We had our formal kickoff meetings with 4 clients with whom we will be working on. 3 of us in each team. Tricia, Zuzana and Myself are to be working with Camara de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Tourism). We also got to know that our project and that being done by Anajan, Deirdre and Masahiro (Sinergias) are interrelated and we will be interlocking closely with each other. Other teams are going to be working with ONG Canales and Universidad Los Lagos.
Kickoff meeting for #ibmcsc Chile 5, was in a nearby hotel, kicked by Piera with Eric supporting with translation. All teams introduced themselves to the clients and vice versa. This was followed by a team photograph and high tea.
Post tea each teams dispersed with respective client teams to their offices. Our first stop, along with team working with Synergias was Chamber office. There we were introduced to key stakeholders of the chamber and expectations.
We again left for Lunch from here, with Aldo, President of Sinergias accompanying us. He is one of those whose English is pretty good and does most of the interaction with both of our teams (atleast so far)
Post lunch we had a short break before being picked up again and taken to a condo apartment where we were to be based for next 2 months for working. There is a crunch of office space in region and hence apartments usually serve as office blocks here. This place is about 20 mins walk from our hotel and weather permitting will be a good way to reach. Weather permitting cause it is expected to rain daily. While going for lunch we could feel the chill in the air and were informed that these is due to Southern winds from the Antarctic region (no different than Arctic winds in north troubling US and Canada all this season).
In our place we had a meeting to understand the key stakeholders, right from other chambers, government nodal agencies, role of Army, port development teams, environment and oceanic surveying teams and geological departments of the region in the project we are going to undertake. These will be starting inputs to get to a stakeholder mapping. We also got to know that we will be doing surveys on coastal areas and in some cases would need a 4X4 to go as roads end at a certain point. Sounds interesting.
We closed our discussion and then Aldo lead us to another mall on the other side which had lot of items and international imports as well. From there we headed back to the hotel, and just before reaching stopped at a Pizza joined (local) and called other teams as well. We settled for a good Italian dinner today with the team. Our host at the restaurant was an interesting person and happy with so many nationalities sitting on a table in his place.
Tomorrow it will be a new day.
Kickoff meeting for #ibmcsc Chile 5, was in a nearby hotel, kicked by Piera with Eric supporting with translation. All teams introduced themselves to the clients and vice versa. This was followed by a team photograph and high tea.
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| Teams and Clients |
We again left for Lunch from here, with Aldo, President of Sinergias accompanying us. He is one of those whose English is pretty good and does most of the interaction with both of our teams (atleast so far)
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| Lunch at Gatsby with Aldo |
In our place we had a meeting to understand the key stakeholders, right from other chambers, government nodal agencies, role of Army, port development teams, environment and oceanic surveying teams and geological departments of the region in the project we are going to undertake. These will be starting inputs to get to a stakeholder mapping. We also got to know that we will be doing surveys on coastal areas and in some cases would need a 4X4 to go as roads end at a certain point. Sounds interesting.
We closed our discussion and then Aldo lead us to another mall on the other side which had lot of items and international imports as well. From there we headed back to the hotel, and just before reaching stopped at a Pizza joined (local) and called other teams as well. We settled for a good Italian dinner today with the team. Our host at the restaurant was an interesting person and happy with so many nationalities sitting on a table in his place.
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| Dinner with team and our host bringing Pizzas - Interesting Man |
Tomorrow it will be a new day.
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