Cob profile

Your Ideal Partner for Events and Festivals in Egypt.

COB - 20 years of successful work

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Who Are We? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03 Our Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 07 Strengths & Values

(Our Streghts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08

Strengths & Values

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Mission & Vision (Our Mission). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mission & Vision (Our Vision) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Our Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Who Do We Serve? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 What Can We Provide You With?

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Who Are We ?

It takes a second to say “quality”, but years to prove it. Conference Organizing Bureau (COB) represents over 20 years of experience in superfluous quality in organizing professional events and conferences. Whatever the quality you address we surely deliver, because COB is the leading professional congress organizer of Egypt.

We supply the best destination management which we believe is vital for any event to blossom.

COB is the official partner for over 25 local and 20 international societies, simply because we “believe” in excellence.

Today’s events industry, globally, is estimated to include some 6 to 7 billion regularly re-occurring events (including community festivals, parades, fairs, air shows, sporting events, carnivals, car shows, art shows, flower shows, corporate events, balloon rallies, First Nights, holiday events and more) large enough to require municipal support services, with an estimated combined economic impact that, if calculable, would be in the trillions of dollars, with combined attendances that touch virtually every life on the planet several times over.

Conferences and events are among the most successful and important tools available to communities, cities, states, regions, and countries to increase tourism, create powerful and memorable branding and imaging opportunities, encourage positive media coverage, effect economic impact, and enhance the quality of life for all those who live there.

We’re in the heart of that industry, with expansion plans to take our leading share of the local market into the global one.

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COB - 20 years of successful work COB offers end-to-end solutions, products and services for the successful management and delivery of meetings and events.

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We provide a quality meetings and events management service to associations, governments and corporate organizations.

We offer strategic support and creative implementation over a vast array of business events - as a PCO (Professional Conference and Exhibition Organizer), a DMC (Destination Management Company), a Housing Bureau, Event and Technical Production, Marketing, Multimedia Solutions, and a Special Events Company. Our scope includes conferences and exhibitions, corporate and special events, incentives, workshops, marketing campaigns, and symposia.

Our team is highly dedicated with only one target in mind, to deliver you inspiring and memorable events; we thrive on creating enduring relationships and in working with you to shape your event into your desired goal.

Our resource capacity allows us to have in-house specialist business units capable of delivering the best results, either as cherry picked services or as a total end-to-end seamless and holistic solution.

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We Focus on : •

Analysis of client’s requirement, needs and objectives.

• Meticulous Planning.

• Regular co-ordination with clients.

• Effective implementation of action plans.

• Time and cost management.

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Foundation :

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The Conference Organizing Bureau was formed in 1995 by Dr. Shahenda El-Hawary with a mission of ensuring that COB has resources to provide the medical sector a successful organization services for its events and congresses, which was a rare commodity in Egypt at that time. Dr. Shahenda has worked very hard over the years to continue raising the level of professionalism in our industry, along with enriching the level of recognition and awareness for COB’s packages and high standards of service for its clients.

At that point, Dr. Shahenda started this ambitious project armed only with minimum capital, her ambition, and only two dedicated employees to manage running the bureau. Now COB is a market leader in Egypt, with over 30 scheduled events on our annual calendar, hundreds of clients and business mates, a long list of successful events held by COB over 20 years of service, and over 170,000 attendants served by COB crew during these events.

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Strengths & Values : Our strengths : • Creativity, Innovative thinking and professional execution.

• Adaptability, Trouble-shooting and Environment Control.

• Latest Designing equipment, web-developing tools, and publishing facility.

• Adherence to time and costs.

• The highest standards of work quality.

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Strengths & Values :

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Our Values : • We constantly plan and strive to break down constant work.

• Our various teams are supportively interlinked to welcome globally developing aspects in our

field of business, collaboratively across various business units.

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We constantly seek our customer loyalty and satisfaction. Everything we do is driven by our customers’ needs.

• We have a passion for understanding and exceeding our customer’s expectations.

• We are committed to providing demonstrably superior services with the highest levels of quality and excellence.

Excellence

• We strive for continuous and updated development innovations.

• We encourage our various teams to be entrepreneurial.

• We empower our various teams to maximize their potential and contribution.

