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Goyello, a Polish-Dutch IT company, is planning further dynamic development in Olivia Business Centre. The company has extended the lease agreement for office space in OBC, deciding to add additional space and move to Olivia Star. The Goyello team has been Olivia’s resident since 2011, i.e. since the beginning of the centre’s existence.

Goyello: young and talented

Goyello specializes in providing IT solutions created in accordance with the principles of the Agile methodology[1]. Goyello’s clients include companies from the B2B sector[2]. The company’s distinguishing features are flexibility, openness and partner relations – within the team and with clients, including companies from Europe and the United States.

In November 2016, Goyello celebrated the 10. birthday. During these years, the company has won numerous awards. She was honored m.in. the prestigious Dutch-Polish Business Award, a distinction for the most innovative and responsible companies that have a positive impact on Polish-Dutch economic relations. In the IT Leaders 2016 competition, Goyello won in the “Business Intelligence Trends” category.

Direction: development. In Olivia Star

Currently, the company’s office is located in the Olivia Gate building. The first contract, for 500 sq. m, was signed by Goyello in 2011. Within five years, the company had doubled the size of its team. The new Polish headquarters of Goyello, on the 9th floor of the Olivia Star building, is 1300 sq. m. space where more than 100 people will work. In accordance with Goyello’s motto: THINK, CREATE, CARE, the new office will be a place for focused work, creative work, creativity, substantive and social meetings and relaxation.

“We are proud that Olivia has become a place where companies like Goyello are developing so dynamically. Olivia is a place that facilitates companies in their daily operations, establishing contacts and relationships. Half of Goyello’s business activity falls on the time spent in the OBC. It is inspiring to see how a company that has been with us from the beginning is developing and achieving its goals, gaining recognition on global markets – emphasizes Maciej Kotarski, Leasing Director at Olivia Business Centre. – Goyello will move into Star, the most modern skyscraper in Poland. The building has a lot to offer to tenants. I am sure that thanks to its unique technological solutions and unique surroundings, Goyello has gained a place in the Star that guarantees the comfort of work, fosters creativity and harmonizes with the company’s philosophy and values – adds Kotarski.

Active in the Olivia Business Centre community

As a resident of the centre almost from the beginning of its development, Goyello actively participates in the life of the Olivia Business Centre community. Every year, on the day of the Dutch King, the team greets Olivia’s Residents with tulips, the most Dutch of flowers.
He also successfully participates in the Olivia Sports program.

– We believe that in order to be able to do good business, the most important thing is people and good relations between them. We care about the highest quality of relationships, which is why we care about our employees, our customers and partners. A suitable environment, such as in OBC, is also very helpful here. – says Katarzyna Szemro, Marketing Director at Goyello.

^{[1] Agile methodology – Agile is a set of values and principles used for effective and adaptive project creation, m.in. Software.}

^{[2] B2B – business-to-business}

It was festive, joyful, musical and delicious. And the Santa Claus Factory was working at full steam:) We present a short photo report from the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Olivia Business Centre Residents.

We would like to thank the Organizers and Sponsors of the Meeting:)

 

 

 

The long-awaited screening of the “Ekipa” movie took place on Thursday, December 8. The Olivia Business Centre and Gutek Film invited everyone to the screening and a meeting with Aleksandra Pogorzelska, a psychologist, trainer and coach working for the business.

How to create a single team out of a group of individualists and outstanding characters? What do the sport and the business have in common? Do joint sport emotions translate into professional relations and how? Can a defeat also be our success? Monika Bogdanowicz from the Olivia Business Centre discussed these topics as well as the effective management, motivation and energy with Aleksandra Pogorzelska just after the screening.

Aleksandra Pogorzelska specializes in the coaching work with organization managements and with managers during the implementation of the operating strategy, motivational speeches and training related to soft skills. She is a class II swimming coach. She has been taking part in triathlon competitions for 20 years, as a winner of many medals at the Championship of Poland in triathlon and duathlon; she finished nearly 100 triathlons, including two IRONMAN competitions (swimming for 3800 m, cycling for 180 km, running for 42 km). On the basis of her experience in sports and business, she created prestigious programs: Business Champion Development with the participation of Olympic Masters, Masters in Sports and Motivation and the Business Strategy Program optimizing all levels of operation in organizations.

The project was implemented as a part of the Olivia Cooltura.

It was the Christmas mood, joyous, musical and private. And Santa’s factory was working at full speed 🙂 We are presenting a short photo report from the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Residents of the Olivia Business Centre.

Our thanks to the Organizers and Sponsors of the Meeting 🙂

We would like to thank all participants in the contest for their commitment and creativity.

