My presentation during the Open Postgraduate Day (25.02.16) at Lancaster University Management School sharing my experiences during MSc E-Business & Innovation.

1. “The Journey
of a Thousand Miles
Begins With a Single Step”
Lao-Tzu
Ioannis Vaganof
LUMS Alumni
MSc E-Business & Innovation, 2013-14
Open Postgraduate Day | 25.02.2016

2. Content
1. The “Social Greek”!
2. MSc E-Business & Innovation
3. What Made My Student Life Easy...
4. What Career Support I Had...
5. Company based Projects
6. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
7. EBINs after Lancaster...

3. The “Social Greek”!
 Ioannis Vaganof
 Hometown: Thessaloniki
 MSc E-Business & Innovation, LUMS
 MSc Informatics & Management, AUTH
 BA Business Administration, UOM
 7 years Commercial Experience
 Social & 10th Anniversary Representative
 EBIN Leadership Award
 Alumni Adviser | Event Coordinator Lancaster Alumni in London
World Cup 2014, Gradbar, Graduate College, Lancaster

4. MSc E-Business & Innovation
 E-Business
 Innovation
 IT Architecture
 Projects
 Management &
Computing
 Team building
activities

5. EBINs 2013-2014
 27 People – 11 Countries
 Management &
Computing Background
 Demanding
 Challenging
 Collaborative

6. EBINs 2013-2014
Team Building Activities (Forest Hills)
 Skills:
 Teamwork
 Creativity
 Leadership
 Communication
 Two times
 Great fun
 Key point!

7. What Made My Student Life Easy...
 Multi-cultural environment
 Professional & Friendly Staff
 Experienced Professors
 Scholarships
 Funding for conferences/training
 Excellent Facilities - Campus
 Comfortable Accommodation
 Work hard... Play hard - 24|7!

8. What Career Support I Had...
 More than 20 One-to-one sessions
 Complete transformation of CV
Changed 100 times!!!
 Dedicated LinkedIn workshops
Advanced my professional social networking
 Connections with many Lancaster Alumni
 Never ending support (Start-middle-end-after)
 Support in Applications and Interviews
 Other: Events with companies

9. Company based Projects
 Consultancy-based project
 2 months
 Multiple meetings
 Deloitte, Thorntons
 Dissertation Subject
 References
 Job Opportunities

10. Company based Projects
 GOMC
 28th/2.540 Teams (Global)
 AdWords Campaign
 Local Company
 Opportunities

11. Company Projects Presentation
 End of July
 Project presentations
 Start of dissertations…
 Official Photo
 Happiness Formal Day!

12. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
10th EBIN Anniversary

13. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Christmas Event

14. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Barbeque

15. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
The Only Master Course that made Hoodies!

16. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Greek Party – International Students

17. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
World Cup 2014 – Greece Game

18. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition

19. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition

20. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition

21. Be Social... More Important Than You Think!
Facebook Photo Competition

22. EBINs after Lancaster...
Associate Account
Strategist at Google
Dublin, Ireland
Product Marketing
Engineer at ASUS
New Taipei City, Taiwan
Business Analyst
Executive at TUI Group
Luton, UK
Consultant at Capgemini
Munich, Germany
Project Coordinator at
Endeavor Colombia
Bogota, Colombia
Assistant Consultant at
Google
Taipei City, Taiwan
Cross Working Manager
at Amey
Cardiff, UK
Analyst at KPMG
Tianjin City, China

23. EBINs after Lancaster...
 First role in the UK
Commercial & Marketing Executive, BCMY Ltd.
 Responsible Printer Cartridge Recycling
 Recycle4Charity.co.uk
£1,000,000 donations to 5,000 charities
 ZeroWasteRecycling.co.uk
Most Innovative in the UK
 8th place among 530 companies
1st phase of Pitch To Rich (Virgin Competition)
Role: Website Usability – Strategy – Online Marketing

24. My Lancaster & Contact Details
ioannisvaganof@gmail.com

25.  27 EBINs
 11 Countries/Regions
 1 country had more students than countries number
 6 countries had only 1 person each
 3 countries had equal amount of students
 So, the 11th country/region how many students had?
Quiz Time
The fastest answer wins
a Lancaster University Gift!

26.  27 EBINs
 11 Countries/Regions
 12 Students from China
 1 Student from Greece, Colombia, England, Germany, Bulgaria, Thailand
 2 Students from France, Nigeria, Russia
 3 Students from Taiwan!
Quiz Time – Solution!
The fastest answer wins
a Lancaster University Gift!

27. “The Choices We Make,
Not The Chances We Take
Determine Our Destiny”
I don’t know
Ioannis Vaganof
MSc E-Business & Innovation, 2013-14
Thank You & Good Luck!