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EFMD Annual Conference: What Brought Us Here Might Not Get Us There

Target group:

The EFMD Annual Conference has been designed for all those interested in management education and development. It brings together EFMD members, companies, educational institutions and other associations, offering various perspectives and discussions on the conference theme.

Conference theme:

What brought us here might not get us there! After more than 2 years of turmoil, reassessing of where businesses and business schools came from and where they want to go appears more relevant than ever. The programme will therefore look at this theme starting with the individual – what does transformational leadership look like? – then look at organisations – how does the current and future world of work look like and how do we have to adapt it? – and finally look at the wider societal context around issues such as the climate emergency, sustainability goals and the wider global context, where equally a rethink of strategies and actions may become imminent.

Visit the conference website for more information: events.efmdglobal.org/events/2022-efmd-annual-conference/

Executive Council Forum 2022-Woxsen University- Defining Purpose in HighEd: From India to the World

Event Information

Theme: Fostering NextGen Learners: Vision 2035
Location: Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India
Dates: 20th and 21st December, 2022

Event Agenda

Event Overview

Woxsen University (Hyderabad, India) is organizing a global high-strategic meeting- Executive Council Forum 2022, reserved for Deans/Directors/Rectors and executive positions of similar characteristics. Additionally, top C-level executives from the Indian subcontinent will be present.

The purpose is simple: To truly define where we have reached and where we are going in HighEd, defining from the strategy to the ground activities to ensure a sustainable and socially impactful educational model. Woxsen University recently organized the Global Impact Summit 2022, represented by 15 countries and national dignitaries in a 4-day platform that led to multiple collaborations, the signing of chair professorships and the formation of a Centre of Excellence in ERS.

Woxsen University would like to invite you to nominate your executive members, to participate in this high-level forum. They will also be issuing a set of awards in the categories below:

Award Categories

  1. Exemplar High Impact Research 
  2. Outstanding Industry-Academia collaboration 
  3. Social Responsibility Award
  4. International Network Collaboration Award
  5. Building NextGen Entrepreneurs Award

Key Topics:

  1. Understanding the Evolving Needs of Learners V2035
  2. Bringing Climate Change into the Classroom
  3. Digitalisation is here to stay: Time to Transform
  4. The Future of Lifelong Education
  5. From Narrative to Action on ERS/D&I
  6. Bringing Common Sense to HighEd through Entrepreneurship
  7. How to marry Industry and Academia?

Registration

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260 USD, equivalent to INR 20,000 (this includes accommodation in a 6 star hotel, meals and local transportation for the entire duration of the forum)

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Creating a Better World Together: 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Date & Location

August 5-9, 2022 | Seattle, Washington, USA

AOM 2022 Theme: Creating a Better World Together

As we anticipate the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, many organizations and the world’s social structures have been vastly challenged, and, in some cases devastated, by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the broad social unrest of the last couple of years. The resulting uncertainty has stunned and shaken us all. Governments became polarized as millions of people lost their lives during the COVID 19 pandemic while riots over social inequity swept the world. The events that have shaken the world make it clear that if it affects one of us, it affects all of us. While governments have played a key role in responding to these world events, business organizations have been important in leading the world from darkness to better days. As the world emerges from the dark days of the recent past and a new normal takes place, collaboration and cooperation between business organizations, managers, and stakeholders will be of utmost importance.

What will business organizations look like in the new normal? While the spreading uncertainty challenged many organizations and social structures, several lessons were nonetheless learned. The innovative strides made during these last couple of years illustrate that business has the capacity to address world problems at a pace and scale that few would have predicted. During these last two years, disparities around the world and within countries were laid bare. However this period also led to a new awareness for organizations and managers as well as scholars of management; this could be an opportunity to reset organizational practices that enable the creation of new future organizational arrangements.

