BRAC University in collaboration with the BRAC Business School had organized ‘ICBM 2017, Moving Forward…’ an event to celebrate the success of ICBM, the 1st International Conference on Business and Management (ICBM 2017).That post conference event was followed by the lunch was held on the 7th of December, 2017 in the BRAC University auditorium. The event was sophisticatedly introduced by 3 insightful speakers who were the General Chair Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Ghani Chowdhury, the Treasurer and Registrar Mr. Shib Narayan Kairy and the Program Chair Assoc.Prof. Dr. Md. Mamun Habib respectively.
Prof. Dr. Iftekhar Ghani sang high praises of the event and its success but also looks forward to the future ICBM conferences being even bigger and better. He insisted on ensuring the papers accepted into the conference be of the finest quality and wishes for the success of future events.
The Treasurer and Registrar Mr. Shib Narayan Kairy also expressed his delight at the success of ICBM 2017, especially with how well it was received by the banking sector of the country. He further stated that the ICBM 2017 is the only event in the history of BRACU that had taken zero contributions from the university and in fact ended up giving back to the university instead. He expressed BRACU’s interests in contributing to future ICBM conferences and wished it all the success in the world.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Mamun Habib informed the audience about the post conference activities, including the conference proceedings of 160 papers have been published, certain selected papers will be published in affiliated journals and a photo gallery is available in the conference website. The conference write up has also been published in the new BRACU website. He further requested the students, faculties and industry to explore and attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry. As an outcome of the conference, Dr. Habib proposed industry projects which would allow the students and faculties to explore the constraints and challenges involved in the modern industry.He announced that a 2 day pre conference event, including Workshops on writing conference/ journal papers, will take place soon. He also discussed future plans to take the conference to new international heights and talks of it are already underway with Ching Mai University, Thailand and Chung Ang University, South Korea.
The conference would not have been successful without the hard work and dedication of the conference secretariats and the volunteers who were all present to join the celebration. This event should resemble a stepping stone and should pave the way for the 2ndICBMwhere the entire team of ICBMwould work equally hard to ensure that the 2ndICBM turns out to be a major success too, further enhancing BRAC University’s reputation as the leading private university in the country.
The event was graced by the presence of some of the most educated and esteemed individuals of the country namely, Honorary General Chair Prof. Syed Saad Andaleeb, Ph.D. (Vice Chancellor, BRAC University), Prof. Dr. MirzaAzizul Islam along with Prof. Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed along with many other senior administrative and academic staff.The sponsors of ICBM 2017, particularly platinum sponsor (BRAC Bank), gold sponsor (FSIB), silver sponsors (UCB, BBS Cables, Abdul Monem Group, Bkash), supporting sponsors (Islami Bank, Dhaka Bank, IDLC, Aarong) and hospitality partner, The Westin were also present.