Until 5 October, a (real!) winter Formula 1 car was parked near Olivia. And until that day, you could take part in a contest for a “fireball selfie”. The award ceremony took place last Friday during an absolutely unique event! On the patio of Olivia Business Centre… bobsleigh track. Winter sports enthusiasts were also awaited by the athletes of the National Bobsleigh Team: Jakub Zakrzewski and Paweł Sarnecki. The gentlemen signed autographs (of course), revealed the secrets of training and talked – with great passion – about Winter Formula 1. It was possible to personally check how to control a car weighing over 300 kilograms and take part in the racing competition. There was no shortage of daredevils.

The first 3 places were taken by:

Totals: 00:3,26 (I place)

Garlic Team: 00:03,42 (II place)

Dziubasy: 00:3,43 (III place)

And here are twelve great ones;) The fastest and the bravest (the ladies setting the pace for the car from Lejdis) was something!

Congratulations!

We would like to thank our partners: Polish Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association, Energa and Starbucks Poland:)

We invite you to see an additional photo gallery on our FB:)

Cinema on Jupiter! Autumn… When the sun is a little less, when the evenings are longer, when we feel like a warm blanket, tea with ginger and a good movie…

Exactly… During Summer on the Patio, you told us that the cinema in Olivia is it! And the mini-cinema starts for you in October. You will be able to come here right after work, with friends and acquaintances, invite Grandma and Aunt Zosia (free team). We are also planning film cycles, brainstorming on how to make our mini-cinema “cosy”;)

We thought that you would be interested in films about passions, exceeding one’s own capabilities, believing that when we want, we can really do a lot… And here it is! Premiere at the Jupiter Cinema – ” The Best” directed by Łukasz Palkowski. Starring m.in. Jakub Gierszał, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Janusz Gajos, Kamila Kamińska, Anna Próchniak and Adam Woronowicz. See you on October 18th at 4:30 pm!:)

We will quote here an excerpt from Jędrzej Dutkiewicz’s review: Poles can also make films like Americans. Do you remember “Gods”, which tells the story of Zbigniew Religa? The creator of this work, Łukasz Palkowski, decided to prove that the huge success was not a coincidence. a he himself – like probably no one else in his home environment – has a perfect feel for Hollywood and knows how to model himself on it. This is how “The Best” was created. The film is a biography of Jerzy Górski. This is a character that many people have probably never heard of. In his youth, he was a drug addict, he had a brush with death more than once or twice. In the end, however, he decided to seek treatment. That’s how he came under the wings of Marek Kotański, a famous therapist who helps people recover from addictions. Górski’s new goal was to return to the sport he had abandoned after his childhood. He decided to try his hand at one of the most demanding competitions, triathlon. (…). The best is, as you can easily guess, a typical representative of the “from zero to hero” cinema. While in Palkowski’s Gods he was primarily interested in the protagonist’s struggle with his environment, and more specifically with the communist system in which he had to operate, in Górski’s Best Enemy is primarily himself. No matter where he is, he has to fight his weaknesses, he realizes that if he lets go even for a millimeter, he can go down again in the blink of an eye. Palkowski shows how incredible strength lies dormant in a human being, which basically each of us is capable of, if only we have motivation and a bit of support. Górski got a lot of help, from Ewa, who worked in the hospital, to the facility run by Kotański. He was able to take advantage of it, proving that it is possible to survive any oppression. More on the ppp.pl website

And here is the trailer of the premiere film in “Cinema on Jupiter”. Of course, c.d.n.

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Under the wings of innovative solutions, the annual ARINC 424 NDB conference has come to an end. For three days at the Olivia Sky Club, a group of world aviation experts worked on the development of navigation data in the ARINC 424 standard.

“The meeting was attended by representatives of companies such as: Boeing, Airbus, Leonardo Helicopters, General Electric, Garmin, Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, LSY, NavBlue, Thales, Elbit and others. It is worth noting that ARINC 424 NDB has gathered in Poland for the first time in history. It is a great promotion in the aviation world for the Polish branch of Jeppesen, Olivia Business Centre, as well as the city of Gdańsk itself” – explained Szymon Trąbała from Jeppesen Poland Sp.z.o.o

The event was opened by Rafał Stepnowski, President of Jeppesen Poland. The previous one was held in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

On Friday, 19 October, Olivia Sky Club, for the sixth time, hosted an annual auction for the wards of the Between Heaven and Earth Foundation, who are seriously ill children. The ceremony began a series of auctions that are organized every year in four cities in Poland – Gdańsk, Krakow, Wrocław and Warsaw. Their originator is the founder and President of the Foundation – attorney-at-law. Sylwia Zarzycka, who gathers the Polish legal and business community around the Foundation.

The evening at Olivia Business Cnetre was traditionally hosted by Marcin Żebrowski, with great commitment, and was graced by a violin and cello performance performed by Maria Sławek and Małgorzata Kuziemska-Sławek. The auction was attended by lawyers and businessmen from the Tri-City, who bid for the benefit of the Foundation’s charges from the Tri-City and the surrounding area.

The following were sold for the highest price:

• Kinga Burzyńska’s book “Film School. Conversations” with the autograph of actress Joanna Kulig – PLN 12,500.00;
• interview and professional photo session for the Tri-City magazine “PRESTIGE” – PLN 12,000.00;
• a ride on the race track in the passenger seat of a NISSAN GT-R in the NISMO version – PLN 10,000.00.

During the auction, the Foundation also presented its new film, which left its participants with a lot of emotions.

The celebrations of the Between Heaven and Earth Foundation are always a great experience, they take place in a very friendly atmosphere, and each person who becomes the winner of the auction has a sense of great sense of the support they are giving in this way.

“I am very happy that for the sixth time our Foundation could be hosted at Olivia Business Centre and I would like to thank in particular President Maciej Grabski for this. It is important to us that we have a permanent place in Gdańsk and that we can meet every year to support our pupils. Thanks to such initiatives, we can help very effectively; We cover the costs of rehabilitation and rehabilitation stays, the costs of medical supplies, medical equipment, medicines and care. We make it possible for our children of the Foundation to live with dignity.” – says Sylwia Zarzycka.

We invite you to see the photo gallery from the event:

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EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards handed out. Olivia Prime of the Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk wins the main prize of the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards in the “Office Project” category.

The eighth annual gala of the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards gathered in Warsaw Central and Eastern Europe’s leaders in the real estate investment industry. The most important event
in the region is dedicated to top investments and sustainable development opportunities.

Olivia Prime was designed in the spirit of biophilic design. This novelty means that the building is friendly to employees, and the architectural and functional solutions used in it are conducive to ensuring a balance between the moments of intense work during the day and moments of rest and relaxation that are so important to us. On each floor there are “green” loggias, terraces and external galleries. Olivia Prime also provides five additional terraces on the roofs of two cores of the building. Terraces and galleries have various functions: some are dedicated to relaxation, on warm days the largest one will serve the guests of the spacious restaurant on the first floor, and the highest is a viewing terrace. The design of the building is based on natural materials and vegetation; vegetation is also planned on parts of the façade. An additional patio, a green square with landscape architecture, cafes and restaurants will be built next to the building.

– Olivia Prime is the first building in Poland with terraces, loggias and galleries available to tenants and their guests. Everything is to serve one purpose: rising the employee satisfaction. Facilities for tenants will also include a spacious restaurant with an area of approximately 1200 sq m, with a large terrace where meals can also be served – explains Maciej Kotarski, rental director at the Olivia Business Centre.

Prime’s designers took care of the thermal comfort of its users. It is provided, among other things, by the use of a modern triple-glazed façade, which significantly reduces the impact of external conditions on the temperature in offices, minimising the need to cool rooms in the summer and heat them in the winter. This translates into convenience of use and, at the same time, reducing energy demand, and hence, reducing operation costs. Opening windows are a matter of course in Olivia.

What’s more, Olivia Prime is a two-core building. Prime A, commissioned for use in August, will be combined by means of a green connector with the currently erected Prime B office building. Investors will be provided with an office space reaching nearly 4,000 sq m on one floor.

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About Olivia Prime:

• • Height: 55 meters
  • Number of storeys above ground: 15
  • Number of underground storeys / car parks: 3
  • Space for rent in core A: 29,400 m2
  • Space of a storey of core A: 2000 m2
  • Architect:
    ARCHITECTS OFFICE BJK ARCHITEKCI
    

The CEE Investment Awards have been awarded to projects of the highest standards and quality criteria. They went to the personalities and companies that had the best results in the past year.

The winning building of the Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk, Olivia Prime, was among the prestigious investments nominated for the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards in the “Office Project” category.

• Olivia Prime – Olivia Business Centre
• AFI Karlin – AFI Development
• AFI Vokovice – AFI Development
• .big – Ghelamco
• Centrum Praskie Koneser – Liebrecht & wooD/BBI Development
• Diamentum Office Wrocław – Cavatina
• Equator IV – Karimpol
• GTC White House – GTC
• Nowogrodzka Square – Yareal
• Ogrodowa Office – Warimpex
• Promenade Gardens – Horizon Development
• Retro Office House – LC Corp
• Sagittarius Business House – Echo Investment
• Talan Towers – Astana Property Management
• Unirii View – Weerts Group
• West Link – Echo Investment

Olivia Business Centre – one of the most interesting business hubs in Poland, located in the geographical centre of the Tri-City, in close proximity to the university campus. OBC has been growing dynamically since 2010. Over 500 top companies have their address here, including Alior Bank, Allianz, Amazon, Arrow Electronics, Bayer, Energa, Noble Bank, PKO BP, PwC, Ricoh, Sii or ThyssenKrupp. Olivia provides residents with optimal conditions for functioning and development. Understanding that different factors determine the success of an enterprise, it offers them – in addition to the highest quality office spaces – access to specialized HR, IT and financial companies, companies providing consultancy, legal or marketing services, present at the centre. Tenants have also access to, i.a., 3 conference centres, medical centre with a pharmacy, CityFit fitness studio, junior high school, kindergarten, nursery, beauty salon, notary public and electric car charging station. Olivia actively supports the local community and implements numerous projects for the development and integration of the employees of the complex. Business, educational, cultural and sports events are regularly held here. There are over 600 of them annually.

EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards handed out. Olivia Prime of the Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk wins the main prize of the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards in the “Office Project” category.

The annual, eighth gala of the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards gathered in Warsaw the leaders of the real estate investment industry in Central and Eastern Europe. The most important event in the region is dedicated to top investments and sustainable development opportunities.

The award for Olivia Prime as the best office project in the CEE region

was received on behalf of Olivia Business Centre by Jake Jephcott, Director of the Business Development Department (in the photo in the middle).

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Olivia Prime has been designed in the spirit of biophilic design. This novelty makes the building employee-friendly, and the architectural and functional solutions used in it are conducive to ensuring a balance between moments of intensive work during the day and, so important, moments of rest and relaxation. On each floor there are “green” loggias, terraces and outdoor galleries. Olivia Prime also includes five additional terraces on the roofs of the two cores of the building. The terraces and galleries have various functions: some of them are dedicated to relaxation, the largest one will serve guests of the spacious restaurant on the first floor on warm days, while the highest one is an observation deck. The office building focuses on natural materials and vegetation, which is also planned on the façade elements. Next to the building, there will be an additional patio, a green square with small architecture, cafes and restaurants.

“Prime is the first building in Poland with terraces, loggias and galleries available to tenants and their guests. Everything has one goal: to increase employee satisfaction. A spacious restaurant with an area of about 1200 sqm, with a large terrace where you can also eat meals will also be a convenience for tenants – explains Maciej Kotarski, Leasing Director at Olivia Business Centre.

Prime’s designers took care of the thermal comfort of its users. It is provided by m.in. A modern triple-glazed façade, the use of which significantly reduces the impact of external conditions on the temperature in offices, minimizing the need to cool rooms in summer and heat them in winter. This translates into convenience of use and, at the same time, lower energy demand, and thus lower operating costs. Opening windows are a matter of course in Olivia.

What’s more, Olivia Prime is a two-part building. Prime A, commissioned in August, will be connected with the Prime B office building, which is currently under construction, with a green connector.

About Olivia Prime:

• Height: 55 meters
• Number of above-ground storeys: 15
• Number of underground storeys/ car parks: 3
• Area to be leased in core A: 29 400 m2
• Floor area of core A: 2000 m2
• Designer: BJK Architects

The CEE Investment Awards were given to projects of the highest standards and quality criteria. They went to the personalities and companies that recorded the best results in the past year. The winner of the Olivia Prime business centre in Gdańsk Olivia Business Centre was among the prestigious investments nominated for the EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards in the “Office Project” category.

• Olivia Prime – Olivia Business Centre
• AFI Karlin – AFI Development
• AFI Vokovice – AFI Development
• .big – Ghelamco
• Centrum Praskie Koneser – Liebrecht & wooD/BBI Development
• Diamentum Office Wrocław – Cavatina
• Equator IV – Karimpol
• GTC White House – GTC
• Nowogrodzka Square – Yareal
• Ogrodowa Office – Warimpex
• Promenade Gardens – Horizon Development
• Retro Office House – LC Corp
• Sagittarius Business House – Echo Investment
• Talan Towers – Astana Property Management
• Unirii View – Weerts Group
• West Link – Echo Investment

About EuropaProperty CEE Investment Awards

In the file below, we present our subjective activity plan for November. Among the proposals for you we have workshops, Cinema on Jupiter in two versions, trainings, meetings:)

Here are some suggestions:

6.11 – Creative problem solving in projects (workshop). Through this workshop, you will learn, m.in, how to use creative thinking techniques to solve design problems, what to do when there is no solution in sight to a problem or when a standard recipe is not satisfactory, and how to spot possible solutions even when there seem to be none.

7.11 – Cinema on Jupiter “Man on wire”. 15 wins, including the Oscar for the best documentary film of 2009! The protagonist of the film is Philippe Petit, a French tightrope walker who insists on walking in the clouds.

7.11 – Olivia TechWomen. We are launching a series of meetings and workshops with the participation of women from the technology industry under the common umbrella of OBC and its residents. The aim of these meetings is to develop the competences of the future of people who want to appear in the ICT industry.

8.11 – Plan like Kasparov (workshop). A workshop for anyone who wants to know how to use the strategies of chess masters in business and in their personal lives.

8.11 – Unusual History Lesson – We want to demystify history for those who are now bored at school! We invite children and teenagers aged 10-15 for an unusual and unusual (oh, guarantee!) fun history lesson!

It’s just the beginning of the week:)

 

The full schedule can be found below:

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For details, please visit: http://www.oliviacentre.com/events/ and https://o4.network/events-calendar/list/

 

 

Once again, we invite you to the Cinema on Jupiter! Already 7 November we have a document from 2008 for you “Man on Wire” (dir. James Marsh), telling the story of a French tightrope walker – Philippe Petit – who in 1974 walked on a tightrope stretched between the twin towers of the World Trade Center built at that time! If we were to advertise this film, we would only write 15 wins and 7 nominations, including:

• Oscar 2009 “Best Documentary Feature Film”
• BAFTA 2009 “Best British Film”
• Critics Choice 2009 “Best Documentary”
• Soundance 2009 “Best Documentary”
• Film Independent 2009 ” “Best Documentary”

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And in accordance with tradition, we will use a short review by Janusz Wiśniewski, published in Polityka on 25 March 2009. “Even before extreme sports and tourist space flights became fashionable, there were artists in the world for whom overcoming borders was connected with an almost mystical experience. For them, playing with life was not just a brazen display of bravado, but something completely different – a search for ecstasy, beauty, fulfillment. 35 years ago, Philippe Petit, a French tightrope walker who insisted on walking on the clouds, was such a daredevil. Thanks to a steel rope hung between the spans of the bridge or the towers of cathedrals, he was able to make this dream come true. Witnesses of his happenings admired the acrobat’s circus skills, his feline dexterity and composure, but he felt strangely unhappy. He dreamed of taking a stroll in the sky between the towers of New York’s World Trade Center – at one time the tallest buildings on Earth.

James Marsh’s feature-length documentary “Man on a Rope” tells the story of this crazy idea. The tightrope walker was looked after by friends. Under their supervision, Petit practiced, calculated the tension of the steel rope, measured the angles of alignment, and explored the ways of hooking. On August 7, 1974, he was suspended in the air, at an altitude of 410 m, on a rope fixed between the roofs of the WTC. This feat changed him. He became a hero. But also a slightly different man, for whom friendship no longer mattered. The film consists of accounts of people who participated in this artistic crime of the century (the whole action was organized illegally); There is a lot of archival material in it. The effect is extremely successful. It’s a cross between a thriller and a psychological drama that Herzog could have made. A well-deserved Oscar for the best documentary of last year.”

