our conference in a currency of their choice.

ONE of the following ‘Early Birds’ will win a FULL REFUND of Conference Fees…

AUSTRALIA -Sydney (1)

UK (2)

TURKEY (2)

THAILAND (1)

GREECE (1)

QATAR (1)

INDONESIA (1)

INDIA (1)

inter-app

The Interforwarder ‘app’ will shortly be available for download from

your app store - either IOS or android.

We will be discussing the app during our FIG Conference and making

sure all delegates are ‘Interforwarder Ready’.

This amazing tool will allow you to communicate in ‘real-time’ (on any

android or IOS device) with any registered Interforwarder user - any-

where in the world using messaging (with instant translation) or video

-chat or even video-conferencing.