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We cordially invite you to the experts’ seminar titled “The landscape resolution. Between the legal regulation and local government practice” to be held on March 31, in the Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12^th floor) at 11 a.m – 4:30 p.m. The organisers of the event are Metropolitan Institute and the University of Gdańsk. Olivia Business Centre is a partner of the seminar.

The landscape resolution – a new tool in Polish law to enable a commune to regulate the location of advertisements, small architecture and fences – still poses many problems. It is not only difficult to compile, but also raises legal doubts regarding, for instance, the procedure of its adoption and the scope of interference in proprietorship. That is why the Metropolitan Institute and the University of Gdańsk decided to organise a seminar aimed at resolving the above-mentioned doubts and indicating exemplary good practices. As a consequence, on March 31 in Olivia Tower in Gdańsk, the practitioners such as architects, urban planners, urban visual artists, clerks, and the theoreticians like lawyers and academicians will meet to discuss essential issues concerning the landscape regulation. The event has been divided into two expert panels. The first – practical one – will focus on presenting chosen landscape regulations, while the second panel – on more theoretical issues, that is construction and legal effects of this resolution – says Dominik Wilk, seminar’s coordinator. – The formula of the event is to combine two views on this new tool in Polish law, that is landscape resolution: practical and theoretical. That is why, everyone: both practitioners and didactics experts, who are interested in the subject will find something noteworthy for themselves. Furthermore, panellists come from the whole country, what broadens the scope of presented views – adds Jakub H. Szlachetko, PhD, President of the Council of Metropolitan Institute.

The programme of the seminar

The Metropolitan Institute is an expert organisation (think tank), which integrates the representatives of different scientific disciplines (law, administration, urban planning), as well as different professions (lawyers, clerks) and passions (social activists, volunteers). The mission of the Institute is to provide expertise, which is capable of unassisted carrying out of interdisciplinary research, creating public discourse, as well as close cooperation with public authorities.

BPO Education Center of Sopot Higher Education and Job Office (a unit of the Gdańsk Labour Office), operating in Olivia Business Centre, once again jointly educated accountants. This time for OBC residents – thyssenkrupp and Fujifilm as well as Kemira. The next edition of the “Corporate Accounting” training has ended, thanks to which 8 people have already found employment in the positions of junior accountant. All of them were recruited by the Job Office located in Olivia, a specialized GUP office dedicated to supporting corporate employers in broadly understood human resources management.

– For 4 years we have been helping the inhabitants of our region to gain unique competencies necessary to work in financial services centers. – says Sylwia Broda from BPO Education Centre – Now we have proven once again that it is possible, thanks to the invaluable support of our partners, to gain the skills required by the BPO/SSC sector, find an attractive job and enter, within a few months, a career path in an international corporation.

– We have prepared the course in response to the specific needs of thyssenkrupp, Fujifilm and Kemira. They were looking for employees for the position of junior accountant. – explains Anna Legan from Job Office. ” Let me just remind you that all employers based in the city and district of Gdańsk can come to us or our Job Office with their needs regarding professional staff.

– If the search for people with a given profile does not bring any results, the Labour Office can organise training with a guarantee of employment under tripartite agreements – adds Krzysztof Kunicki from the Job Office.

The effectiveness of the training, as well as the ever-growing demand of companies from the BPO/SSC sector for new, well-qualified staff, means that the corporate accounting course will be continued in the future. More information about the next edition of the project can be found in the news on the GUP www.gup.gdansk.pl website and on the Job Office fanpage.

The fourteen-week training course “Corporate Accounting” began at the beginning of November 2016. The course was financed by the Gdańsk Labour Office and was run by the BPO Education Center, which is a department of the Sopot University of Applied Sciences and provides educational support for the BPO/SC sector. The course consisted of a didactic part – six weeks of classes at the Sopot University and a practical part – an eight-week internship at thyssenkrupp, Fujifilm and Kemira. During 240 hours of theory, the students gained knowledge in the field of accounting, structure and procedures of BPO/SSC (shared services) companies, financial and accounting systems (SAP ERP) and advanced use of spreadsheets. In addition, they took part in 60 hours of German language classes.

The course completion certificates were received by the participants on 27 February, during a ceremony organised in the O4 conference centre in Olivia Business Centre. On 1 March, the graduates of the training started working in the companies cooperating under the project.

