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The Tricity agglomeration the most dynamically growing city; Gdańsk with the main prize for the annual initiative in the public sector (for the Gdańsk Shared Service Centre). PwC a ” Provider of most unique services” – the international CEE Awards 2017 jury granted the title to the company for its Financial Competence Centre located at OBC in Gdańsk. The award in the category: ” Best IT centre” was granted to SII, one of the largest IT employers in Pomerania, also with its offices at the Olivia Business Centre.

For 5 years, the CEE Awards gala has been attracting representatives of international outsourcing companies, local authorities, specialists in BSS – Business Services Sector from Central and Eastern Europe. This year, the Province of Pomerania was represented in Warsaw by representatives from Gdańsk, Gdynia, the Pomerania Development Agency (with its offices at OBC) and Tricity companies.

The awards – being recognition to contribution to the development of the business services sector – were granted in 25 categories. Five main prizes were awarded to the Tricity and local companies. The title of the Manager of the Year was awarded to the Managing Director and Vice-President of the Polish Branch of State Street Bank, Scott Newman. The Gdańsk branch of the Bank is located in Alchemia.

The success of companies from the Tricity is also a success of the Invest in Pomerania (OBC) team, a non-profit initiative that supports foreign investors in their investment projects in Pomerania .

WE ARE PROUD AND WE CONGRATULATE ALL AWARD WINNERS!

More information is available on the Invest in Pomerania website.

Sii, one of the largest IT companies in the country, which employs 2,700 people, is among the best IT employers in Poland. Computerworld magazine awarded Sii the title of Distinguished Workplace in IT. The employer has been awarded in the plebiscite for the 5th year in a row. Sii has been continuously taking part in the competition for many years and each time takes a place on the podium. Among the winners of this year’s edition were: Britenet and ING.

The award is granted on the basis of an external audit – an anonymous survey of employees assessing their job satisfaction – AudiIT. The aim of the survey is to determine the level of engagement, satisfaction and motivation of IT employees and to select companies in which the levels of these variables are the highest. The results of the fifth edition of the survey were announced during the Computerworld conference, which took place at the end of January 2017 in Warsaw.

Organizations participating in AudIT undergo a survey to determine the extent to which they are able to meet the needs formulated by IT professionals. This is an extremely important and prestigious distinction for us, which we have received thanks to the positive opinions of our engineers. At Sii, we put emphasis on employee satisfaction – we care about a relaxed atmosphere, friendly organizational culture, development opportunities and a rich package of benefits – says Joanna Kucharska, HR and Communication Director at Sii.

The company is famous for conducting many Employer Branding activities. What primarily attracts experts to work at Sii are technological trends and various IT projects that the company implements for clients from all over the world. In line with upcoming trends – in 2017 Sii will be recruiting mainly programmers: .NET, Java, Front-end, SharePoint, Oracle, security specialists, manual and automated testers, and analysts.

The company has its branches in the largest cities in Poland: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Kraków, Poznań, Lublin, Łódź and Katowice. Over 700 employees currently work in Gdansk. We are looking for programmers in .NET, Xamarin, Java, Embedded, automated and manual testers, DevOps and system architects.

In 2017, Sii Poland plans to expand its team by nearly 400 specialists and will exceed the number of 3,000 employees. The company has made a significant contribution to the rapidly developing market of new technologies in Poland and intends to continue its expansion in the new year.

^{Employing over 2700 engineers, Sii sp. of o. about. is a leading provider of IT and industrial engineering services in Poland. He supports clients in consulting, analysis and testing, software development, infrastructure management, system integration and maintenance, and industrial engineering. Sii specialists carry out projects for leading companies in the banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, Hi-Tech, energy and industry sectors. The company was established in January 2006. in Warsaw. After 11 years of operation, Sii has 8 offices in Poland: in Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Poznan, Krakow, Łódź, Lublin and Katowice. For more information about the company, please visit: www.sii.pl.}

^{The Olivia Business Centre complex is located in the middle of the agglomeration, at al. Grunwaldzka – the main artery of the Tri-City. The business centre is characterized by excellent access to public transport, including the Fast Urban Railway station and bus and tram stops. In the immediate vicinity there is the multifunctional Olivia Hall and the Main Campus of the University of Gdańsk. So far, the following buildings have been completed as part of the Olivia Business Centre investment: Olivia Gate, Olivia Point, Olivia Tower, Olivia Four and Olivia Six. Olivia Star will be commissioned in 2017.}

On the occasion of the upcoming Valentine’s Day, Coworking O4 organized a collection of articles for the “Promyk” Shelter for Homeless Animals. Our faithful pets need not only love, but also essential items.

