Prof. Dr. Nor Haniza Sarmin 

Beyond COVID-19: The Shift in International Higher Education

Academia worldwide is suffering from disruption due to COVID-19. Despite having to constantly face challenges such as lack of digital infrastructure, financial shortages, and political corruption, COVID-19 has proven to be the most formidable of them all. The pandemic has challenged the suitability, sustainability and viability of long-standing higher education practices in its entirety. The once underestimated method of remote teaching has now been thrusted into the only way higher education could feasibly be continued. This abrupt adaptation accelerated many innovative trends of online classrooms, where some teachers have even deployed more futuristic methods such as the usage of artificial intelligence. As more institutions adapt to a wholly remote classroom-type model, lecturers and educators will need to attain and hone new skills in blended educational technology. Thus, institutions of higher education may continue to survive and thrive beyond COVID-19. In this talk, some digital practices of academia and challenges faced by international higher education will be discussed.

Prof. Dr. Wim Vanhaverbeke

You need ecosystem management to implement business models based on digital technologies 

Khusro Pervaiz Khan 

Prof. Dr Christian Meniw

The Industry 5.0 ( Life 2.0) 

The approaching world forces us to reinvent ourselves because what we will see between now and 2030 will not be an economic but a human transformation. We have seen with COVID19 as technology has advanced faster than it used to have. The pandemic leaves us with two groups of people who are no longer divided between rich and poor but between empowered and dominated. On the other hand, we are already in the Era of a new globalization that is no longer thought in the physical but in intelligence and we are directing to synthetic and virtual life that go hand in hand with transhumanism within a geographical map where it is no longer the states but the union of complementary cities that will promote economic change. The question before this would be how we should prepare for a world that we were not prepared for when we were children.

Prof. Dato Dr. Rajah Rasiah

Economic Development beyond COVID 19

Rajah Rasiah holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Malaya. His previous positions were Professor of Industrial Organization at the National University of Malaysia, and senior research fellow at UNU-INTECH, Maastricht. He also holds adjunct positions in several universities, including Cambridge, Oxford, and Zhejiang. He obtained his doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He was awarded the Celso Furtado Prize by the World Academy of Sciences in 2014 for advancing the frontiers of social science thought (economics). He is a rare academic that has spent his whole career advancing the frontiers of policy research to benefit the developing economies. Either through United Nations organizations or through governments, he has prepared several industrial and technology policy reports to advance the material conditions of millions of humans with a focus on technology, sustainability, public health, and the interests of the masses.

Prof. Dr. Ozcan Saritas

Foreshight

Dr. Ozcan Saritas is a Professor of Innovation and Foresight at the National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow; Honorary Professor at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of Manchester; and Editor-in-chief of “Foresight” – the journal of futures studies, strategic thinking and policy. His research focuses upon innovation, policy and governance with particular emphasis on socio-economic and technological Foresight. With a PhD from the “Foresight and Prospective Studies Program,” Prof. Saritas has extensive work experience with the international organizations including the United Nations (UNIDO, UNCTAD, UNDP), OECD, and the European Commission. He has been involved in large scale national, multinational and corporate research and consultancy projects on sectors including Energy, Climate Change and Renewables, Agriculture and Food, Water Resources and Sustainability, Transportation and Automotive, Information and Communication Technologies among the others. He has published a number of articles in leading journals in the field; and has delivered keynote speeches in a number of countries across the world. Besides his research and publication activities, he designs and delivers academic and executive education courses on Foresight, Innovation Management and Strategic Planning. He has recently co-authored a book, entitled “Foresight for Science, Technology and Innovation” published by Springer, which has become one of the key readings in the field.

Dr. Muhammad Imran Qureshi

Digital Transfermation

Around the globe, digitalisation has become very important in every field of life i.e., business, economy, marketing, finance, education and management etc. The spread of Covid-19 has arisen huge challenges for the world economy. However, the businesses that adopted a proper digital strategy in response to the crisis are able to reduce their exposure and furthermore, capture opportunities presented by special conditions arising from COVID-19.