Cezary Tarowski at the South American Business Forum

Cezary, a student in the School of Management and Business has recently returned from the 2011 South American Business Forum in Argentina.  Here is a diary of his stay – along with his mascot!

Day 1
I landed in Buenos Aires at 7.35 am local time. There is a middle of winter now and the temperature was about 5-10 degree on average. The first day I mostly spent on acquainting other participants and exploring the city. I took part in city tour and I took an Aberystwyth sheep with me. Everyone was curious about our mascot and it was a great possibility for me to tell other participants about our university. Together we saw inter alia the Obelisk, the Clock Tower and the 'pink house' of government. When I finally went back to the hotel I quickly went sleep to rest after long journey.

Day 2
It was a long day, full of various lectures and activities. The speakers, such as Claudio Fernandez Araroz or Diego Luzuriaga put a lot of effort to make their appearances unique. It was another opportunity to meet the rest of the participants and to say something about the university. Of course everybody wanted to know about our university from 'first hand', so the sheep was even officially interviewed as the official representative of Aberystwyth University.

Day 3
A day full of activities. Firstly I attended a workshop run by a one of the participants, Juan Pablo Nieto Stabile and it was about people's readiness for an age of Web 2.0. After that I went to the General Electric offices to attend a lecture with Alejandro Bottan, executive of GE. It was about an innovation and the future of mankind in the next 20 years. The last workshop was in a form of round table discussion with Marcos Golfari, very intelligent person and a specialist of marketing.

Day 4
I was able to attend only one activity and one lecture in order to get to the airport for my return flight. Firstly we had an activity about team working, when in 6-people groups we were asked to build different things using building bricks in limited time. After that I enjoyed a lecture provided by Mr Nabeel Goheer, before going by bus to the airport.