Blankets, towels, pillowcases, food for puppies and kittens, cashews and skin diseases are collected. All things that we want to give to pets should be left at the O4 reception. The collection lasts until February 14 (Tuesday) inclusive.

Thank you!

 

We cordially invite you to the open days of the Frigate of the Primary School for Boys and Girls, which will take place on February 25 (Saturday), from 10.00 a.m. For children and their parents, apart from visiting the school, there are plenty of attractions.

Employing 2 700 people, Sii is one of the biggest IT companies in our country. What is more at the beginning of the year Sii was among the top 3 best IT companies in Poland. It got an Honorable Mention as a place to work in IT, in the AudIT contest, organized by Computerworld Magazine. It is the 5^th time in a row that the company won one of the main awards and got acknowledged as one of the top 3 best places to work in IT. Except for Sii, such companies as Britenet and ING were among this year’s winners.

The award is granted on the basis of an external audit, an anonymous, employees job satisfaction evaluation survey – AudIT. The main aim of the study is to get to know the employees’ level of engagement, satisfaction and motivation, and to distinguish the companies, where the level of the variables mentioned is the highest. The results of the AudIT 2016 survey were announced during the Computerworld conference, which took place at the end of January 2017.

Organizations taking part in AudIT, undergo a thorough examination in order to determine the extent to which they meet the needs formulated by IT experts.

The award, which we received thanks to a positive feedback from our engineers, is very prestigious and important to us. In Sii we put pressure on employee satisfaction – we care for the positive and friendly atmosphere and organizational culture, development opportunities and rich benefits package – says Joanna Kucharska, HR and Communication Director at Sii.

The company is known for various Employer Branding actions. What mainly attracts experts to Sii, are the newest technologies and a wide variety of multinational projects carried out for clients from all over the world, in which they can gain experience, develop new skills and try themselves in new areas. In line with the latest technological trends, in the upcoming year, Sii will recruit mainly such developers as: .NET, Java, Front-end, SharePoint, Oracle, security experts, manual and automated testers and analysts.

In 2017 Sii Poland is planning on enlarging its team by over 400 professionals – the number of employees will then exceed 3 000. The company, has its significant contribution to the rapidly growing Polish market of new technologies and intends to expand further in the upcoming year.

At the end of January, the Employment Services Employee Day was solemnly celebrated in Gdańsk. The history of labour offices in Poland is 98 years old. The tradition of functioning of institutions statutorily dealing with professional intermediation dates back to 1919, when Marshal Piłsudski signed a decree on the organization of state employment offices and care for emigrants.

The Employment Services Worker’s Day was celebrated this year at the Shakespeare Theatre. The commemorative conference on 26 January was attended by m.in. representatives of local authorities, employers’ organisations and employees of the Gdańsk Labour Office.

The title of the Best Partner of GUP 2016 was awarded to Olivia Business Centre. The award was presented by President Andrzej Bojanowski to Maciej Grabski, President of OBC.

Fig. In the photo on the left (from the left): Roland Budnik, Maciej Grabski, Andrzej Bojanowski; source: GUP

Roland Budnik, Director of the Gdańsk Labour Office, summed up the past year, paying particular attention to two projects launched in cooperation with Olivia Business Centre – Talent Development Centre and Gdańsk Labour Office – Job Office.

– The past twelve months have been a period of really hard work. Launch of the Talent Development Centre, the Department of Employment of Foreigners or Gdańsk Labour Office – Job Office are just three examples of activities that we have managed to carry out together. Particularly noteworthy is also our activity in the field of professional activation. We have achieved one of the highest employment and cost efficiency in the country, for which I would like to thank our employees and our long-term partners “Employers of Pomerania and the authorities of Gdańsk and the Gdańsk District,” said Roland Budnik, Director of the Gdańsk Labour Office, during the ceremony.

Gdansk Labour Office – Job Office (located in Olivia Six) is an organizational unit of the Gdansk Labour Office specialising in corporate customer service. It is a strategic business partner, responsible m.in. for supporting employers in broadly understood human resources management.

