Conference Overview

The theme for this year's IBSSC is "AI and the Future of Business". Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a critical area of interest in the business world, from creating new business models, to reshaping business operations, and to modifying the ways of business education. The transformational impact of AI on the operational and competitive landscape of businesses through cost reduction, efficiency enhancement, and accuracy improvement must be proactively discussed and integrated into business education. Moreover, the ethical concerns of AI development must be considered as well, as shown by recent events.

This year's conference will provide us, business educators from around the world, with a platform to confront the new opportunities and challenges from AI development. The questions are wide and varied, such as how to design new programs and courses that emphasize AI and related technologies, how to equip students with critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are demanded in an AI-driven world, and how to deal with new AI-related ethical challenges, to name just a few.

The Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Antai College), invites business school deans and colleagues from around the world to come to Shanghai for the IBSSC 2024 to contemplate these important questions and formulate winning strategies for the future.

This is our 10^th conference! Since its inauguration in 2006, taking place every other year, the IBSSC has become the largest dean-level conference for business schools in the Asia-Pacific region, both in terms of the number of participants and the high profile of speakers. The IBSSC is also recognized as one of the most influential and international business school conferences globally. At each previous conference, the IBSSC has invited more than 40 deans as speakers, from top business schools in different parts of the world. Overall, we expect about 300 dean-level delegates, representing 160 business schools, from more than 40 countries and regions. Also as in previous years, we expect that about 60% of our participants will be from overseas, while the rest will be from local Chinese schools.

A leading business school in the Asia Pacific region, Antai College is committed to creating a unique and valuable platform for promoting collaboration among global business schools. Our goal is to facilitate meaningful dialogues and explore opportunities for mutually beneficial partnerships.