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KEL Dubai organised their annual Christmas Party to celebrate the festive season with members and families. The well organised event was attended by close to 100 people at the private venue in
District 3, Jumeirah Park; an upscale residential district at the heart of Dubai.

The celebrations started with a welcome note by the MC Mr. Charles Dsouza, followed by X-Mas message to members and their families by KE Global Chairman Mr. Ivan Fernandes. The energetic Choir group lead by Rajesh Sequeira entertained the crowd with their melodious Carol singing. As part of the celebration there were various games and fun activities arranged, in which large number of members and their families participated and enjoyed the evening. While Rajesh sequiera and Charles Dsouza kept the crowd entertained with their inimitable style of hosting, a portly, jolly, white-bearded Santa Claus (Cyril Samson) entertained the Children with generous gifts and goodies.
A sumptuous buffet dinner with lip smacking food was laid out, which was appreciated and enjoyed by all. 

KEL Dubai President William Dsouza delivered the vote of thanks and appreciated everyone’s efforts in organising the event and thanked members and families for their active participation. 

 

 

   

Kanara Entrepreneurs Ltd. (KEL) Dubai, hosted a very successful members event on 21 st Aug 2021 to mark the World Entrepreneurs Day. The day is dedicated to create awareness on entrepreneurship and innovation the world over.

The non-profit, mutual benefit corporation chartered and founded by individuals from the Kanara region, to encourage, support, guide and nurture entrepreneurship, has been serving the community in Dubai for over 17 years.

The event covered variety of items on the agenda that included installation new office bearers and presentations by the members who are budding entrepreneurs. The highlight of the evening was an impressive presentation by the youngest CEO from the community Mr. Craig Fernandes, who at 21 conceived and successfully launched an enterprise called LOCK & STOCK. LOCK & STOCK is a free to download mobile application focusing on the educational sector intended at helping students by discouraging the use of mobile phones during classes. The company aims to reduce the use of cell phones by students and encourage their digital wellbeing by providing rewards and points when they stay off their phones, which helps them in securing global university admissions and impressive scholarships.

Three members of KEL Dubai showcased their businesses.
1. Mr. Ronald Olivera – Zillion Pathways Coaching Institute
2. Mr. Wilfred Mathias – Premier Advertising Material Trading LLC
3. Mr. Rajesh Sequeira – Wingsway Training Institute

According to several attendees, it was indeed a well-conceived and widely participated session, which offered an opportunity to share enriching experiences by the speakers from different backgrounds.

Mr. Aloysius Fernandes, Director at KEL, introduced KEL, its objectives and guiding principles to the members and guests. The outgoing President Mr. Robert Dsa addressed the gathering and highlighted the good work done by the organisation during one of the most challenging periods of our time due to the pandemic. Chairman Ivan Fernandes administered the oath of office to the new office bearers and the incoming new President William Dsouza, speaking to the members laid out the vision and future plans for the coming years. The main speaker, Mr. Craig Fernandes was felicitated by the Chairman Mr. Ivan Fernandes. Mr. Charles Dsouza, Director of Events delivered the vote of thanks. The entire program was impressively hosted by Mr Rajesh Sequeira, a valued member of KEL.

   

   

 

 

 

KE BLR Members Meet conducted on friday (21st August) was a grand success from power-pact speakers – Mr. Moulinath Ganguli – SVP sales at M1xchange, Ms. Devanshi Seth – Strategic Partnerships team at Lendingkart & Mr. Sudarshan Lodha – former Partner at YSS Legalto sharp business pitches by KE members Mr. Brian Fernandes Mr. Prince Pinto & Ms. Carol D’Souza the meeting was enthralling and was attended by members across the KE Global Network!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While lockdown has impacted lives in many ways, one of its positive impacts is in the area of technology adoption. Zoom calls are now common across family circles. Some families and friends are beating the lockdown blues with Ludo King and other online mobile games.

 

Considering the additional time, suddenly available at the disposal of its members, during the lockdown, Kanara Entrepreneurs (KE), a nonprofit organization having its chapters in Dubai and Bengaluru, came up with a brilliant idea of educating its members with online Webinars on different business, professional and social topics. Additionally there were chapters held specifically about the impact on business post Covid, stress management and getting back into business after the economic impact of the lockdown.

After the initial success and great feedback from members, KE global board went one step ahead and opened these sessions to entire community. Many community members from Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Mumbai and other parts of India as well as NRIs living across the Middle-East, Europe, Australia, Singapore and US also started logging in and getting hooked on the KE webinars during this global lockdown.

The webinar topics have been relevant and timely and during these 7 weeks of lockdown, KE conducted 10 webinars successfully, reaching out more than 5000 people across the globe and had 3230 registrations for these webinars. All this was done on an honorary basis thereby displaying the spirit of social responsibility by KE.