– We try to create optimal conditions for development and cooperation for companies residing in Olivia Business Centre. The “Corporate Accounting” course is an excellent example of effective and effective cooperation between companies and institutions present here. In addition, in the spirit of good neighbourly relations. –Says Agnieszka Zglinicka, SME Director at Olivia Business Centre – The Job Office analyses staffing needs and recruits trainees, the BPO Education Center trains, and our Residents, thyssenkrupp and Fujifilm, as well as neighbouring Kemira, are hiring. The presence of international corporations, HR companies, business support institutions, Job Office and Talent Development Center in one place brings excellent results.

From the very beginning, one of the main assumptions of Olivia Business Centre was its multifunctionality, including support for residents in the field of recruitment. Currently, there are a total of 9 entities operating in the centre (commercial and local government), whose main area of activity is Human Resources.

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On Tuesday, March 21 at 6:00 p.m. in the O4 Coworking Space, there will be an open meetup dedicated to cloud and devops. During the presentation, you will be able to hear how Microsoft Azure, Amazon AI Services or Docker work and how to use it in practice. The organizer of the event is infoShare Academy.

After the lectures, the organizers invite you for pizzas, drinks and exchange of experiences.

Speakers

KAMIL BRZEZINSKI
Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. In new technologies for two decades. Leader, programmer, head of products, web developer. In the past, he was the creator of many teams that have successfully built and implemented many of the best mobile applications in the country, including the Gadu-Gadu communicator, shopping applications such as Allegro, Ceneo or OLX, and many news applications such as Allegro. Gazeta.pl LIVE or Sport.pl LIVE. Over the last several years, he has worked in various market sectors in companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Agora, Edipresse, Allegro Group, Motorola and T-Mobile, where he worked on projects in the field of telecommunications, e-commerce, community and media. A graduate of electronics and telecommunications at the University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz.

MICHAŁ FURMANKIEWICZ
Microsoft

Currently, he works at Microsoft as a Cloud Solutions Architect with the largest clients in the financial sector. Most recently, he spent 9 years working as a productivity consultant and then as 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 speaking at conferences, group meetings or through blog entries. Recently, he has been looking for a solution to the problem of dying bees.

DOMENICO CUCITI
Amazon Development Center Poland

Domenico is one of the software engineers building cloud services in the Amazon Development Center Poland. His team is behind Amazon Polly, the new AWS Text-to-Speech service, the same technology that gives the voice to Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant. Graduated in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality at the University of Aalborg (Denmark), Domenico worked on services for audio/video stream processing in Italy before moving to Gdańsk and working for Amazon.

MACIEJ KRAJEWSKI
infoShare Academy

Propagator of the idea of management by objectives. Eloquent, he likes to work with his own and group energy. He has many years of experience in managing development teams. He cut his teeth on the implementation of IT projects in classic methodologies (PMP and PRINCE2 certification) and agile (LeSS) methodologies. For 7 years, he managed one of the company’s main products from the technological side, supporting the team as a devops and then as technical director. A big Docker fanboy:) Currently Managing Director at Yameo Sp. Ltd. He carries the torch of education and passes on good practices to young people as a trainer of the infoShare Academy. Privately, Ironman wannabe…

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“Baltic Trendsetters Club Certificates” in the hands of two Gdansk companies –
CRIST
and DCT. The winners of this prestigious award, awarded by The editors of the “Baltic Transport Journal” to companies that drive the development of the Baltic Sea Region by implementing unique and bold projects affecting the logistics and transport industry have also been Erik Thun AB and KG Jebsen Cement, Ports of Stockholm, Skangas, Scandlines and Yilport Holding İnc.

The award ceremony took place in the Olivia Sky Club in Olivia Business Centre. The guests of OBC were m.in. representatives of academia, ports, transport companies and entrepreneurs associated with the broadly understood TSL industry in the Baltic region and Europe. The ceremony was part of the Transport Week conference, which took place on 7-9 March at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdańsk. Olivia Business Centre was the Business Partner of the event.

The conference was attended by nearly 400 participants from over 100 companies and institutions located in 21 countries. They listened to as many as 70 speakers participating in over 50 speeches and 7 discussion panels. The participants of the three-day event highly appreciated the substantive value of the meetings and the charms of the Tri-City.

The awards were received by representatives of the following companies: CRIST – Jacek Milewski, Member of the Management Board; DCT – Cameron Thorpe, CEO; SKANAGAS – Tor Morten Osmundsen, CEO.

Winners who were unable to attend the gala in person: Erik Thun AB and KG Jebsen Cement Ports of Stockholm Scandlines YILPORT Holding Inc.