We are happy to announce the winners of the 2^nd edition of the Christmas Decoration Contest

1st place – KOKU Sushi

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^{Tradition full on – tasty classic gingerbread with fantastic decorations made of icing. Icing crocheting like on snow white holiday tablecloths made with the precision of a 3D printer.}

2nd place – Epam

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^{The decoration that fully conveys the essence of the holiday, i.e. the birth of Jesus. A beautiful accent of the nativity scene surrounded by the natural green of the moss and icy branches creates a harmoniously coloured whole.}

3rd place – HK Finance

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^{So much joy, optimism, freshness and colour on one ball! A simple and beautiful material, the tissue paper, refers to traditional folk decorations that used to be made of it.}

Companies such as Sii and Energa also deserve special distinction as they prepared so many decorations that Christmas trees in the Olivia Tower almost struggle under their weight! 🙂 Thank you very much for your passion and energy.

A few dozen decorations made by our Residents and by the children from the White Kitten kindergarten can be seen in reception halls. Just like last year, contest decorations will be stored to decorate Christmas trees of our centre in the years to come.

The winners will soon be informed of the date and place of the prize reception. Congratulations!

See all the contest decorations

We would like to thank the Talent Development Centre, Competence Call Center, Energa, Epam, Hays, HK Finance, Job Office, Koko Sushi, Biały Kotek Kindergarten, Randstad, Sii and Starbucks.

Colliers International, a global real estate advisory firm, has published its Office 2016 report entitled “Office 2016”. “Christmas in the big city”, where, next to Warsaw, Katowice and Poznań, Olivia was indicated as an example of a Tri-City office project with an attractive December program of events engaging tenants.

– The Tri-City project of Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk takes care of the festive atmosphere among the residents of the office complex by offering an extensive December programme of events. Starting from the Charity Christmas Fair, where the exhibitors are foundations and non-governmental organizations, through the Great Christmas Competition of Handmade Decorations, Santa Claus sweet surprises for every employee, to the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Residents of Olivia Business Centre. Guests in Olivia Tower can enjoy music, concerts, caroling, delicacies, drinks, snacks and Santa Claus. A Christmas tree fair is organized in the parking lot in front of Olivia Point. The competition for the funniest Christmas sweater is also very popular. In the last days before Christmas, a choral concert of Christmas carols will be organized on the patio. – Colliers describes in its report.

The full report is available for download on the Colliers International website.

We are very happy with the award and thank you, dear Residents, for your involvement in Christmas attractions. Without you, it wouldn’t matter.

The entire list of Christmas campaigns is available on our website.

Pomerania Development Agency has announced call for applications within Sub-measure 2.2.1. profiled investments – grant support. The contest is addressed to micro, small and medium enterprises. Applications shall be submitted from February 1, 2017 up to March 15, 2017. The total financial envelope allocated to co-financing of projects participating in the contest amounts to more than PLN 66 million.

Applications in paper form shall be submitted in person in the headquarters of Pomerania Development Agency S.A. (Olivia Six building) from Monday to Friday between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm, or sent to the following address:

Pomerania Development Agency S.A.

Al. Grunwaldzka 472 D, 80-309 Gdansk

Submission procedure

In the first place, application form shall be filled in and sent via Application Generator available on the website www.gwa.pomorskie.eu.

Afterwards, an application consisting of a signed application form together with necessary attachments in paper form shall be submitted to Pomerania Development Agency in person or sent to the aforementioned address.

Detailed rules concerning the procedure of submitting applications for co-financing are stated in point 11 of the contest regulations.

Types of projects covered by co-financing

Investments in enterprises which enable:

• the extension of sales markets and the range of offered products/services or the improvement of their quality – projects in the scope of intelligent specialisation,
• efficiency improvement thanks to information and communication technologies,
• the reduction of water, resource, material, transport and energy consumption in production processes, that is for example the economic use of resources and energy as well as reducing the emission of harmful substances

and consist in:

• infrastructure development and extension (including buildings, machines, installations and devices),
• updating the elements of tangible assets necessary for conducting and developing economic activity,
• introducing substantial changes to the production process or changes in the scope of methods of providing services (including electronically supplied services), introducing organisational changes concerning the implementation of company management systems, including environmental management systems, computerisation of production processes.

More information available at Pomerania Development Agency’s website.

Contest regulations

On January 13, 2017 at 6 pm, a special meeting with Marek Kamiński – Polish polar explorer, traveller and entrepreneur – will be held in O4 co-working space. In 2015, Marek Kamiński covered 4000 kilometres in 100 days on a legendary Camino pilgrimage route called St. James’s Path. Kamiński calls this pilgrimage “a journey inside yourself” and “the most important expedition in life”. During the meeting, we will have a chance to find out why.

Although Kamiński reached two poles, the expedition to the third pole turned out to be the most difficult one. Where is the third pole? In our heads. At the meeting, Marek Kamiński’s book entitled “Trzeci biegun” (Third pole) will be presented as well. The meeting will be conducted by Monika Bogdanowicz.

Traveller, polar explorer and entrepreneur. The first and the only man in the world who reached two Earth poles within one year. He took part in expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. He travelled across the Atlantic Ocean two times by yacht, walked through the Gibson Desert and in 2004 he reached two poles together with a disabled boy – Jasiek Mela.

