Prague College

The Master Speaker Series provides additional interaction and exposure for students of the School of Business by integrating high level business leaders from around the world into their academic and professional dialog. The series focuses on adding a practical value to the students of our MSc International Management Programme so that they can be inspired and educated from top professionals throughout various industries, both in profit and non-profit sectors as well as in cultural and political spheres of influence.

The Master Speaker Series gives our Postgraduate students a chance to ask questions to industry leaders that are pressing to them; it creates an opportunity to network and meet the greater Prague business community and inspire ideas for further research and study.

April 17, 2012 - "How to Win in a Financial Crisis"

Speakers: Head of Schools of Business and IT & Computing , Stefano Cavagnetto and the principal lecturer of the School of Business, IT & Computing, Bruce Gahir

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January 26, 2012 - “Socialism of 21st Century in Latin America”

Guest Speaker: Dr. Pablo Guerrero. 

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October 25, 2011 - “Economics: Body Without a Soul”

Guest Speaker:  PhDr. Tomas Sedlacek, a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at CSOB, former economic advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the Minister of Finance and a regular columnist.

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March 24, 2011 - "Portfolio Strategies in the International Environment"

Guest Speaker:  Josef Karasek, the Market Operations Director for The Coca-Cola Company in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltics

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January 13, 2011 - “Economics, Crisis and Philosophy of Our Age"

Guest Speaker:  PhDr. Tomas Sedlacek - Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at CSOB, former economic advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the Minister of Finance and a regular columnist as well as a sought-after media commentator

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December 8, 2010 - "Managing the Unmanageable - Witnessing the rise and fall of a small economy"

Guest Speaker: Asgeir Fridgeirsson - Founder and Director of ININ Consulting Agency and provider of public relation services mainly for Icelandic financial companies

Discussion: A review of how failures of the global financial markets between 2000 – 2008 created a heaven and hell in the small, open and volatile economy of Iceland which resulted in major political and social crises. What is there to manage when your weaknesses harm you and your strengths nearly destroy you?

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June 9, 2010 – “A Lifetime of Cross Cultural Management”

Guest Speaker: Jose Velasco - Former Director of the US Peace Corps for Latin America & Advisor to Arizona Governor

Discussion: Through his years of political service and his extensive career Jose addressed the importance of values while evaluating cross cultural situations using his own experiences in Latin America as practical examples. He also discussed the difficulties of managing multicultural teams and the impact of globalization on matters of diplomacy and immigration.

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May 25, 2010 – “One Nation, One Plan”

Guest Speaker: Jana Adamcova – Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Industry & Trade, Czech Republic

Discussion: Jana addressed the fundamental principles of strategic and risk management through her extensive experience in the public sector based on her experience of running multinational, cross-organizational, governmental campaigns directed outside of the Czech Republic.

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April 22, 2010 – “The Changing Face of Marketing 2010 & Beyond”

Guest Panel:
Ian Forrest - Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, GE Money Bank
Petr Topinka – CEO, MARK BBDO
David Neverceral – Partner & Global Sales Manager, CandyTech/Facebackers

Discussion: Through their vast experience, the panel, highlighted the patterns and trends that are developing for marketing teams and agencies in the Czech Republic and the region in a time when marketing budgets are being reduced dramatically. They addressed how their companies and others have worked through this period and how budgets have been re-focused and the new importance of social media and internet marketing in 2010 and beyond. Panellists also touched on strategies and milestones that have ended in success or in failure.

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“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history.” -Kurt Andersen, author of "Turn of the Century"

Prague College Special Guest Lectures 

Wednesday May 26 @ 6 pm - Design and the Creation of Reality
Thursday May 27 @ 6 pm - Vision: An Interdisciplinary Look into the Future
 

Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. He also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. 

His nonfiction works include The Hacker Crackdown, Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (1992), Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the next fifty years (2003) and Shaping Things (2005). 

He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine and writes a weblog. During 2005, he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy, and the Visionary in Residence at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. 
 
He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show, CBC's Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, and many other venues.

Bruce Sterling | Biography
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This special lecture series takes place uder the auspices of the Underground City XXI interdisciplinary project and the Prague College Master Speakers Series.