The main meeting of managers in Slovenia
Management Congress is a unique space for critically and pervasively approaching the key challenges and opportunities that create the image of a modern business environment. It introduces foreign professional experience, considerations and findings into the Slovenian environment. It encourages thinking about the future of Slovenian management and the economy as a whole through varied and dynamic discussions. It takes the incentive for a broad social debate on the type of country we would like to live in and the role we as individuals or communities are willing to take on in order to shape the future of Slovenia. It creates incentives and proposes concrete measures for shaping the business environment, which will ensure sustainable progress and prosperity of the environment we operate in.
The two-day congress, which traditionally takes place in Portorož, is therefore one of the most renowned and important business meetings in Slovenia. Participants can choose from a wide array of lectures on selected current professional topics. It is a festive event with the most prestigious management award Manager of the Year and the Include.All award. Meeting of all key managers in one place makes the Management Congress a unique opportunity for socialising and business networking.
Management Congress is an event that every manager who responsibly accepts the role that he or she plays within his or her organisation as well as in the wider social sphere must attend.
Managers of the future – Who are the Future Leaders who know how to generate business and at the same time create an environment where the best personnel come from? What does the #ManagersforFuture CEC initiative mean?
What do uncertain times bring, and what do you, as a manager, need to know about the situation in international and local markets?
Not only companies but also countries are competing. Slovenia’s breakthrough – how should everyone take responsibility for their work to succeed? Why did we propose a development agreement?
And why 3P? People, Planet, Profit. Because there is no Planet B. In the light of digitalisation, artificial intelligence and green technology, this raises new issues in the competitive race.
It is no coincidence that the Management Congress will focus on the development breakthrough, also taking climate change into account. Triple bottom line or 3P – People, Planet, Profit and the question of the development agreement. In the meantime, the UN is holding a summit on climate change, the largest climate protest is in the pipeline, the EIB Bank intends to abandon fossil fuel financing, the climate is more important to Britain than Brexit, and we are expecting a debate on Climate and Energy Roadmap in Slovenia.
What does the Triple Bottom Line mean? To do business by adhering to three principles: financial responsibility, social responsibility, and environmental responsibility. It is nothing new – we have known it since the 1980s. But why is it so difficult for companies to master it?
By the way, 29 July is the day of ecological debt, which is the day when, according to the calculations of the Global Footprint Network, humanity has consumed as much natural resources as Earth can produce or restore in one year. Slovenia had already used its resources by 27 April. #EarthOvershootDay
Photo Gallery: Management Congress 2018
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PRE-CONGRESS PROGRAMME WITH OPTIONAL MODULES
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13.00–14.30 |
Optional Module 1 (Section of Women Managers invites): Unconference H2H (heart to heart) – relationships are everything. Optional Module 2: Thematic-business networking is aimed primarily at small to medium enterprises Optional Module 3 (Section of Young Managers invites): Meet & Greet on the GH Bernardin terrace |
15.00–15.15 |
MANAGEMENT CONGRESS 2019 OPENINGAleksander Zalaznik, President of the Managers' Association of Slovenia (MAS), and Saša Mrak, Managing Director of the MAS |
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PART 1: THE MANAGER OF THE FUTURE – and the European initiative #ManagersforFuture
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Leading in an Era of Constant Change - The Head, Heart, and Hands of Transformational Leadership |
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15.45–16.15 |
Holistic and Heuristic Leader: how to get to personal and professional excellence? |
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16.15–17.00 |
Debate: What will the managers of the following decades be like to successfully navigate their organisations in stressed conditions? Participants: |
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17.00–17.30 |
Break |
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PART 2: SLOVENIA’S DEVELOPMENTAL BREAKTHROUGH
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17.30–18.10 |
What should businesses prepare for in uncertain times? What have we learned from the last crisis? The story of the numbers. Global megatrends and opportunities for Slovenia |
| 18.10–19.00 |
Five points for higher wages – can we be a society of agreement to avoid a worst-case scenario? |
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19.00–19.05 |
Awarding the most active members of MAS in 2019 |
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PART 3: GALA EVENING
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| 19.05–20.30 |
BMW reception and a gourmet introduction to dinner |
| 20.30–22.00 |
The inspiration and motivation of Ishmael Beah, one of the most sought after young speakers, author of world’s bestselling books and a goodwill ambassador at UNICEF Awards: |
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After party on the terrace with Softnet Company |
3P – People, Planet, Profit
1. DEL: TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE – A PATH TO MORE COMPETITIVENESS
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9.30–11.00 |
Responsible Industrial AI: How to Accelerate the Impact of Industrial AI at Scale What is a human and what will be the work of the future superhuman? The New Business Paradigm of Digitalization - Sustainable Management |
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11.00–11.30 |
Break |
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The path to greater competitiveness lies in the green technology of the future and responsibility towards the environment and human. Myth or reality? Commentators: |
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PART 2: INTERACTIVE MODULE FOR PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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12.30–13.00 |
How little it takes to relax our body and mind |
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13.00–14.30 |
Interactive lecture with a workshop: The traps that make you ill and burnt out – how to avoid them? |
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Lunch for the most persistent |
For the participants of Management Congress we have provided lower rates at the prestigious Grand Hotel Bernardin which is located directly by the sea, between Portoroz and Piran. It offers an excellent wellness center Paradise Spa with saunas and various massages and an indoor swimming pool with heated sea water. All rooms have private balconies overlooking the sea. The hotel has a luxurious private beach.
GRAND HOTEL BERNARDIN 5*
Grand Hotel Bernardin Portoroz has 241 modern rooms with balconies overlooking the sea, including 10 luxury executive suites, 9 deluxe rooms and 7 mini suites. It features a swimming pool with heated sea water, the Paradise Spa wellness center, the restaurants Pecina and Grand Restaurant, the Grand Café and the Cocktail Lounge with piano music and a covered terrace. Wi-Fi is available in all rooms for free. The guests of the hotel are also welcome to use free parking in the Hotel’s parking lot.
HOTEL HISTRION 4*
Hotel Histrion is located by the former church of St. Bernardin. It has comfortably furnished rooms and apartments with balconies overlooking the sea or the lagoon. The hotel has direct access to the indoor pools of the Laguna Water Park and to the wellness, which includes saunas, various massages and beauty treatments. The hotel also features the Casino Bernardin, a children’s playground and a mini club.
HOTEL VILE PARK 3*
Hotel Vile Park comprising four villas is located within the site of Hotel Histrion, just a couple of steps from the sea. It offers a private beach, an outdoor pool and access to the indoor pools of the Hotel Histrion. Rooms of the Vile Park Hotel are built around the ruins of the bell tower of the St. Bernardin church; some of them offer a balcony.
