30 Sept 2017

CEMS Breakfast - Digitalization and its career implications on 6 October

Dear alumni
Enjoy the breakfast with current CEMS students and discuss the hot topic of digitalization and its career implications. This event is co-organized with CEMS Club Prague. There is a limited number of available places (for alumni as well as students) so register as soon as possible. For more info you can check the facebook event.

Location: Secret of Raw Cukrarna, Rumunská 265/25, 120 00 Praha 2
Registration: cemsalumni@seznam.czcemsalumni@seznam.cz.

Vojta
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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CEMS Talk - Going the other way on 16 October

Dear alumni
I would like to invite you to another CEMS Talk event. This time it will be devoted to cemsies who chose not so typical career path for a cemsie.
How did they end up in the role they are doing now? What are they enjoying and what are  struggling with at their careers? What does the statement "make an impact" mean to the? What kind of lessons have they learnt about life and career choices so far?

Who are the speakers?

Jakub Stransky: CFO at Institute for Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Jakub is an exceptional financial expert. Instead of living in Wall Street, he has been managing finances in a one of the top institutes in the Czech Republic. Before that he worked in a NGO and also taught at the university. Come to explore his story, find more about his motivation as well as learn about the reality of a daily job in a non-corporate sector.




Dagmar Goldmannova: Executive Director at Via Clarita
Dagmar has left her HR career at L'Oreal to lead international NGO projects. In 2016 she founded a company providing philanthropic consultancy. Join our CEMS Talk to explore what is means to manage philantropic consultancy, how corporate HR differs from HR in an international NGO and what working in NGO is really like.





Valerie Kozelska Schafer: Founder at Coelsol & Preserver of Stara pekarna
After working at Henkel, Valerie relocated to Taiwan to study MBA. Back in the Czech Rep., she has founded a social entrepreneurship business importing solar systems and also started to renovate an old bakery house. Which learning from the corporate world can be applied in own CSR business? Why studying MBA can change one's life? How to run business from a small village?


Where does it take place?

At Nová galerieBalbínova 26, Praha 2

Ready to come?

Then sign up at cemslumni@seznam.cz and join us on Monday 16 October at 7pm! Check out the Facebook event.



We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Vojta
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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24 Sept 2017

CEMS Talk on the topic Building BIG: What an impressive start to CEMS Alumni autumn 2017!


Three top speakers, engaged attendees, beautiful venue, and great wine tasting created an unforgettable CEMS Talk.


What is the key take away from the CEMS Talk on the topic Building Big?
  • Learn from the best ones: Get the job in a top company in your area of interest
  • Become an industry expert: Understand the business you are in
  • Follow your personal values in your career as well as in your business without compromises
  • Find what you enjoy: Go for it, work on it, stay hungry, humble and persistent
  • Find a gap: Fill it in with a unique offering
  • Grow wisely: No need for rapid jump up
  • Choose great people who are better than you are: Don’t go only for good ones.
  • Be flexible and adaptive: See and use new opportunities that are constantly arising
  • Follow the signs
  • Give back

 

CEMS Talk is an event concept inspired by TED talk:

  • Every CEMS Talk is dedicated to a unique topic related to life and career in today’s world. 
  • Speakers are chosen based on their level of experience and relevancy for a chosen area. 
  • The audience is built from CEMS students and alumni, both Czech and international. 
  • The main purpose of CEMS Talk is to share real, authentic and honest stories and thereby inspire members of the CEMS Community in their future life and business choices.



Who were our three speakers?


Jan Hrdina: an extraordinary entrepreneur

Jan has managed to grow a family owned business into an internationally recognized company, #1 on the Czech market for wooden products. 
His success lies in the combination of:
  • unique product offering, 
  • focus on top quality, 
  • choosing the best people and 
  • following and embodying his personal values such as: fairness, honesty, transparency, family business, ecological approach, giving back. 


Radomir Salitros: a top star all across

Radomir became a VP in an Austrian banking group before he turned thirty. 
With his CV and experience, he could have had easily an amazing and secured career in the financial industry. 
Instead he decided to do what he enjoyed. He moved back to his home town in eastern Slovakia and founded a company producing luxury beds that is one of the top companies in this field internationally.
What is the magic behind? 
  • being transparent and honest,
  • staying hungry and humble, 
  • following the signs, 
  • learning from the best companies and then applying that in own business and 
  • based on his experience not trusting anyone.


