Virtual Events Archives

Localized: How to Start a Career in Cryptocurrency After Graduation

DATE & TIME

8 February, 2022

1:00pm ET

LOCATION

Zoom

Are you driven by tech? Are you searching for a role in a fast growing and rapidly advancing industry? Have you thought about a career in crypto?

Cryptocurrency’s hype goes beyond coin investments and NFTs. Governments, organizations, and even financial institutions and regulators are realizing the benefits of going digital and adopting cryptocurrencies as an official payment method. The top tech companies are already looking at creating their own currencies, while other more traditional companies like Nike, and Coca-Cola have entered the NFT space.

The good news is many of these jobs are still developing, meaning in some cases they require absolutely no experience. The even better news is that with such large adoption and advancements the hunt for fresh talent is at an all-time high.

But how can you take advantage and prepare yourself to enter a career in such a transformative industry without any formal education? And how can you possibly know if a career in cryptocurrency would suit you?

In this session with Estaban Castano, Co-founder and CEO at TRM Labs, we will discuss:

How you can upskill during university or after graduation
Where to look to develop essential knowledge about the industry
What technical and non technical jobs are available for graduates
What makes the crypto space interesting
How you can transition into crypto from a different industry.

About Esteban:

Esteban Castaño is co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence firm that helps governments, financial institutions and cryptocurrency businesses manage risk and prevent financial crime. Prior to TRM, Esteban led the technology team at Generation, the largest education-to-employment non-profit, and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he focused on the fintech sector. Esteban holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth.

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The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series-University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

The Distinguished Speakers in International Business Series (DSS) brings together policymakers, industry leaders, academia, and students to present and discuss emerging trends in international business throughout the year.

The DSS is supported by the Title VI CIBE grant provided by the U.S. Department of Education to foster international understanding and promote the ability for U.S. businesses to compete globally.

Upcoming Event

Promise and Peril: Global Trends 2021-2026

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

5-6 p.m. EST

Attend virtually or in person.

Join the Center for Global Business and CGB Academic Director Kislaya Prasad for a discussion with Erik Peterson, managing director of Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, on Promise and Peril, the Kearney report that outlines the five significant trends that will dramatically shape the global outlook and operating environment from 2021 through 2026. Trends include the race for quantum supremacy, rise in water dislocations, ungovernability, mainstream central bank digital currencies, and the new age of genetic manipulation.

Participants will have the option to attend this event in person or virtually. Please register and choose your preference. Participants who opt to attend the event in person will go to Room 2333, Van Munching Hall. Virtual participants will log in using the Zoom information they receive upon registration.

More Information

Energy Access on the African Continent

Event Overview

In Africa, the number of people gaining access to electricity rose from 9 million a year between 2000 and 2013 to 20 million people between 2014 and 2019, outpacing population growth. Despite that fact, in Sub-Saharan Africa, just 46.7% of the population had access to electricity in 2019.

How do we make sure that energy is more widely accessible in Africa in a world becoming more conscious about climate change? How should we balance Africa’s rising energy needs and the world’s increasing need for clean energy generation?

Join Stanford Seed for a thought provoking discussion with our panel of experts on the topic of Energy Access in Africa.

Speakers

Zeru Junior Kwebiihia, Head of Strategic Marketing, ENGIE Energy Access
Justus Mucyo, Managing Director/Rwanda, BBOXX

Date & Time

Saturday, January 29, 2022

9:00am PST
5:00pm GMT
7:00pm CAT
8:00pm EAT

Questions? Please email tintinyw@stanford.edu.

Localized: Become a CEO for One Month

DATE & TIME

Wednesday 26 January 2022

9:00 AM / 14:00 GMT

LOCATION

Zoom

Have you ever thought about what it would take to be in a leadership role? What if that leadership role involved managing over 30,000 employees?! The Adecco Group program, CEO for 1 month will offer you the unique experience to get a feel for what it’s like to run a multinational company. This program selects qualified candidates from 60 countries to get hands-on experience in the highest role of the company.