The Talent Development Centre (Olivia Six) is a modern, hospitable and friendly place for all people looking for support in creating their professional careers. CRT’s mission is to help build strengths and support talent development and teach skills that boost self-confidence. The Centre creates a network of practical cooperation between employment services, educational institutions and employers in order to create common value, which is the use of the potential of talents in the labour market.

At the end of January, the Day of Employment Services was festively celebrated in Gdańsk. The history of labour offices in Poland already goes back 98 years. The tradition of institutions, which statutorily deal with vocational counselling dates back to 1919, when Marshal Piłsudski signed a decree on the organisation of public labour offices and care for emigrants.

This year, the Day of Employment Services was celebrated in the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre. An occasional conference held on the 26 January was honoured by the presence of, among others, the representatives of self-government authorities, organisations of employers and the employees of the Labour Office in Gdańsk (GUP).

The distinction in the
2016 Best Partner of GUP
category was granted to Olivia Business Centre. Maciej Grabski, CEO of OBC, received the award from the president Andrzej Bojanowski.

Photo. From the left: Roland Budnik, Maciej Grabski, Andrzej Bojanowski; source: GUP

Roland Budnik, the director of the Labour Office in Gdańsk, summarised the past year and paid a special attention to two projects launched in cooperation with Olivia Business Centre – The Talent Development Centre and Job Office.

– The past twelve months were the time of a really intensive work. Launching the Talent Development Centre, Recruitment Department for Foreign Workers and Gdański Urząd Pracy – Job Office are just three examples of undertakings which we managed to fulfil together. Special attention should also be drawn to our activity in the scope of professional activation. We have obtained one of the highest employment and cost effectiveness in our country, for which I would like to thank my employees, as well as our long-term partners – Employers of Pomerania, authorities of Gdańsk and Gdańsk County – said Roland Budnik, the director of the Labour Office in Gdańsk during the ceremony.

Gdansk Labour Office – Job Office (located at Olivia Six) is a specialised organisational unit of District Employment Office in Gdansk, which copes with corporate customer service. It is strategic business partner responsible, among other things, for supporting employers in a broadly understood human resources management.

The Talent Development Centre (CRT) ( Olivia Six) is a modern, hospitable and friendly place for everyone looking for support while developing their own professional careers. The mission of CRT is to help create strong points and support talent development, as well as teach the skills which strengthen self-confidence. The centre builds the network of practical cooperation between employment services and educational institutions along with employers to create common value, that is the use of potential of talents on the labour market.

Valentine’s Day is just one day a year. That’s why we love the Tri-City all the time, at any time of the day or night and in all weather conditions! It is the best place to live and work. We are glad to be in the heart of his 🙂

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, we have prepared a video in which we admit to our greatest love… 🙂 For all lovers of Tri-City and Olivia, we also have wallpapers to download. Let these beautiful views make your day more pleasant!

Look for other Valentine’s Day surprises in our buildings.

 

Will electric vehicles revolutionize life in Polish municipalities by 2030? If so, how? How will this affect behavioural change, the environment and the power system? These questions are addressed to high school students with an electrical and energy profile in the nationwide competition “Energy of the Young” organized by Energa SA, of which Olivia Business Centre is a partner. Attractive prizes await the authors of the most interesting ideas and their schools.

“Energy of the Young” – this is the sixth edition of the nationwide competition (previously organized under the slogan “Energy of the Future”). This time, the organizer – Energa SA – invites students to tackle the topic “E-mobility in my municipality. Vision of the year 2030”. The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2017. through the energiamlodych.pl website.

The competition is open to teams of three students under the supervision of a teacher. Each school can submit any number of teams, provided that one teacher will supervise only one team.

“We are convinced that the direct reference of the subject matter of the competition to the place with which young people are connected by family (or go to school) and treat as their little homeland will encourage them to use creatively and deepen the knowledge gained during the lessons. We had evidence of this during last year’s edition, in which students presented ideas directly related to the buildings in which they study. Participation in the work on the competition project is also a great opportunity to use creativity and strengthen the ability to work in a team – qualities highly valued on the labour market – says Michał Lemański, Director of the Marketing Department at Energa SA.

The authors of the five highest-rated papers will be invited to the finals, which will take place on 21 April 2017 in Gdańsk. The finalists will present their ideas and answer questions from the judges and competing teams. The jury will assess the substantive value of the presentation and its form. The three best teams and their supervisors will receive in-kind prizes, and the schools they represent will win cash prizes. The rules of the competition are available on the website.

