The focus of the Strategic Leadership Program for Deans is to discuss central themes that any dean and director faces in one or another form, and with priorities that may vary between business schools and over time.
Target group: Newly appointed Deans or Director General of the entire institution with overall school management responsibility.
Please note that the program will be limited to 20 participants.
The EFMD Global Network Americas Annual Conference has been designed for all interested in management education and development. It brings together EFMD Global Network members, companies, educational institutions and other associations interested in the Americas. This includes Deans, Deputy and Associate Deans, International Relations Directors, Program Directors, Executive Education Directors and other Business School and Executive Development Professionals.
Additional event information coming soon
We all know how important the link between business schools and the corporate world is for management education. As a result, we want to make this conference a one-of-a-kind forum for discussion and networking among L&D experts from both the supplier and client sides.
Engage with the authors of the EiP â Excellence in Practice award winners in intimate discussion corners, share overall sector trends in interactive panels with learning professionals, and network at the EiP Award Ceremony dinner.
This event attracts a diverse range of learning professionals from corporations and L&D providers such as business schools, executive development centers, and executive education consultancies.
âThe landscape of learning & development is evolving so fast, itâs good to reflect with peers and world leading business schools on what we are contributing. EFMD facilitates that in an excellent way and provokes in using the collective brain of corporate learning & executive education. Learning and development is the most powerful way forward to contribute in a sustainable future for organisations and the individual.â â Renate Deken, Randstad, NL
Africa currently has 600 million people without access to electricity. While there are many ongoing efforts to bridge this electrification gap, many have run into challenges of scale and profitability.
During this talk weâll explore the challenges of energy access in Africa, and the trade-offs of the different technologies currently being deployed â when are mini-grids best suited to connect communities vs solar home systems? Is it possible for electrification technologies to be profitable without some form of public subsidy? What is the cost of electricity for these systems?
Join Stanford Seed and the Stanford Africa Business Club for a thought-provoking discussion with our panel of experts on the topic of Energy Access in Africa.
Humphrey Wireko
Managing Director, CrossBoundary Energy Access
Hannah Kabir
CEO, Creeds Energy
Phuthi Tsatsi
Stanford GSB MBA Candidate as Moderator
Stanford Seed is looking for high-potential CEOs and founders based in Africa and South Asia who are motivated for growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience that goes beyond acquiring business skills. Stanford’s world-renowned faculty and dedicated team of experts work with leaders and their management teams throughout their 10-month journey to growth.
The Seed Transformation Program is an unconventional, in-person and online learning experience exclusively for founders/CEOs with annual revenue between $300K â $15M USD.
Stanfordâs faculty and dedicated team of experts work with you and your management team, both virtually, and on location at your business, to help unlock growth opportunities. The Seed Transformation Program is designed specifically for business owners and up to five members of their senior management team. This program is led by world-renowned Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty and is supported by Stanford-trained advisors and experts.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2023
ESCP Business School and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), within the Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) Project, are honoured to invite you to the second Symposium on Teaching & Curriculum Development in Sustainability Entrepreneurship to be held in Paris on the 12th and 13th of June. At last yearâs Berlin symposium over 30 people came together to share insights on how to prepare tomorrowâs business leaders to flourish in a resource-constrained world. Led by renowned keynote speakers, it included a series of workshops, presentations and stimulating discussions between those who are at the forefront of bringing sustainability entrepreneurship into the classroom.
This yearâs symposium will also include academics working on sustainability entrepreneurship in science and engineering. To that end, we are pleased to announce an affiliation with the sustainable entrepreneurship education Special Interest Group of the ICA Association for European Life Science Universities.
Day 1 of the symposium will take place at the ESCP Paris campus, with day 2 at UNEPâs Paris office, situated on the UNESCO campus. Like last yearâs symposium, there will be no charge for attending. All meals will be covered by the organizers, with the exception of dinner on the second night. The symposium will close with a cocktail reception that will include students, alumni and practitioners.
We can welcome a maximum of 50 people to this yearâs symposium, with enrolment on a first-come basis.
In the spirit of co-creation, we would like to invite you to submit workshop, presentation, speaker and panel proposals by April 1. Topics could be related but not limited to the following themes:
⢠Challenge-based entrepreneurial student projects for sustainability;
⢠Orienting students towards sustainability venture projects that have high impact (sustainability compass); ⢠Teaching the foundations of sustainable development to business school students;
⢠Career prospects for students with sustainability credentials, or the green jobs deficit the world faces; ⢠Eco design and sustainability entrepreneurship;
⢠People and experiences from the world of practice, including case writing;
We look forward to a fun and stimulating two days, with many opportunities for informal discussions and exchanges of ideas during and around each intervention.
