Enactus Starter Conference!
3-4 of November| SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
200 students from all around the country came to Warsaw for our special conference!

Enactus Starter Conference is an event exclusive to Enactus students. First of all, it’s the first glimpse of Enactus World in the academic year for recently recruited members. Since Friday morning the SWPS University filled with dressed in blue t-shirts, full of energy students. During the registration process the participants received the starter packs from Axa Group.

The first point of the agenda was the grand opening, where Tomasz Duda – Program Director of Enactus Poland greeted all of the attendees. Firstly, students participating in the Siemens Contest, which concerned industries company operates on, were awarded with prizes. Next, the SWPS University and Enactus SWPS Faculty Advisor Konrad Maj gave an inspirational speech about the building we were in – back then, the area was owned by Szpotański, great polish engineer and innovator!
After that, students started the first round of workshops!

Rosa Amann from Amazon Poland conducted the workshop about Building trust and an effective team. Piotr Szlązak from Eurocash Group explained how important communication in the team is. Marek Czerwiński from Ferrero Polska Commercial delivered the lecture about Basics of project planning and project management.

At the same time, more workshops prepared by Enactus Partners took place around SWPS Campus. Ralf Wirtz from Volkswagen Financial Services Poland gave an inspirational presentation about digitalization and mobility and Magdalena Mips from Wirtualna Polska Group shared her knowledge about basics of Design Thinking.

The list of speakers included also: Karol Jachymek, Izabela Lipińska, Krzysztof Leoniak and Bartosz Zalewski from SWPS University, Projektantki Sukcesu – Marta Osuch and Agnieszka Rejowska, Glib Skrybka and Wojtek Wodyński from Innovatika Group, Błażej Jurewicz from Architects of Value, Szymon Górnik from PMI Poland Chapter, Kasia Żbikowska from PGE Group and employees and alumni of Enactus in Poland – Bartłomiej Malinowski, Tomasz Duda, Małgorzata Ambrożewicz, Rafał Baranowski, Żaneta Szypowska and Mateusz Madej.

 

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Enactus Starter is the first major step in new academic year for Enactus students! It’s a great opportunity do share the knowledge, good practices, get to know each other and to nurture the Enactus spirit!

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