Prizes for the finalists of the “Energy of the Young” competition:

• for occupation 1. places – laptops for each team member and tutor and a cash prize of PLN 12,000 for the purchase of teaching aids for students for the school represented by the winning team
• for capture 2. places – respectively – in-kind prizes in the form of tablets and a cash prize of PLN 8,000
• for capture 3. places – respectively – in-kind prizes in the form of smartphones and a cash prize of PLN 5,000.

The Jury will also award the Special Prize to the Professor Małgorzata Milewska-Stawiany for the utmost care for the linguistic correctness of the project and presentation. These will be e-book readers.

There is also an additional attraction in the competition. In addition to the five teams qualified for the finals, five teams will be selected – authors of highly rated works that did not make it to the finals.

– We will invite these teams to the final game – as an audience, as well as an educational trip to a hydroelectric power plant and a wind farm. We believe that gaining knowledge through experience is very valuable – it allows you to better understand and remember the content read in textbooks. Participation in the tour will be a great opportunity to take a close look at the latest technologies used in the energy sector – says Rafał Hyrzyński, Director of the Strategy and Strategic Asset Management Department at Energa SA.

The “Energy of the Young” competition is one of the initiatives carried out by the Energa Group as part of the “ENERGA Education” programme, the main objective of which is to popularise knowledge about electricity and shape pro-ecological attitudes.

28 February Olivia Business Center in Gdańsk will host a free seminar organized by Flex, during which representatives of brands such as Flex, Cisco, Microsoft, RNT, ICANN, Sevenet, Pivotal and Kontakt.io will talk about how IoT and innovative solutions will change today’s business and our everyday lives.

Do you know that you are participating in a revolution? Soon, all devices in the world will be “smart” by communicating with each other.

We are living in another turning point in the development of our civilization—a revolution of such speed, scale, and power that it is permanently changing the face of industry
and business. It will change the way we live, work, learn, do business, interact socially and even behave.

By 2020, 50 billion devices will be directly connected to each other, creating vibrant communities and improving communication, and the economic value generated by the Internet of Things market in 2025 will be $11 trillion.

This new era requires rethinking and redesigning the goods, products, services and processes that surround us. Those who survive will be the ones who innovate together, design and build products that integrate with intelligent systems.

What can you expect from the seminar?

• You will learn how IoT creates new business models and changes business and our lives
• You will learn case studies of large corporations and successful startups
• Inspiration and interesting business contacts

The partners of the seminar are the American Chamber of Commerce, Invest in Pomerania, Olivia Business Center and Business Center Club. The media patron is the industry portal evertiq.pl.

Registration for the event is free of charge through the Evenea portal. The organizers warn that the number of places is limited, and the order of applications does not determine whether you will receive a ticket for the event.

Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10.10 Welcome by the organizer and partners

10:10 – 10:50 Stanisław Motylski, Flex

10:50 – 11:30 Konrad Napieralski, Cisco System

11.30 – 12.10 Michał Furmankiewicz, Microsoft and Sebastian Sokół, RNT

12.10 – 12.30 Gabriella Schittek, ICANN and the Ministry of Digital Affairs

12.30 – 13.00 Coffee break

13.00 – 13.20 Paweł Maziarz, Sevenet

13.20 – 13.40 Michał Skorupowski, Pivotal

13.40 – 14.00 Szymon Niemczura, Kontakt.io

14:00 Lunch and networking

Speakers:

Stanisław Motylski, Program Management and Business Development Director, Flex

Stanisław Motylski has been associated with Flex since 2002. He is part of the management team of the Polish branch of the corporation, which generates an annual turnover of USD 1 billion. Currently, he manages teams of program managers, business development managers, business development specialists, and the marketing and communication department. He is responsible for creating the company’s operational strategy and planning
and sales optimization.

During his career at Flex, Stanisław Motylski got to know many areas of the company, having previously held the following positions: Test Engineer, Quality Engeener, as well as Project and Program Manager.