 

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We would like to invite you to the seminar entitled: “Idea. Real Challenges, Intangible Values”, which will take place 22 March (Wednesday) in the Fahrenheit courtyard in the main building of the Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12 in Gdansk, at 10- 16.

During the seminar we will attempt to define the concept of intangible assets, which today is much broader than patents or copyrights. According to eminent figures in the world of economics and management practitioners, understanding this issue may be the key to an adequate assessment of the company’s condition, its resources and potential, and – most importantly – to its further development.

In the discussion on intangible assets in business, m.in will take the floor. Prof. Ph.D. Jerzy Hausner – initiator of the Open Eyes Economy and the concept of the
Company of Ideas
, and previously b. Deputy Prime Minister and former Deputy Prime Minister Member of the Monetary Policy Council, Bartłomiej Biga, PhD from the Cracow University of Economics, Prof. Ph.D. Piotr Dominiak, Vice-Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology and Ph.D. Maciej Barczewski from the University of Gdansk. The scientific part will be moderated by Dorota Sobieniecka, director of the Gdańsk Business Club.

The part devoted to the practitioners’ perspective will be attended by, m.in. Zuzanna Skalska – trend analyst for design, innovation and business, Aneta Chybicka, PhD – psychologist, coach and director of the City Institute, Rafał Stepnowski – Vice-President of Boeing Digital Aviation, Maciej Grabski – President of Olivia Business Center, Jolanta Łykowska – CFO of Oceanic, Szczepan Kniter – President of Trefl, Marcin Pęksyk, PhD, specialist in the field of business valuation with particular emphasis on intangible assets. This part will be moderated by Ewa Sowińska, Vice-President of the National Council of Statutory Auditors and member of the Open Eyes Economy Programme Council.

Participation in the seminar is free of charge. Registration is available on the website.

The event is part of the preparations for the second edition of the international congress of the Economy of Values – Open Eyes Economy Summit 2017, which will take place on 14-15 November 2017 at ICE Kraków.

Seminar program

^{The organizers of this event are: the Foundation for Economy and Public Administration, the National Chamber of Statutory Auditors, MBA studies at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology, the Gdańsk Business Club and the Cracow University of Economics.}

^{The conference was held under the patronage of Prof. Ph.D. Eng. Jacek Namieśnik, Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology, and the honorary patronage is held by Jacek Krupa, Marshal of the Małopolska Region.}

^{Co-organisers: KIBR Education Centre, Responsible Business Forum, Institute of Internal Auditors IIA Poland, Eskadra.}

^{The organization of the event was supported by: CURVER, CRIST, DDS Poland, ESO Audit, Farm Frites, HK Finance, Jeppesen a Boeing Company, Olivia Business Centre, SEVENET.}

We cordially invite you to an expert seminar entitled: “Landscape Resolution. Between legal regulation and local government practice”, which will take place on 31 March, from 11.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor). The organizers of the event – the Metropolitan Institute and the University of Gdansk, Olivia Business Centre is a partner of the seminar.

The landscape resolution – a new tool in Polish law for the municipality to regulate the location of advertisements, street furniture and fences – still poses many problems. Not only is it difficult to prepare, but it also raises legal doubts, for example as to the procedure of enactment or the scope of interference with property rights. Therefore, the Metropolitan Institute and the University of Gdańsk decided to organize a seminar aimed at dispelling the indicated doubts and indicating practices worthy of imitation. And so, on 31 March, both practitioners: architects, urban planners, urban artists, officials, as well as theoreticians: lawyers and academics will meet in Olivia Tower in Gdańsk to discuss the key issues related to the landscape resolution. The event was divided into two expert panels. The first one, which is practical, will focus on the presentation of selected landscape resolutions, while the second one will focus on more theoretical issues, i.e. the structure and legal effects of this resolution – says Dominik Wilk, coordinator of the seminar. – The formula of the event is to combine two perspectives on the issue of a new instrument in Polish law, i.e. landscape resolution: practical and theoretical. Everyone: both practitioners and educators interested in the subject will find something for themselves. In addition, panelists will come from all over the country, which increases the range of perspectives presented – adds Jakub H. Szlachetko, PhD, Chairman of the Council of the Metropolitan Institute.

Seminar program

The Metropolitan Institute is an expert organization (think tank) integrating representatives of various scientific disciplines (law, administration, urban planning), as well as professions (lawyers, officials) and passions (social activists, volunteers). The mission of the Institute is to provide expert advice that is capable of independently conducting interdisciplinary research work, creating public discourse, as well as close cooperation with public authorities.

