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AIESEC Alumni Conference 2020, Croatia

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Katarina Karalic
Katarina Karalic

This document announces the 5th annual Connect to Impact alumni conference in Croatia. It will take place from March 21-23 at the 4-star Trakoscan Hotel located near Trakoscan Castle, about an hour from Zagzag and 3 hours from Vienna and Budapest. The agenda includes skills development sessions, panels on career topics, and a parallel kids program. Speakers will discuss international sales, youth leadership, and challenges of the job market and education. A welcoming dinner and accommodations are included. The AIESEC Alumni community in Croatia has grown to over 200 members since 2015 and organizes regular events and activities.

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Welcome to Connect to Impact 2020! Croatia, Trakoscan Castle
We are excited to welcome you to the 5th Alumni conference in Croatia! Join us to celebrate five continuous years of Alumni activity in Croatia
Venue: ? 4-star hotel Trakoscan in the vicinity of the medieval castle in north Croatia ? 1h drive from Zagreb, 3 hs drive from Vienna and 3.5hs drive from Budapest ? Hotel has pool, sauna and jacuzzi facilities, along with the sport areas. ? Nearby study tour options include: Trakoscan Castle, trekking to Ravna Gora and contemporary Krapina Neanderthal Museum ? Party room will be in a private quarters, outside of the hotel (5 min walk) ? This venue is a well-known location to Croatian Alumni from 1996-2005 - we are looking forward to see the renewed venue!
Agenda: ? Personal skills development focused agenda. ? All sessions are in English. ? Parallel Kids agenda is available (in Croatian only) ? All speakers and panelists have been carefully selected based on the recommendations and their work experiences. ? Dinner is of an informal character (dress code is conveniently described as ¡°Formal Trackpants¡± ?)
Kids¡¯ Agenda: Kids¡¯ agenda has been imagined to be a parallel agenda to the Alumni conference to enable attendance of the family members. Accompanying kids are welcome with a discounted accommodation rate and access to the hotel facilities like pool and children¡¯s playroom. Our Alumnus Hrvoje, who professionally leads animation workshops for children, is in charge for the kids¡¯ agenda. Everything is set for a wonderful family weekend in Trakoscan! Hrvoje Selec, Leader of the Film creative studio VANIMAFriday, 21st Mar: ? Movie Night: animation screening Saturday, 22nd Mar: ? Introduction to the Movie by Hrvoje: World of Optical Toys - basics of animation, how to move images with optical toys, making optical toys, basics of film art ? The Modern Times ¨C playing with robots with Maja Hadziselimovic ? Trakoscan Castle visit: Explore, Discover and Shoot ¨C photoshoot and videoshoot of details in and around the castle ? Movie projection (attended by a professional child caretaker) Saturday kids¡¯ agenda finishes at 23:00 Sunday, 23rd Mar: ? ¡°What have we learned?¡± ¨C presentation by children to the rest of the C2I participants. (In Croatian only)
Speakers on C2I 2020: Inga Pihac Wiemers Volvo Penta Sales Manager for Africa Our keynote speaker lives in Sweden, works across Africa, Latin America and Europe. She is a passionate marathon runner and cyclist with 25 years of international sales experience. Bojan Stankovic Office Manager at Work&Travel Group Our young Alumnus is preparing for a travel across Asia, all the way to China to explore the topic of youth leadership
Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How to stay (motivated) in Croatia?¡± will address the issues of country¡¯s brain drain and what factors are important to stay happy and successful within the country. Valentina Djurek Vice Mayor of Zabok Earned her professor title while studying in Croatia, Colombia and US, school teacher and a local community leader. Nikolina Vuckovic Film&TV Producer and Entrepreneur Nikolina is also an environmental activist and has been awarded by AIESEC Alumni Europe for her efforts in protecting Cetina river.
Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How effective is traditional education in today's fast-paced world?¡± will talk about the challenges of up-skilling in a dynamic job market. Tomislav Bilic CEO at Inchoo An entrepreneur who leads one of the most successful eCommerce start-ups in Croatia Nina Begicevic Redjep Vice Dean for Business Affairs Nina is also an associate professor at the University of Organization and Informatics in Vara?din
Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How effective is traditional education in today's fast-paced world?¡± will talk about the challenges of up-skilling in a dynamic job market. Maja Hadziselimovic Robotics & Research Engineer MRK-Systeme While she lives in Germany, Maja also supports IT Girls Project Officer at UNDP in Sarajevo Irena Guszak Cerovecki Associate Dean at Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia Irena works both as a lecturer at RIT and as a property management consultant
AIESEC Alumni community in Croatia: Structured activities started in Oct 2015, inspired by the Porto international Alumni conference. Community counts about 200 active Alumni attending Alumi Talks in Zagreb (20 done till date!), Connect to Impact conference and informal forums like Alumni kindergarten, Zagreb Christmas market visit and sport activities. Signature Event organized by this community was 65th anniversary of AIESEC in Croatia.
AIESEC Alumni community in Croatia: The Board currently consists of 3 members (Ana Jovicic, Goran Bobanovic and Katarina Karalic) and the community operates without a formalized legal entity. All activities are organized by the task force teams who are engaged by the Board on a project-basis principle. Communication channel towards 500+ Alumni utilizes quarterly newsletters, FB and LinkedIN groups (and, of course, word of mouth). Croatian Alumni cooperate closely with the student AIESEC and are engaged in training and coaching sessions for MC and LCs. On ERAC 2019, the Croatian community was recognized with the ¡®Biggest Growth¡¯ Award by the AIESEC Alumni Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you in Croatia!

