SUCCESS OF THE 12TH ANNUAL BMDA CONFERENCE “A SUCCESSFUL 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION”
The conference took place on May 7-9 in Riga, Latvia, and was hosted by Riga Technical University. The unique event combined presentations of the Academic and Business leaders, TED format presentations of business solutions, specially designed questions-answers sessions, company visits, and fulfilling networking and cultural events. The Conference attracted over one hundred participants from 18 countries, and was sponsored by “Emerald Group Publishing”, SC “Linas”, “Oxford University Press”, “Islande Hotel”, JSC “Taurapolis”, and JSC “Cesu alus”.
The first day of the Conference, “Academic Solutions and Insights”, was dedicated for the academic and research community. During the first part of the day, the researchers presented their research papers, covering the topics of innovation and technology transfer for bridging academia and business, the role and impact of higher education institutions on success of the company, the role of leader empowering success of the organization, sustainability and social responsibility practices leading to success of an organization. Later, insights on writing a good research paper were shared by different stakeholders, including editors of “Baltic Journal of Management” (UK), journal “Economics and Management” (Lithuania), and journal “Economics and Business” (Latvia). On the second part of the day, tools and solutions for the Academic community were presented by “Emerald Group Publishing”, “Euromonitor International”, and “Oxford University Press”. Later, the International accreditation by IQA International Accreditation and FIBAA Accreditation was covered.
On the second day, “Business Solutions for Leading Organizations”, the Conference was opened by Prof. Dr.habil.sc.ing. Leonids Ribickis, Rector of Riga Technical University (Latvia), and Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas, President of BMDA, Dean of Adizes Graduate School (USA). The day was organized in TED format, with each of the 4 parts dedicated to the leaders and managers of the international and local business and non-profit organizations. The experienced international and local experts and consultants presented their business solutions in the sessions on what kind of a leader and what kind of a team the organization needs, how to find out and satisfy your client’s needs better, how to organize activities within an organization in the most efficient way, and how to do the “impossible” things and plan the future.
During the third day, “Business Solutions from Leading Organizations”, the success stories from the leading business companies “Latellecom”, “Etronika”, “Primekss Group”, and “Arvi Group” were presented. Later, the Conference participants took part in company visits to 4 leading Latvian business companies, “Draugiem.lv”, “Laima”, “Plockmatic Riga”, and “Knauf”. At the second part of the day, Dr. Virginijus Kundrotas, president of BMDA and Dean of Adizes Graduate School, shared the insights of the role of BMDA in integrating cooperation between business and academia. The conference culminated with the keynote presentation by Dr. Jagdish Parikh, the Chairman of A.L. Movers Pvt. Ltd. (Allied Lemuir), Director of the Lemuir Group of Companies, DHL Lemuir Logistics, Technova Group of Companies, and Noema (India) Pvt. Ltd. (India). The keynote presentation “Leading Your Self: Achieving Sustainable Excellence and Converting Knowledge into Performance”, combining Eastern and Western knowledge, shared valuable, personal experience and observations-based insights towards reaching the peace and harmony within oneself in nowadays busy and stressful business environment and becoming more effective and efficient at one’s work. At the end of the day, the success of the 12th BMDA Conference was celebrated at the Gala dinner at the restaurant “Hot’e”, enjoying the magnificent evening views of the Daugava river.
This BMDA Conference created the unique platform for debate, dialogue, knowledge and experience exchange between the Business and the Academic communities, as well as was the place for experiencing many meaningful and joyful moments together.
The Conference photos are available at the BMDA gallery 12th Annual BMDA Conference "A Successful 21st Century Organization" and at BMDA Facebook page .
Presentations of the Conference
The Conference proceedings of the extended abstracts (Conference CD)