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Our Mission : COB strives to manage events and conferences with excellence and consistency, while maintaining an outstanding quality performance ensuring our services are always up to the professional standards COB was founded on. We are committed to building the businesses and brands of our clients and service partners alike, and we’re keen on the improvement and well-being of our society; not just in Egypt but all over the Middle-East.

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Our Vision :

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COB is looking forward to certify its excellence and individuality in the market of event organizing by attaining the quality management systems (ISO 9001:2008), and the International Association of Professional Congress Organisers (IAPCO) membership to be the event management corporate of choice to both local and international clients.

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Our Partners : Over 20 years of excellence, COB have served thousands of clients organizing hundreds of conferences, symposia, workshops, fairs, workshops and various events.

Here are some of our most distinguished business partners:

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Here are some of our most distinguished business partners:

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Who Do We Serve ?

If you’re trying to plan an event, meeting, conference or even an exhibition, COB is the answer for you. Many might think that it’s easy to manage such a project and fund it on their own just because the theme or topic of the event is catchy or interesting, but wait till you try it yourself. It takes years of experience, trouble-shooting, and experience, along with a huge business database, in order to be able to drive that project to the magical shores of success and elegance.

We in COB pride ourselves with our long years of experience, where we’ve had to deal with all sorts of events down to the most minimal details. We’ve seen all sorts of problems that only extensive experience allows you to be able to anticipate and handle professionally.

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We also do your hard work for you, whether it’s to promote and elevate the awareness of your upcoming event, to find the business, official or academic entities interested in funding it, to manage your multimedia solutions, correspondence and prints, or to grant you a smooth and problem-free running of your event, allowing you to just relax and enjoy the show.

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We serve public-sector corporates, private-sector corporates, ministries and official authorities, academic institutes and universities, local and international organizations, NGOs and non-profit organizations, and all other business modules you can think of.

Regardless who you’re, what’s your business field, and the scale of your event, we’re here to deliver you the best event organizing service your valued money can ever buy.

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What Can COB Provide You ?

Consulting Services: Hosting a conference involves a wide range of tasks, for example, arranging a venue, putting together a budget, and setting up an administrative organization. Using our many years of experience in conference organizing, COB will draw up a detailed proposal tailored to your conference goals, and help you knowing what exactly the benchmarks are.

Ex: Publicity, preparations, budgeting, venue selection, organizational setup; fundraising and tax exemption measures; schedule planning and management, on-site Preparations/operations/post-conference arrangements; minutes, financial reporting, etc.

Language support: Our international conference organizers reflect positively on the host country with their outstanding language skills. Top-class language skills are crucial across all aspects of conference management, from day-to-day organizing to publications and signage. Naturally, our interpreters, translators, and bilingual assistants are skilled linguists, as are the conference organizers who manage them.

EX: Announcements, programs, invitations, minutes, proceedings, tape transcription, websites; simultaneous and consecutive interpreting; masters of ceremonies, hospitality staff, reception/secretariat/operational staff, minutes-writers, stenographers, etc.

Logistics Management: COB offers a total package of logistics, equipment, and the manpower to operate them. Our professional operators and event coordinators provide comprehensive backup right from their initial involvement in pre-conference planning meetings, and up to the final analysis of meeting’s statistics.

EX: Simultaneous interpreting systems, chairperson/participant microphone systems with voting function, video/slide/overhead projectors; video camera crew and photographers; satellite conferencing, Internet broadcasting (streaming or on-demand), video conferencing, Internet conferencing, etc.

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Registration Management: We can assist our clients with managing correspondence and registration processing.

Our original computerized registration system ensures consistent management of the complex registration process, both pre-conference and on-site.

EX: Participant registration; confirmation of registration, fee payments, and accommodation arrangements; speaker registration; receipt and screening of papers, notification of acceptance; information for accompanying persons; confirmation of event attendance; etc.

Printing & Product Services: Conferences require a variety of documentation, beginning with the program of events, brochures, fliers, posters, Registration lists, rooming lists, medical journals, event prints and newsletters and many other things.

Translation between different languages also needs to be considered, along with rules for terms of address and terminology. Our experienced teams (including designers, translators, quality-controllers, and content editors) and conference staff produce high-quality documentation to the standards that both local and overseas participants expect, both in its content and its design.

