Facing The Future
International Educational Forum dedicated to the main challenges facing business and society at large at the present stage of human development
Facing The Future. ReinforceUA'23
On October 6, 2023, MIM Business School conducts Facing the Future. ReinforceUA'23 Educational International Forum. It is a unique chance to discuss what lies ahead of us and to identify the opportunities of the future.
Our forum brings together renowned speakers from around the world to share their knowledge and experience with the audience. The forum serves as a platform for the scientific community, politicians and business representatives of Ukraine to participate in meaningful discussions and exchange innovative ideas. The forum covers a wide range of topics, including new teaching methods, educational technologies and inclusive education. Thanks to a diverse lineup of speakers and a comprehensive program, the forum promises to be an enriching and inspiring experience for all participants.
Venue - InterContinental Kyiv Hotel.
The forum is a non-profit project. The funds raised during the forum will be directed towards supporting temporarily displaced women in Ukraine. MIM plans to educate them in entrepreneurship, thus creating opportunities for those who were forced to leave their homes during the war.
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Facing The Future. Inspiration'21
On October 1, 2021, the III forum of the MIM community Facing The Future.Inspiration was held, which was attended by about 200 people.
This year, the emphasis was placed on the artistic component, therefore the art project "Micro moments of connections" was prepared, where with the help of the curator, researcher of media and visual culture Olga Melnyk, paintings of outstanding contemporary artists were collected: Maria Primachenko, Oleksandr Roitburd, Roman Mykhaylov , Oleksandr Sukholit, Tiberii Silvashi, Pavlo Makov, Dmytro Kovsan, Maria Kulikovska, and others.
The tone set by the exposition was picked up by the fashion performance show "Wear Ukrainian art" from OVERALL, a brand founded by MIM graduate Anastasia Bratkova. A meaningful addition was the lecture "Collaboration of fashion and art. How to create a trendy product that will really impact society?", and Art + Tech consultant, founder of Theta Arts and Mint a Star agency Taisia Poda immersed the participants in the latest trends between art and investment, looking for an answer to the question - " NFT: A Revolution in Art or a New Class of Digital Assets?”
The participants of the event were impressed by improvisations and reflections from the playback theater "Vne Vremeni". And the highlight of the evening was the performance of the band 8LIS5, founded by ex-members of Okean Elsa and Esthetic Education, and a Dj-set from the Frolov Dj School.
Video from the Facing The Future.Inspiration forum
Facing The Future.'20
How to keep a competitive edge in the pandemic? How to stay competitive without compromising the social progress? What competitiveness means for a country, a city, or a firm? The world renowned competitiveness experts from 7 countries discussed those issues at MIM-Kyiv Facing the Future Annual International Forum hold together with the European Chapter of the MOC Network of the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC) at Harvard Business School.
October 7th and 8th , 2020 were busy days for MIM-Kyiv. More than 600 participants from different parts of the world gathered together online to discuss all aspects of competitiveness in the new normal at the true discussion platform where different viewpoints meet and new ideas are born. Keeping the platform open for the free flow of ideas from all over the world makes our Forum different from other international events. Having those who are setting the pace of the changes speak to our participants keep us future-oriented.
Prof. Michael Porter, who is one of the most influential thinkers of today and the most cited author in business and economics, and the Director of the Harvard’s ISC delivered the keynote speech. In it he discussed economic and social development strategy, the COVID-19 short and long-term impact on the competitiveness, and talked about the adjustments policymakers need to make. He also mentioned about how the results of the competitiveness research can be applicable to Ukraine.
Warm welcome from Serhii Demediuk, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and participation of Pavlo Klimkin, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Oksana Markarova, former Minister of Finance of Ukraine proved the importance of the Forum.
Prof. Christian Ketels, the faculty member and visiting Executive at HBS and Chair of the Advisory Board at TCI Network in his presentation on how the competitiveness upgrades under the shadow of COVID-19 demonstrated the scale of disruption and emerging opportunities. Prof. Fernando Alberti the director of Institute for Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness at the LIUC in Italy together with Arturo Bris, the Director IMD World Competitiveness Center in Switzerland, and Pavlo Klimkin participated in the panel discussion about impact of the COVID-19 born strategies for business, education and public administration.
Social implications of the staying competitive were the central theme of the second day of the discussion. Prof. Zbigniew Bochniarz, Professor at Kozminski University in Poland, Dr. Piet Naudé, the Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa, Dr. Marzenna Weresa, Director of the World Economy Research Institute at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and Oksana Markarova, former Minister of Finance of Ukraine were discussing how to strike balance between the need to be competitive and the demands of social progress in the new reality. This panel paid special attention to how the developing economies can play on their strengths, grab the opportunities created by the current disruption for the success in the new normal.
In addition to the “live” presentations and discussion, Örjan Sölvell, the Director, Center for Strategy and Competitiveness (CSC) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) shared his video presentation on Clusters & Disruption. The concept of clusters is believed to be one of the most powerful in the current management thought.
Nadia Omelchenko, Vice-President of the leading Ukrainian system integrator IT-Inegrator, popular entrepreneur and MIM-Kyiv MBA said “The idea of staying competitive against all odds is very appealing to me. It is very in line with ideas of diversity that turned out to be good for business and securing social progress as well. As an IT person, I am a strong believer in clusters. Hope, our IT industry will get clustered. I’m glad that MIM-Kyiv is always on the cutting edge of the global trends.”
Prof. Iryna Tykhomyrova, the president of MIM-Kyiv in her welcome said: “We believe that our Forum is a very important educational event because we have a true discussion platform where different viewpoints meet and new ideas are born. Keeping our platform open for the free flow of ideas from all over the world makes our Forum different from other international events. Having those who are setting the pace of the changes speak to our participants keep us future-oriented. We at MIM-Kyiv believe that education and partnerships is a key instrument for solving any problem. That’s why we will do our best to conduct the third Annual International Forum in 2021.”
Facing The Future.'19
On September 15, 2019, the 1st International Educational Forum Facing The Future was held, which was attended by more than 800 guests. The profit received from this event was directed to the charitable support of Ukrainian educational projects.
Welcome speech to the participants of the forum from the President of the MIM Business School, Iryna TYHOMYROVA. Organizers of the event: the MIM Business School and BookChef publishing houses.
IN 2019 THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY IN UKRAINE WAS TALKED ABOUT:
- outstanding medievalist historian Yuval Noah Harari;
- new marketing guru Jitender Sehdev;
- intellectual and futurologist Christopher Cordy;
- Oleksandr Dombrovskyi, founder of the Center for Global Transformations.