Business organizations, managers, and stakeholders will be challenged by society as perhaps never before in history. So too will scholars of management be challenged. In many parts of the world, society increasingly expects business organizations to help solve problems of environmental degradation, inequality, and poverty. There seems to be a growing awareness of the vital role of business organizations, managers, and stakeholders in tackling societal challenges including environmental sustainability; inter-generational trade-offs where future generations cannot make their voices heard today; and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. And business organizations and their managers are beginning to respond. Still, many challenges lie ahead for business and for us the scholars who study and inform management. This transition from the past two years to a better future leads to the following questions:

  1. To what extent is there a need to create future institutions, relationships, systems, and processes that are different from the past? To what extent do these structures in some way already exist and thus merely need to be improved upon?
  2. What skills will business organizations and managers of the future need?
  3. How can business organizations, managers, and stakeholders deal with prevailing uncertainty while responding to predictable situations in what might be ongoing transitions from one to the other?
  4. How can business organizations, managers, and stakeholders develop and enhance capabilities to anticipate and agilely respond to pandemics, other world-wide concerns, and new challenges?
  5. Will business organizations and governments need to work more closely together in the future?
  6. What will the future of work look like?

These and many more questions will need to be examined as we move towards a new normal. What, where, how, when, and why will business organizations, managers, and stakeholders seek to adapt to what exists or create a world in which we will all be better off together? That is the task set for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2022 program.

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Call for Submissions for British Academy of Management: Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good

Guest Editors:

Professor Ken McPhail, Alliance, Manchester Business School (kenneth.mcphail@manchester.ac.uk)
Professor Mario Kafouros Alliance, Manchester Business School (marios.kafouros@manchester.ac.uk)
Professor Peter McKiernan, Strathclyde Business School (peter.mckiernan@strath.ac.uk)
Professor Nelarine Cornelius, Queen Mary University (n.cornelius@qmul.ac.uk)

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2022

Societal, governmental and investor expectations about the purpose of business are fundamentally changing (British Academy, 2019). In a shift away from Friedman’s view that “the sole purpose of a business is to generate profits for its shareholders”, business is now expected to be a force for good, generate value in different ways and for different groups, and partner with government and NonGovernmental Organizations (NGO’s) to address our most urgent global challenges (Ferraro et al., 2015; George et al., 2016).

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) identify these challenges and there is also an emerging policy consensus that reaching these goals will require a profound transition in business and societal systems (IPCC, 2018; Köhler et al., 2019). While the literature has started exploring these challenges (the recent special issue on energy transition in this journal is a case in point), the potential for business and management scholarship to help understand the problems and find solutions is not being fully realized (Bebbington and Unerman, 2020; Buckley et al., 2017; George et al., 2016; Muff et al., 2017). As a result, there is a rather limited understanding of whether sustainable and inclusive productivity growth is possible (Jacobs and Mazzucato, 2016) and – if it is – the roles business, the public sector and NGO’s will have to play in attaining it (George et al., 2016).

New organizational forms are emerging to tackle these wicked problems (Arciniegas Pradilla, et al., 2022; Battilana, 2018), while existing firms are reformulating their business models in an effort to find the optimal balance between generating profits for their shareholders (or attracting new investors) and generating value for the environment, society and the economy. These real and envisioned shifts in business and management practice prompt the need to increase our knowledge of how these challenges are impacting businesses and the experience of work (George et al., 2016). Policy makers and business leaders also need to understand how business and management contribute to these problems; how business can help solve them; and the factors that influence where efforts to mobilize are successful or become displaced (Grodal and O’Mahony, 2017). We need to “use the methodological and theoretical toolkit at our disposal to co-create the future” (Gümüsay and Reinecke, 2021).

The British Journal of Management (BJM) will publish a special issue on “Reimagining business and management as a force for good” in 2024. This special issue encourages theoretical and empirical contributions on how business and management is taking on a broader social purpose in order to address grand societal challenges. The collection of papers will complement and enrich existing theoretical and empirical work on the changing nature of the firm, new organizational futures, and sources of innovation and value generation. We are also interested in how these shifts impact business growth and productivity along with the internal management practices and intangible capitals responsible for driving these outcomes.

The call for papers welcomes theoretical, comparative and empirically based submissions. We are particularly interested in contributions that approach the theme from an interdisciplinary perspective. While we encourage submissions on the themes outlined below, the list is not exhaustive.

