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On behalf of the Israel Society for Quality and the organizing committee, it is my pleasure and privilege to invite you to vibrant Jerusalem to participate in the 17th international Conference of the Israel Society for Quality. Reviewing this program is actually the first step of your participation in the conference - the preparation and registration phase. I welcome you with greetings. As appropriate to any serious task, I recommend that you dedicate the time necessary to plan your participation. The program exposes the visible dimensions characterizing the conference. You are also invited to come and explore other dimensions during the event. My recommendation to you is to select now the sessions you are interested in taking part in, by picking single-topic "tracks" or by "tasting" from various topics. This year, you will be able to hear and meet many well-known experts. You will find in the program many seminars and workshops dealing with diverse quality arenas. Each day the conference will start with a plenary session. In these sessions we will hear from experts fascinating lectures focused on the conference motto. One of the major topics that will be discussed during the conference is the future of quality in general and specifically the future of quality management,. We will go back and learn from the rich experience of our colleagues. If you like, you can "travel back" via "100 Years of Quality" (seminar) or "travel forward" by attending a special session that the ASQ will lead on its Future Study. A session focused on Quality Management ? Past, Present and Future will be the appetizer to a panel in which quality managers will deal the role of the quality manager on this time axis. The tournament fans will probably attend the "Quality Competitions and Awards" session. If you like to fly, you can attend the "Aerospace" sessions, starting with the one about the Israeli Air Force. A special session will be dedicated to Juran?s Heritage to the world. If you like, you can join the "Quality Club", hear and meet our colleagues and later be part of an open discussion. If the quality standards in "Service", "Healthcare" or "University Education" dissatisfy you and they don?t reach "Six Sigma"; if you want to acquire new "Tools for Quality" beside "Audits" and "Standards" and are not just talking about "Components Quality", "Integrated Systems" or "Quality Management"; your place is with us at the conference, investigating all those topics and others. For sure, at the end of the day you will need "Knowledge Management" before starting your "Change Management" initiative using all your newly acquired knowledge of "RAMS", "Risk Management", "BCM", "DFSS Workshop" and "Quality in Management". This is the time to develop a new "Quality Culture". In days when the world economy faces crisis, it might be useful to attend the seminar on "Six Sigma in Financial Services". This year we have added "After Five" activities at the end of the 1st and 2nd days. We chose to have workshops rather than sessions of regular presentations. Those workshops will create a refreshing wind and energize us in the early evening hours. The name of the workshops - "Workshops from the Fifth Dimension" - provides a hint to the possibilities they provide: exploring and discovering uncharted dimensions of quality. Those seminars will be less formal than the workshops and sessions that we will attend during the day. They will approach quality from nontraditional angles and combine humor & most of all joy ? both visible and latent. Note that in order to reserve a place in these activities, you are requested to pre-register for them. This year we are fortunate to have the participation of a few national organizations including The Israeli Forum for Safety, ILTAM (The Israeli Users' Association of Advanced Technologies in Electronics), PMI (Project Management Institute-Israeli chapter), INCOSE_IL (The International Council on Systems Engineering-Israeli Chapter) and the international organizations ASQ and CITAC. As mentioned above, the ASQ will moderate a World café (Quality Future Study) and a WorldPartners Panel. CITAC contributed to the successful organization of the Metrology track on the second day of the conference, starting with the plenary lecture by a well-known expert in this domain through a full day of sessions and ending with a round table discussion. I can guarantee that some of the lectures won?t let you stay neutral. As is my habit, I?m keeping few surprises for the event itself. Before my letter ends, I would like to thank all the organizing committee members and ISAS (conference secretariat) for the wonderful work they have done so far; the results of which all of us will soon enjoy. I invite you to register for the conference today. Finally, I?d like to thank you as you complete the first step in your conference participation and look forward to seeing you in the next phase on the 17th of November in Jerusalem.
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