Workshop Sessions in Detail
Area C Thursday 22nd July, 2010 Competitive Bidding
11:00 – 11:15
Clayton McDonald, Senior Vice President, INTL Global Currencies Ltd, In these volatile economic times, leveraging every dollar of overseas spending is more important than ever. This is easily accomplished through competitive bidding for local currency. If submitting contracts for competitive bidding is a given in procurement, why is this not the case in currency conversion. Join us as we discuss the best way to maximize your global budgets.
Mosquito Control & Data Management (IPM)
11:30 – 11:45
Derek Wright, Global Business Manager, ADAPCO, Inc. ‘Post Disaster Protection of People, Assets & Pesticides’ – An overview of mosquito management technologies. This discussion will include information on professional equipment, mobile GPS systems and web-based data solutions. Rugged on-board GPS systems provide mission recording while tracking vehicles, controlling equipment and recording our activities. Online, a worldwide decision support portal manages an integrated control program including Arboviral surveillance data. The result is an affordable solution for efficiently controlling the spread of mosquito born diseases while reducing the impact of other flying insects.
FTL Solar and Hydro-Photon
12:00 – 12:15
Introducing two new companies to global humanitarian aid, disaster relief and development : Ed Volkwein, President. Hydro-Photon’s SteriPEN is a major brand of handheld water purifiers and is a top seller to hikers and campers in the global Outdoor market Tony Saxton, CEO. FTL Solar is a prefabricated, mass-produced lightweight solar structure and products company. FTL Solar structures integrate thin film photovoltaic (PV) with super strength fabric to create refined structures and products that turn sunlight into electricity. The presentations will focus on examples of current products that might fit current needs and the capabilities to tailor future products to areas of special needs.
Fleet Management Solutions and GPS Vehicle Tracking for Rugged, Remote and Hazardous Regions 12:30 – 12:45 Jeff Wade, VP Marketing, Fleet Management Solutions, Inc. Safe and efficient operation of vehicle fleets in remote and hazardous regions requires mobile resource management tools. Driver, vehicle and cargo are all at risk and GPS monitoring with real-time awareness that works anywhere in the world has been proven to make the difference.
Aspen Medical
13:00 – 13:15
International Insurance Challenges & Choices for International Aid Organizations 13:30 – 13:45 David G. Tompkins, President of TFG Global Insurance Solutions Ltd. and operator of Expat Financial, will discuss the unique international insurance challenges and choices for international aid and relief organizations. David will discuss group and individual global expatriate insurance, short term emergency medical and specialty insurance plans for operating in high risk zones. David will provide tips on what to look for in an international insurance plan. Insurance represents a large expense for aid groups. This presentation will provide a great deal of insight for aid and relief organizations which send employees and contract workers abroad. David has written extensively on international and special risk insurance issues along with several presentations to international groups in North America.
KAZNEX-Invest Initiative “Developing Aid Supplies”
14:00 – 14:15
Saule Akhmetova, Advisor, Kaznex Invest. The primary goal of the National Agency “KAZNEX-Invest”, is to assist the Kazakh producers to develop their export capacity by providing information, training, consulting, organizational coordinating, networking and other necessary support. In its functioning KAZNEX-Invest relies on practice-oriented and pragmatic approaches and employs best practice tools and methodologies with proven efficiency and effectiveness. Currently KAZNEX-Invest is carrying out a study to develop assistance programs to enhance supplies to the humanitarian aid agencies. Trade in humanitarian aid and development assistance is a big business, estimated to be worth some US$150 billion a year worldwide. Today, the supply and distribution of aid products is dominated by suppliers in industrialized countries. However, due to changing trends and the opening or “untying” of aid procurement (OECD DAC Recommendation, July 2001), this unique market has huge potential for developing country enterprises to become new suppliers to aid agencies. This unique market has two segments: procurement for short-term humanitarian operations (emergency relief) and procurement for medium to long-term development assistance programmes. The segments share some common characteristics, but also have fundamental differences that suppliers should note. As the first step, KAZNEX focuses on segment of emergency relief.
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