About

Management education has been facing unprecedented disruption over the past few months. Businesses and educators had to think on their feet for the short term as well as for the future. With the upcoming virtual CEEMAN Annual Conference, we invite you to share own experience but even more importantly, to look beyond management and get ideas and inspiration for truly innovative and future-oriented new management education solutions. This year, in a fully online mode.

More than 30 countries from around the world are already represented at the Conference, join your flag or add a new one to the ones already registered!
 

Professors Dominique Turcq and Jan Hagen are two of the four keynotes we will be hosting, and have shared some words on the topics we will be discussing during the conference.

 

Benefits of participation:

• 3 days of insights, inspiration, and experience exchange 
• Join, interact, or view recordings and materials at your own pace
• 2 weeks of advance online platform access for networking and connecting 
• 4 excellent keynotes with remarkable findings of high relevance for management - from biology, neuroscience, airplane industry experience, and arts (24 September)
• Latest experience from management education leaders all over the world and opportunity to share your own insights (25 September) on:

1. new business models for management education;
2. research development;
3. teaching and learning.

• Recent research and teaching practices to contribute with and learn from at the poster session for faculty and researchers (pre-conference, 23 September) 
• Attendance of CEEMAN Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony (24&25 September)
• Access to networking platform, all conference materials, and session recordings 4 weeks after the event
• Possibility to post your materials in a dedicated section of the conference online platform before, during and after the event
• Individual meetings or side sessions opportunities on the online platform 
• Warm online social events and exclusive live concert of Teo Collori & Momento Cigano  
• Additional participants from your institution for only EUR 70 per person
• Certificate of participation provided upon request

To provide for a collaborative and inclusive space, we encourage deans and leaders of educational institutions to bring their faculty, staff, as well as students and alumni to the event to enrich the discussions, bring diversity of perspectives, and share a common vision.

For possibility of hosting side meetings, workshops and sessions within the Conference in the first half of the day on 23-25 September 2020, please contact CEEMAN at info@ceeman.org.

In partnership with:

Poster session

We invite faculty members and researchers to showcase your work at the online CEEMAN poster session related to the overall theme of the conference. The poster session is an opportunity to display innovations faculty members and researchers have implemented during the last months. Even when these innovations are still at an experimental phase, presenting them to the CEEMAN community will give the chance of finding support and receiving valuable feedback. You can also consider innovations tested in the past and that you believe could be relevant in the new current circumstances.

Submit to: claudio.rivera@rbs.lv with the subject “CEEMAN Poster session”
Read more here.

Program

All times stated in the program are CEST time zone (Ljubljana/Brussels)!

Wednesday, 23 September

13:00 - 14:30 Responsible Management Education - Focus on Relevance, PRME Session moderated by Mette Morsing, Head of PRME, USA

• Danica Purg, President of CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia
• Norman de Paula Arruda Filho, President of Instituto Superior de Administraçao e Economia – ISAE, Brazil
• Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, the Financial Times, UK
• Mikolaj Pindelski, PRME CEE Chapter Coordinator, Vice-Dean for Master Studies, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland 

14:00 - 16:20 CEEMAN Poster session session and experience sharing of faculty and researchers on the topic of How We Adapted, So Far?, moderated by Claudio Rivera, Deputy Director, Riga Business School, Latvia

The poster session is an opportunity to display innovations faculty members and researchers have implemented during the last months. Even when these innovations are still at an experimental phase, presenting them to the CEEMAN community will give the chance of finding support and receiving valuable feedback. You can also consider innovations tested in the past and that you believe could be relevant in the new current circumstances. Read more

18:00 - 18:30 Networking online

Thursday, 24 September
Pre-conference sessions

Ideas and Inspiration for Management Development from Fields Beyond Management

14:00 - 14:10 Greetings and introduction to the Conference by Danica Purg, CEEMAN President

14:10 - 14:15  Introduction from session moderators

• Nicola Kleyn, CEEMAN Vice President for Africa, Dean of Executive Education, RSM, the Netherlands
• Vanina Farber, ELEA Foundation Professor of Social Innovation, IMD, Switzerland

14:15 - 14:35 Why Biology Becomes Part of Management Science
Keynote by Dominique Turcq, Founder and the President of the Boostzone Institute, France
The COVID-19 crisis has put biology on the forefront of news for several months. But the new developments of biology are not just around fighting a virus. Biology is actually becoming a major issue for corporations, leaders, decision makers, people as citizens or as consumers. This science will provoke major changes in business models, product development, people management, legal systems, management models, CSR models, ethical models. Understanding and managing issues linked to biology will become part of the CEO’s new hard and soft skills. Management education has to consider an understanding of biology as a must in all programs.