Political Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Democracy. A key question in relation to understanding the role of business in addressing grand challenges relates to their role in filling governance gaps where state regulation is failing (Fougère and Solitander, 2020). While some research views emerging multi-stakeholder forms of governance as promising new modes of institutional democracy (Donaghey and Reinecke, 2018) that can deliver economic and social upgrading (Barrientos et al., 2011), others argue they bypass democratic institutions and reinforce economic and cultural imperialism (Alamgir and Banerjee, 2019). We welcome contributions to these profound questions that bring contemporary developments in political science and policy domains to the study of these new collaborative forms of governance, to help understand how they could operate in ways compatible with democratic values (Scherer et al., 2016).

Business & Human Rights – Since the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) were unanimously endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011, a growing body of literature has studied the role of the corporation in both protecting and respecting human rights (McPhail and Adams, 2016). However, the implications for business models and processes of a shift in perspective from a stakeholder view of CSR to a rights holder framework, grounded in international law, is currently lacking from the business and management literature. The third pillar of the UNGP’s, which places a responsibility on business to provide remedy for human rights abuses has also remained relatively unexplored (Maher et al., 2021; Schormair and Gerlach, 2020). We welcome submissions that seek to understand business-related human rights abuses, particularly within a digital context, and non-state mechanisms that provide access to remedy. We also welcome further analysis of the way businesses are protecting social, political and economic rights and beginning to associate the realization of rights with new market opportunities.


Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Humanitarianism – Although we know that firms create value through innovation both internally and collaboratively with partners, less is known about how the different ways in which organizations innovate, impact value creation (and different types of value) (Kafouros et al. 2022). We welcome studies that investigate how the way firms and entrepreneurs innovate influences the creation of value for different organizations and helps address grand challenges. A related body of research is beginning to explore the extent to which grand challenges are a source of innovation and value generation (Battlana, 2018). For example, while, MNC’s have gradually entered the humanitarian market over the last twenty years (Carbonnier and Lightfoot, 2016; Sezgin and Dijkzeul, 2016) business and management scholarship on corporate engagement in humanitarian action remains limited (Scott- Smith, 2016). While we are less interested in corporate philanthropy, we encourage submissions that explore where corporate engagement in humanitarianism is delivering technological innovation; workplace enhancement and access to lucrative business markets (Andonova and Carbonnier, 2014; Scott-Smith, 2016; Zyck and Kent, 2014).

The Generation and Distribution of Economic, Social & Environmental Value – We welcome further theoretical and empirical investigations of how businesses are viewing grand challenges as sources of economic as well as social and environmental value (Ferraro et al., 2015). However, a crucial but comparatively unexplored question that underpins many of the grand challenges we face, relates to how value generated by economic activity is distributed and the role of business in reinforcing and reducing inequalities more generally. The literature is beginning to explore the role that international business can play in addressing social and economic upgrading across supply chains (Ashwin et al., 2020). We particularly encourage submissions which explore how grand challenges affect foreign direct investment (FDI) and other internationalization activities (Buckley et al., 2017) and the subsequent impact this may have on inequality (Amis et al., 2020, 2021). In addition, we know that firm internationalization involves cycles of internationalization and de-internationalization which effectively means that firms often reduce the depth and spread of their international footprint, reconfigure their portfolio of international operations, or even withdraw from foreign markets completely (Kafouros et al., 2021). We welcome research that investigates how changes in the configurations of the foreign operations of firms influences the way in they generate (and in certain cases co-create) value for themselves and external organizations.

Accounting for Grand Challenges – Finally, the literature has identified the need for more research on the role of accounting in addressing the sustainable development goals (Bebbington and Unerman, 2020, 2018). The lack of accounting literature on the SDG’s does not reflect the level of engagement in practice (PWC, 2019). We welcome theoretical and empirical studies of how grand challenges are made accountable and auditable through internal management practices and how organizations are being held accountable in ways which help understand and undermine the extent to which these challenges are being ameliorated (Islam, Deegan and Gray, 2018). However, in addition to studies of how companies are managing these challenges, we also welcome papers that explore the role of utopias and envisioned futures in upholding our trust in the numbers (Gümüsay and Reinecke, 2021).

