Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed to inaugurate Share Best Practice 2006 on May 23

The full-day conference which will be held at Grand Hyatt Hotel on May 23rd, 2006, is organised jointly by Dubai Quality Award (DQA) Secretariat at DED and the Dubai Quality Group (DQG), and is expected to attract more than 400 delegates.

"The Share Best Practice conference is in keeping with the Dubai Quality Group's objective to support and encourage knowledge sharing within the business community, through participation in networking forums," said Abdul Qader Ali, Chairman of the Board, DQG. "This conference provides a unique platform to gain insight into the best practices within organizations and industries that have a proven success methodology, " he added.

Two international speakers will address the conference, in addition to representatives from the winning companies of the Dubai Quality Award 2005. The international speakers include Paul Statter, Head of Strategy and Support Services United Utilities, UK and Jane Hirst, Director of the Barnet Education Business Partnership.

"The Share Best Practice conference highlights the importance of spreading the principles of quality across the supply chain of an industry, through sharing the best practices of quality management," said Dr. Lway Nackasha, Adviser for Quality and Excellence at DED. "It also enables companies wishing to participate in the Dubai Quality Award to benchmark their existing strategies against the quality policies of winning organizations, thereby benefiting from internationally recognised criteria for excellence," he added.

The annual conference and exhibition sees extensive participation from winners of the Dubai Quality Award, thereby highlighting their commitment to take Dubai's journey for excellence to its next logical step. The speakers at the Share Best practice conference comprise winners from the various categories of the award.

The DQA winners for the last cycle that will be presenting at the conference include The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai (Gold category), National Bank of Dubai, Union National Bank and Xerox Emirates (DQA), Gulf Business Machines E.C., 3i-InfoTech Limited, EROS Group, Dubai Healthcare City, Tejari FZ, Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (FERTIL), the Kanoo Group (Power & Industrial Projects Division) and Halcrow International Partnership (Dubai Quality Award Appreciation Programme DQAP).

A specialised exhibition, which include booths for the 2005 DQA winners will be organised alongside the Share Best Practice Conference.