The President’s Column Dear IIMS Member
If it has been summertime for you I hope your summer has been as delightful as mine. I have just returned from a short motorcycling holiday covering three Baltic countries.
On my return, Mike Schwarz advised me that he had attended a very successful IIMS Australian conference at Brisbane supported by 50 surveyors and with a host of fresh initiatives coming from our Australian friends. IIMS has a special sentiment for our Southern Hemisphere fraternity; indeed the first ever IIMS international branch was formed in New Zealand back in 2008.
While on the subject of conferences, it’s worth dedicating more thought to these events which are an important and growing area for the IIMS all over the world. I can only express my views on their value as a practicing surveyor who dedicates a substantial amount of time attending IIMS conferences and fraternity gatherings, whilst often preparing for a paper for presentation at one of the many maritime and offshore industry conferences.
An obvious question arises. Why spend a day or two attending
these conferences with a handful of other counterparts and competitors rather than being out in the field doing the job and earning a day rate? Is the trade-off worth it?
I am sure there will be as many views on this as there are IIMS members around the world, but here’s my point of view:
I personally consider that attending a conference is worth so much more than deferring a planned nomination for work on that day but saying that, I would not be prepared to let go of a large casualty investigation, or time sensitive obligations of an ongoing assignment. The professional surveyor in me always gives priority to ongoing jobs which clients entrust me with.
I recognize however how important conferences are when I benchmark ours to other professionals such as lawyers, doctors or accountants. This is what professionals do, they learn from each other and listen to clients who stand up on the podium at such conferences and address professional service providers on what they expect from them.
We at IIMS have made it a conscious effort at all our
regional conferences to have at least one or two speakers who are direct employers or in some way influence our members’ professional services.
With this strong support for attending conferences, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all our IIMS friends to fly down to Dubai on November 20th to celebrate the IIMS UAE Branch’s 10th year anniversary conference onboard the legendary cruise ship QE2, now permanently docked at Mina Rashid.
I extend this invitation on behalf of the branch chairman, Capt Om Prakash, to all IIMS members free of cost as a membership benefit. I end with a note of thanks to the IIMS branch committee and the conference sub-committee locally who are tirelessly working towards making this conference the success I know it will be. In the meantime contributions from sponsors, delegate attendance and on-line logins will all make the effort worthwhile.
I look forward to being in touch with you all before November 2019.
Capt. Zarir Irani, President International Institute of Marine Surveying Email:
Capt.Irani@
constellationms.com
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