18:00 – 19:30

Registrations

19:00 – 21:30

Welcome dinner at Clarion hotel

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome and introduction by the chair

• Eric Cornuel, President, EFMD Global Network
• Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer, Hult International Business School, UK

09:30 – 10:15

Opening plenary: The geopolitical context and its implications for education

• Anke Strauss, Head, Integrated Talent Management Unit, IOM, CH

Moderated by: Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer, Hult International Business School, UK

10:15 – 11:00

Round table discussions: What brought you here and where do you want to go

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break!

11:30 – 12:45

Breakout sessions 1

1A: Small is beautiful? An exploration of microcredentials

Microcredentials have excited the attention of MOOC platforms, online course purveyors and Business Schools in recent times but are the implications of short, flexible, stackable, affordable, inclusive qualifications focused on skills development fully understood?
This panel discussion brings together key voices from the microcredentials debate in order to illuminate the topic. Is small beautiful in this context?

• Dil Sidhu, Senior Advisor, edX
• Mark Brown, Director, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University, IR
• Maria Kelo, Director Institutional Development, European University Association

Moderated by Keith Pond, Director, EOCCS, EFMD GN

1B: New employment models for faculty: From tenure to gig professors?

Are the current employment models outdated? Is it acceptable if your professors also work for a direct competitor? Is junior faculty looking for tenure or flexible employment models? What are the implications for accreditation?

• Patrick De Greve, General Director, Vlerick Business School, BE
• Mark Smith, Director, Stellenbosch Business School, ZA

Moderated by Nicola Kleyn, Dean, Executive Education, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NL

1C: Challenging the value proposition: Do career services prepare students for today’s working models?

Join us for what promises to be an insightful session as we witness a senior leader from one of the world’s most forward-thinking employers, AB InBev, come head to head with a Skills Transformation Consultant from Coursera. Are business schools minding the gap? How can academic institutions best prepare talent for success in today’s job environment, while bridging the skills gap with prospective employers?

• Dasha Karzunina, Skills Transformation Consultant, EMEA, Coursera, UK
• Jaromír Staroba, Prague Capability Center Director, Anheuser-Busch InBev, CZ

Moderated by Amber Wigmore Alvarez, Chief Talent Officer, Highered EFMD Shared Career Services, NO

1D: How Covid-19 has shaken up prospective students’ choices

This GMAC session will explore how prospective students’ motivations and preferences for graduate management education (GME) programmes have shifted as a consequence of the pandemic.

• Sara Strafino, Senior Market Development Manager, Europe, Graduate Management Admission Council®, United Kingdom

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:15

Plenary 2: Realities of the new world of work

Gig work, the great resignation and new employment models on the one hand, disrupted supply chains, inflationary pressures and a new geopolitical context on the other hand. This session explores realities of the new world of work, what it means for business and what it eventually means for Business schools.

• Peter Handstein, Founder & CEO, Hape Holding International, CN
• Laurent Choain, Chief Leadership, Education & Culture, Mazars, FR
• Lorraine McMahon, President, Home Group, UK

Moderated by: Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer, Hult International Business School, UK

15:15 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30

Update from EFMD Accreditations

During this session in which we will celebrate the 25^th anniversary of EQUIS, the Directors of EQUIS, EFMDa, EDAF and EOCCS will successively report on the latest changes in each respective area, offering an indication of the processes ahead for the next years.

• Alfons Sauquet Rovira, Director, Quality Services & Director, EQUIS, EFMD Global Network
• Barbara Sporn, Director, EFMD Programme Accreditation, EFMD Global Network
• Piet Naudé, Director, EDAF, EFMD Global Network
• Keith Pond, Director, EOCCS, EFMD Global Network
• Martin Schader, Senior Advisor, EQUIS, EFMD Global Network

16:30 – 17:00

Awards ceremony

Discover and celebrate the new members of the EQUIS, EFMD Accredited, EDAF, CLIP, EOCCS, and BSIS family.

19:30 – 22:30

Dinner at Zofin Palace

09:00 – 10:00

Plenary 3: Where is there? Gilgamesh, paradises, and philosophy of education

• Tomáš Sedláček, Economist & Philosopher, CZ

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:45

Breakout sessions 2

2A: Disputes about academic freedom, free speech and inclusivity in the classroom

Navigating the complex nuances of diversity is an increasingly valuable skill for educators in a globalised world. While the benefits of diverse classrooms are clear, students have reported being subjected to insults or invalidations based on some aspect of their identities. Meanwhile, others may feel pressure to self-censor to refrain from saying things that could be interpreted as offensive. How can educators manage open and constructive debates in the classroom given the huge range of diverse perspectives and identities?

• Morris Mthombeni, Dean, GIBS, ZA

Moderated by Nicola Kleyn, Dean, Executive Education, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, NL

2B: Strained international collaboration & challenging geopolitical circumstances

Digital has opened the world to collaboration and shared experiences but this also needs to be balanced with a human approach to leadership and shared vision on the future of education and partnerships – making good choices and the value of relationships has never been more important – let’s have an open discussion!

• Caron Beaton-Wells, Dean, Internal, Melbourne Business School, AU

Moderated by Catherine Pereira Villa, Dean, International School of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia

2C: Examples of business school helping in refugee crisis

The ongoing war in Ukraine shows the very worst or humankind and also the very best with the global response of kindness & humility. Share here best examples of schools responses to help with the refugees crisis.

• Jiří Hnilica, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business, CZ
• Anna Maria Górska, Assistant Professor & Director, Research Center for Women and Diversity in Organizations, Kozminski University, PL

2D: Engaging experiences to supercharge learning with gamification

Gamification is an approach that builds on the psychology of human engagement and capitalizes on strategies and design ideas from games. Applied in the educational context, it transforms attitudes towards learning and creates an immersive, entertaining experience. Such a hands-on approach helps students to connect with their learning and improves concentration, determination to succeed or overall knowledge retention. How can we use its power in the classroom?

• Roberto Alvarez Bucholska, Adjunct Professor, Operations Area & Gamification, IE University, ES

12:00 – 13:00

Closing plenary: Innovations around ERS: Highlights from QS accreditations
ERS has been renewed in 2022 as a transversal standard providing more opportunities for Schools to strengthen their commitment to sustainable management education. In this session, four innovative Schools from diverse contexts and with localised priorities have been selected to share their initiatives on how to respond and embed ERS into their institutional strategies and programmes.

• Catherine Duggan, Dean, UCT Graduate School of Business, University of Capetown, ZA
• Bruno Neil, Director General, Excelia Group La Rochelle, FR
• Saul Klein, Dean, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, CA

Moderated by: Piet Naudé, Director, EDAF, EFMD Global Network

13:00 – 13:30

Closing remarks and welcome to the 2023 Conference

• Johan Roos, Chief Academic Officer, Hult International Business School, UK
• Friedemann Schulze-Fielitz, Director, Business School Services, EFMD Global Network

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch