Ruby Dojo
We’ll be going through a ruby programming kata in dojo-style. One pair leads at the computer and the rest of the group can watch, comment and snicker at what is happening. We swap one member of the pair every 5 minutes.
The goal is to have fun and practice TDD, pairing, and general software craftsmanship. All are welcome!
If you are a ruby beginner, don’t be shy. Have a look at this list of resources to get started and we will see you at the dojo. There will be pizza and drinks.
Apéro Pitch with KMPG K-START & NUBS
This month, our Apéro Pitch will be all about financing & funding for your project!
We will learn about the current fundraising ecosystem from Julien Watry and Arnaud Chemla from K-Start. They will discuss the KMPG support programme for entrepreneurs, and will tell us more about the characteristics of the different agencies (Business Angels, VC…) that might be involved in the financing of start-ups and companies.
Then we will hear a pitch by one of our members:
NUBS is a regional crowdfunding platform for Luxemburgish projects, businesses and organisations. The platform will run a commercial business model under a reward-based funding model, meaning that the crowd will receive non-financial rewards in exchange for their contributions (products, services, etc.).
Nubs is expecting to go live within the next weeks and are currently looking for interesting projects with a regional spin that could fit into our reward-based crowdfunding model.
Looking forward to meeting you at our Apero Pitch!
You are invited to this full day produced in partnership between 1,2,3 GO Social, IRISS – Université du Luxembourg, CRP Henri Tudor and The Impactory.
The day has several parts starting with a conference led by the University of Luxembourg after an opening speech by Minister Nicolas Schmit. After lunch we have round table discussions with some innovators who are practicing new ways to create employment. The day ends with a round of speed meetings with the round table panelists.
This day will provide a platform for connections and creation. Who knows it might be the start of new collaborations that will have a positive impact on Luxembourg.
Register before 14 March on
When and where? 27th March – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
Ask most people what they think PR is and they reply, “it’s your company’s image to the outside world”. They are wrong. Some say, “I don’t need to do any PR, my work speaks for itself”. Wrong again. Proactive manipulation of how you are perceived both professionally and personally is a challenge few consider and even fewer achieve. Are you even sure of how you are perceived by your contacts, clients, friends, employees, suppliers, stakeholders?
In an environment of limited budgets and even less time, all of us need to reach the maximum relevant audience, using channels that work with the right distribution frequency. Too little and our message is lost in the noise. Too much and our audience switches off.
This session will help you answer
· How is your business perceived now?
· What are your PR goals?
· What are your key messages?
· Is the Luxembourg media worth it?
We will also have some Case Examples (Both successes and failures) after all “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
Speaker Profile
Jim Kent is the Managing Partner of TheINsiders. Luxembourg’s only PR firm focusing on the financial and legal sector.
Based in Luxembourg since 2001, Jim used to be the breakfast radio DJ and MD at Ara City Radio before joining the Luxembourg Law firm DSM as their marketing manager.
“Why be a cog in an engine, when you can put your foot on the accelerator?”
In his spare time, he is the organiser and host of Luxembourg’s only English speaking comedy club nights in Konrad and you can also find him, monthly, behind the piano in the English speaking Church.
You can also find him in 2014 behind the microphone at the “Rose of Tralee”, “50 years of the International School of Luxembourg” and at a range of events aimed at HNWI’s in London, Israel and Cyprus.
The Impactory is the launchpad that many Luxembourg start-ups had been searching for. Let’s hope that the new Luxembourg government follows the initiative by reducing the painful level of bureaucracy on new businesses. I found the Impactory myself after searching for office space for a client.
* Light lunch & soft drinks will be provided in the session.
When and where? 2nd April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
When and where? 10th April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
When and where? 17th April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
Ruby Dojo
We’ll be going through a ruby programming kata in dojo-style. One pair leads at the computer and the rest of the group can watch, comment and snicker at what is happening. We swap one member of the pair every 5 minutes.
The goal is to have fun and practice TDD, pairing, and general software craftsmanship. All are welcome!
If you are a ruby beginner, don’t be shy. Have a look at this list of resources to get started and we will see you at the dojo. There will be pizza and drinks.
Apéro Pitch with KMPG K-START & NUBS
This month, our Apéro Pitch will be all about financing & funding for your project!
We will learn about the current fundraising ecosystem from Julien Watry and Arnaud Chemla from K-Start. They will discuss the KMPG support programme for entrepreneurs, and will tell us more about the characteristics of the different agencies (Business Angels, VC…) that might be involved in the financing of start-ups and companies.
