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Upcoming events

The Open University Business School organises regular events in numerous cities around the world. Upcoming events are listed below.

Cancellation Policy: No refund will be given to delegates who fail to attend or whose cancellation we receive less than 10 working days prior to the specified event. For residential events cancellation terms are on the booking form.

(Alumni) Lunchtime webinar - Find your pathway to success – maximise your skills and build effective teams
Which profile are you? This webinar helps you lift the confusion surrounding the abundance of information and advice we are all given daily.
Date: Wednesday, 29th May 2013
(Research) Future Skills for Competitive Business Education - Call for Papers
The 20th EDiNEB conference, hosted by the Open University Business School, is asking business educators and professionals to address the future skills required in an increasingly competitive business education environment. Academic articles, practice-based papers, workshops and posters which discuss innovative solutions to future skills development and competition facing business and economics education are welcomed.
Date: Wednesday, 5th June 2013
Future Skills for Competitive Business Education

The 20th EDiNEB conference, hosted by the Open University Business School, is asking business educators and professionals to address the future skills required in an increasingly competitive business education environment. Academic articles, practice-based papers, workshops and posters which discuss innovative solutions to future skills development and competition facing business and economics education are welcomed.

Location: Michael Young Building, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Date: From Wednesday 5 June 2013 to Friday 7 June 2013, 09.00 - 17.30
(Alumni) Open University Business School London Alumni Networking Informal Drop In
This is an informal event in a pub in Central London Pop in for a quick drink or stay for longer. Friends and colleagues are welcome. This event takes place in the King's Head every second Tuesday each month
Location: In the downstairs or upstairs bar, King's Head pub, 10 Strafford Street, London, W1S 4RX.
UK region: London
Date: Tuesday, 11th June 2013
(Alumni) The Paris Open University Business School Monthly Meetup
Students, potential students and alumni, come along to the Open University Business School meet-up for networking, support, information or just a drink and a chat. This meet-up repeats on the 2nd Thursday of every month. We'll be in Carr's pub once again, just off the rue de Rivoli.
Date: Thursday, 13th June 2013
(Alumni) Creativity Residential Workshop: ‘The Creativity Incubator’ – Letting Your Intelligence Have Fun
In response to great interest and demand, the OUBS is pleased to announce a Creativity Residential Workshop. With a blend of lecturer lead sessions and group workshop activities, this two day residential course seeks to provide participants with an understanding of the factors that help and hinder creativity and innovation.
Location: Milton Hill House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
UK region: South
Date: Friday, 14th June 2013
Responsibility & Regulation Research Centre Workshop

Responsibility & Regulation Research Centre Workshop

Location: Michael Young Building Room 4
Date: Wednesday 19 June 2013, 13.30-16.30
(Alumni) Evening webinar - How to land your first CEO role
Former headhunter and career coach Jane Barrett interviews Jerry Gray, Managing Director of Veredus, Capita Plc's executive search and senior interim management business.
Date: Wednesday, 26th June 2013
How to adapt to changing markets - lessons from evolutionary science

Why do some firms survive for generations and others have the lifetimes of a mayfly? Why and how do new business models evolve in response to the changing business environment? What do firms need to do to choose survival over extinction? These and other questions are answered by evolutionary science, which sees industries and their markets as complex adaptive systems, directly analogous to biological systems like the rain forest or your immune system. In this presentation, Professor Brian D Smith , Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University, will describe how evolutionary science can be applied to industries, how it explains and predicts their evolution and how those predictions can be used to inform and guide business strategy.

Location: The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Date: Thursday 27 June 2013, 08:00 - 10:00
(Alumni) OUBS Community- Sailing on the Ammersee
International region: Germany
Date: Sunday, 30th June 2013
(Alumni) Change Management Masterclass
The OUBS is delighted to announce the fourth event in the Business Perspectives series – a Change Management Masterclass. Led by David Wilson, Professor in Organisation Studies and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at The Open University Business School, the event will explore change implementation and what brings about the best and worst from individual and organisational performance, during periods of alteration.
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton, 7 Pepys Street, London EC3N 4AF
UK region: London
Date: Thursday, 11th July 2013
(Alumni) Evening webinar - establishing a portfolio career, what to do once you have made your career decision
Join us for the follow up on last year’s webinar on portfolio careers. In this latest webinar Barrie Hopson will spend a short time reviewing what was covered in the last webinar and go on to talk about the next vital steps for a successful portfolio career.
Date: Wednesday, 17th July 2013
September: Stuttgart Business and Management Information Event

To find out whether our distance learning, triple accredited MBA and other management programmes meet your professional development needs, please come to our information event.

Location: Holiday Inn Stuttgart, Mittlerer Pfad 25 - 27, 70499 Stuttgart
Date: Wednesday 11 September 2013, 18.00 - 20.00
Munich: September Business and Management Information Event

To find out whether our distance learning, triple accredited MBA and other management programmes meet your professional development needs, please come to our information event.

Location: Hilton Muenchen City, Rosenheimer Strasse 15, 81667 Munich
Date: Thursday 12 September 2013, 19.00 - 21.00
Munich - October Event: MBA Taster Workshop

To find out whether our distance learning, triple accredited MBA meets your professional development needs, come along to this Taster Workshop. Please contact us to register for this event (participation is free of charge) and to receive further details.

Location: Munich, Germany
Date: Tuesday 1 October 2013, 19.00 - 21.00
(Alumni) OUBS Community Munich Area Stammtisch
Join our get-together. MBA Alumni, Certificate and Diploma Alumni as well as students, tutors and interested parties can meet at the OU Stammtisch for networking and socializing in the Café Eisbach. The event is free to attend.
Location: Café Eisbach, Marstallplatz 3, City Center, U-Bahn U3/4/5/6 Odeonsplatz – (walk through the Residenz), Munich, Germany
International region: Germany
Date: Friday, 15th November 2013