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seat at this time so we can get started with the ceremony we'll have plenty of time to take pictur at well good morning ladies and gentlemen thank you I am Donald Gary ad M coordinator at here North American University and I will serve as a Master of Ceremonies for the 2024 Commission on behalf of President Dr kah the Board of Trustees the administration and the faculty we would like to welcome you to today's ceremony today marks a very special occasion for our graduates their families and friends who supported them on their academic Journey we thank you for being here today to celebrate with us at this time we please stand for our national anthem here to perform the national anthem ladies and gentlemen Miss Benny [Music] haes what so [Music] and through [Music] the all the we so [Music] Ro sing that was still there oh oh say does that star [Music] spangle all the land of the free and the home of the [Applause] thank you miss that that was an amazing job ladies and gentlemen can you please give a round of applause one more time that was actually a great God thank you so much ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Dr Peru tbar president University for his address to the North American University family friends and guest Dr [Music] whaton so as you see is growing and this is a own kind of this isaz [Applause] [Music] years accomplishment so our graduates you should be really proud in this time of the C it's a great courage to be able to because we are Liv in ER so they CH so many things people think about the degree is not enough I can get a job and make more money but we don't know if that's a fragile uh atmosphere so there is no guarante so I really congratulate you to to have your resilience the consistency and the dedication to be able to graduate uh with a degree at this moment so it's a it's a great accomplishment and first of all I would like to uh uh congratulate all the parents families and family members here so could you please rise all family M family all the family members thank you so they deserved a big kind of Applause so I really appreciate for sacrifice and dedication and also I would like to thank our committed na like to get old pan step please R new P step [Music] [Applause] not just the faculty but the staff members uh I'm sure you experience and you witness so many uh oneon-one U uh advising and helping you through that uh uh the accomplishment I think this is this is Plus for us to provide as a you know nonprofit and private institution so um we are in a conference our annual interation confer we started the conference yesterday so we will finish tomorrow so uh thanks to Dr Tan here in this Vision we kind of Mer our conference and the uh the commencement together make sure we have a kind of lovely live discussion uh and the collaboration and networking opportunity so I would like to to recognize some of our distinct leaders all over the world here so I would like to ask the delegation so we have uh 11 uh institutions are here from nine countries so I would like to recognize them so that they get to know them so first of all i' like to recognize the the Tanzanian delegation from University of Dar Salam so we one [Applause] president dressor MRE and also we have Professor here and then next I would like to recognize the international B University from B we have the president of the [Applause] university and from H University from kazakistan we had a big delegation by Alia here [Applause] and then we have inter aot of international [Applause] univers here and then we have pros and EP and the faulty members from from M and also we have uh the three delegations from Salvador s Salvador so I would like to [Applause] [Music] [Applause] recognize and and honorable Rodriguez Cruz thank you being here and then also we have very special guest the prime advisor of the Prime Minister from kistan Mr from [Applause] [Music] here and another delegation from Philippines we have President attorney Dr Gloria [Applause] Victor and we have Dr here [Applause] um also we have EIC University [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Pro all right so I we have from s the president of international Fran press Mr [Applause] so this is this is another evidence very we have other nations represented here other languages spoken here so we are really really proud of your contribution to our University become like Min United Nations here also representing to Houston this is very timely and proper thank you very much for your attention thank you for your and dation [Applause] appr thank you president it is now my honor to introduce to you our keyot speaker for today he is one of the founders and managing Partners emeritus of denim Cal he has around 40 years of experience in energy and asset management Fields currently he serves as chairman of cless Point capital A PE firm investing in software and Tech enabled service companies and adviser of blue bear capital and a DC firm focused on energy and Tech Investments and chairman of Epico Technologies a big data analytic firm focus on developing eally the ride databases of American cust consumers here's a chairman in marites of the board of the American P Pakistanian foundation and is also a member of the board of the convergence Center for policy resolution he is a member of BS business Executives for National Security an organization of private sector leaders that offer their experience pro bono to the US government on National Security matters he is also a volunteer pilot he is also a volunteer po that's in president for Angel Flight polished for patients and Veterans Afra command and is a recipient of the Asian Society Houston cers award for leadership of business and