List of webinars:

1. Working From Home: Challenges & Solutions
2. Effectiveness of Digital Marketing of Startups and SMEs
3. Where should I put my money, Now?
4. Real Estate & Hospitality sector prospects post lockdown
5. Covid-19 & Beyond – The HR Perspective
6. Lockdown impact on Industries and Businesses – A Panel Discussion
7. Sensex – What next (Navigating stock markets….)
8. How to Communicate Confidently in Times of Crisis
9. Mental balance and health during turbulent times
10. Christian Succession Rules and the Importance of Wills

KE got an excellent support from all Christian organizations in promoting these webinars including FKCA Global and its member associations, Dimensions Mumbai and Rachana in Mangaluru.

Archbishop of Bangalore Dr Peter Machado hailed the initiative taken by KE and sent a video message with his blessings to KE and all the attendees. He also leveraged this platform and requested attendees to contribute towards archdiocese initiatives reaching out to the poor and the daily laborers impacted by the lockdown.

Given the partial relaxations in lockdown, KE has reduced the frequency of webinars to once a week, Saturdays 6pm to 7:30pm IST. Ivan Fernandes, KE Global Chairman, who started this non-profit organization 16 years ago in Dubai, feels this is a platform for entrepreneurs and professionals to network and benefit from each other’s knowledge, connections and referrals. KE has around 255 members in its Bengaluru chapter and close to 100 members in Dubai chapter. It has concrete plans to start a new chapter in New York / New Jersey / Philadelphia and other parts of the globe.

These webinars are arranged and profoundly moderated by Pramod D’Souza, associate director KE Bengaluru. KE has been continuously striving to reach out, support, guide and encourage the community members who are yearning to carve out a niche for themselves in various business enterprises.

Bengaluru, Apr 25: The last members meet of Kanara Entrepreneurs Bengaluru (KE), was held in February and the members were looking forward to the next bi-monthly meeting scheduled for April. However, due to the global lockdown which is enforced even in all states and parts of India due to Covid-19, the meeting could not be held at the regular venue as planned.

As the old saying that dates back to many centuries and a favorite of the Showman of Indian Cinema Raj Kapoor, ‘The Show must go on’, so too for KE Bengaluru, the lockdown was no reason for not going ahead with the scheduled members meet of April, the only difference was that it was conducted online through a Webinar, on April 17.

The meeting commenced at 7 pm with the KE prayer recited by Nigel Fernandes. Following the prayer, president Charles Gomes welcomed all the members to the web meeting and thanked all the members for attending the webinars conducted by KE over the past few weeks of the lockdown and urged all the members to continue to network with fellow members and look at the possibilities to continue with their business through online methods.

 

Director Membership Roshan D’Silva inducted the new members into KE by completing the required formalities and administering the oath of membership. This is probably the first such member induction, held online by KE since its inception. The new members who joined KE Bengaluru are as follows:

1. Vincent Jacob Louis: Vice-president – Business development at EdQart & Xpans IT

2. Aloysius D’Souza: Mentor at Lipids & Flavours Private Limited

Post the induction formalities, five members presented their business profiles by promoting their business and pitching for their respective products.

1. Dr Pramila D’Souza – Financial planner and Insurance service provider. Pramila can be reached at maria@wealth2life.com

2. Prescilla George – Who runs a Holistic Nutrition company called Positive Health and can be reached at prescillageorge7@gmail.com

3. Rufus Monteiro – A water ecosystem expert called Living Aquatic Systems. Please visit www.livingaquaticsystemz.com to get in touch with Rufus.

4. Saleena J – Who runs a firm called Cosmic Consultants into recruitment services. Saleena can be reached at saleena@cosmicconsultantshr.com

5. Amith Nigli – An educationist & app specialist and founder of Bapp. Amit can be reached at nigliamith@yahoo.com

Post the business pitches was the much-awaited icing on the cake, which was eagerly anticipated by many young entrepreneurs – The Success Story by Dr Anthony Pais who is a world-renowned cancer specialist and co-founder and Clinical director at Cytecare Cancer Hospitals. The meeting was moderated by Carol Pereira and vote of thanks was proposed by Dr Bryan. Associate director of KE Bengaluru, Pramod D’Souza arranged and moderated the webinar along with Dir-Membership Roshan D’Silva.

Dr Anthony Pais – Life story in brief

Dr Pais spoke about his journey since childhood. Born and bred in a Catholic family at Mangaluru, Dr Pais was a student at St Aloysius school and college in Mangaluru. Dr Pais excelled in sports and at NCC, to reach the national level. Though Dr Pais was interested to take up either of the two as a career, he was discouraged by his family and was persuaded to take up a professional course such as medicine instead, and that is how Dr Pais went on to become a doctor. After completing his MBBS and post graduation from KMC, he joined Fr Muller Hospital at Mangaluru and till date holds the record for being the only doctor in the history of the hospital, who worked day and night, without taking a break for an entire One year.

Dr Pais then moved to Mumbai to gain more experience at the Tata Memorial Hospital and excelled in surgery under the guidance of Dr Stanislaus Patrao, who he considers as his Father of Surgery and then moved to Kidwai Bengaluru. His association with Dr Alfred Mascarenhas gave him great exposure in specialization in treating cancer and he also had a stint at SDM Dharwad. Dr Pais then moved to St John’s Hospital Bengaluru and as Professor of Surgery, established the department for Surgical Oncology at the hospital.

