The theme for this year’s IBSSC is “Reimagining Business Education after the Pandemic”. The pandemic has dramatically changed almost every single aspect of the business world: shifting to remote working almost overnight, some sectors forced to hibernate if not shut down indefinitely, new business opportunities and challenges quickly emerging.

At the 9th International Business School Shanghai Conference, business schools around the globe as a community will reimagine business education after the pandemic crisis. The programme will include not only the new contents we need to dive into such as dealing with uncertainty and risk, digitalising operations while accommodating shifts in working forces, the rise of new technologies such as machine learning and automation, but will also include the way in which we do business education e.g how to hybridise offline learning with remoting study and how to work with corporate worlds in a new fashion.

In this year’s conference, there are also parallel sessions with topics such as: 

• Global Risks and Social Responsibility of Business Schools
• International Collaboration in an Uncertain World
• Meeting students and clients’ expectations on digital learning (chaired by AMBA CEO, Andrew Main Wilson)