We invite you to the seminar titled “Firm-Idea. Real challenges, intangible assets”, which will be held on March 22, 2017 (Wednesday) on Fahrenheit courtyard in the main building of Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12 Street in Gdańsk, at 10 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

During the seminar we will try to define the concept of intangible assets, much wider today than patents or copyrights. According to prominent figures in the world of economic sciences and practitioners of management, the understanding of this issue may be the key to the adequate assessment of company’s condition, its resources and potential, as well as, most importantly, its further development.

In the discussion about intangible assets in business, the following experts will take the floor: Prof. Jerzy Hausner, who initiated the Open Eyes Economy and created the concept of the Firm Idea, former Deputy Prime Minister and former member of Monetary Policy Council; Bartłomiej Biga, PhD from Kraków University of Economics; Prof. Piotr Dominiak – GUT Vice-Rector and Maciej Barczewski, PhD from the University of Gdańsk. Scientific part will be moderated by Dorota Sobieniecka, Director of Gdańsk Business Club.

In the part concerning the view of practitioners, the following guests will take part: Zuzanna Skalska – design, innovation and business trend analyst, Aneta Chybicka, PhD – psychologist, coach and Content Director of Instytut Miasta, Rafał Stepnowski – Boeing Digital Aviation Vice President, Maciej Grabski – CEO of Olivia Business Center, Jolanta Łykowska – CFO at Oceanic, Szczepan Kniter – President of the Management Board of Trefl, Marcin Pęksyk, PhD, who specializes in business evaluation, with a particular focus on intangible assets. This part will be moderated by Ewa Sowińska, Vice President of the National Chamber of Statutory Auditors and the member of Open Eyes Economy Program Committee.

Participation in the seminar is free of charge. Register
here

.

The event is a part of the preparation for the second edition of the Economy of Values – 2017 Open Eyes Economy Summit international congress, which will be held from November 14, 2017 to November 15, 2017 in ICE Kraków.

Seminar programme

^{The event is organised by: Foundation of Economy and Public Administration, National Chamber of Statutory Auditors, Gdańsk University of Technology: Faculty of Management and Economics Master of Business Administration Studies, Gdańsk Business Club and Cracow University of Economics.}

^{The patron of the conference is Prof. Jacek Namieśnik, Rector of Gdańsk University of Technology.}

^{The honorary patron is Jacek Krupa, the Marshall of the Małopolskie Voivodeship.}

^{Co-organisers: KIBR Education Centre, Responsible Business Forum, Institute of Internal Auditors IIA Poland, Eskadra.}

^{The event is supported by: CURVER, CRIST, DDS Poland, ESO Audit, Farm Frites, HK Finance, Jeppesen a Boeing Company, Olivia Business Centre, SEVENET.}

 

On Tuesday, March 21, at 6 p.m. an open meetup focusing on cloud and devops will take place in Coworking O4. During the conference you will find out how Microsoft Azure, Amazon AI Services and Docker work and how they can be used in practice. InfoShare Academy is the organiser of the event.

After the lectures, the organisers invite to pizza, drinks and the exchange of experiences.

Speakers

KAMIL BRZEZINSKI
Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect in Microsoft. He has been working with new technologies for two decades. He is a leader, software developer, product owner and Internet author. In the past, he was the creator of many teams, which successfully built and implemented many best Polish mobile applications, including Gadu-Gadu messenger, shopping applications, such as Allegro, Ceneo and OLX, as well as many news applications, such as Gazeta.pl LIVE and Sport.pl LIVE. For the last several years he has been working in different market sectors in such companies as Alcatel-Lucent, Agora, Edipresse, Grupa Allegro, Motorola and T-Mobile, where he was involved in telecommunications, e-commerce, community and media projects. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications at Bydgoszcz University of Technology and Agriculture.

MICHAŁ FURMANKIEWICZ
Microsoft

Currently, he is working for Microsoft as Cloud Solutions Architect with the biggest clients in financial sector. For the last 9 years he was working as a productivity consultant and then as a financial sector architect and he was working with such clients as ING Bank, Millennium Bank, PKO BP and mBank. In his career he has also been responsible for one of the biggest private cloud projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Michał is passionate about new technologies and the way they are used in business. A cloud is perceived as a tool, which can help in a company’s transformation. In his free time, he willingly shares his knowledge and gives lectures at conferences and group meetings. He also runs a blog. Recently, he has been seeking a solution to the problem of dying bees.