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AIESEC Alumni Conference 2020, Croatia

  • 1. Welcome to Connect to Impact 2020! Croatia, Trakoscan Castle
  • 2. We are excited to welcome you to the 5th Alumni conference in Croatia! Join us to celebrate five continuous years of Alumni activity in Croatia
  • 3. Venue: ? 4-star hotel Trakoscan in the vicinity of the medieval castle in north Croatia ? 1h drive from Zagreb, 3 hs drive from Vienna and 3.5hs drive from Budapest ? Hotel has pool, sauna and jacuzzi facilities, along with the sport areas. ? Nearby study tour options include: Trakoscan Castle, trekking to Ravna Gora and contemporary Krapina Neanderthal Museum ? Party room will be in a private quarters, outside of the hotel (5 min walk) ? This venue is a well-known location to Croatian Alumni from 1996-2005 - we are looking forward to see the renewed venue!
  • 4. Agenda: ? Personal skills development focused agenda. ? All sessions are in English. ? Parallel Kids agenda is available (in Croatian only) ? All speakers and panelists have been carefully selected based on the recommendations and their work experiences. ? Dinner is of an informal character (dress code is conveniently described as ¡°Formal Trackpants¡± ?)
  • 5. Kids¡¯ Agenda: Kids¡¯ agenda has been imagined to be a parallel agenda to the Alumni conference to enable attendance of the family members. Accompanying kids are welcome with a discounted accommodation rate and access to the hotel facilities like pool and children¡¯s playroom. Our Alumnus Hrvoje, who professionally leads animation workshops for children, is in charge for the kids¡¯ agenda. Everything is set for a wonderful family weekend in Trakoscan! Hrvoje Selec, Leader of the Film creative studio VANIMAFriday, 21st Mar: ? Movie Night: animation screening Saturday, 22nd Mar: ? Introduction to the Movie by Hrvoje: World of Optical Toys - basics of animation, how to move images with optical toys, making optical toys, basics of film art ? The Modern Times ¨C playing with robots with Maja Hadziselimovic ? Trakoscan Castle visit: Explore, Discover and Shoot ¨C photoshoot and videoshoot of details in and around the castle ? Movie projection (attended by a professional child caretaker) Saturday kids¡¯ agenda finishes at 23:00 Sunday, 23rd Mar: ? ¡°What have we learned?¡± ¨C presentation by children to the rest of the C2I participants. (In Croatian only)
  • 6. Speakers on C2I 2020: Inga Pihac Wiemers Volvo Penta Sales Manager for Africa Our keynote speaker lives in Sweden, works across Africa, Latin America and Europe. She is a passionate marathon runner and cyclist with 25 years of international sales experience. Bojan Stankovic Office Manager at Work&Travel Group Our young Alumnus is preparing for a travel across Asia, all the way to China to explore the topic of youth leadership
  • 7. Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How to stay (motivated) in Croatia?¡± will address the issues of country¡¯s brain drain and what factors are important to stay happy and successful within the country. Valentina Djurek Vice Mayor of Zabok Earned her professor title while studying in Croatia, Colombia and US, school teacher and a local community leader. Nikolina Vuckovic Film&TV Producer and Entrepreneur Nikolina is also an environmental activist and has been awarded by AIESEC Alumni Europe for her efforts in protecting Cetina river.
  • 8. Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How effective is traditional education in today's fast-paced world?¡± will talk about the challenges of up-skilling in a dynamic job market. Tomislav Bilic CEO at Inchoo An entrepreneur who leads one of the most successful eCommerce start-ups in Croatia Nina Begicevic Redjep Vice Dean for Business Affairs Nina is also an associate professor at the University of Organization and Informatics in Vara?din
  • 9. Panelists on C2I 2020: Panel discussion ¡°How effective is traditional education in today's fast-paced world?¡± will talk about the challenges of up-skilling in a dynamic job market. Maja Hadziselimovic Robotics & Research Engineer MRK-Systeme While she lives in Germany, Maja also supports IT Girls Project Officer at UNDP in Sarajevo Irena Guszak Cerovecki Associate Dean at Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia Irena works both as a lecturer at RIT and as a property management consultant
  • 10. AIESEC Alumni community in Croatia: Structured activities started in Oct 2015, inspired by the Porto international Alumni conference. Community counts about 200 active Alumni attending Alumi Talks in Zagreb (20 done till date!), Connect to Impact conference and informal forums like Alumni kindergarten, Zagreb Christmas market visit and sport activities. Signature Event organized by this community was 65th anniversary of AIESEC in Croatia.
  • 11. AIESEC Alumni community in Croatia: The Board currently consists of 3 members (Ana Jovicic, Goran Bobanovic and Katarina Karalic) and the community operates without a formalized legal entity. All activities are organized by the task force teams who are engaged by the Board on a project-basis principle. Communication channel towards 500+ Alumni utilizes quarterly newsletters, FB and LinkedIN groups (and, of course, word of mouth). Croatian Alumni cooperate closely with the student AIESEC and are engaged in training and coaching sessions for MC and LCs. On ERAC 2019, the Croatian community was recognized with the ¡®Biggest Growth¡¯ Award by the AIESEC Alumni Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you in Croatia!