14:35 - 14:50 Reflections and dialogue with Dominique Turcq

14:50 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 15:20 What Can We Learn from Error Management in Airplane Industry?
Keynote by Jan Hagen, Associate Professor at ESMT, Germany
High-reliability organizations like nuclear power plants, hospitals or airlines are domains, which are not immediately associated with innovation and open leadership culture. However, a closer look at these organizations reveals they are applying principles that can provide inspiration for management in unexpected ways.

15:20 - 15:35 Reflections and dialogue with Jan Hagen

15:35 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 16:05 What Can We Learn from the Arts?
Keynote by Haris Pašović, award-winning film and theater director, Bosnia and Herzegovina
More than ever, in our age of globalization, big data, AI, and increasing uncertainty, leaders have to operate with great vision and finest concepts and using their imagination. They need to sharpen their perceptions and distinguish their intuition from all other complex feelings and thoughts. Art is an inspirational source for leaders to gain these qualities.

16:05 - 16:20 Reflections and dialogue with Haris Pašović

16:20 - 16:30 Break 

16:30 - 17:00  Post-Corona Corporate Soul Healing 

Keynote by Miha Pogačnik, Cultural Entrepreneur, Social Artivist and Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
We are born with hearing but we have to learn to listen! If we as leaders learn to truly actively listen, and more: if listening to our colleagues radiates authentic interest and empathy – then the portals of the soul open up and leadership takes on the quality of healing. How do we get there? Miha will take you on creative detour through musical masterpiece.

17:00 - 17:30  CEEMAN Awards Ceremony

• Welcome to new members (CEEMAN President) 
• Presentation of IQA accredited schools (CEEMAN IQA Director and Accreditation Committee President) 
• Winners of the CEEMAN Case Writing Competition in collaboration with Emerald (jury and Emerald representatives) 
• Winners of the CEEMAN Champion Awards in teaching, research, institutional management and responsible management education (jury representatives for each category)

Concluding inspiration by Miha Pogačnik

17:30 - 18:30 A glass of wine and friendly chat online

Friday, 25 September
Pre-conference sessions

10:00 – 11:30      CEEMAN’s IQA - International Quality Accreditation: Putting Relevance upfront

• Derek F Abell, IQA Accreditation Committee President
• Irina Sennikova, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Latvia 
• Grzegorz Mazurek, Rector of Kozminski University, Poland
• Iryna Tykhomyrova, President of International Management Institute MIM-Kyiv, Ukraine

13:00 – 13:45      CEEMAN Annual Meeting

• Report on CEEMAN activities and plans
• Inputs and discussion with members

Extraordinary Stories and Inspiration from CEEMAN members

14:00 - 14:10 Welcome to the second Conference day by Danica Purg, CEEMAN President

14:10 - 14:40 Extraordinary stories and inspiration from CEEMAN members

Introduction to parallel sessions by facilitators:

• Denis Konanchuk, Director of Corporate Education Department, Moscow School of Management “SKOLKOVO”, Russia
• Andrzej Popadiuk, President of Gdansk Foundation for Management Development, Poland
• Jim Walsh, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, USA 

14:40 - 14:50 Break

14:50 - 16:00 Extraordinary stories and inspiration from CEEMAN members
Jam sessions co-created together with participants - facilitated smaller group discussions on individual topics 

Session 1: NEW BUSINESS MODELS FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

Facilitated by Denis Konanchuk, Director of Corporate Education Department, Moscow School of Management “SKOLKOVO”, Russia

Introductory inputs by:

• Yerbol Suleimenov, Rector of Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan
• Meelis Kitsing, Rector, Estonian Business School, Estonia
• Helena Van Zyl, University of Free State Business School, South Africa (tbc)

Session 2: RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

Facilitated by: Jim Walsh, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, USA

Introductory inputs by:

• Irina Skorobogatykh, Head of Marketing Department, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia
• Suddha Chakravartti, Head of Research, EU Business School, Switzerland
• Larry Zhou, Associate Dean, School of Management, Zhejiang University, China 

Session 3: TEACHING AND LEARNING

Facilitated by: Andrzej Popadiuk, President of Gdansk Foundation for Management Development, Poland

Introductory inputs by:

• Johannes Siebert, Professor, MCI Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
• DTEK, Ukraine (tbc) – corporate academy perspective
• Caucasus School of Business, Georgia (tbc)

16:00 – 16:30 Plenary with reports from parallel sessions by facilitators

 
16:30 – 16:40 Break 

16:40 – 17:10  Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economies – together we are stronger
Introduction of the Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economics and next steps by Presidents of Alliance partner associations:

