Another Amazing CETA Event, October 2020

Chaldean Engineering and Technology Association

“A beautiful unity of Chaldean engineering talent and friends from around the world”

CETA October 2020 event featured 4 presentations from talented members and professionals. Our agenda was filled with job opportunities and ideas for startups and team collaboration. The MC, Lara Yaldo managed the event details working together with each CETA presenter and members.

Here is the event agenda:

• We started with a Prayer to bless all our CETA members and their families
• Welcoming Remarks from CETA founders, Tom Alkatib and Deacon Keith Esshaki
• CETA overview and Volunteers Appreciation
• Main Presentation: Civil Engineering Connecting the World. By Engineer, Vian Somo. Vian is a Civil Engineer at City of San Diego. She has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the California State University-Sacramento. Vian did a great job presenting an informative details about civil engineering and positive impact.
• Second Presentation: Staffing Strategy for CETA Members. By Nadine Bashir. She is an Account Manager at insight Global. Helping our members and attendees with best practices to land great opportunities and especially for younger and new graduates that are seeking to build their future.
• Third Presentation: Demand Forecasting. By Dr. Sam Istephan. He is a Data & Artificial intelligence Technology Architect at Microsoft. He received his PHD from Oakland University. Dr. Sam Istephan surprised us with another awesome presentation. He shared examples how demand forecasting can be offer a great business impact to different industry in Healthcare, Food services and manufacturing. Dr. Istephan shared his blog were he publishes all his research in Machine Learning and Data Science.
• Fourth Presentation: CETA Mentorship. By Anthony Shamoun. He is Service Delivery Director at IBM Watson Health. He received his master’s in business and Information Technology from Walsh University. Anthony shared an update about this exciting CETA initiative. Helping our younger CETA members gain leadership skills from older and more experienced CETA members. This is an amazing program and free to join. Many new members joined the program after hearing about it. More details about this wonderful initiative is posted on CETA.US site.

CETA members and attendees had a chance to interact and ask question with presenters and other members. Share ideas and suggestions. We also introduced members and attendees.

We closed CETA event with an appreciation prayer for all attendees, volunteers, members and partners for working together and helping build this wonderful organization for our global Chaldean community.

CETA thanks all presenters and volunteers that made this event another awesome gathering of Chaldean engineering professional and friends.

Our special recognition goes to the CETA planners: Lara Yaldo, Deacon Keith Esshaki, Raed Mary, Anthony Jamil, Sam Istephan, Yezen Younan, Vian Somo and Tom Alkatib.

CETA – CHALDEAN ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION