OVERVIEW OF THE 14TH ANNUAL BMDA CONFERENCE “CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUCCESS IN FAST CHANGING ENVIRONMENT”
As the 14th Annual conference became a history, we would like to share with you the most important aspects of the Conference in Minsk and provide you the overview of this successful and full of interesting insights event.
The first day of the Conference, “Academic Solutions and Insights”, was dedicated for the academic community. During the first part of the day, international and local representatives of academic community were presenting their research papers on topics related to “Contemporary technologies for Success in fast changing environment”.
After lunch the sessions were dedicated for Leaders of the Business Schools, Universities as well as Corporate Universities. During it, experienced rectors and deans from all around the world (Montenegro, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, etc.) were sharing their successful cases of Customer Needs Satisfaction. The second session was focused on how to evaluate and measure the outcome of Business Schools Services. The representatives of major management associations (AACSB, CEEMAN, EFMD) were sharing their insights, what is the good outcome of Business School work.
The second Conference day, “Business Solutions for Leading Organizations”, started with welcome words from Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas, President of BMDA, Mr. Alexander Pankov, Director of Consulting Group “Zdes I Sejchas” and Chairperson of the Conference – Dr. Irina Sennikova, Rector of RISEBA.
After it, online presentation via Skype was made by Mr. Andrew Crisp, who shared his insights on How Employers can Work with Business Education to Deliver Better Graduates. Later, the experienced international and local leaders and managers of business and consulting organizations presented their business solutions in the sessions on how to use technologies for understanding our current customers and their needs better, faster and in more efficient way, what technologies could support managerial processes, how to use technologies to increase the speed and quality of changes and what are leadership technologies for keeping the best people and make them to be the team.
During the third day, “Business Solutions from Leading Organizations”, the Conference participants took part in company visits to 5 leading business companies in Belarus - ALUTECH, ADANI, VONDEL/HEPTA, WARGAMING, ENCATA, where participants were able not only to hear, but also to see the results of the successful management. On the second part of the day, success stories from the leading business companies “Kusto Group holding”, “1C-Rarus Group of Companies”, “SPLAT” were presented. The conference culminated with the keynote presentation of Dr. Jagdish Parikh (Professor, Dr. from Harvard University and author of many books on Leadership and Management, Managing Director of the Lemuir Group of Companies, India) who presented Personal Technologies for Success in a Changing World. At the end of the day, the success of the 14th BMDA Conference was celebrated at the Gala dinner at the restaurant “Panorama”, enjoying the magnificent evening views of Minsk city center and international networking!
This BMDA Conference was the unique event which gave the opportunity for its participants to debate, discuss, exchange knowledge and experience, as well as experience many meaningful and joyful moments together.
Moreover, first time in BMDA history the simultaneous translation was provided for participants in both languages – English and Russian.
BMDA teams thanks everyone, who contributed to the success of the Conference and look forward to see you next year!
