Cross Functional Summit is scheduled to be held on 16th of January at Bangabandhu International Conference Center. The unique summit is designed to bring three core professional groups, Finance, Human Resource and Marketing, in one occasion to exchange views, ideas and knowledge.
The summit is jointly organized by The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (Dhaka Branch Council of ICMAB), Bangladesh Society for Human Resource Management (BSHRM) and Bangladesh Brand Forum. It will focus on exploring the areas where ideal collaboration is absent, leading to bureaucracy, delay in decision making, poor strategy and slowing down of execution of the core strategy of the organization.
The day-long summit is designed with 4 keynote sessions and 4 panel discussions. Mr. Abdul Matlub Ahmad, President of FBCCI will attend the summit as the chief guest. Following the opening session by the chief guest, Mr. Mahtab Uddin Ahmad, COO of Robia Axiata Ltd. will conduct his keynote session. Ms Zinnia Tanzina Huq FCMA, Finance Director of GSK Bangladesh will conduct her session focusing on the Finance related issues. She will also moderate the first panel discussion right after her session. The following session will be on Human Resource issues which will be conducted by Md. Musharrof Hossain, President of BSHRM. Md. Musharrof Hosain is also leading the HRM department of icddr,b and he is also the president of Asia Pacific Federation of Human Resource Development. He will moderate the second panel discussion as well. Dr. Syed Ferhat Anwar, Professor, Institute of Business Administration of University of Dhaka will conduct his keynote session, the last session of the summit, on Marketing. He will then moderate the third panel discussion. The fourth and the last panel discussion will be moderated by Professor Imran Rahman, Vice Chancellor of ULAB. Well known professionals from different sectors will join the panel discussions as members.
Energypac Confidence Power Venture, Energypac and Confidence Group are the Gold Sponsors of the summit while Robi Axiata and DBL Group are the Silver Sponsors. Media Partner of the summit is The Daily Star while Ekattor Television is the TV Partner. Masthead PR will support as the PR Partner of the summit.