Are you curious?

In this session, you’ll hear from Mani Makkar, the chosen candidate for 2021 Global CEO for One Month! Mani will share his experience, his tips and advice for the application and give you an opportunity to ask specific questions about his experience and what he learned so far.

Bonus: This program is completely free and the winner will receive a salary during work placement!

You will learn:

✅ About the Adecco CEO for One Month Program
✅ How to qualify to be a top ten candidate
✅ Benefits of joining the program
✅ About the experience of the winner of CEO for One Month

Who is this for? Individuals who answer yes to the following:

✅ Do you want hands on experience?
✅ Are you an enthusiastic thinker with a genuine personality?
✅ Can you adapt to change quickly?
✅ Are you willing to step outside of your comfort zone?

About Mani Makkar:

A 2017 Batch MBA Gold Medalist from MICA, Mani believes in the power of stories. He shifted from telling stories in the glorious world of media to making stories in the SaaS world glorious. He currently leads product marketing initiatives for Netomi, an AI for customer service startup, based out of Silicon Valley. Mani was selected out of 147k+ applicants as Adecco Group’s Global CEO for One Month 2021. During weekends, he mentors B-school students & young professionals to help them transition careers & also regularly speaks at marketing events.

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Localized Workshop: How to Highlight Transferrable Skills

DATE & TIME

Sunday 23 January 2022

1:00 PM / 18:00 GMT

LOCATION

Zoom

Are you looking to transition to a new field? Are you looking for a new opportunity but not sure what existing skills that you have are relevant? Join us in this Career Development Workshop with our Career Coach in Residence, Iyad Uakoub, to learn:

Applying for opportunities by their job description and not title
Understanding transferable skills and how to pivot into a new industry
Building functional resumes that better highlight your capabilities and skills

About Iyad:

+12 years of global experience in building award-winning career centers, advising startups, empowering organizations with workforce learning & engagement strategies and leveraging data and technology to democratize career opportunities. Learn more about Iyad here.

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Workplace Readiness: Essential Skills

DATE & TIME

Sunday 23 January 2022

1:00 PM / 18:00 GMT

LOCATION

Zoom

Your university courses and activities have played an integral role in building your foundational functional performance and academic knowledge to prepare you for the workplace.

In order to succeed in your career and achieve your goals, you will need people skills and professional skills such as teamwork, communication, initiative-taking, responsibility, work-ethics and other skills that are unique to the workplace. In this session with our Career Coach in Residence, Iyad Uakoub, we will demonstrate how you can build these skills to ensure that you are ready to transition from the classroom to the workplace.

About Iyad:

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Digital Transformation: Opportunities and The Employment Landscape

DATE & TIME

Monday 24 January 2022

10:00 AM / 15:00 GMT

LOCATION

Zoom

Digital Transformation enhances an organization’s operations to deliver greater value to its customers and stakeholders and it also improves the customer experience and the relationship they have with the organization’s brand. This is achieved by the integration of innovative technologies into every aspect of the business.

With Digital Transformation also comes a cultural change that requires organizations to innovate, challenge the status quo, experiment, and continually assess and monitor for improvements 🚀

What does that mean for students, recent graduates, and early career professionals? What opportunities does Digital Transformation bring and how can they enter the field? Join this Expert Session with Rami Kichli, Vice President, Gulf & Levant at Software AG to learn:

✅ Digital Transformation applications, trends, impact, and opportunities
✅ The employment landscape around Digital Transformation
✅ How to start a career in the field and how to switch from different industries
✅ Essential skills and what recruiters look for in fresh talents

About Rami Kichli:

Rami Kichli is the Vice-President for Software AG in the Gulf and Levant. He brings to Software AG a strong track record of building businesses with his strategic vision while also integrating sales and marketing to achieve revenue growth. He oversees business operations, talent and ventures and steers the profitability requirements of the business as determined by the strategic plans.

