{"id":2953,"date":"2006-03-18T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wlcu.biz\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2018-05-20T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:51:17","slug":"memorandum-about-techleb-06-18-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/2953\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum about TECHLEB 06 &#8211; 18 March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><strong>World Lebanese Cultural Union<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Secretariat General<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Paris, on March 18th, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\"><strong>Memorandum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Dear Lebanese around the world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">An inaugural conference on technology development in Lebanon, TECH<strong>LEB<\/strong>|06, is taking place at MIT on May 20-21 of 2006. The conference will be held under the patronage of the Lebanese Prime Ministry and a ministerial delegation is currently being assembled to attend and address the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Preliminary results from TECH<strong>LEB<\/strong>|06 Planning Survey have been published in the aggregate here: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com\/survey\/results.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com\/survey\/results.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com\/survey\/results.html<\/a> &#8211; The Program Development Subcommittee is still processing and following-up on the 80+ recommendations for speakers, participants, and topics of interest contributed by respondents. There&nbsp;is already&nbsp;a stellar roster of speakers and participants lined up and engaged early on.<\/p>\n<p>The attached TECH<strong>LEB<\/strong>|06 Sponsorship Package provides additional high-level information about the conference, expected attendee demographics, and detailed sponsorship opportunities that is&nbsp; of prime interest to the WLCU.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\"><strong>Key decision makers in Lebanon want this to be a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in Lebanon&#8217;s economy and not just any event, and we&#8217;re working very hard to make it so, especially when it comes to involving non-Lebanese corporations, executives, and experts as well.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nLooking forward to your earliest feedback. We strongly believe&nbsp;in the&nbsp;success of this event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\"><strong>We ask you to inform any businessman around you who could be interested in this conference&nbsp;and let him contact any of :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Dr Nick Kahwaji, WLCU Deputy Secretary General on &nbsp; <a href=\"mailto:wlcusecretariat@shaw.ca\">wlcusecretariat@shaw.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">or Mr Loai Naamani, Conference Planning Committee on <a href=\"mailto:loai@MIT.EDU\">loai@MIT.EDU<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.techlebconference.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Eng. Georges Abi Raad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">WLCU&nbsp; World Secretary General<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Lebanese Cultural Union Secretariat General Paris, on March 18th, 2006 Memorandum &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dear Lebanese around the world, &nbsp; An inaugural conference on technology development in Lebanon, TECHLEB|06, is taking place at MIT on May 20-21 of 2006. The conference will be held under the patronage of the Lebanese Prime Ministry and a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,995],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-the-commission-for-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22097,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/22097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}