Submission Process

BJM is published by the British Academy of Management and provides an outlet for research and scholarship on management-orientated themes and topics. It publishes articles of a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature as well as empirical research from within traditional disciplines and managerial functions. With contributions from around the globe, the Journal includes articles across the full range of business and management disciplines. High quality papers that do not make the final set of papers for the special issue may be considered for publication in a regular issue of the journal.

Deadline for Paper Submissions: 15 October 2022

Special issue published: 2024

Authors should ensure they adhere to the journal author guidelines which are available below.

Journal Author Guidelines

Submissions


Submissions should be uploaded to the British Journal of Management ScholarOne Manuscripts site below.

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Authors should select ‘special issue paper’ as the paper type, ensure they answer ‘yes’ to the question ‘Is this submission for a special issue?’ and enter the title of the special issue in the box provided.

Business and Human Rights for Big Tech- What Works?

Date & Time

18 May 2022, 2:00pm to 18 May 2022, 3:30pm BST (GMT +01:00)

A webinar from the Centre for Business, Organizations and Society and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights exploring human rights in big tech.

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Speakers

  • Paul M. Barrett

    Adjunct Professor of Law; Assistant Managing Editor and Senior Writer at Bloomberg Businessweek
    New York University School of Law
    USA

  • Kristen Martin

    Director at William P. and Hazel B. White Center Professor of Technology Ethics; Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations
    Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame
    USA

  • Glen Whelan

    Professor
    UQAM School of Management
    Canada

What does respecting human rights mean for information and technology companies? What role do they play in democracies and how can they deal with non-democratic regimes? And, given recent events, what is their role during conflict and war?

This event, hosted by the University of Bath’s Centre for Business, Organisations and Society and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights, will consider what is working, and what needs to work, in the context of human rights and technology companies.

At a time when a spotlight is firmly placed on the (ir)responsibilities of social media companies, platform organisations, search engines, apps and websites, we will reflect on themes of responsibility, ethics and democracy in the digital age.

This event will take place on Zoom.

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Changes in Business Education Post-Pandemic: A  Corporate Perspective

LOCATION

Online, Zoom

Date & Time

April 29, 2022 8 AM EDT / 2PM CEST

CONTACT

Emma Martens, emartens@gbsn.org

Background

Wisdom tree, in partnership with GBSN, has launched a series of exclusive invite-only, monthly learning and networking events in top industry verticals such as education and SAAS. The aim of these events is to have sponsor free discussions on contemporary topics impacting businesses today. 

In the third event this April, we will be hosting distinguished professors from top universities, ed-tech founders, and thought leaders to discuss the changing expectations of Corporations from graduates. In addition, we’ll examine how the curriculum has to be more inclusive of Technology, Human skills, Experiential learning and Cyber skills in order to make students more corporate ready in this post pandemic world.

This webinar will explore:

  • What are the changes seen in hiring processes in top corporations post pandemic ?
  • What is the need for B-schools to bring in change in the existing curriculum ? 
  • How do B schools adapt their students to the ever increasing threats in the hybrid workplace ?
  • What are the human skills which are needed now, specially in the new world?
  • What is the future of internships to capture the VUCA world?
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Moderators

Speakers

About the Partners

About Wisdom Tree

Wisdom Tree is the next generation management consulting and venture debt advisory firm that is working with companies across multiple markets with a specific focus on EdTech, education, and SaaS.

Using a practical, grounded and research-oriented approach, we work towards helping companies and partners with global expansion, building brands and communities, and supporting startups raise venture debt from global funds for their working capital, acquisition and growth financing needs.

About the Global Business School Network

Founded in 2003 by the World Bank, today the Global Business School Network is an independent global non-profit 501(c)3 with headquarters based in Washington, D.C. Economies and societies grow on the success of organizations that create meaningful jobs, increase wealth and well-being, and generate innovations to improve society. These organizations are created by resourceful entrepreneurs and run by competent, responsible leaders and managers. Our role at GBSN—the reason why we exist—is to ensure that the developing world has the management talent (leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs) it needs to generate prosperity.