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And here are a few words about the premiere of the film “The Best” directed by Łukasz Palkowski at the Na Jowisz Cinema🙂

Photo: bestfilm.pl

Another meeting of Business Women in Olivia Sky Club is behind us. We hosted Aneta Chybicka and Katarzyna Poszewiecka, authors of the book “Plan Your Happiness”.

Olivia Business Centre and o4 coworking actively support professional activation and personal development of women in the Tri-City.

“We organize meetings with authors, trainings and workshops for women who want to spread their professional wings, are looking for motivation and inspiration, would like to exchange experiences, establish new contacts… This time we focused on the sphere of the psyche.” – says Dominika Rossa, Head of Women’s Coworking, o4.

As scientific research shows, as much as 40% of our level of happiness depends on our actions. We tend to be doomsayer, worrying, and negativistic. Our habits, on the other hand, affect our enjoyment of life. Aneta Chybicka and Katarzyna Poszewicka argued during the meeting in Olivia that it is actually us who decide how we react to situations that happen to us every day. If we unlearn bad habits in our minds and replace them with new habits, joy and peace will become our natural state. How do I change my behavior? How do we develop habits that will give us a sense of happiness in life? These and other questions were answered by both ladies during the lecture “Your happiness is your decision”.

Olivia was also visited by Paula Rettinger-Wietoszko, president of the Leave Your Trace Foundation and director of the Sensitive Festival, a festival of reportage and documentary on socially sensitive topics. Thanks to the participants of the event, the festival received concrete support – half of the value of tickets for the meeting. Once again, the female community of business Gdansk turned out to be reliable and creative.

The meeting ended with a discussion with Ewa Sowińska from ESO Audit, Aneta Chybicka, Paula Rettinger and Dominika Rossa from o4 coworking on the topic of happiness and ways to increase it.

Thank you!

The organizers of the meeting were ESO Audit, HK Finance, Olivia Business Centre, o4 coworking. Partners: Forum for the Exchange of Experiences, City Institute, Gdańsk Business Club, MBA Gdańsk, Magda Beneda.

Starting from February 2019, startups from all over the world will spend 3 months at Olivia Business Centre solving interesting business challenges defined by the Port of Gdansk, PZU Lab, LPP, Pekabex and Olivia Business Centre. All thanks to the Poland Prize program, financed by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development.

Representatives of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, the Poland Prize Space3ac accelerator and Corporate Partners were present at the olivia Business Centre, i.e. Olivia Business Centre, Pekabex, the Port of Gdansk Authority and PZU Lab, as well as local entrepreneurs, OBC residents and representatives of local administration and institutions supporting the program, will also appear.

The documents were signed by Łukasz Greinke, President of the Port of Gdansk Authority SA and Marcin Osowski, Vice-President of the Management Board for Infrastructure; Maciej Grabski, President of the Management Board of Olivia Business Centre; Beata Żaczek, Vice-President of Pekabex S.A.; Jacek Kujawa, Vice-President of the Management Board of LPP; Dariusz Gołębiewski, Vice-President of the Management Board of PZU LAB SA, Adam Korybut-Kotulewski, Legal Manager at Blue Dot Solutions Ltd. and Maciej Mickiewicz, Board Member COO at Blue Dot Solutions. The meeting was opened by Wojciech Drewczyński, one of the originators of Space3ac.

Poland Prize is a program encouraging foreign start-ups to start operating in Poland. Its aim is to effectively include foreign entrepreneurs in the Polish startup ecosystem. Of course , our O4 Coworking is part of this project:)

Poland Prize is also part of the Start in Poland program, which creates conditions for the development of start-ups in Poland at every stage – from the incubation phase, through development, to foreign expansion. The Poland Prize will give similar opportunities to the best startups from abroad. The potential for the development of startups in Poland is significant. In 2023 They are expected to generate up to PLN 2.2 billion, and the number of jobs created thanks to them is expected to reach over 50 thousand¹.

More about Poland Prize

 

¹Deloitte Diagnosis of the start-up ecosystem in Poland