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April 16, 2013

Minutes from IT committee meeting

AmCham IT committee members met on April16 to plan further events and discuss content of best office publication2013.

Action needed:

1) Workshop – suggestions for topics to be sent by email before April19

2) MDM – Mobility event – members involved are asked to confirm speakers, date, send topic to be presented – April26

3) IT outsourcing – prepare/send your inputs – TBD on May´s committee

4) Submissions to the best office publication 2013 – last chance to suggest topics/case study/best practices to be included in the publication – April19

5) IT chairperson for the next membership year 2013/2014 – nomination period is open

April 10, 2013

Czech Republic eHealth - from strategy to reality

On April 5th AmCham held a discussion on eHealth with the representatives from Ministry of Health, KPMG, IBM, Pardubická krajská nemocnice, Euroclinicum, and Znalecký ústav Apogeo. Moderated by Karla Voráčková of KPMG. For more info, please, click on the title.

April 05, 2013

Discussion on "Alternative sources of financing" in Brno

AmCham members and invited guests met at Y Soft Corporation in Brno (AmCham Patron) for a discussion on Alternative sources of financing. To get more info click on the title.

March 30, 2013

Minutes from Marketing Committee held on March 28, 2013

Marketing Committee met to discuss and plan next activities. Committee agreed that the whole day paid training on Leveraging Facebook Usage will be held in June. Members can still send their proposals for 2013 Best Office publication articles delivery until April 15 (MarCom perspectives of the defined trends). Committee discussed its contribution to the Future of Prague conference that is about to be held in May. It agreed that the workshop on How to make tourists stay longer in Prague (from 2 to 3 nights)? will be proposed and concrete proposals of what needs to be done will be prepared. Committee will discuss this concrete proposal during the next meeting on April 25. More information is attached in the minutes.

March 29, 2013

Minutes from HR Committee meeting held on March 27, 2013

AmCham HR Committee met to discuss and plan upcoming activities. New topics related to Future of... series were brainsormed (can be found in the attached document). Members can still send their submissions on selected topics for 2013 Best Office publication (until April 15). In the near future HR Committee will hold two workshops - one on Innovation in Language Learning and one on How to Tap into the Potential of your Diversity (both will be driven by famous foreign experts, you can register through our Activities Schedule) and in June the debate on Quotas in Management will take place.

March 27, 2013

CSR Committee Meeting Minutes

Please see the Minutes of the CSR Committee meeting held on March 26. Short summary of planned actions:

The Comittee will continue in looking for business examples of creating shared value in issues related to seniors and we would like to organize a debate on this topic. By April 15, we are collecting suggestions for articles to the Best Office publication with subtitle Future of Work. Members can propose article about their CSR experiences, that bring something new, which could be seen as a future trend. Similarly, AmCham collects ideas for events or articles focused on AmCham monthly themes: future of Prague; manufacturing; good governance; competition; office; energy. Finally, CSR Committee will prepare a discussion about NGO-business cooperation, that would be held at the NGO Market on May 3. Feel free to send any examples of expert cooperation between NGO and business. Details can be found in the attached file.

March 26, 2013

Investing in Art: is it worth it?

On March 21, AmCham held a discussion on investing into stock exchange vs. investing into art. In the discussion hosted by Petr Hájek of the Chemistry Gallery you could hear opinions of Aleš Mátl, Analyst of Investments at UniCredit Private Banking, Aleš Michl, Chief Investment Officer at Raiffeisenbank, Jan Skřivánek, Editor-in-Chief of the Art & Antiques magazine and Monika Rutland, Art Collector. The discussion was attended by AmCham members, but also by several artists and art lovers. Discussion attendees concluded the evening by visiting stands of almost 30 galleries of contemporary art that Iva Nesvadbová and Milan Jaroš of Art Prague introduced in this 2013 art fair.

March 21, 2013

Minutes from Real Estate Committee meeting held on March 20

AmCham Real Estate Committee met to discuss upcoming events and activities. Preparation and questions related to the briefing on Prague Master Plan and final version of the new Construction code that will take place in April were discussed and brainstormed. Committee also discussed its possible contribution to the prepared conference on Future of Prague that will take place in May and will deal with issues related to Tourism, Research & Development and Companies headquarters. Finally this year´s theme of 2013 Best Office publication - Future of Work - was discussed and committee came up with proposals of contributions related to real estate issues. Minutes of the committee including more detailed information can be found attached.

March 21, 2013

Finance committee met on March21 - minutes

Finance committee members met to discuss further activities and plan events till June2913. Areas discussed:

1]Upcoming event: Alternativní zdroje financování - Brno/April 5 - v češtině, register online

2)Other topics discussed - planning:

Future of Mobile payments - three-way discussion: providers/banks, technology/IT tools, retailers/Hotels/consumers

US FATCA

VAT in Congress Business - workshop /April18

For more info click on the title.

March 20, 2013

Outcomes from Discussion on Big Data

AmCham IT committee held on March 19 a workshop on Big Data. AmCham members discussed HR aspects and IT tools to work with structured but also unstructured big data.

Speakers:

David Bentley, Country Manager and Tech Practice Group Leader at SpenglerFox CR

Jeff Medeiros, Professor for IT Management at University of New York in Prague

Robert Havránek, Product Manager for Application Platforms, Microsoft Czech Republic

Václav Provazník, Technology Solutions Manager at Oracle Consulting Czech Republic

Presentations are available - click on the title.

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