He is an expert in the area of motivation and leadership. He is the founder of the Marek Kamiński Institute – a training company – and the owner of Invena S.A. – a leading company in the heating and sanitary industry. In 1996 he established the Marek Kamiński Foundation, which deals with implementing big social projects addressed to chosen groups of people in need, with particular focus on disabled people. The Foundation organises European Camps of Pole Conquerors for sick, disabled children, or children in difficult life situation.

Marek Kamiński is a winner of numerous awards: for his outstanding contribution to Poland’s promotion worldwide. For example, he was awarded with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Marek Kamiński is the author of many books. Currently, he is developing his authorial method (called Metoda Biegun) based on self-development, which teaches how to reach goals. He implemented this programme during his expedition to Santiago de Compostela.

Everyone is warmly welcome! Admission is free. You can register here: events@oliviacentre.com

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Next Monday (16.01), at 5.00 p.m., the Opening Conference of the Tri-City Financial Education Center EuroCash will be held at Business Link (Olivia Gate A building, 1st floor). We cordially invite you, the conference is free of charge.

The organizers want to change the world by helping and raising public awareness in the field of financial education. The Euro Cash game is not only entertainment, but also an amazing educational tool, thanks to which people discover their own financial habits, get out of debt, develop their businesses and start investing consciously!

During the conference:

• you will learn how rich people act, how they manage their money and how they invest, and what habits they have that make their wealth multiply infinitely,
• you will meet people who are entrepreneurs, Investors. People who have achieved a lot of success in life. You’ll also learn what mistakes they’ve made along the way, so you can avoid them. You can’t learn how to be rich, but you can become one by taking the right actions, learning from your failures, following the example of other people who have gotten where you want to go. At the conference, you will gain access to this knowledge.
• you will meet Financial Education Trainers, as well as other potential members of the Club,
• you will be able to take advantage of the IQ Continuous Financial Development Program,
• You will play a game that is a simulation of business life and you will learn not only WHAT you need to do, but also HOW to do it to achieve one effect: your own inexhaustible source of income.

Do you want to be financially independent? Take advantage of the opportunities that are now opening up for you!

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New year usually brings new plans and objectives to be accomplished. Often such plans are converted into real events, experiences and successes. But as often ambitious intentions remain just a trace in our memory. How to convert such concepts, ideas, dreams into projects that could change us and our surrounding we talked at the author’s meeting at the Olivia Business Centre with Marek Kamiński, a traveller, polar explorer, businessman. The event took place on 13 January at O4 coworking space of the Olivia Business Centre within the interdisciplinary OBC project, Olivia Cooltura.

The book “The Third Pole” and the film “Pilgrim. Camino by Marek Kamiński” directed by Jan Czarlewski, are excellent sources of knowledge of the expedition, a “pilgrimage between the poles of faith and mind”, as Marek Kamiński calls the space between Kaliningrad and Santiago de Compostela. This is an extraordinary tale on the way, people, contemporary Europe. The story happened in 2015. Marek Kamiński walked then 4000 km in 100 days following the legendary Camino pilgrimage route, called St. James’s Path. Kamiński calls the travel “a journey inside himself”, “the most important expedition in life”.

The numerous audience at OBC (a record number of guests, over 130 people!) listened to Marek Kamiński’s lively account in his mental preparations to the expedition that gave the traveller a different, new dimension. At the beginning, when he started to think about the route (over 13 years ago), he had only one goal in mind: “Go to Santiago”. Afterwards, a strong need for personal development arose – during the trip and conversations with the people he met on he way.

In a conversation with the moderator of the meeting, Monika Bogdanowic of the Olivia Business Centre, Marek Kamiński told us why being active physically and mentally is our internal choice and that it is worth following your heart in life. As usually, very vividly and in an interesting way he spoke about his thoughts concerning Camino. He revealed that the trip was not only a great adventure and an opportunity to meet magnificent people but also a unique lesson of history, humility, patience, resilience. It turned out that the most important experience and the most important lesson Marek Kamiński learned from the trip was a spiritual lesson, the realisation that the trip gave him what he had been looking for, gave him sense and peace of soul. Finding new objectives and new roads to walk.

The route that Marek Kamiński intended to cover seemed uncomplicated at the beginning to those that he had already made. It led through easy lowland regions of Central and Western Europe; however, finally it proved to be for Marek Kamiński as exhaustive physically and mentally as his polar expeditions. Due to the fact that the pilgrimage was demanding, the traveller was able to fully live through his spiritual transformation. And find a sense of a real pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

During the expedition, Kamiński met many interesting people: students who supported him with finding a place to stay overnight, shared their modest resources or supported him on the route accompanying him for several kilometres, people associated with science and church, to other enthusiasts, travellers and pilgrims. The meetings gave a lot of good things to the traveller, unselfish help and interesting and inspiring conversations.

Full photo report from the event

We invite you to the next meeting in the Olivia Cooltura cycle to be held on 20 February at 6 p.m. at the Olivia Sky Club. We will host Maciej Kosycarz, a photojournalist, associated with Gdańsk and Pomerania.

Enrolment at events@oliviacentre.com