philanthropy he is also a senior fellow of the American leadership Forum he serves on The Advisory Board of the Interfaith Ministry of Greater Houston he received the Bachelor of Science from Pakistan University of energy and technology and a master's of business administration degree from The Graduate School of Business at Mississippi State University ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Riad sadik [Applause] well my apologies to you for this long introduction I feel embarrass some people talk about me it almost like I pass now they're doing my Rec but uh listen uh my thanks to the bent to uh Dr far my dear friend dralan the the administration the faculty and most of all my thanks to all of because don't take this as a speech this is the beginning of conversation what I want you to do is after we finish the proceeding go to LinkedIn and send me connection request and I promise you I will respond to it and my hope is that I can be of some service to you but mostly what I notice in interactions like this is I tend to learn more than I think because what you don't know is that you have a wisdom that Sur passes the decades I spent on the because you are more relevant to the time you are more relevant to so with that um let me talk about the environment we're facing right now and from a description of the environment what we'll talk about is some of the challenges short and long term and then some of the opportunity short and long term then we'll talk about some abiding principles that will help you navigate that that enir in a way that not only are you successful in uh making a place for yourself in this ecosystem but be of service to others very very important very important so we'll talk about principle and then to make the point of how those principles are to be applied I will take three areas that are emerging right now and exort you to immerse and then so what's the Environ me have show who read noi called then he wrote a book called hod then he wrote a book called 21 less 20% is a professor at the Hebrew University of 48 years old so saens in the history of humanity 70,000 year history of humanity how humans evolve from being an insignificant spe on this Earth to what they are right now Masters of the Universe in their own right and how they did it to the development of communication skills and through the har of Technology then he writes about which is man's Evolution or desire to evolve God using um biom medicine robotics AI how CL seeks to augment his position here as well as import Eternal longevity that's one book that I would highly recommend you guys read and then 21 lesson from the 21th century which is his exhortation of lessons learn that may be applied to your life graduate there's another book that you must read which is r great is managing one of the largest HED funds in the world the HED fund for bridgew he money for third party and has done about5 old he a grandfather is a very very uh academically um accomplished individual um is a commercial um accomplishment so he writes a book called principles of a changing world order it's something you must read the reason I'm telling you to read these books is these books are written by well meing accomplished people who've been around for decades and they provide a perspective that you need to incorporate in your journey from here on what they will tell you and synopsizes um y's work what yal will tell you is mankind is on an almost inevitable path to self-destruction almost inevitable path to self-destruction the reason I don't say inevitable but almost is because we do have free wills we do have if properly exercised that can obate this dark future that if you look at um ral's book principles of a changing world order it's a very rigorous study of rise and fall of various Empires over the last 500 years and it ends up in a very um very objective analysis of the the tension between two Powers one United States of America great the biggest economy and two the Chinese economy which is now fast rising and by purchasing power parity metrics it has already surpassed the US and in nominal terms it's supposed surpass Us by 2030 most importantly makes the point that rarely as it happened in human history that empires have changed position relative position without their being conflict so imagine conflict between the US and China what it for World why am I telling you all these what I'm telling you these things for for is because typically Youth and people in general tend not to think about negative things or tend to be so consumed by their daily priority that they lose s of what's happening around them that may be of enormous import to their life now so so that's a couple of observation you all know that climate change is not just inevitable but is manifesting itself every day every day most of this massive migration that taking place in North America all the way Europe is traceable to to Drought as a result of um plan so that's another key um toic for you all to keep in mind climate change is very real the genie of artificial intelligence um there is a there are a couple of very accomplished researchers ASA Rasin and CH haris you should have a very eye opening video on the challenges of AI for Humanity in particular AI evolves a GI artificial general intelligence what for human the issue about AI is for the first time in human history we are living with an alien presence in our mix AI is an artificial intelligence an alien intelligence that is now able to learn itself teach itself the other thing they will tell you is that AI has devel the ability to collaborate among remember what I told you about Humanity the rise of humanity over 30,000 years was partly traceable to communication collaboration communication leading