Then we will hear a pitch by one of our members:
NUBS is a regional crowdfunding platform for Luxemburgish projects, businesses and organisations. The platform will run a commercial business model under a reward-based funding model, meaning that the crowd will receive non-financial rewards in exchange for their contributions (products, services, etc.).
Nubs is expecting to go live within the next weeks and are currently looking for interesting projects with a regional spin that could fit into our reward-based crowdfunding model.
Looking forward to meeting you at our Apero Pitch!
You are invited to this full day produced in partnership between 1,2,3 GO Social, IRISS – Université du Luxembourg, CRP Henri Tudor and The Impactory.
The day has several parts starting with a conference led by the University of Luxembourg after an opening speech by Minister Nicolas Schmit. After lunch we have round table discussions with some innovators who are practicing new ways to create employment. The day ends with a round of speed meetings with the round table panelists.
This day will provide a platform for connections and creation. Who knows it might be the start of new collaborations that will have a positive impact on Luxembourg.
Register before 14 March on
When and where? 27th March – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
Ask most people what they think PR is and they reply, “it’s your company’s image to the outside world”. They are wrong. Some say, “I don’t need to do any PR, my work speaks for itself”. Wrong again. Proactive manipulation of how you are perceived both professionally and personally is a challenge few consider and even fewer achieve. Are you even sure of how you are perceived by your contacts, clients, friends, employees, suppliers, stakeholders?
In an environment of limited budgets and even less time, all of us need to reach the maximum relevant audience, using channels that work with the right distribution frequency. Too little and our message is lost in the noise. Too much and our audience switches off.
This session will help you answer
· How is your business perceived now?
· What are your PR goals?
· What are your key messages?
· Is the Luxembourg media worth it?
We will also have some Case Examples (Both successes and failures) after all “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
Speaker Profile
Jim Kent is the Managing Partner of TheINsiders. Luxembourg’s only PR firm focusing on the financial and legal sector.
Based in Luxembourg since 2001, Jim used to be the breakfast radio DJ and MD at Ara City Radio before joining the Luxembourg Law firm DSM as their marketing manager.
“Why be a cog in an engine, when you can put your foot on the accelerator?”
In his spare time, he is the organiser and host of Luxembourg’s only English speaking comedy club nights in Konrad and you can also find him, monthly, behind the piano in the English speaking Church.
You can also find him in 2014 behind the microphone at the “Rose of Tralee”, “50 years of the International School of Luxembourg” and at a range of events aimed at HNWI’s in London, Israel and Cyprus.
The Impactory is the launchpad that many Luxembourg start-ups had been searching for. Let’s hope that the new Luxembourg government follows the initiative by reducing the painful level of bureaucracy on new businesses. I found the Impactory myself after searching for office space for a client.
* Light lunch & soft drinks will be provided in the session.
When and where? 2nd April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
When and where? 10th April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
When and where? 17th April – 6 p.m. @TheImpactory. Join us for an introduction to mindfulness and a mindfulness course for members and non-members.
“Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – John Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness is about developing attention. It is about living fully the present. It is about being, before any doing.
Sometimes we get in our way, because we’re too attached to our past failures. Or, we move too fast towards the future, without having observed where we really are in the present. Our body is always with us, but our thoughts are often somewhere else. Sometimes we lose a real connection with our environment, family, friends, community, clients. Sometimes we lose a true connection with ourselves, our values, ideas, projects, objectives.
Mindfulness brings us back to the present moment, to ourselves. It starts from within, and spreads all around. When we are aware, and we live in the present moment, then we’re able to bring out the best of ourselves. We don’t hurry, or worry. We observe and listen more attentively. We don’t judge with old lenses, but experience with a beginner’s mind. We don’t escape or avoid, but we accept and become able to move on with a new understanding, and with less stress and burdening.
Mindfulness grows on a 2,500 years old tradition of meditation, and its positive impact is now supported by many decades of academic research. First applied with extreme success to support patients experiencing depression and anxiety, it has been found to have a valuable impact also in different areas. Companies like Google, Unilever, The Huffington Post, Patagonia, and entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley, developed mindfulness programs to improve not just well-being, but also communication, trust, interactions, decision making, creativity.
About: Maurizio Cortesi
Maurizio is a trainer and coach, long-standing mindfulness practitioner and certified teacher. Before going freelance, he has worked in administration, management, and academic research (focusing on how trust can impact individual and group performance). He is passionate about learning and sharing, always trying to experiment first hand. He likes to challenge assumptions and perspectives, focusing in the meantime on clear, simple and impacting messages, strategies, and practices. He works with people inside and outside companies and academia to support them in the discovery and development of their personal and professional skills and resources.
Check out www.zegtraining.com and blog.zegtraining.com. Or email him at maurizio@zegtraining.com
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