Within the context of the emerging economies mission, GBSN builds activities, programs and projects that enable the creation of new knowledge, provide meaningful international experiences, and build relationships that can transform management education, as well as provide broad visibility to our member schools as a champion and change maker for economic and social development. More information visit www.gbsn.org

About Global Executive Learning

Global Executive Learning (GEL) is a worldwide network of practitioners, executives, experts and thought leaders. We are dedicated and committed to the delivery of innovative, customized and results-focused strategic learning and executive leadership development programs, and learning interventions.

Our approach also helps multinational organizations and leaders better understand, adapt to, and shape the external environment of their business by engaging their stakeholders and exposing leaders to outside best practices.

GEL is focused on implementing highly tailored company and organizational interventions that enhance the goals of an organization and sometimes a group or consortium of organizations. These goals are tied very closely to the strategic objectives of the organization and to the developmental needs of the its top leadership and emerging talent, in whatever part of the world that is required.

14th Annual Stanford Africa Business Forum: African Innovation Shaping the Global Future

Innovation in Africa is Shaping the World’s Future

This year’s conference will explore how innovations across various sectors in Africa can influence the global economy. What role does African innovation play in shaping the global future? How do current ventures on the continent position Africa to become a leader in the global economy? At this conference we would like to challenge the narrative that “Africa is the future” and explore whether “Africa is now.” We will welcome diverse perspectives on Africa’s unique opportunities and challenges as our speakers discuss what they see as Africa’s role in today’s economy.

Date & Time

April 16, 2022

Virtual Session: 7:45am-2:35pm PST

Gala + Networking Event: 5:00pm-8:00pm PST

After Party: 8:00pm-10:00pm PST

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Key Note Speakers

We are honored to welcome Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria, and Tunde Folawiyo, Chairman of NBA Africa and Folawiyo Group, as our keynote speakers. Join us as we explore how sectors in Blockchain/Crypto, FinTech, Clean Energy, Entrepreneurship, and others can make a lasting impact on economic growth across the continent.

Events to Look Forward To

This year we will have speakers who are creating innovative ways of tackling challenges in healthcare, fintech, clean energy, cryptocurrencies, investing (private equity and venture capital), infrastructure & cities and entrepreneurship. In addition to our lineup of amazing speakers and panelists, SABF will also be hosting a Venture Pitch Competition on April 17th. Come hear from inspiring and innovative founders as they pitch to early-stage investors from across the globe.

A Long History of Cultivating Forward-Looking Conversation

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Stanford Africa Business Forum. In 2007, the forum theme was “Fostering Entrepreneurial Activities in Africa”. Its objective was to portray Africa in a more positive light than that more commonly seen in the media and create awareness of the diverse and burgeoning opportunities. The first forum was organized by a group of enthusiastic students headed by Wilson Irungu Nyakera and Kwame Ansong-Dwamena.

Though the theme has changed from year to year, the motivation behind the forum hasn’t changed. The forum has always been aimed at creating awareness of the opportunities on the African continent and bring together Africans and friends of Africa from the continent and the diaspora to engage on the most important issues affecting the continent’s growth. Click to learn more about conferences in 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018.

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GBSN Scholarships: Gnowbe Microlearning Instructional Design Program Level 1 Certification

Introducing The World’s First Microlearning Instructional Design (MID) Accreditation Program

In 2016, there were 3.7 billion smartphone subscriptions worldwide, today there are nearly 6.3 billion and, by 2026, that number will top 7.5 billion. Smartphones have been revolutionizing many industries, including health, travel, and music. Yet, they have not yet made a major difference in education, especially in higher education and in environments where access to education has been low. Even when mobile learning is applied, it is often under-utilized relative to its potential, especially to support social (peer-to-peer) learning, experiential learning, gamification, and virtual/augmented reality. 