Stanisław Motylski is a Six Sigma Green Belt coach. He completed an Executive MBA at the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development, validated by the AIX-Marseille Graduate School of Management, as well as postgraduate studies in “International Business” at the University of Gdańsk. He holds a master’s degree in high-frequency electronics from the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Konrad Napieralski, Senior Business Development Manager, IoT Business Unit Cisco

He has been with Cisco since 2006. During this period, he was responsible for sales in the telecommunications operator sector and for the development of managed services
and XaaS in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Russia, as well as for the development of the IoT market in Poland. Currently, he is a Senior Business Development Manager in Cisco’s IoT Business Unit. He works with Cisco’s largest customers in the EMEAR region to technologically evolve their infrastructure and IT organization in line with strategic commercial goals. It implements, among others, projects in the following industries: energy, transport, industrial production.

For over 20 years in the ICT industry. For many years he worked with the largest telecommunications operators in Poland as a product director. A graduate of Physics at the Lodz University of Technology, he gained additional education at University College London, the Warsaw School of Economics and IESE Business School.

Michał Furmankiewicz, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Michał Furmankiewicz, currently works at Microsoft as a Cloud Solutions Architect. He has spent the last 9 years working as a productivity consultant
and then an architect for the financial sector, working m.in. with clients such as ING Bank, Millennium Bank, PKO BP and mBank. During his career, he was also responsible for some of the largest private cloud projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Michał is passionate about new technologies and their use in business. He sees the cloud as a tool that can help transform the company. In her free time, she willingly shares her knowledge with others by appearing at conferences, group meetings or through blog entries, and also builds her own solutions, e.g. a system for monitoring bees.

Sebastian Sokół, Founder and CEO, RNT

Engineer and entrepreneur in the field of modern technologies. Founder and CEO of RNT, a company specializing in
in IT solutions for industry and developing a MOLOS.cloud project, including solutions in the area of IoT
and software designed to acquire, present and analyze data from all industrial processes.
His portfolio also includes the GARMORY online game studio, and in the past BSIPG, a company offering 3D design services and BIM solutions for heavy industry. In his spare time, he is a motorsport enthusiast and racing driver.

Gabriella Schittek, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Central & Eastern Europe, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Gabriella Schittek joined the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in January 2007. Previously, she worked for the Council of European Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) and Nominet – the .uk registry. She led ICANN’s country code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) for many years before moving into her current role as Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In this role, she is responsible for liaising and collaborating with all ICANN stakeholders in the region, including business, government, the private, technical and academic sectors.

Michał Skorupowski, Sales Director, Pivotal

For most of his professional life he has been associated with the IT industry. In his career, he has progressed from the position of a sales representative, business analyst and systems consultant (ERP, CRM, BPM, ECM), a consultant in the field of design and implementation of CRM applications and a sales support specialist to the position of sales director. Currently, he is responsible for sales and business development at Pivotal Polska. He has had the opportunity to work with many companies on the Polish market, both from the financial and B2B sectors, including m.in: Medicover, Luxmed, Getin Bank, BGŻ BNP Paribas, Union Investment TFI, Credit Agricole, Toyota Bank, Mercedes Bank, BZ WBK, TIM, Wielton, Strauss Cafe, Wielton. He specializes in process optimization in accordance with the Lean Six Sigma and TOC methodologies. He is an inspirational speaker and has extensive experience in giving business presentations. In addition to his interests closely related to his professional work (in particular web applications), he is a passionate traveler. Its belts have always been: mountaineering, skiing, windsurfing and sea sailing. Recently, he has also been a golf enthusiast.

Szymon Niemczura, Co-Founder and CEO at Kontakt.io

Founder and helm of one of the most important startups creating solutions based on Bluetooth Low Energy in the world. Beacons Kontakt.io help to build personalized experiences based on geolocation as many as 17,000 people. customers in 120 countries around the world. Szymon is a declared advocate of the idea of the Internet of Things, associated with
with new technologies since 2009. Graduate in Economics
and finance at the University of Business in Nowy Sącz.
After hours, a happy father and glider pilot.

Paweł Maziarz, IT Security Architect, Sevenet S.A.

Paweł Maziarz – as an expert and architect of security systems, he has been gaining experience for the last 15 years, initially as an administrator of networks and Unix/Linux systems, then as a programmer, and later as a member of the Red Team. Over the last few years, he has been conducting advanced simulations of APT attacks on both IT and OT infrastructure, creating publicly unavailable software simulating complex malware, bypassing antivirus, IPS, IDS and other next-generation firewall protections. It also specializes in social engineering attacks and physical security (proximity cards, access control systems, etc.).