This week, on 26-27 November, CEEMAN (Central and East European Management Development Association) is organizing “CEEMAN Executive Education Forum on Entrepreneurship Development”, taking place at MIB School of Management in Trieste, Italy. The Forum will gather over 40 company and business schools representatives from 18 countries, who will discuss on how executive education could effectively support entrepreneurship development.

Entrepreneurship is perceived as a vehicle to revive economic development and achieve necessary structural changes. On the other hand, most business schools worldwide are facing certain decline in their executive development and corporate programs. The Forum provides a platform for a productive dialogue on how to bring together the main learning partners in the area of entrepreneurship development and create synergies that we all are looking for.

The topic of the event, as well as prominent presenters from entrepreneurial firms, corporations, banks and venture capital firms, science parks, business schools and universities, and other organizations and agencies involved in the development of entrepreneurship, provide guarantee for a vivid discussion and exchange of views on how executive education could effectively support entrepreneurship development.

Speakers include: Bert Twaalfhoven, serial entrepreneur, founder and president of Indivers BV and owner of Maren NV, the Netherlands, Andrea Illy, CEO, illycaffè, Italy, Sandi Češko, co-founder and president of Studio Moderna Group, Slovenia, Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani, Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, Italy, Gian Carlo Michellone, Chairman, Area Science Park Trieste, Italy, Federico Marescotti, CEO, Friulia SpA, Italy, Marco Coccagna, ENI Corporate University, Italy, Renaud Redien-Collot, Deputy Director, ADVANCIA, France and others.

More information, including detailed program and speakers CVs, is available on CEEMAN website

CEEMAN – Central and East European Management Development Association is an international management development association fostering the quality of management development and change processes by developing quality education, research, consulting, information, networking support, and other related services for management development institutions and corporations operating in transitional and dynamically changing environments.

Established in 1993 with the aim of accelerating the growth and quality of management development in Central and Eastern Europe, gradually CEEMAN has become a global network of management development institutions working mainly in emerging markets and transition economies.

CEEMAN has 170 institutional and individual members from 42 countries in Europe, both Americas, and Asia and is headquartered at the IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia.

MIB School of Management (Trieste, Italy) is one of the leading business schools in Italy and a leading international center of advanced learning, both for young graduates as well as for entrepreneurs and managers. It develops high-quality educational programs strongly oriented to the specific needs of the labor market, and conducts research in the main areas of international management. Founded in 1988 as a link between the world of research and the business and enterprise system, it has a strong rooting in Europe and an effective operating ability within a global dimension, creating educational programs capable of attracting participants from all over the world.