PGE - Filière GETT

I'm currently enrolled in the GETT programme, which is jointly offered by EDHEC Business School, Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley.

First of all, I was always interested in working at the intersection of emerging technology and business. And this programme is designed in a way, where we get exposed to a lot of emerging tech. Then again, I was deeply inspired by my mentor who had actually worked in 108 countries. And I think the design of this programme is such, that it could unlock these markets for me as well in the future.

One great thing about the GETT programme, that I think lacks in other international master's programmes, is that I am not bound to one place or one location or even to a campus. For example during my semester in Paris, I believed that the whole city was my campus. And now, here I am at Sungkyunkwan, which is a very beautiful ultra-modern campus. The other thing is, that the international dimension that I get from my education. I am going to be exposed to three different cultures, three different ways of life and working styles. Four months ago, I was getting used to the French culture and the way of life. I was eating baguettes with butter in the mornings. And now I've switched it up with kimchi and rice. That's something that I would never have expected from myself a year ago, and the challenges that I've faced on a daily basis have radically changed who I am as a person. When you live abroad, you start trusting your instincts more. You start making decisions that have repercussions, and you start learning how to live with these decisions every day. And that's something that I've seen, has made me grow as a person quite a lot.

So far we've had some incredibly eye-opening courses. For instance, just today, we had a course on crypt economics and blockchain technology. And I learned that Korea, and especially Seoul, is literally the Silicon Valley when it comes to blockchain.

Well a couple of years ago, I couldn't have pointed out Seoul on a map but now that I'm here, I realised that this city is literally at the forefront of cutting-edge technology. For example, I've been here for months and I haven't had to buy a SIM card, because there's Wi-Fi everywhere. While there are thousands of programmes one can choose from, while looking for an international master's programme, especially in business... I was looking for something off the beaten track, something radically new, and something radically different that would set myself apart five years, ten years down the line. And that's why I chose the GETT programme.

Le Programme GETT, un parcours unique au monde | EDHEC Business School

[Basile Bedelek-Bilger. MiM in Global Economic Transformation & Technology. France]

Mon objectif c'était d'arriver à l'EDHEC.  Et ce qui a été déterminant, c'est qu'une fois que j'ai passé mes oraux, j'ai pu me rendre compte de ce qu'était le campus, de ce qui était l'ambiance, de ce qui était des personnes, et de ce qu'était un peu la vie associative aussi. Et ça, ça a été vraiment déterminant dans mon choix, pour me dire "c'est là que j'ai envie de passer mes trois ou les quatre futures années étudiantes". 

Je fais partie du programme GETT pour  Global economics transformation track, et c'est un nouveau programme à l'EDHEC. Un programme international, le master 1 se fait le premier semestre à Paris, et deuxième semestre à Séoul, et le master 2 se fait entièrement à Berkeley en Californie. C'est un programme en fait, qui se centre vraiment sur tout ce qui est nouvelles technologies et nouveaux modes de management. Notamment le e-management, et c'est vraiment ça qui apporte une plus-value. Moi ce que j'ai envie de faire en fait, c'est pas seulement d'apprendre des choses pour être personnellement quatre ou cinq ans, mais j'ai envie d'être opérationnel encore pendant 20 ou 30 ans. C'est pour ça notamment que j'ai choisi ce parcours, qui est vraiment visionnaire. A l'EDHEC, on a vraiment cet esprit famille puisqu'on a un réseau Alumni qui est très important, qui nous permet d'entrer en contact facilement, un peu avec toutes les entreprises et tous les secteurs du monde.

Moi je pense que je vais m'impliquer également dans ce réseau. J'ai envie d'inspirer les autres et de leur donner des idées à eux, de leur donner l'envie d'entreprendre, surtout c'est ça qui compte.

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