DOMENICO CUCITI
Amazon Development Center Poland

Domenico is one of the software engineers building cloud services in the Amazon Development Center Poland. His team is behind Amazon Polly, the new AWS Text-to-Speech service, the same technology that gives the voice to Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant. Graduated in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality at the University of Aalborg (Denmark), Domenico worked on services for audio/video stream processing in Italy before moving to Gdańsk and working for Amazon.

MACIEJ KRAJEWSKI
infoShare Academy

Propagator of the management by objectives approach. He is eloquent and likes working with his and group’s energy. He has many years of experience in managing development teams. He has cut his teeth on implementing IT in classic methodologies (PMP certification and PRINCE2) and agilely implemented (LeSS). For 7 years, he was managing one of the company’s main products from a technological standpoint and was supporting a team as a devops and then as a technical director. He is a docker fanboy 🙂 Currently, he is a managing director in Yameo Sp. Ltd. He carries the torch of education and shares good practices with young people as a coach in infoShare Academy. After hours — an Ironman wannabe…

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We cordially invite you to the culinary festival of the Lobster restaurant on April 1-2 (Saturday, Sunday). On the occasion of April Fool’s Day, Lobster chef Jacek Lubawski in cooperation with the chef of the Eliksir restaurant Paweł Wątor and the chef of the Słowacki bistro Jacek Majcherek created as many as 12 surprising dishes. Creative combinations of ingredients, surprising names of dishes and joyfully low prices – the festival (not) for jokes at the Lobster Restaurant invites you to two evenings full of surprises.

What will be served during the two-day festival (not) for jokes?

JACEK LUBAWSKI (Lobster restaurant) – currently works as a chef at the Lobster restaurant. He gained his professional experience as a chef at Azur Restaurant (Ireland). He also worked in Vietnam. About the Pool Kitchen The Mediterranean, fish and seafood knows almost everything. She translates her unquenchable passion for cooking into practice in Lobster’s kitchen, where she creates creative dishes in new versions.
Menu prepared by Jacek Lubawski – available on Saturday and Sunday:

Appetizers
– lobster in orange | zł30.00
– crispy mussels | zł15.00

Main courses
– Butter cobia on stones | zł35.00
– Slapped, Wild Cabbage | zł30.00

JACEK MAJCHEREK (Słowacki bistro) – currently works as a chef at Słowacki bistro. A few years ago, he did an internship at Noma – the best restaurant in the world. He also worked alongside Gordon Ramsey. Thanks to his talent, he made it to the final line-up of the fourth edition of Top Chef.
Menu prepared by Jacek Majcherek – available only on Saturday:

Appetizers
– “salty sour herring” | zł15.00
– cranberries & goose | zł20.00

Main course
– (bacon) for sour apple | zł30.00
Dessert
– Gingerbread Samba | zł15.00

PAWEŁ WĄTOR (Eliksir restaurant) – a chef and dietician by education. He gained experience in prestigious restaurants of the Carice Holding group as a Sous Chef. He worked at the Warsaw Amber Room as Modest Amaro’s deputy. Co-author of the book Discovering Flavours with Marek Kondrat, he also helped creatively with the book Polish Cuisine of the 21st Century.
Menu prepared by Paweł Wątor – available only on Sunday:

Appetizers
– tanned sprat | zł15.00
– shrimps on pebbles | zł20.00

Main course
– sirloin with forest foam | zł30.00
Dessert
– Wine Jelly | zł15.00

You will be able to try the festival menu only during the first weekend of April – we encourage you to book tables.

Table reservations
0 (58) 765 18 04
restauracjalobster@wp.pl

The Between Heaven and Earth Foundation provides comprehensive assistance to families with terminally ill children who have been accepted as the Foundation’s wards. The assistance provided covers the following aspects:

HELPING TERMINALLY ILL CHILDREN

– we cover the costs of inpatient rehabilitation;

– we cover the costs of rehabilitation stays;

– we cover the costs of medicines, dressings and medical supplies,

– we buy rehabilitation equipment: rehabilitation beds and wheelchairs, standers, medical equipment, mattresses, lifts, stairclimbers and all other rehabilitation equipment;

HELPING PARENTS OF SICK CHILDREN

– we cover the costs of psychological assistance;

– we help in the purchase of fuel and food;

– we help in the renovation of houses and apartments;

– once a year we organize a weekend trip for parents of sick children;

– we assist in legal matters;

HELPING SIBLINGS OF SICK CHILDREN

– we help to cover the costs of school starter kits;

– We organize trips and holidays.

Donate your 1% of your tax to the Between Heaven and Earth Foundation.

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