- AABS - African Association of Business Schools
- ANGRAD - the National Association of Business Administration Undergraduate Courses of Brazil
- BMDA - Baltic Management Development Association
- CEEMAN - the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies
- CLADEA - the Latin American Council of Management Schools
- FORUM - the Association of Management Development Education in Poland
- RABE - Russian Association of Business Education

17:00 - 17:30 Exclusive live concert by Teo Collori&Memento Cigano

Keynotes

Speakers

Logistics

Two weeks before the event, participants will receive instructions and access to MiTeam, an award-winning learning & collaboration platform. The platform prides itself in being secure and accessible from any browser or mobile device. We will be co-creating a community of participants before and after the seminar, providing even more possibilities for networking and experinece sharing. You can find a brief description of the platform here.

Due to continuously changing restrictions regarding the international travel, the event will be organized in online mode only (no in-person participation).

We strongly recommend the following ground rules of digital communication:

• Please use the latest version of CHROME browser, second choice would be MS Edge and Firefox, but for sure not Internet Explorer.
• To participate in the video sessions we recommend to use a computer and not a mobile phone.
• If you can, connect the computer to the internet using land line (wire, not Wi-Fi). If you cannot avoid using Wi-Fi, try to get close to the access point (router) ideally 5/5 Mbps, otherwise you might experience problems due to low internet signal quality.
• Close all the apps which are not in use for this connection (Skype/Teams/VPN …), since they might interrupt the connection to the platform.
• Use headsets to avoid echo.
• If you, by chance, freeze or cannot properly use any of the features, it helps if you refresh your browser, most of the times with F5 button, or re-connect to the call.
• If you need any kind of technical support, go to the Technical support center on the platform (you can call in or use the chat).

Conference partners, supporters and exhibitors

Conference partners


Conference exhibitors and supporters

Exhibitors

CEEMAN invites you to participate as exhibitors and gain visibility at the 28^th CEEMAN Annual Conference: Ideas and Inspiration for Management Development from Fields Beyond Management to be held on 23-25 September 2020 online and present your services, products, and projects to the conference participants on an award-winning learning and collaboration platform. The chosen virtual event tool is MiTeam, an all-in-one award-winning platform (no additional downloads or apps) that allows for livestreaming, interaction, recording of sessions, participants’ profiles and interests, posting and downloading materials, networking, building a community and much more.

This year, we are inviting deans and directors from prominent business schools around the world, as well as professors, students and administrative staff who are expected to participate in the event and exchange their experiences, views and ideas.

See exhibitors' packages here

We welcome further ideas and suggestions to make your presence at the conference productive and mutually beneficial! 

For more information and to set up a virtual tour through the platform, please contact: 

Registration

 

Fees

Individual participation (online):

• EUR 280 for members of CEEMAN, AABS, ANGRAD, BMDA, CLADEA, BMDA, FORUM or RABE (the Alliance for Management Development in Dynamic Societies)
• EUR 380 for non-members

Every additional participant:

• EUR 70 for members of CEEMAN, AABS, ANGRAD, BMDA, CLADEA, BMDA, FORUM or RABE (the Alliance for Management Development in Dynamic Societies)
• EUR 100 for non-members

Please note that in addition to the fees stated above, a 22% VAT (Value Added Tax) is charged to all Slovene participants and to all participants from institutions without a VAT number.

The participation fees include:

• online attendance of both conference days and the poster session (23-25 September)
• list of participants and access to networking platform before, during and after the event
• access to session recordings through the event platform
• certificates of participation (upon request)  

Erasmus+ Grant Support

Possibility of Erasmus+ Grant Suport of 350 eur per person:

It has come to our attention that with the current international travel restrictions due to COVID-19 and most training events going online, Erasmus+ Grant Support for the Mobility of Staff could cover “organizational support” of participation of teaching or administrative staff in online events that are at least 2 days long, in the amount of EUR 350 per person.

Since all CEEMAN online events are hosted by IEDC-Bled School of Management, which is part of Erasmus Mobility program, such funding can be applied for participation of teachers and administrative staff of institutions from eligible countries. 

More information on the staff training mobility is available here and more on organizational support on page 60 of the Erasmus+ Program Guide. Please contact Erasmus Mobility office at your institution or country for more details. From our side, Mr. Rok Ramšak (rok.ramsak@iedc.si, tel +386 457 92 532) will be happy to help with necessary mobility-related documentation.

Contacts

Program

Logistics

Sponsors and exhibitors