About
The 29th CEEMAN Annual Conference took place on 22-24 September 2021 in Trieste, Italy in a hybrid format. The conference topic was Management Education at the Crossroads.
Beautiful and cultured, Trieste is Italy’s most cosmopolitan city. The destiny of Trieste has always been linked to its unique geographical position between the Mediterranean Sea, the Balkans and the Central Europe. The city maintains echoes of the glorious Roman, Medieval and especially Habsburg past, which made it “the little Vienna on the sea”. In its characteristic mixture of languages, peoples, religions and architectures, one easily feels its combined Central European and Mediterranean souls. Famous for its literary and cultural tradition, Trieste has acquired international prestige for the excellence of its Science System, thanks to 30+ Research Institutions ranked among the most important in Europe. Not surprisingly, Trieste has been chosen as the European City of Science 2020.
The conference was organized in cooperation with MIB Trieste School of Management, an international Business School founded in 1988 as a non-profit Consortium, on the initiative of high profile companies and the academia. With its large choice of Master’s degrees (accredited in Italy and abroad) and of Executive and Corporate Programs, the School trains young talents from all over the world, qualifies and updates managers, entrepreneurs and executives from both local and multinational companies. Leading firms (among which Allianz, Generali, illycaffè, KPMG, E&Y, Fincantieri, AON, BNP Paribas) actively collaborate with the School for sponsorships, internship activities, training, consultancy projects and research. Enhance talent, develop skills, strengthen leadership to make people and businesses grow: with this attitude MIB Trieste has been working for over 30 years in Italy and in the world.
You can read more about how the event went here.
Program
Wednesday, 22 September
Pre-conference events
09:30 Transfer from hotels to company visits
10:00 - 12:30
Company visits and discussions about actual leadership topics in their organizations (illycaffè and others)
13:30 - 14:00 Lunch at MIB Trieste
14:00 Conference registration open at MIB Trieste, coffee, networking
14:30 - 17:00
Individual Dean2Dean meetings at MIB Trieste
17:30 - 19:00
Poster session for faculty and researchers (set up at 16:00)
19:00 - 20:00
Welcome reception at MIB Trieste Thursday, 23 September
29th CEEMAN Annual Conference - Day 1 - Management Education at the Crossroads
09:15 Transfer from hotels to MIB Trieste
09:30 Registration open at MIB Trieste, coffee
10:00 - 10:30
29th CEEMAN Annual Conference Opening
10:30 - 11:00
Management Education at the Crossroads: The Choices and Issues
11:00 - 11:30
Discussion
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 12:30
The Growing Competition
12:30 - 13:00
Discussion
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Panel: Perspective from Customers
15:00 - 16:00
Group Work: Which way forward? What are the obstacles, and how to navigate? 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00
Feedback from Groups
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:45
CEEMAN Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony
19:30 - 22:00
Dinner Friday, 24 September
29th CEEMAN Annual Conference - Day 2 - Management Education: Where Are We Heading?
09:15 Transfer from hotels to MIB Trieste
09:30 Coffee, networking
10:00 - 10:15
Introductory words by the Conference Chair
10:15 - 10:55
Keynote: Technologies’ Future Role in Management Education and Which Organizations Will Be Leading It
10:55 - 11:15
Q&A session
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 13:00
Panel: Views and Experiences from Italian Business Schools
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Panel: Best Practices from CEEMAN Network
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
Session of the Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economies. Where do we stand in our part of the world: which road ARE we on? Which road SHOULD we be on and what changes are needed and planned?
17:30 - 17:45
Closing observations by the Conference Chair
20:00 - 23:00
Gala Dinner Saturday, 25 September
You can join a half-day Trieste sightseeing tour or a full-day trip to Venice. Additional costs apply.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Higher Ed Partners (HEP) is part of a dynamic global and mission-driven organisation, which has the experience of serving over 100 universities and over 600,000 online students across Latin America, Europe and Africa. HEP assists universities in converting their on-campus degree programmes into an online format, recruits qualified students for those programmes, and supports enrolled students through to graduation. HEP uses a self-funding model and does not charge the university for its services. HEP’s mission is to help create better lives for citizens by increasing access to high quality and affordable higher education through online delivery of instruction.
https://higheredpartners.co.uk/