The Talk Series will be a series of webinars and events across a range of topics. We are inaugurating this with the following topic:

The Role of Business Schools in Leading the Future of Saudi Arabia’s Digital Economy

Panel

1. Professor Alan Brown, Professor in Digital Economy, University of Exeter’s Business School, UK
2. Mr. Ehab Al Khiary, Executive and Entrepreneur in ITC
3. Mr. Mustafa F. Ahmed, Founder & CEO Ascend E-Ventures, Lecturer at KBS
4. Dr. Malak Baslyman, Assistant Professor, CCSE KFUPM

A panel of educators and industry professionals has been invited to discuss the following areas:

1. Disrupting education pedagogies to turn challenges into possibilities.
2. What is digital transformation and its role in reforming the traditional curriculum?
3. How do we infuse innovations driven technology in business curricula?
4. The role of business schools in the future of the financial services industry.
5. The panel will discuss the importance of synthesizing data and enhancing prescriptive and predictive techniques to produce graduates who can turn big data into actionable intelligence.