The document summarizes the keynote speech given by Professor Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri at the Alumni Business Meet on May 27, 2014. Some of the main points discussed in the speech include: - The importance of inspiration coming from various sources, not just clearly worded ideas. - How technology has evolved rapidly, with over 5 billion phones now in use compared to 3.5 billion toothbrushes. - The internet has reshaped humanity by creating a vast repository of knowledge and enabling universal access. - Each individual has a responsibility and purpose to make the world a better place. We should consciously work to fulfill our existential responsibilities.

1. Alumni Business Meet
27 - May - 2014
Keynote: Professor Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri
Director General, Emirates Identity Authority
United Arab Emirates

2. Unquestionably heartening to see
“the connection” that the University
is enjoying with the Alumni.

3. Inspiration: comes from words written over blurry images!
True
inspiration,
is not
always
clearly
worded or
identifiable..

4. Our imagination and the resulting
actions that inspire are what counts

5. Of a world population of 7 billion+: 1 in every 5 has a personal
computer… & now 1 in every 4 has a smart phone!

6. Interestingly, number of phones in use today is nearly (5 billion);
1.5 times the number of toothbrushes used today (3.5 billion)!

7. Internet evolution caused a revolution!
It has simply reshaped humankind

8. Internet is now a resource of
knowledge ..

9. Internet as a platform created a vast content repository
and enabled universal access
It is a platform where we can
get together on.. and develop
this world together ..

10. Are we as humans doing enough?
We, as individuals, have our
own responsibilities to
discharge. Once we realise
this, the question would
then become, whether we
do this consciously? Or we
do it diligently?

11. Are we aware of our
existential responsibilities?
Each one of us is here on Earth
with a purpose. Each one of us is
here for a reason.

12. “Here is a test to find whether
your mission on earth is finished:
If you’re alive it isn’t”
Richard Bach American Writer
Our purpose is more than achieving
mere organizational goals. Our
purpose is to benefit our people, our
nation, and our faith! And make this
world a better and sustainable place!

13. Be prepared to faces challenges of life!
We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when
we face challenges ..
Pressures of life
typically crumple us;
weigh us down;
restricts us, but such
pressures make us
the humans that we
are.

14. A diamond is merely a piece of charcoal that handled
stress exceptionally well!
Remember this:
Would you like to be a diamond
or remain a piece of charcoal?

15. “You have brains in your head. You have feet
in your shoes. You can steer yourself any
direction you choose. You’re on your own.
And you know what you know. And YOU
are the one who’ll decide where to
go…”
Theodor Seuss (1904 –1991)
American writer, poet, and cartoonist

16. We decide who we become!
It is always us!
Let us write our own future
(It is not going to be easy though!)

17. Leo Burnett
“When you reach for the stars, you
may not quite get them, but you won’t
come up with a handful of mud either”
(1891 –1971)
An advertising executive and was
considered to be among the most
'creative' men in the advertising business
Let us make this world a better
place for everybody..

18. Read our recent research :
Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri
Director General
Emirates Identity Authority
United Arab Emirates
ali.alkhouri@emiratesid.ae
www.emiratesid.ae
@DrAliAlKhouri