Dr Pais then moved to Saudi Arabia after resigning from St John’s to King Fahad Specialist Hospital as Head of Breast & Endocrine department, and here is where he specialized in Breast Cancer surgery. While practicing at Saudi, Dr Pais received a surprise call from none other than Dr Devi Shetty who invited him to join the renowned Narayana Hospitals as HOD of Surgery. Dr Pais, who was homesick by then wanted to return to India, grabbed this opportunity by taking up the offer and his new assignment, back at Bengaluru. Dr Pais has vast experience in Breast Cancer treatments and therefore took it up as a super specialization.

Dr Pais has many firsts and here are a few

· The first Catholic to receive the prestigious Mahadevan’s Award by the Association of Surgeons

· Founded the First Oncoplastic breast unit of South India

· First Indian to be granted a fellowship of COSESCA in Africa

· First Indian to become the Examiner at the College of Surgeons of East, Central & Southern Africa

Apart from this, Dr Pais work has been decorated with a number of awards which include:

· Best cadet as a student from NDA at the R D parade – states of Mysuru and Goa

· Best sportsman at state and national levels

· Best Teacher award – St John’s Medical College

· Prof Sathya Narayana Setty Gold Medal for excellence in cancer

· Membership to the prestigious American Society of breast diseases

· Dual gold medals in Surgery

· FKCA award in 2011

Dr Pais has published and presented many journals at USA, Japan and many other countries. Apart from being a dedicated surgeon, he is also a man of deep faith and prayer, which he says, has got him going so well in life. To sum it all up in Dr Pais’ own words, it has been ‘A roller coaster life’ and he says he will continue to do whatever best is in his capacity to treat people, and thus his service to mankind.

Mysuru, Dec 6: Kanara Entrepreneurs Bengaluru organized its annual brainstorming session, on November 30, at Hotel Heritage Shelters, Mysuru, a property owned by KE member Gracian Rodrigues.

With a view to upgrade member engagement, address concerns and meet the expectations of its members, the brainstorming group took stock of the present situation and explored ways and means to address pain points. There was good attendance from members of both KE Bangalore and KEL Dubai.

The programme started with the KE prayer followed by an innovative introduction of the members by Leena. In his keynote address Global Chairman, Kanara Entrepreneurs- Ivan Fernandes emphasized punctuality in attendance for all programs of KE with a view to lead an example to Gen-now. He exhorted Lead members of KE to guide and mentor the Gen Now.

Robert D’Sa, president, KEL Dubai was delighted to participate in the brainstorming event and extended his support to the Bangalore chapter. He too expressed the need to motivate Gen-Now, bring them onto the forefront & take things forward. He mentioned the initiatives taken at KE Dubai, with the Gen-Now team there, being led by Connel Pinto.

President, KE Bengaluru, Charles Gomes in his presidential address urged the members present to improvise ideas to increase member participation

For brainstorming, the members were divided into 4 teams:

Team 1 – Aces
Team 2 – Movers & Shakers
Team 3 – Primates
Team 4 – Brindavan Express

The 4 teams were given tasks.

Before the team discussions and presentations made by each team on their respective topics, Roshan D’Silva, director membership, deliberated on the previous year’s brainstorming action points and informed the members present on action taken on various points and the status on those initiatives.

Pramod D’Souza summarized the responses received from the members on the KE Network Offering Survey. The survey results gave an understanding of the expectations of the members and suggestions for ameliorating matters going forward. Pramod presented slides with charts representing the aspects that are going well and areas where the KE board need to spend time on improving the overall offering. He also listed 3 major areas for brainstorming making it a collective effort in further improving the value that KE is adding to its members.

The 4 teams then brainstormed within their individual groups and presented excellent ideas which the KE board could consider implementing in the next one year. Everyone loved this exercise as each one could contribute and express their ideas freely and openly.

Nishan and Connel representing Gen-Now from the KE chapters of Bengaluru and Dubai respectively, articulated the expectations of the Gen-Now members from the organization and at the same time informed ways by which Gen-Now could pitch in to scale up the activities and opportunities available in KE. They also spoke about Angel funding and mentoring from the industry stalwarts so that Gen-Now could benefit .Such beneficiaries could become future stalwarts and go on to mentor and fund enterprises later on, thereby keeping the baton moving from one genre to another at KE.

Mementos were presented by KE Global Chairman Ivan Fernandes and KEL Dubai president Robert D’Sa to all team members. The host for the KE brainstorming event, Hotel Heritage Shelters owner Gracian Rodrigues was felicitated by KE president Charles Gomes. Leena Lobo compared the programme and also facilitated the team discussions.

Immediate past president of KE, Adrian D’Souza rendered the vote of thanks.

As the sun set below the horizon, curtains came down on the brainstorming seminar at Mysuru with a gala evening filled with frolic and entertainment, followed a sumptuous dinner spread, arranged by the host Gracian Rodrigues.