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General Manager, Microsoft Services CEE

28th CEEMAN Annual Conference

23-25
September
2020
 
online

Ideas and Inspiration for Management Development from Fields Beyond Management

About

Management education has been facing unprecedented disruption over the past few months, affecting all aspects of our lives – on personal and institutional level, operations and study processes, global and local supply chains, economies and the environment. 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.

Benefits of participation:

  • 3 days     of insights, inspiration, and experience exchange
  • 2 weeks of advance online platform access for networking and connecting 
  • 3 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;
    4. accreditations and quality assurance 
  • 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 September)
  • Access to all conference materials and session recordings 
  • 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 informal chat with old and new friends 
  • 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.

For networking before, during and after event, all participants will get access to a dedicated online conference platform in early September. It will enable getting to know the conference participants, connecting directly and scheduling meetings, starting discussions around topics of interest, sharing articles and other materials.

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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.

Abstract submission deadline: 19 July 2020
Submit to: claudio.rivera@rbs.lv with the subject “CEEMAN Poster session”
Read more here.

Draft Program

Wednesday, 23 September
Online poster session and experience sharing of faculty and researchers
How We Adapted, So Far?

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

14:00 - 16:00 CEEMAN Poster session, moderated by Claudio Rivera, Riga Business School
All poster session presenters will receive video recording of the poster session, certificates of participation, and contributions published in the Conference proceedings.

18:00 - 18:30 Networking online

Thursday, 24 September
Pre-conference sessions

10:00 - 11:30 PRME CEE Chapter meeting (tbc)

For possibility of hosting side meetings, workshops and sessions within the Conference, please contact CEEMAN at info@ceeman.org.

Ideas and Inspiration for Management Development from Fields Beyond Management
(live transmission from Bled, Slovenia)

14:00 - 14:15 Greetings and introduction to the Conference by Danica Purg, CEEMAN President

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

16:30 - 16:40 Break and musical intervention

16:40 - 17:20 CEEMAN Annual Meeting and Awards
  • Report on CEEMAN activities and plans, discussion with members (CEEMAN President and CEEMAN Director) 
  • 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)
18:00 - 18:30 A glass of wine and friendly chat online

Friday, 25 September
Pre-conference sessions

10:00 - 11:30 IQA information session (tbc)
For possibility of hosting side meetings, workshops and sessions within the Conference, please contact CEEMAN at info@ceeman.org.

Extraordinary Stories and Inspiration from CEEMAN members

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

14:10 - 14:45 Extraordinary stories and inspiration from CEEMAN members
Introductory inputs by facilitators

14:45 - 15:00 Break, informal networking

15:00 - 16:00 Extraordinary stories and inspiration from CEEMAN members
Jam sessions co-created together with participants - facilitated smaller group discussions on individual topics facilitated by partner schools
  • New business models for management education 
  • Research development 
  • Teaching and learning 
  • Accreditations and quality assurance 
16:15 - 16:45 Plenary with reports from parallel sessions, conclusions moderator the same as in the intro session

17:00 - 17:30 Online coffee/tea with CEEMAN cookies, networking, music

Keynote speakers

Dominique Turcq
Founder and President, Boostzone Institute, France

Prof. Dominique Turcq is the Founder and the President of the Boostzone Institute, a research and consulting center, dedicated to understanding the management implications of the major changes happening in the world of work due to technological and sociological forces. His career spans across academia (as a professor at HEC, ESCP and INSEAD in France, IIST in Japan), business (SONY, SVP strategy at Manpower), government and administration (special advisor to the Ministry of Trade, the Economic Planning Commission, the Ministry of Industry) and consulting (Partner at McKinsey & co). Dr. Turcq graduated from HEC in France and studied in Japan. He holds a PhD in management from HEC University in Paris and a PhD in Corporate Sociology from Paris University Sorbonne. His main fields of counseling to large companies’ executive committees include in particular: the impact of major forces on strategy, organization and operations; the needs for a collaborative culture and its implementation; organization change management in a fast changing and uncertain external environment. His book “Augmented Management” was published in digital format in French and in English in 2013, and his latest book “Le travail à l’ère post digitale: A quoi ressemblera le travail en 2030?” was published in 2019.

Haris Pašović
Award-winning Film and Theater Director, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Haris Pašović is a multiple awarded international theatre director. He has directed a number of shows and participated in many festivals worldwide including Edinburgh International Festival; Festival d’Avignon, France; UK City of Culture; Napoli Teatro Festival Italia; National Arts Festival of South Africa; Singapore Arts Festival and many others. He is the new artistic director of Mittelfest, Cividale, Italy, for the period 2018 – 2020. During the Siege of Sarajevo he produced a legendary “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett directed by Susan Sontag and he established the Sarajevo Film Festival. His visual artwork “Sarajevo Red Line”, an 825 m long installation in the centre of Sarajevo made the headlines around the world in 2012. He’s directed some massive spectacles like “Romeo and Juliet” (Sarajevo); “Conquest of Happiness” (Derry/Londonderry) and “A Century of Peace after the Century of the Wars” (Sarajevo) involving hundreds of participants as well as a number of vehicles; live music and video-projections and viewed by thousands of audiences. He is an artistic director of the East West Centre Sarajevo. Pašović has received many awards including Best Director at BITEF Belgrade International Theatre Festival; Best Yugoslav Director, UCHIMURA Prize, Best Director at the MES International Theatre Festival, Sarajevo; Best Director at the Festival of Bosnian Theatres, etc. His shows as well as the actors and other artists working with Pašović have received numerous awards as well. He teaches Arts and Leadership course in Executive MBA Program at IEDC-Bled School of Management.

Jan U. Hagen
Associate Professor, ESMT Berlin, Germany

Jan Hagen is an associate professor at ESMT European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. Jan’s research focus is on leadership and team interaction. He is particularly interested to understand how teams and organizations deal with errors. Apart from articles in academic journals he published the book Confronting Mistakes – Lessons from the Aviation Industry when Dealing with Error (Palgrave Macmillan) in 2013; his latest book How could this happen – Managing error in organizations was published in November 2018. His research received media coverage in international outlets like the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.

Logistics

In early September we will provide all registered participants with links and instructions on how to join the event online.

There is an option to join the keynotes and the CEEMAN Annual Meeting in person in Bled, Slovenia on Thursday, 24 September. If you wish to join us in person, please mark so in the registration form and you will receive all the necessary info on hotels, airport transfer, and other logistics through email.

Supporters

                     

Sponsors and Exhibitors

We kindly invite you to join the conference as a sponsor or exhibitor to present your services to deans and directors from around the world. We offer various exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, but we would also be happy to hear your ideas and suggestions on how to make your presence at the conference most productive.

Contact Person

Slađana Milašinović Project Manager
+386 4 57 92 535
sladjana.milasinovic@ceeman.org

Fees

Individual participation (online):

  • EUR 280 for CEEMAN members
  • EUR 380 for non-members

Every additional participant:

  • EUR 70 for CEEMAN members
  • 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) 
You are welcome to join the keynotes and the CEEMAN Annual Meeting in person in Bled, Slovenia on Thursday, 24 September. In this case additional cost is EUR 150 + VAT per person (includes lunch and evening reception). 

Registration

Register now!

Contacts

Program

Olga Veligurska CEEMAN Director
+386 4 57 92 505
olga.veligurska@ceeman.org

Logistics

Živa Žmavc Thongvanh Project Manager
+386 4 57 92 518
ziva.zmavc@ceeman.org

Sponsors and exhibitors

Slađana Milašinović Project Manager
+386 4 57 92 535
sladjana.milasinovic@ceeman.org