<div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear friends and esteemed colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings to all for the upcoming festivities.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is just a gentle reminder about the imminent deadline (25th Dec'23) for ISMSI24, an annual event of IICCI <a href="http://www.ismsi.org">http://www.ismsi.org</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you haven’t submitted your manuscript as yet, I hope you will consider doing that before the deadline ends.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you and with kind regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Suash Deb</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:3.433884;margin-left:8pt;margin-right:16pt;text-align:justify;background-color:#f1f1f1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;padding:0pt 0pt 24pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Chair, ISMSI 2024</span></p></div>