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Events and Newsletters in 2001

Karim Bagheri - Premiership Player
Ali Monazah

New Economy - Fact Or Fiction?
BIBA Editorial

BIBA is holding its 95th Business Meeting at London Hilton Hotel. The First Business Meeting of this year is dedicated to "New Economy".

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A closer look at the evolution of advantage and value-chain trends among the emerging technology companies.

In the recent years there has been great emphasis on "old" versus "new" economy companies. This has been fuelled, to a large extent, by the internet and other technological advances. The talk explores these issues with direct consideration of some of the relevant competitive advantage trends and the changing shape of the associated value-chains, as applicable to technology companies. The wisdom and the real value of the split of businesses along the "new" and "old" economy lines is questioned. The talk attempts to highlight the real measures that should be considered when assessing the future prospect and the potential of high tech companies.

Panel Of Speakers

Dr Hossein Yassaie, CEO, Imagination Technologies Group PLC (Best FT Technology Company of the Year, 1999)

After attaining his PhD, Dr Yassaie was a research fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prior to joining Imagination Technologies in February 1992, he was with Inmos and STMicroelectronics for 8 years, where he setup and managed the DSP and digital video developments, manufacturing and marketing. On joining Imagination Technologies, Dr Yassaie held the position of Technical Director before becoming Chief Executive Officer in June 1998.

Dr Jalal Bagherli, MD, Sony Semiconductor & Devices Europe

Responsible for developing new business based around new products, technology partnerships and technology acquisition programmes in Europe.

This covers semiconductor products, LCD and Li-Ion Batteries. Prior to joining Sony in 1995, Jalal was with Texas Instruments for ten years in a number of technical management roles, developing sub-micron ASIC and ASSP products for the telecommunications and consumer segments.

Jalal has worked for STC semiconductors in the IC/CAD engineering field and for the University of Kent at Canterbury as a Reseach Scientist in the custom VSLI/CAD area.

Agenda:

6.30pm to 7.15pm: Registration & Tea 7.15pm to 8.45pm: Business Meeting 8.45pm to 9.30pm: Reception

Location:

London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, W1

Date:
2001-03-26

RSVP:
BRITISH-IRANIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE. T: 0700 078 2221 F: 0700 078 2321 M: 07831 295 201

Construction & Property
BIBA Editorial

Talk Synopsis

Homa Farjadi of Farjadi & Farjadi Architects will address the issues concerning the importance of Architectural design in the cultural and physical development of cities. She will also talk about the relation between cultural values and commercial values which collaborations between the architects, and other business communities can produce. Mehrdad Yousefi of Alliance & Leicester will be providing his regular forecast for the year in the property markets and where the related investments will go.

Nazanine Moshiri of ITN will discuss details of the selection process for Business News in one of the world's major news organisations.

Panel Of Speakers

Homa Farjadi Homa Farjadi is a principle of Farjadi Farjadi Architects London and is also professor in Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, department of architecture. The practice works on projects in the US and the UK. The work of her office has won international awards and has been published and exhibited internationally. Recently their project for BV House was the sole project selected from Britain to be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art , New York, for the Un-Private House show, was published in the exhibition catalogue and is currently part of the MOMA travelling exhibition touring European museums. Another recently won design competition is for a £25M in collaboration with a developer for the development of a mixed use urban block in Islington which involves a theatre, housing and offices.
Mehrdad Yousefi Mehrdad Yousefi is Key Account Manager at Alliance & Leicester, a major British Building Society. Mehrdad has been a regular feature writer for BIBA's quarterly journal, BIBN, in the last four years. He will be talking about Housing Market Forecast For 2001.
Nazanine Moshiri Nazanine Moshiri is a radio/television journalist and news producer for ITN where she presents City Bulletins for News Direct as well as LBC and Independent Radio News. She also reports on the ITN News Channel and has recently begun reading the late updates on Channel 5 News. Nazanine will be discussing the ways in which financial news are selected for broadcasting through the mediums of radio and television

We would like to thank the following individuals and companies for sponsoring BIBA's 96th Business Meeting:

*Simon Lazarus, Baskin Ross & Co. Solicitors

*Morteza Ebrahimi, Proprietor, Regency Cars and Limousine Services

*Farnaz Fazaipour, M.D., Palace Gate Property Services

* Dr Hossein Kamyab, Cantab, Civil Eng. I&H Partnership Ltd.

* Dr Iman Kamyab, QMC-Mech.MBA I&H Partnership Ltd.

Agenda:

6.30-7.15 p.m. Registration and Tea
7.15-8.45 p.m. Business Meeting
8.45-9.30 p.m. Reception

Location:

Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1

Date:

2001-04-25

RSVP:

BIBA, PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE.

Internet & New Technology
BIBA Editorial

The panel of speakers includes Henry Azima, Chief Technology Officer of NXT, a UK-based technology and licensing company and Ali Pourtaheri, CEO of UbiNetics, a wireless technology company:

Panel Of Speakers

Henry Azima, Chief Technology Officer of NXT

Henry Azima graduated with first class honours in electronics and control engineering from University of Surrey in 1970. He went on to specialise in high technology naval electronics, weapons and missile systems. After a productive naval career, Henry joined Mission Electronics in 1980 as their technical director and became responsible for many innovative and internationally acclaimed high fidelity products that helped establish Mission as a leading brand in audio. Henry\'s designs for Cyrus electronics and Mission loudspeakers have won over hundred international accolades. More recently, Henry headed a research project that led to the creation of a new class of acoustic radiator. He holds over fifty patents in electroacoustics, majority of which relate to the NXT SurfaceSound technology.

