Fantastic CETA Virtual Event! – April 24th, 2020 Update

An Amazing Virtual Event of CETA Members Joining Together Globally

“This Event shows what we can do globally to help our greater community through Collaboration and Positive Ideas!”

Tom A.

On Friday, April 24th, 2020, Chaldean Engineering and Technology Association (CETA) members from Michigan, San Diego, Canada (Toronto and Quebec City), Australia and Iraq joined our first virtual event via Zoom.

Agenda

• Meet and Greet
• CETA Welcoming Statement
• CETA Presentations (2)
• CETA Prayer
• Open Forum and Job sharing

CETA Members started with meeting and greeting each others. A short and individual introduction of members from the around the world. A welcoming statement by Tom Alkatib, CETA Michigan Chapter and Two CETA presentations from San Diego and Michigan Chapters, led by Usama Georges, CIO and Anthony Shamoun, IBM Director with support from Samantha Alkatib.

While Lara Yaldo and Raed Mary from CETA Michigan managed operated as the technical directors of this virtual meeting working together and navigating through CETA member slides, CETA cam gallery and chat windows. Excellent teamwork!

“We lost our native country. We don’t have an army but we have our minds to unite us together”

Read M.

Deacon Keith Esshaki honored us with a beautiful prayer while remembering the children saints from Portugal, Saints Francisco and Jacinta Marto. Thank you Deacon Keith!

“The event last night was truly one of the best times I had in my life … It was so awesome to have Fadi from Iraq and Sivan from Australia and Michigan and Canada and San Diego”

Deacon Keith

Our final segment included an open forum for CETA members to introduce themselves and meet other members while sharing their expertise and suggestions for future CETA events. Chaldeans, Syriacs, Armenians and Assyrians attended this beautitful engineering event showing our unity to support our global community.

Job opportunities were shared and several potential projects and initiatives to be explored by CETA members. This virtual event lasted more than 3 hours where many attendees wanted to stay longer.

We tool a poll and logged questions and suggestions via SLIDO.com. The majority of CETA members are looking forward to the next virtual event while we expand the invitation to include Europe, Mexico and New Zealand.

CETA would like to thank all that attended and made this event so much better for all of us and our global community. We also would like to extend our appreciation to the following members that supported us, Dr. Sam Istephan, Amanda A., Anthony J., Vian S. and Blend S.