with collaboration and um and AI is is communicating with each other without its human Master knowing and number two it is all collaborating so again threat so now that's a dark um picture of what a we but there's nothing inevitably inevitable about it it's all about how you as individual and your Fe collectively rise up to me this challenge because the other side of challenges is challenges have enormous opportunities associate with them for example the challenge climate change right now there are trillions of dollars being spent trillions of doll being spend on Technologies development and Technology applications to mitigate and render Society resilient to climate so there's an enormous opportunity for you all to apply whatever you learned out here to the field ofate change so there nothing inevitable about now let me talk about some abiding principles that are at least have served me very well and to my children my grandchildren my de my friends is what I say the first about principle is Faith and I am not referring to Faith as a religious manifestation of an impul I'm simply talking about faith as in a believe that says if I do my share Good Will Happ I do my [Applause] sh okay is par number two a sense of purpose so getting a paycheck is not purpose it's a intermediate outcome purpose is a commitment to yourself that for the time that's been given to me on this Earth I will make sure that my capabilities are applied for the best betterment of me my family my community and the world so great purpose now you couple it with perseverance so imagine this if you get up in the morning and you turn the TV on you take a cup of coffee and you spent the entire day like that having successive cups of coffee what impact did you leave behind that so think of moments as Priceless gems because they are Priceless GS there will come a point in life sooner for me than for you when there will be no more moment so these moments are one they're scares two they're uncertain you don't know how many moments we have in 2013 I buried my niece 32 at that time and as I was laying her her body in grave I was myself so you don't know how much time [Applause] whates that one last point in terms of what you can accomplish by yourself if you have hand with person next to you and person next with those three personas you can accomplish several times but you can do it and then if you can hold hands with nine of you you can do thousands times so always look for opportunities for purposeful productive collaboration with people that share the same value there is a lot of blessing in collaboration now let me so those are abiding principles that very well this is what I say to everybody I come in contact three crucial areas it doesn't matter what your major is today could be education could be Health Sciences could be biology could be physics whatever three areas that you must immerse yourself in because they will affect you as humans as consumers as producer as employee as b as husband as wife first area is climate change climate change is a force of such gargantuan proportion that even if you Marshal the most coordinated effort to cause it to be remediated the probability of that transpiring is very for a number of different reasons you connect up with me on Linkin you can ask me question all give me my why so so yes work on remediation work on nuclear uh Fusion reactor they the answer to cheap energy solar energy all that work on that but also work on which is hardening yourself your uh dwelling and your Society to the inevit effect of climate change so getting educ about climate change and I'm not saying that you should go out and start buy no look at why crypto came about and remember the of crypto 20089 the paper forain was manifestation bitco um that was the time when central banks all over the world had infused massive amounts of liquidity into the world banking system to save the world from Financial CL that cause for some people to feel like the currency paper money will ultimately so they ca for a digital asset to be uh created that by design has limit limitation of Bitcoin you can't have more than 32 million Bitcoin that's it so understanding the why the uses and the applications of cryptocurrency and the underlying technology blockchain ethereum which you know platform and is very very essential to to educate because it don't apply to you finally as I was mentioning you need to change the power of AI whether or anyone several to make your job easier in the short run but in the longer run it is important to know this so that you don't get Ki out of it there is a real danger of SS of society they get AI out of their job so one thing you will need to learn to do is after you get your first job is to always be thinking about what do I need to do to take my value to society and every day do stuff to maintain it or increase it this is all conf continuous value validation you have to be very conscious I didn't have to be cons hey computer programming languages I there sever jobs available hundred jobs but you will need to do continuous value validation so so that's that uh three key areas I'm exing you all Emer these are learn as much you can and apply as thanks for your patience um I will again encourage you reach out to my on linked and let's establish a Communications any sub with this an I talk to you about collaboration back I the gentleman said my name is Tim cpra and I'm an astronaut and I want you to help me figure out what I should be doing after I'm done with being an so I spoke to him about 45 minutes about career options then I finally said to him hey Jim instead of talking on the phone just come by my office he said oh it' be great to do that I'll do it when I get back and I said well get back from