Frantisek Peterka – a modern start-up entrepreneur

Frantisek does not see a difference between doing business in a digital or real world. Frantisek has already managed to establish and grow several top digital companies. 
His passion is the first stage of the entrepreneurship journey: building new company. 
Aiming to build a business for his wife, he founded the biggest and most successful shopping platform for kids and mums in the Czech Republic. 
Frantisek’s secret is build upon:
  • his desire for building new solution for customer needs, 
  • being adaptive, flexible and open to new opportunities and 
  • doing business with people he can trust as his family, friends, former colleagues.


We thank to our exceptional speakers as well as to all attendees.
We look forward to seeing you at one of our next events.
Pavlina on behalf of CEMS Alumni Board

PS: We are extremely happy for you feedback, below a few notes:

Hi Pavlina
Just wanted to thank you for a great event on Thursday, I had to leave quite early so didn't have a chance to say it in person Looking forward for more events like that
Nika (CEMS Student)
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Dear Pavlina, 
thank you so much for organizing the event yesterday - we all loved it! 
Kate (CEMS Student)
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Ahoj Pavlíno, 
včerejší akce totální liga, smekám za organizaci a děkujeme za úsilí, které jsi tomu věnovala.Budu se těšit na dalších akcích
Richard (CEMS Alumnus)
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Ahoj Pavlina,
Este raz dakujem za pozvanie a perfektnu organizaciu vcerajsieho eventu. Bol to velmi inspirativny a myslim, ze aj najviac autenticky event zo vsetkych CEMS podujati, ktore som dosial navstivila. Tesim sa uz na dalsie stretnutie. 
S prianim pekneho dna,
Gabriela (CEMS Student)


Pavlína
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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25 Nov: CEMS Alumni family event

Dear alumni
come and join us at another family event (yes, that means that the majority of participants will not be alumni but only potential cemsies :-)). The last family event went pretty well, no children discouraged from becoming a cems student and not parent went mad.


Where: Brumbambule (reservation made by Judita Bihellerová)
When: 25 November starting at 10:00 AM
Registration: Via Facebook or send me an email

Looking forward to meeting you and your children!

Vojta
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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11 Sept 2017

CEMS Talk - Three inspiring stories - one topic: BUILDING BIG on 21 Sep

How to turn a passion into something "real"? How to build on it and grow? How to expand? How to build BIG? There are the questions for our next CEMS Alumni event on 21st September at 7pm. 

Who is this evening focused on?

On those, of you, who:

  • want do some movement in their career,
  • would like to start your own business but are not sure how,
  • are entrepreneurs and want to move own business forward,
  • simply want to meet with inspiring people.

Who are the speakers?

Jan Hrdina: Managing Director at Asko a.s.
Jan has managed to turn his passion for wood into building a top company with wooden products in the Czech Republic. Jan is one of the most recognized personalities in the CEMS Community and for years a big source of inspiration for many CEMS entrepreneurs.



Radomir Salitros: CEO & Co-owner at Saffron Beds
In 2007, Radomir left his consultancy and banking career in order to follow his desire for quality sleep. Not only he established a successful company producing luxury and healthy beds but he also managed to acquire a major investor helping Saffron Beds to expand internationally. 


Frantisek Peterka: Founder and former CEO at Prodeti.cz, Founder and CEO at Driveto.cz
Frantisek is a modern entrepreneur, who has built two successful eCommerce companies within past 8 years. After creating, leading and lately selling the biggest eshop with goods for children in the Czech Rep., he has started recently his new project driveto.cz


Where does it take place?

At the FloorFloor! venue at Na Pankráci 30 A, 140 00 Praha 4

Ready to come?

Then sign up at cemslumni@seznam.cz and join us on Thursday 21st September at 7pm!

Want more :-)?

A part of the evening will be dedicated to little wine tasting

In case of any questions, please let us know!

Your CEMS Alumni Board