EX: Guides, circulars, posters, pamphlets, letterheads, envelopes, programs, abstracts, presentation materials, invitations, nametags, nameplates, lists, minutes, proceedings, CD-ROMs, etc.

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Onsite Management: Y e a r s

We set up a complete logistical structure to ensure that every aspect of a conference runs smoothly: in the venues for the opening and closing ceremonies and plenary sessions, at reception desks, in the meeting rooms where papers are delivered, at receptions and other events, and at exhibitions and poster presentations. Our highly experienced staff, on-site managers, and assistants at each venue make sure every participant’s needs are met.

EX: On-site managers, masters of ceremonies, off-stage announcers, receptionists, secretariat and hospitality staff, interpreters assigned to individuals or groups, ushers; logistics manual, order of proceedings, rehearsals, etc.

Other Services: Hosting a conference involves a broad range of functions aside from the conference itself. COB effectively brings together a team of professionals from various fields that can provide high-level services to meet client’s every need, such as:

Travel services: Ticketing, accommodations, tours, transport and entry permits.

Events: Planning and stage-managing for attractions and events.

Marketing & PR: Advertising, branding, promotions, marketing campaigns and public relations.

Decorations/installations: Venue and stage decorations, signage, installations, etc.

Multimedia Solutions: Social Networking, Websites, Info-Graphs and Mobile applications.

Specialized equipment: Satellite and Internet broadcasting.

Security: Events’ VIP and general security.

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Testimonials : It takes a mere second to say “Quality”, but years of effort and experience to achieve it.

In COB, we celebrate our excellence, dedication, years of experience, and how we value our customers’ needs and requirements. We never settle with just meeting the expectations of our clients, but we always seek to impress them with even higher standards of quality and professionalism, way more than they expected or asked for. here is a small random sample of what some of our esteemed clients had to say about our partnership:

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Testimonials : “On behalf of the Sudan Association of Surgeons and myself, I’d like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for your great help and assistance during the ESS annual meeting.

The conference was very well organized, neat, and all around great. It was a marvelous and magnificent occasion to visit you at your office. I have to say your office is extraordinary and unique and I wish you every success and progress. Please convey greetings and thanks to your staff and congratulations on orchestrating such a wonderful conference.”

“COB has a superb team of dedicated and experienced individuals. I wouldn’t give up on any of them; they’re a team made of gold”

Prof. Onsy Alfy.

Vice-President of the Research Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO)

Prof. Ahmed Hasan Fahal President, Sudan Association of Surgeons.

“The COB organizing team was great; they did a sincere and real effort. We received a lot of positive remarks about the workshop and congress with a lot of new features this year, and Dr. Foker wanted to take some members of the COB team to the USA!!! I’m looking forward to continued cooperation, continued improvement and success.”

Prof. Sameh Shehata EPSA Secretary General

“Big Dreams need true dreamers to understand them, and true professionals to turn them to reality. That’s what COB is all about. They dream big, and deliver professionally”

Prof.Dr. Ahmed Salem President of the Afro-Asian Society for Cosmetic Dermatology & Laser (ASCDL)

“On behalf of Prof. Masatoshi Makuuchi, our IASGO President, Prof. Akimasa Nakao, our Vice-President, and other IASGO esteemed colleagues, I deliver to you their message of sincere appreciation and full hearted gratitude for COB’s wonderful organization of the 20th IASGO World Congress.”

Prof.N.J. Lygidakis, MD, FACS, FRCST (H), FJSS (H).

Secretary General of the International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (IASGO)

“As a society, we’re always seeking professionalism, punctuality, commitment, and the highest quality standard in every part of our held events; and that’s precisely why we turn to COB to handle our events’ organization and planning”

Prof. Sherif El-Hawary Secretary General of the Modern Egyptian Society of Internists (MESI).

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Reach Us: You can reach us Through the following Contact Information and Social media ways :

14 El Khalil St., Lebanon Sq.,El Mohandessin, Giza, Egypt.

(+202) 33023642 - 33053071

Info.cob-eg.org

www.cob-eg.com

www.facebook.com/COB.Egypt

twitter.com/COBIegypt

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Your Ideal Partner for Events and Festivals in Egypt.

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