2017-04-25
BMI GALA Party: Entrepreneurial Spirit, Inspirational Bar and Rock & Roll

 

It was a full house at Tech Park on the 20th of April when family of BMI Alumni has gathered to celebrate achievements of fellow alumni.

Tradition has been changed this year and instead of traditional GALA dinner at the round tables almost 100 alumni had an opportunity to spend more time networking and getting to know each other in a Party manner.

Chairman of the Board of BMI Mr. Rolandas Valiūnas kicked off the event with his traditional inspirational speech urging everyone to maximize efforts to increase the quality and effectiveness of education in Lithuania. Host of tech park Mr. Darius Žakaitis shared his entrepreneurial spirit by telling a story of Tech Park.

 

And the main part of the event was the award ceremony with traditional nominations:

This year’s CAREER OF THE YEAR award went to Vilius Šapoka, Minister of Finance. The other finalists were Jurga Sakalauskaitė, Commercial Director at Vilnius Pergalė and Dr. Aldona Jocienė, European Union High-Level Adviser on Banking sector National Bank of Moldova.

The award for ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR was presented to Darius Budzinauskas and Aurimas Zimnickas (gastropub „+++“, started as a BMI stage project). The other finalists were Vaiva Tylienė (Funrun) and Emilis Cicėnas (Daiktams.lt).

PROJECT OF THE YEAR award was given to Marius Čiuželis & Kristina Čiuželienė (class IX), for the project „Sidabrinė linija“. Other finalists – Roma Puišienė (organizing of World MTBO Championship in Vilnius) and Artūras Ladinskis (Integra house).

Sponsors of the event Modus group and Samsung has established special prizes for the outstanding achievements – special BMW watches and brand new Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile phones. Volfas Engelman has attracted everyone’s attention with a Gentlemen’s bar and BMW – with few motorcycles.

Gallery with impressions about the event awaits your attention here.

The BMI Alumni Association and Gala Dinner organizing committee are especially grateful to the sponsors of the event:

 

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