Bandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam's Faculty of Science will be organising its 4'h UBD Science and Technology Week 2007 (S&T Week) at the Chancellor Hall from June 26, carrying the theme "Nurturing Talent through Science and Technology", which will see five career talks this morning.

The expected speakers are Mahmud Hj Jeludin from BAG Networks, Norihranmiza Hj Ramlee of Brunei LNG Sdn Bhd, BEDB's Stakeholder Relations Senior Officer Abd Rahman Abd Aziz, Mr Yasumasa Takuma - Deputy Director of CICC (Singapore), and Newas Ukoi, Secretary General at the Brunei Institution of Geomatics (BIG).

The first speaker is going to give a seminar entitled "BAG Networks Overview". Currently theAssistant Service Operations Manager for BAG Networks, he had also previously worked with DST for nearly eight years as an IT billing Operations Manager and as a Simpur Network Operations Manager. Prior to this, he worked as a Unix System Administrator at RBA for about a year.

The second career talk from Norihramniza will be called "`Behind the Scenes' of a Utilities Technologist in BLNG". She studied BSc Construction Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). For a year from 2001, she worked at BLNG as a Gas Treating Technologist. Since 2002, she has taken the role of Utilities Technologist.

The next career talk is entitled "Entrepreneur or Technopreneur? Career Opportunities under Brunei Economic Development Board" by Abd Rahman, who plays an important role in managing and driving stakeholder relations as well as external communications for BEDB. Prior to this, he held several posts at HSBC, including one as the Institutional Banking Relationship Manager.

"Introduction to FLOSS" meanwhile will feature parallel session presentations from various members of the Centre of International Cooperation for Computerisation (CICC).

The next speaker, Mr Steven Yong - Head of the RF Networks for DST Group of Companies, will give a talk on the "Career Opportunities in the Telecommunications Industry".

The last talk will be about "The Challenge of the Geometric Industry". Prior to working at BIQ Mr Ukoi was a chartered and practising Land Surveyor with the Survey Department from 1986 to 1996.

More career talks are going to be held throughout the week until June 30 For further information, visit www.ubd.edu.bn or call Dr Abby Tan at 2463001 ext 1361.