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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.).

Will electric cars revolutionise the life in Polish municipalities by 2030? If so, then how? How will they affect our behaviour, the environment and power systems? Those questions were asked of students of electrical and power engineering upper secondary schools in the national competition “Energy of the Young”, organised by Energa SA with the Olivia Business Centre as a partner. The authors of the most interesting ideas and their schools will be offered attractive prizes.

“Energy of the Young” is the sixth edition of the national competition (it was earlier organised as “ENERGY of the Future”). This time the organiser – Energa SA – invites students to tackle the subject “E-mobility in your municipality. Vision by 2030”. Works for the competition may be submitted by 15 March 2017 via energiamlodych.pl.

The competition is open to teams composed of three students and one teacher. Each school may enrol any number of teams as long as one teacher supervises only one team.

“We are convinced that a direct reference of the subject of the competition to the place to which the young people are tied with their families (or where they attend school) and treat like their little motherlands, will make them use the knowledge learned at school for creative work and to learn more. In last year’s edition, we saw that students presented ideas relating directly to the buildings in which they study. Involvement in work on a competition project is an excellent opportunity to use creativeness and develop the teamwork skills – which are features highly appreciated in the labour market”, says Michał Lemański, Director of the Marketing Department at Energa SA.

Authors of five highest rated projects will be invited to a final contest to be held on 21 April 2017 in Gdańsk. The finalists will present their ideas and will have to answer questions asked by the jury and other competing teams. The jury will assess the content and the form of the presentations. The best three teams and their teachers will receive non-cash prizes while the schools they represent will receive cash prizes. The regulations of the competition are available on the website.

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

• first place – a laptop for each team member and teacher and the amount of PLN 12 000 for scientific props for the students of the school represented by the winning team
• second place – tablets and the amount of PLN 8 000 respectively
• third place – smartphones and the amount of PLN 5 000.

The jury will also award a special Professor Małgorzata Milewska-Stawiany prize for the utmost care for linguistic correctness of the project and the presentation. Those will be e-book readers.

The competition has one more attraction. Apart from five teams to be qualified to the finals, another group of five teams will be nominated – authors of highly assessed works not qualified to the finals.

“We will invite those teams to attend the finals as the audience and also to an educational trip to a hydroelectric power station and to a wind farm. We are of the opinion that gaining knowledge via experience is very valuable – it helps us understand better and memorise the content found in textbooks. The trip will be an excellent opportunity to have a close look at the most modern technologies used in power industry”, says Rafał Hyrzyński, Director of the Strategy and Strategic Asset Management Department of Energa SA.

The competition “Energy of the Young” is one of the initiatives pursued by the Energa Group within its program “ENERGA Education” with the core aim being to popularise knowledge on electrical energy and to develop pro-ecological attitudes.

St. Valentine’s day is just one day in a year. But we love the Tricity continuously, at each time of day or night, and regardless of the weather! This is the best place to live and work. We are happy that we are located at it’s very heart 🙂

On the occasion of St. Valentine’s day, we have prepared a short film in which we admit our greatest love … 🙂 For all lovers of the Tricity and Olivia, we also have wallpapers to download. We hope the beautiful days will make each day more pleasant!

Look for other St. Valentine’s day surprises in our buildings.

Olivia Business Centre in cooperation with Berlitz cordially invites you to a workshop entitled “Negotiations in English”, which will take place on 22.02 (Wednesday), in the O4 coworking space. The workshop will be conducted in English, applications should be sent by 20.02 to gdansk@berlitz.pl or by phone – 58 305 16 13.

Olivia Business Centre, together with “Employers of Pomerania” and Interizon Cluster, cordially invite you to the second networking meeting of companies, which will take place on 17.02 (Friday), at Hours. 9.00 in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor).

The purpose of the meeting is primarily to establish business contacts that will translate into development, increased sales and production. It will be a great opportunity to get to know companies from our region in one morning. The formula of the meeting: 10-minute speeches by 2 companies of the “Pomeranian Employers” and 2 companies of the ICT Cluster. After 20 minutes of presentation, networking will take place.

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COMPANIES ON THE INTERIZON CLUSTER SIDE

Avena Technologie offers constant IT support, fast and efficient implementation of customer needs using the latest technological solutions. He has a team of experts specializing in various problems of the IT sector and experience in providing services to large entities such as the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways and the City Hall in Gdynia, as well as small companies with several employees. The company has a security certificate of the Internal Security Agency for the processing of classified information.

Web24.com.pl much more than just another web development company. It is a full-scale Software House and at the same time a professional interactive agency, specializing in tailor-made projects created with a view to operating for years. It offers its clients solutions that are in line with both current trends and forecasts for the future. It creates portals and online stores, each time on an individual order. Web24.com.pl has worked with more than 150 clients. Many of them expanded their cooperation, thanks to which the company completed over 500 projects.