Rami also navigates the branding and marketing function for the region in tandem with its global positioning. He works closely in line with each country’s national vision across the region by developing strong alliances while also tapping into newer market segments. Prior to joining the company, he worked at leading technology firms such as SAP, Cisco and several other multinationals in the region.

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Woxsen University’s National Symposium: Reimagining Global Education in Business Schools

It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to an International Symposium “Reimagining Global Education in Business Schools” being organized by Woxsen University in association with ETS, the leading provider of educational testing and assessments for GRE and TOEFL examinations. This event shall be broadcasted live on the 24^th of January, 2022 (Monday) on Zoom from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST).

Brief Background

Creating global citizens and leaders from today’s youth calls for innovative curricula that support new ways of teaching and learning. These curricula must also provide students with effective opportunities to develop the dispositions, knowledge, and capabilities to understand the world in which they live, to make sense of the ways globalization shapes their lives, and to be good stewards of the world’s resources.

These are momentous and exciting times for business education! The current operating landscape faced by many business schools globally is one defined by an increasingly dynamic range of opportunity, uncertainty and risk. One of the challenges for higher education in the current era is the strategic need to adapt to an external environment that is changing much more rapidly and unpredictably than that of the higher education sector itself.

Given the dynamically changing world around us, it is imperative for business schools to evaluate traditional models and processes that intentionally or inadvertently support operating in academic isolation. Shifts in market demand for how business education is delivered is driving business education to innovate and to “unpack” traditional full-time degree programs. This suggests that, in addition to traditional degree offerings, business schools increasingly may provide shorter, flexible, modularized, and just-in-time educational experiences that support professionals throughout all stages of their careers.

To help understand the changing landscape, we have invited the ETS members for sharing their insights.

It’s time to herald a new standard in business education!

After registering, you will receive an auto-confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

AACSB Deans Conference (Virtual)

Overview

Vision and Action

The AACSB Deans Conference convenes business school leaders to address common challenges but, more importantly, to create and share solutions that will outlast the disruption and create positive impact.Join us virtually at the largest global event for business school deans to focus on business school strategy, emerging trends, societal impact, and leading change. With new networking opportunities, roundtable discussions, and a flexible schedule, the deans conference is a rich and engaging experience that connects longtime colleagues with newly appointed heads of business education units and AACSB leadership.

By learning from each other, we can become more impactful leaders, innovate in our curriculum, build more flexible faculty and staff, and create better student outcomes. This event is exclusively for deans and heads of higher education business units (i.e., the highest academic authority or official of the entire business unit), and AACSB business members in leadership roles. Registration substitutions (i.e., replacing one individual with another individual for the same event) will not be granted for this event.

Conference Topics

💡 Building societally impactful organizations. How can we instill values through our curricula?

👩‍🎓 Lessons from the trenches. Advice from deans in every stage of their careers.

🤍 A new focus on wellbeing. Addressing the mental health of our students.

👩🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏼 Diverse and active leadership. How can we be diverse, inclusive, and socially aware in an increasingly polarized academic environment?

🔨The strategic dean. Conduct effective strategic planning and execution as a source of financial strength and risk mitigation.

Who Should Attend

This event is exclusively for deans and heads of higher education business units (i.e., the highest academic authority or official of the entire business unit), and AACSB business members in leadership roles. Registration substitutions (i.e., replacing one individual with another individual for the same event) will not be granted for this event.

Date(s)

February 8-11

Agenda

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Registration

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Localized Workshop: How to Answer “What are Your Weaknesses?”

DATE & TIME

Sunday 16 January 2022

1:00 PM / 18:00 GMT

LOCATION

Zoom

What are your weaknesses? Why should we hire you? Why are you interested in this position? Why did you leave your last position? These are some of many difficult questions that you will most likely be asked at an interview. In this Career Development Workshop, our Career Coach in Residence, Iyad Uakoub, will guide you in preparing to answer difficult interview questions to stand out as a candidate and impress employers

About Iyad:

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