where he I'm calling you from the International Space Station he was calling me from the International Space Station so as a result of it we had a conversation I have some St blue be capital and next this Monday we're having another meeting where now he's going to be report of a team that develops the successor to the International Space Station which will be destroyed by 2030 by design it will come into Earth orbit and burn and so he's called a company that is developing the successor to the international SP that's an example of collaboration okay thank you very much [Applause] thank you very much Mr RI in keep even in Tradition a member of the graduating class is asked to deliver an address at this time Dr Hal TOS proost of North America University will'll introduce this year's speaker Dr [Applause] to youer with the highest acemic among the graduating class we have demonstrated great education and skills during the time of study and maintain very high GPA 3.99 and now North American University is 2024 is from computer science software engineering [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] dear friends today our wonderful HS and first the first FA first H first [Music] and this college was place which our whole life was bu around I gradu sitting in this home had all the spectrum of emotions and memories connected to this place there throughout our time in college we Tred to support each other and helping diffult times try to understand ourselves and those who around us and thank to this became more in my now looking back everything we experienced together I would like to wish everyone not to lose Ambitions and preservance not to lose energy but only incre every day not with faith in ourselves and our capabilities studing in college remain one of the brightest Pages I'm life the Val experience g at the University will become a sport for never forget it's easy to feel helpful on a beautiful day like today but there will be dark days ahead ahead of us too and there will be days where you feel alone and then when all this must give it alive no matter how very gets a Lo our L you feel you must promise me that we that you will hold on to hope you it alive you have to be great than with what is suffer my wish for you is become hope and people need them I know it feels like saying goodbye but we will carry a peace of each other do everything we do next to remind us of who we are and who meant to be [Music] I had a great four years with you and I will miss you very much dear classmates I wish each of you to find yourselves in your life and let the obstacles on your way strengthen you and help you to move forward toward your goals and our dear wonderful Professor s from the bottom of my heart I want to thank you for being with us for putting a lot of knowledge and effort into and for sparing the strength emotions time we thank you for upbringing and education I wish you long years of successful education and exhaust enthusiasm and optimism bright Tyee of life and good Miracles along the way thank you [Applause] thank you very much sir we have come to the moment in which all our CS have been waiting for we will now proceed to the confirm of degrees Department chairs please present the candidates who have successfully fulfilled the requirements for confirming of Master's and bachelor's degrees for each respective area of study to Dr provos Dr H thas audience you will find the disciplines and courses of study in a commencements program at this time Dr beckus chair of the Department of Business Administration Who present the candidates for the Master's and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration Dr best [Applause] hello everybody Dr Tash on behalf of the faculty in the business in the Department of Business Administration I have the honor of presenting to you the candidates who have successfully fulfill the requirements for the masters of Business Administration and Bachelors of business administration degree I am pleased to recommend them to you for the awarding of those degrees [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Applause] [Music] Saina suita panal [Applause] s [Music] [Applause] [Music] aam Muhammad Hassan m [Applause] [Music] om [Applause] Huda sh Muhammed Kim [Applause] far s m [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Nelson kavier Ariano VES [Applause] [Music] fu [Applause] [Music] sushila taso [Music] Mar [Applause] [Music] Muhammad lasasha saki n [Applause] [Music] W M Ali [Applause] bash Melisa Oliva [Applause] ishman lagari Anisha [Applause] malani Jennifer [Applause] Espinosa Muhammad mush [Applause] [Music] Hassan [Applause] sangar Jacob [Applause] Garcia B ch [Music] Sandy [Music] palas Benjamin Williams please please direct your attention to the screen for less of graduates from the 2023 2024 Academic Year these are the students were unable to attend the name will be scrolling up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] at this time Dr Assan s chair the department of computer science who presented the candidates for degrees of Masters and Bachelor degrees in computer science Dr sise of the department I have the honor to present Cates that have sucessfully enir science [Music] [Applause] [Music] Omar [Music] Al serp chairman [Music] [Music] J CA HP [Music] Mar Saka rabi Kumar [Music] p n [Music] dasan [Music] ramadanov Modo TR [Music] kishan Bor n hisb is [Music] Arisha Ahmed Raa [Music] [Music] askar ver [Applause] [Music] alova Esra [Music] dber [Music] a by [Music] J and Sh Muhammad [Applause] caman Mohamed [Music] answer [Applause] sish s to my at [Applause] [Music] [Music] BF re [Music] Michael [Music] mik un scin [Music] [Music] youf GES [Applause] [Music] Usama [Music] jir Ali [Music] Samir [Music] K