Ali Pourtaheri, CEO of UbiNetics

At a time when pessimism has entered into technology town, it is pleasing to come across a start-up prepared to be cheerful amidst the corrosive gloom. The company, UbiNetics, has good reason for at least a measure of optimism, believes company co-founder and CEO Ali Pourtaheri. The company is looking to make its name in the high-growth wireless space selling GSM, GPRS, and 3G wireless hardware products for network operators and consumer markets. \'\'What you will be seeing in UbiNetics is a very good technology hedging," comments Pourtaheri: " If UMTS is late it doesn1t matter, because we will continue to ship our GPRS products; if GPRS is late, fine. We will continue to ship our GSM," he says. He is confident 3G will turn up sooner rather than later and unleash a wave of innovation when it does, regardless of what the markets think of technology companies in the post-bubble low of 2001.

Agenda:

6.30-7.15 p.m. Registration and Tea
7.15-8.45 p.m. Business Meeting
8.45-9.30 p.m. Reception

Location:

Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1

Date:

2001-05-23

RSVP:

British-Iranian Business Association
PO Box 10473
London NW8 9ZE

t. 0700 078 2221
f. 0700 078 2321
m. 0831 295 201

Public Life Achievements
BIBA Editorial

Fashion & Design Exhibition
BIBA Editorials

Prospects for the Economy II
BIBA Editorial Team

BIBA is holding its 101 Business Meeting on Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at the Insstitute of Directors. The Seventh Business Meeting of the year is dedicated to ''Prospects for the Economy"

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We have just completed a milestone. Having successfully organised 100 meetings, the question always brought to our attention is what characteristics it takes for a person to become sustainable and successful. We have had the opportunity to closely work with many interesting and successful personalities that have started from the bottom of the ladder with massive handicaps and against all odds and have become accomplished.

Most of them have achieved their greatness through different visions and styles. However, what brings them all together is their knowledge of constantly having to re-launch oneself. By that we mean that they manage to maintain the same level of excitement that they had on the first day that they launched their business. Never do they sit back, treat each day as a new one attend their jobs with the presumption that they are not yet established, therefore they have to introduce themselves and their product to the new world. Every day, every moment, every minute they carry the same feelings and launching themselves, their companies, their products becomes second nature.

To seek realistic answers to the current queries about the economy and its locomotive of growth, BIBA has organised a series of Q&A seminars beginning with its 100th Business Meeting on Wednesday 31st October 2001. Issues debated in the first Seminar included Banking, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Oil & Gas.

The 101st Meeting is scheduled for 28th November, which will cover Finance, Property, Education and Information Technology.

Panel Of Speakers

Professor Abby Ghobadian The head of Middlesex University Business School and a Director at the University. He offers consultancy to the many firms. Abby will explain why the recession leads to greater demands for more education and training.
Mehrdad Yousefi - Key Account Manager - Alliance & Leicester Mehrdad writes for BIBA\'s journal on Housing Market Forcast. Mehrdad will talk about the future of the residential markets during and beyond the recessionary times.
Dr Ali Parsa Reader in Planning and Property Director at the Faculty of the Built Environment of South Bank University. Adviser to Institutional Property Fund Managers. All will share his views on commercial properties with us.
Morteza Tehrani - IT Director - Credit Suisse First Boston Morteza has set up many IT departments around the globe. He will discuss the opportunities in IT industries.

Agenda:

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Location:

Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED

Date:

2001-11-28

102nd Meeting @ The House of Lords
BIBA Editorials

BIBA held its 102nd event on Monday, 18th February 2002 at The House Of Lords. This year’s first event was dedicated to “celebrating the peerage of BIBA’s president, The Lord Temple-Morris.” It was undoubtedly a successful evening with a turnout of 250 which as well as BIBA members comprised of diplomats and government officials of the British embassy in Tehran.

The speech of Babak Emamian, the chairman of BIBA is as follows;

\'\'Looking back to August 1994, the commencement of BIBA, we never envisaged an organization that would develop such a vast network of contacts, have its own publication of journals and its very own resourceful website, let alone attract an inspiring audience such as yourselves. Today BIBA is looked upon as a centre of influence that has become a learning Organization with its main focus as marketing and business.

Today we are fortunate to be at one of the most influential and prestigious institutions ever known to man: The British Parliament. This institution is regarded to be the \'\'mother of the parliamentary system\'\', a system of legislative nature where the conduct of its officials and members serve as a paragon to many of its kind. However, there is more to composing a unique system than a mere set of rules and regulations. In order to generate a unique system, you need individuals who are so-minded to give it LIFE, and surely the members of these chambers have just done that. These unique individuals have Worked with the spirit of fairness and respect for mankind hence making equal opportunities a possibility rather than a mere dream. Today, as we look around this very room, we see the result of the British system: I think I’m right in observing that most of us arrived here as refugees or immigrants with almost nothing to look back on or forward to, however we were treated as equals, we were treated with justness and utter most respect, and more importantly we were granted equal opportunities as god intended from the beginning for every man.

Therefore I would like to take a moment to express gratitude to the British for their great sense of fair play. THANK YOU.

In 1995, within a year of its inception, BIBA was no more than an infant. Those who could not foresee our current success were writing off the association. We were commonly criticised for two flaws: Firstly for being an undeveloped organisation devoid of track records, and secondly for being managed by young individuals. Back in those days as I recall, another young man from these very chambers was facing a similar problem. However when we approached Lord Temple Morris in 1995 and asked him to become our president, to our surprise and the sceptics, not only was he generous by accepting our request, but he also saw something in our efforts that others did not. Essentially he was a friend in our time of need.\'\'

This was followed by the heartfelt words of Lord peter Temple-Morris who declared that \'\'being married to an Iranian\'\' (Tahereh Alam) meant that he had \'\'married Iran\'\', a nation and culture that he warmly cherishes. He also stated that he held in his pride to be associated with BIBA, an organization that had unified British-Iranians.