That is why GBSN and Gnowbe are partnering to empower up to 2,000 business and management professors with microlearning instructional design skills. Participants in the program will learn the principles of instructional design and how to apply that in a microlearning format for blended or asynchronous learning experiences. Upon successful completion of the programs, participants will earn a Microlearning Instructional Design (MID) Level 1 Certification, which can be applied to their LinkedIn profile.

Participants in the Gnowbe-GBSN program will also earn a certificate of completion from GBSN, which signals preparedness teaching specifically within the context of business and management schools. GBSN believes that the microlearning instructional design skills can be applied to increase inclusiveness and belonging, expand lifelong learning and executive education, generate additional value from case studies and simulations, make research more accessible to practicing managers, and increase the impact of business schools as catalysts for sustainable development. 

To be eligible for the Gnowbe-GBSN program, participants must be employed on a full-time or part-time basis by a GBSN member institution at the time of application. GBSN is particularly interested in applicants from developing countries and least developed countries.

Applications will be first come first serve on a rolling basis until all scholarships are taken. Please indicate you are from a GBSN member institution in the application form.

There is a FAQ section under the landing page applicants can refer to, which includes the commonly asked questions about the scholarship.

Apply Here

What is the Scholarship about?

To support creators globally, Gnowbe is launching $10 million in scholarships which entitle recipients to earn a Microlearning Instructional Design (MID) Level 1 Certification (worth $497!) for FREE. Recipients will learn the principles of instructional design and the know-how to apply that in a microlearning format for blended or asynchronous learning experiences.

Upon certificate completion, recipients will ‘pay-it-forward’ by equipping others on MID skills and techniques.

The Microlearning Instructional Design Accreditation program is designed for trainers, educators, and instructional designers who are looking to increase the value of their training programs for their clients through a new mode of content authoring known as Microlearning Instructional Design. Through this program, you will witness learning translate into application and business performance.

Are you ready for the next level of learning and design?

Join learning experts impacting innovation in instructional design and the future of education. With the rise of mobile microlearning, a new generation of instructional design calls for the most advanced and creative learning designers to rethink content authoring and disrupt learning design for modern learners. Learn more about the MID accreditation program and be empowered to rewrite history with pioneering instructional design frameworks curated by experts.

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AAPBS 2022 Academic Conference: Teaching Innovation in Business Education

Date & Time

Wednesday, June 1 | 12:00 AM EST

Thursday, June 2 | 12:00 AM EST

Language

English

NUCB Business School is proud to have been selected by the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) to host the 2022 AAPBS Academic Conference, sponsored by Peregrine Global Services, the Association of MBAs, and the Business Graduates Association. The conference’s keynote speakers and plenary sessions will focus on Teaching Innovation in Business Education, welcoming educators and industry experts to listen and take part in discussion on how the evolving nature of the global marketplace necessitates new approaches to equipping and reskilling future leaders of business.

All program events will be delivered via the web conferencing platform Zoom. Depending on whether a sufficient number of interested registrants is reached, additional events (including catered networking sessions and company visits) may be scheduled for on-site participants for a supplementary event fee.

Lunch will be sponsored by the Association of MBAs and the Business Graduates Association.

Please see the registration form for more information.

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Application Deadline

Sunday, May 1

Summary of Topics

  • Digital Transformation in Business Education
  • Future of Management Education and its Implications for Business Schools
  • New Development of Case Methods
  • Active Learning

Tentative Schedule

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Stanford Seed’s Webinar: Urbanization in Africa

Date & Time

Saturday, April 2

9:00 AM PST | 4:00 PM GMT | 6:00 PM CAT | 7:00 PM EAT | 9:30 PM IST

Africa is the fastest urbanizing region in the world. Nine-hundred million people will move into cities on the continent in the coming 30 years. With that urbanization, new and innovative cities are emerging. Stanford Seed is hosting three key experts in the new city movement for a panel on April 2. These thinkers, planners, and builders will share what it means to start a large, mixed-use real estate project, and what it takes to turn the built environment into a community.

Join us for a thought provoking discussion with our panel of experts via Zoom on the topic of urbanization in Africa.

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