Alumni Event: Why meetings are peril of modern company and what we can do about it?

• Why meetings are ineffective and very expensive waste of companies’ resources?
• How to make meetings more productive, effective & meaningful?
• What best-in-class companies are initiating to increase employee productivity via meetings?

This short but punchy lecture will provide a fresh look into how meetings are financial and intellectual waste of companies’ resources, how they inhibit productive work and why we are so bad in meetings?  The lecture will provide a great value to anyone that wants to improve their productivity in their workplace and create better meetings be it on-line or face-to-face.

Rihards Garancs is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analysis Course at SSE Riga (also a graduate of the Class of 2012). His area of expertise includes database development, data visualization, data and financial reporting automation, efficiency improvement.

Rihards runs a consulting company that develops Business Intelligence solutions and create Digital/Data Literacy within organization. His focus is to help companies advance in business analytics using the latest digital tools. Rihards has worked for the clients across Europe in the Food & Beverage, Telecom, Finance & Fintech, Pharmaceutical & Manufacturing industries.

He holds a double degree MBA in HEC Paris and National University of Singapore and Data Science certification from HEC & Polytechnique Paris.