AmCham organized informal Christmas networking mixer for its members and welcomed almost 100 of them at its premises.

Big thank belongs to the sponsors of the evening: Sheraton Prague Charles Square Hotel for preparing Christmas cookies and Apples in Chocolate; and to Dallmayr Kaffee for providing coffee and mulled wine.

Congratulation to all winners who won in the raffle donated by Fackelmann ČR, Diamonds & Pearls, Philips Česká republika and Dallmayr Kaffee.

To see the photos from the evening please follow the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/115781045409344920242/ChristmasMixer?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMmJyc__m6fawQE&feat=directlink

To see or download photos from 2013 Thanksgiving Ball please click here.

On Saturday, November 23, AmCham organized its traditional Thanksgiving Ball for its members and their clients in Žofín Palace. The evening was in the spirit of social responsibility. Thanks to the ball´s attendees CZK 229.253,- was raised during Silent Auction. Together with CZK 240.000,- donated by members when purchasing corporate tables it´s CZK 469.253,- for AmCham One World, Many Voices program.

Speakers:

• Deloitte Advisory - Brent Watkins (view on investment outlook and market activity)
• CBRE - Richard Curran (market activity summary for the commercial markets)
• JLL - Iva Nováková - (residential markets and outlook)

AmCham Marketing Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities. During the year 2014 the committee plans to focus on following issues: Presentation skills, Microsoft Mobile Platform, Social Media Monitoring tools, Video Strategy / Video Management, Website updates and modernization, Digital Strategy, Media Monitoring and many more.

If you are interested in reading full lenght minutes open the attachement.

Emil Jimenez, CEO and COO of Passion Communications, was elected and approved by AmCham Board of Directors to serve for the second time in a row as a Marketing Committee chairman in 2014.

To read Emil´s Candidacy Profile please click on the title.

Real Estate Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities. The Committee invites AmCham members to join the session held on December 5 on Overview of the current Real Estate market and discussion of market outlook for 2014. The Committee brainstormed the topics it will focus its activities on in 2014. Topics are following: New Civil Code, Change in General Technical Requirements for Construction, Green Buildings and Regional Headquarters.

To read the full lenght minutes open the attachement (available under member´s company username and password).

AmCham together with its member company Everesta prepared the survey finding out the view of Czech managers on the area of human resources as well as how they see its future in companies.

At the same time we would like to find out what are current HR trends and challenges HR employees will have to deal with in the near future.

Please take 5 minutes of your time to fill in the survey in Czech or in English on below links:

• Czech version: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Budoucnost_HR
• English version: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Future_of_HR

One survey respondent will win a dinner voucher provided by Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel chef Roman Paulus for 3course dinner with the bottle of wine for 2 persons in La Rotonde restaurant.

Thank you!