Accelerate@HHL 2022: Leaving My Comfort Zone

Those who know me know that I have been doing ProjectWizards for 20 years and Merlin Project for almost 18 years. So everyone can easily imagine that I know a lot of people in the business. No matter if I show up at an Apple event, or a project management event, I already meet the first known people right at the entrance. That's nice, it gives me a good feeling and it's fun. That's how I know that the years of work have paid off and that the network I've built up is working. Because people help each other, they exchange ideas. And even if you don't do business directly with each other, sooner or later it pays off for both of us in some form or another.
But I also have to admit that after 20 years you become more idle. You only choose events where you know that there will be something going on - whatever. And this comfort zone became bigger and bigger for me. Of course, no trips took place during Covid-19, and the urge to attend online community meetings became more and more suppressed. I noticed myself getting more and more cushy. And then the opportunity came: Accelerate@HHL 2022!
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Accelerate is the exclusively student-organized entrepreneurship event of Germany's most entrepreneurial university – the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Every year, they invite top entrepreneurs, investors and young talents to Leipzig to share their insights and challenge their ideas for the future.
This year's conference is themed "Shaping A Better Tomorrow" and focuses on questions such as how idealism and profitability can be anchored together in the company.
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This blog post is about an amusing tradition that has been delighting more and more Apple devotees for years. It's a bingo drinking game to the ever-popular Apple keynotes. You can find out how it works here.
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Event

Whether planning, designing and implementing a theme evening or organizing a trip to motivate employees, the range of tasks in the event industry is diverse. Events enable and promote the meeting of people, establish personal contacts and bonds, arouse emotions and thus create a positive mood.
The range of activities extends from artist selection, room booking and idea generation to the preparation of the schedule. The bigger an event is and the more people are involved, the more important is the concrete strategy for a target-oriented organization. The work includes varied appointments, exciting tasks and diverse clients.
On Mac in the office or on iPad on-site at the event location, Merlin Project is the perfect companion for the event organizer, event manager, event technician and anyone else who works in this industry.
Merlin Project 5 Workflow Tour
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Even if it is currently in beta phase, with the advent of Merlin Project 5 we are entering new grounds. This is the very first time that a Mac application can switch seamlessly between traditional and agile project management.
While traveling to San José, CA for for the WWDC, Frank Blome, CEO of ProjectWizards gives only three of his rare talks: New York, San Francisco and San José.
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