COMPANIES ON THE SIDE OF “POMERANIAN EMPLOYERS”

KeyK Project Marketing&Media has been operating on the market for over 11 years. She supports business in the area of Public Relations and offers outsourcing of the marketing department to companies that do not have their own marketing departments. The effectiveness of KeyK Project Marketing&Media’s activities is measured by a significant increase in the recognition of the brands with which it cooperates and an increase in sales of their products and services. The agency cooperates with both companies with an established position on the market and with startups. Thanks to the activities of KeyK Project Marketing&Media, information about its clients is published in the leading opinion-forming industry and national media. The measure of success of media relations campaigns carried out together with clients are thousands of publications and multi-million advertising equivalents (AVE).

Since 1998, Prometriq Academy of Management has been providing business process analysis and modeling services, both for the purposes of making management decisions and implementing IT systems. In recent years, we have been focusing on improving competences related to the healthcare sector and we have been very successful in doing so. Business photography is an example of a passion that can become a business. Thanks to photography, we get contracts, meet new people and have a lot of fun. As with everything else, we approach photography in a process-based way. During the presentation, we will show how the quality of the process affects the quality of the result in this field. It’s not enough to have equipment and talent. We have 10 minutes to convince you how good photos can help you build a good team and attract new customers.

We would like to invite you to the next meeting with the author as part of Olivia Cooltura, which will take place on February 20 (Monday), at 6.00 p.m., in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor). This time our guest will be Maciej Kosycarz – photojournalist, publisher of a series of albums from the series Fig. Reaper: How to take extraordinary ordinary photos.

In the program m.in. a conversation with a guest and a presentation of unknown photos from Oliwa, describing the history of people living here and places that are dynamically changing before our eyes, as well as a colourful history of Gdańsk and Pomerania from the archive of Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycar. The meeting will be moderated by Monika Bogdanowicz (Olivia Business Centre).

Olivia Cooltura is an interdisciplinary project of Olivia Business Centre, dedicated to the promotion and popularization of culture in its entirety. We want to gather people interested in artistic and cultural events around Olivia Business Centre. Residents of OBC, residents of Oliwa and, more broadly, the entire metropolis. To integrate our community, build and develop relationships. Every year, more than 300 events are held at OBC, some of which are open to all residents of the Tri-City.

Zbigniew Kosycarz (1925–1995) was one of the most popular figures of the Gdańsk Coast. He came to Gdańsk in 1945, initially settled in Sopot, worked in Gdynia newspaper editorial offices and from the very first days created a photographic chronicle of the region. He was referred to as the “flying reporter”. No event could take place without his participation. He also documented everyday life, never parting with his camera. Although throughout his professional life he was associated with the Gdańsk daily “Głos Wybrzeże”, he also published in many other publishing houses. Press photography became not only a job for him, but also a lifelong hobby. Of the many awards and distinctions he received, he valued the title of “Gdańsk Citizen of the Year 1972” received by the readers of “Wieczor Wybrzeże” (Evening of the Coast). Since 1997, the Pomeranian Press Photography Competition Gdańsk Press Photo has been organized in his name.

Maciej Kosycarz (born in 1964), a graduate of the University of Gdańsk. Author of several thousand photographs published in the press. He has been professionally involved in photography since 1990. Initially, he appeared mainly in Kashubian magazines such as “Nasz Tygodnik” and “Tygodnik Wieczor”, and then in “Głos Wybrzeże”. In May 1996 he founded the Kosycarz Foto Press KFP photo agency, continuing his father’s work. KFP’s clients include over 100 Polish and foreign titles and press agencies. He has presented his photographs at several exhibitions and has also published twenty photo albums. In 2001 he prepared the exhibition “Ordinary City – Gdańsk through the lens of father and son”, which could be seen in Budapest, Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Belgrade, Gdańsk, Kalmar (Sweden), Holbaek (Denmark) and Kaliningrad (Russia). Since 1997 he has been a co-organizer of the Pomeranian Press Photography Competition Gdańsk Press Photo. Zbigniew Kosycarz. His agency’s archive has more than 640,000 images available on the www.kfp.pl’s website, which are updated daily. It is currently the largest local photo service in Poland. Like his father, he considers the title of “Gdańsk Citizen of the Year 2009” awarded to him by the residents to be the greatest distinction he has received in his life. Winner of the Pomeranian Artistic Award for 2010 awarded by the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the award of the Pomeranian Voivode Sint Sua Praemia Laudi in the category of culture for 2014. In 2009, the Gdańsk City Council awarded the city’s chroniclers, Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz, with the Mściwoj II Medal for their lifetime achievements.

Admission to the meeting is free, please register by email: events@oliviacentre.com

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