If you would like to submit a content proposal, please send it to us by April 1 at the address below. If you have any questions, or to confirm attendance (by May 1), contact Robert Sheldon at: rsheldon@escp.eu with Charlotte Hillig in copy: chillig@escp.eu. Â
The central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to take transformative steps to shift the world to a sustainable and resilient path.
This course explores Sustainable Lifestyles in the context of the 2030 Agenda, advancing the understanding of how lifestyle choices impact the world around us and how we can find ways for everyone to live better and lighter.
The course will explore what sustainable lifestyles are, the values and beliefs that influence our choices, and the strategies that we could apply to create positive and long-lasting change towards sustainability in our systems and our lives.
June 12, 10:30-12:00
The UN System Staff College and the UN Environment Programme are proud to present the “My Sustainable Living Challengeâ â an online gamified learning platform that channels learning towards behaviour change through actionable commitments.
This edition of the Challenge is offered in English, French, Spanish and Russian.
DATE & TIME
Thursday, 20 April
8:00 am EDT
LOCATION
In-person; London
CONTACT
Nicole Zefran, nzefran@gbsn.org
As the Fintech industry continues to rapidly evolve, the role of Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly important. As such, it is vital to consider how Fintech education needs to adapt to ensure that the workforce of tomorrow is equipped with the necessary skills to thrive in an AI-driven world.
What should we teach and learn in an AI world? As part of the UK Fintech Week (April 17-21), the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) and GBSN is convening a topic focused, intimate conversation bringing together top academics and leading practitioners to discuss the intersection of education and the impact of AI, and explore the future of Fintech education.
Thursday, 20 April I 8:00 – 10:30 am
London, England
* Light breakfast will be served at 8:00am
Please note, this roundtable is closed and by invitation only. Any inquiries regarding participation can be sent to Nicole Zefran at nzefran@gbsn.org.
School of Business and AI Research Centre, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India in collaboration with the University of St. Thomas, MN, USA is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Processing – AIKP’23 (Scopus Indexed Conference) from 6th to 8th October 2023.
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Processing is playing a vital role in changing most of the sectorsâ processes and landscape. AI has an enormous impact on various automation industries and their functioning converting traditional industries to AI-based factories. New algorithms are changing the way business processes and results are analyzed and predicted. Knowledge processing is the act of comprehending and then representing human knowledge in data structures; semantic models, which are conceptual diagrams of data as they relate to the real world; and heuristics, which are principles that lead to answers to every AI challenge. The way how a human think, knowledge processing transforms the data into knowledge and makes the machine think like a human and makes better decisions. This makes the humans work simple, but it has some ethical concerns that need to be sorted out. This AI and knowledge processing conference addresses the drawbacks and challenges in current practices in various sectors. The research area includes Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge representation, semantics, Bigdata analytics, Intelligent systems, fuzzy-based neural networks, and other fields.Â
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science Series (Scopus).
Last date to submit the full paper: 5th July 2023
Intimation of the acceptance of paper: 20th July 2023
Last date to submit the revised paper: 20th  August 2023
Hybrid
The 2023 ARUA Biennial Conference will bring together experts from universities, research institutions, government, industry, civil society, international organizations, etc., to discuss the potential pathways of reimagining the future of HEIs on the African Continent in the coming decades. How can the projections be altered significantly?
In reflecting on the prominent lessons from other institutions, including those from both the Global North and other Global South regions, the focus of the conference will be on significantly increasing the output of higher education institutions in the region while enhancing the quality of the output to match that in other regions. The conference will seek to embolden university leaders to pursue needed reforms while drawing lessons for medium to long-term changes that need to be undertaken by national governments and their regulators. These will consider national development aspirations as well as regional development goals and targets, including the SDGs and Agenda 2063.
The conference and workshops will take place on 15â17 November 2023. The two-day conference will be extended to a third day of workshops for the thirteen (13) ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoE). The 2023 conference will be hosted by the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Persons interested in participating in the conference may submit an abstract of not more than one page to the organisers before 28 February.
Applicants will be notified about decisions by 31 March 2023.
Completed papers must be submitted before 30 September 2023.
Join 1,300 peers representing many of the top institutions from around the world in a three-day event offering over 40 hours of engaging sessions and networking community meetings.
Business educators and thought leaders will highlight the various pathways to impact their organizations are taking to generate positive change.
Society is demanding that we update the ways we are educating tomorrowâs leaders, and business educators have responded with new models for generating positive societal impact in their communities, regions, and at a global scale.
Connect with peers and engage with speakers who are eager to share their insights in areas such as:
Who should attend?
Corporate representatives, deans, associate/assistant deans, international directors, program directors, department chairs, and faculty.