sopia [Applause] [Music] Banu Jenifer [Applause] [Music] Valencia Nathaniel [Music] B Adrian [Applause] [Music] Samuel babach [Music] [Music] I have a side note for the students okay so this orig from kistan he graduated high school and he played first in the National exam in that country before coming to na he started with us doing computer science and he actually finished the bachelor in 2 years that is not the only thing he has been accepted into a PhD program at University of [Music] [Music] too bad [Music] [Applause] [Music] Aria rova [Music] and7 om good [Music] [Music] B it Som Osman [Applause] Yas or Rajan [Music] [Music] [Music] I you lovea [Music] [Music] B San s [Music] [Music] [Music] please direct your attention to the stream for graduate for 2023 24 I here have students who were unable to attend in person [Music] [Music] [Music] ladies and gentlemen we just like to ask to be mindful that there are some people that are sitting and when we stand up sometime we can exper their s so they into the program and also over in this area we like to try to keep that area pretty clear so you could please uh have a seat if you don't mind thank you very much all right ladies and gentlemen now we will get to the Department of Criminal Justice at this time Mr pet Alo chair of the Department of Criminal Justice will present the candidates for bachelor's degree in criminal justice Mr pet Al [Music] [Music] proot Dr toss on behalf of the faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice I have the honor of presenting you the first candidates that have successfully fulfilled the requirements for The Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice I am pleased to recommend them to you for the awarding of those [Music] degrees F sh Ranna Gutierrez [Applause] [Music] k j over Tre Cameron Bishop Andre Brown [Applause] [Music] that's nothing [Music] at this time Dr cardan cardan chair of the Department of Education will present the C [Music] my mistake okay so apparently I forgot the parts about the names that were not pres in here and we need to acknowledge them so for those students who are anable to be here for criminal justice please you look at the screens those name Will scroll [Music] up now at this time Dr Carmon Caravan chair of department of education will present the candidates for the degrees of Masters and Bachelor degrees in education Dr car on beh of the faculty of the Department of Education you have the honor of presenting the candidates that have successfully fulfilled the requirements for masters of education in construction master of education in educational leadership master of education in School counseling and Bachelor stud [Music] [Music] H oh my God I can't I can't deal with [Music] you terrible point got make [Music] [Music] it back don't myom [Music] was main [Music] T Miranda [Music] [Music] Mara down Bell [Music] [Music] come Muhammad is saying W [Applause] [Music] Mustafa woo [Music] [Applause] D [Music] out is Mya [Music] [Music] zono garia May [Music] Jennifer [Music] omor aan D Angela [Music] DAV [Music] R Jay [Music] [Music] rice [Applause] Julian Andre Dixon [Music] [Music] one more time please direct your attention to the screen for the graduates of this year here that we're not able to be here the name was [Music] [Music] up 1 minute now it's time for confir of the degrees we I present to you Prost Dr [Music] th Dr of am University pres Cates who have success for the ofation master of science intive science master of education instruction master of education in education leadership master of education in school Counseling of science ination B of Science in computer science B of science in Justice and B of Science in studies in education and I them to you for the aing of those [Applause] deg will the candidates for graduation please rise by the authority vested in in Me by the border of trusty of University and the state of Higher Education Coordinating Board in Texas I hereby Grant to each of you as appropriate and as qualified the decreas all the rights and privileges pertaining thator I know pronounce your graduates of North American University grades you may now move your tesel from right to left thank you very much Dr so at this time we are going to take a picture so Mr are you ready on the count of three throw your hands in [Music] here make sure you grab it one one 2 3 please keep standing at this so now um please have a seat dear graduates have a seat at this time dear graduates please sorry excuse us now we would like to invite you to look at the screen hola We have had the privilege of some of our students showing before and after [Music] pictures to the [Music] [Music] up I bet parents can probably remember when it were just vegies time does fly doesn't it as I guess people once said we don't know how much time we have one thing we do know that time does what it's designed to do and it does exceedingly well a great professor at PR University once said that yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift that's why it's called a pres so enjoy your pres of Life enjoy graduation ceremony now we would like to have the gr remain seated for a while but at this time this concludes to 20 the best graduation ever in 2024 Commission of exercise of North American University on behalf of President ton the Board of Trustees Administration and faly we thank you for joining us on this very special occasion as we honor our graduates thank you so much we're asking you please remain seated during the stage assembly faulty student recession thank you very much [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] it's thata it's thata [Music] little [Music] [Music] excuse me uh for the students and their families uh please stay so that she have