Timings

Welcome Dinner on Sunday, 11^th Feb 2024 at  IBA Karachi

18:00

Arrival of Guests

19:00 – 19:30

Campus Showcase

19:30 – 20:30

Dinner & Networking

20:45

Departure to Hotel

Timings

Monday, 12^th Feb 2024

09.00-10.00

Registrations

10.00-11.00

Inaugural session   

10.00-10.05

Tilawat and National Anthem

10.05-10.15

Opening Remarks by Dr. Naukhez Sarwar, Chairman, NBEAC

10.15-10.25

Remarks by Dr. S Akbar Zaidi, Executive Director, IBA Karachi

10.25- 10.35

Guest of Honor, Dr. Geoff Perry, Executive Vice President, AACSB International speaks on Challenges facing Business Schools Globally

10.35-10.50

Keynote speech by Chief Guest, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, Chairman, HEC

10.50- 10.55

Thanks to sponsors by Mr. Ahtesham Ali Raja, Program Director, NBEAC

10.55- 11.00

Distribution of souvenirs to honorable chief guest, guest of honor and sponsors

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30- 13.00

Panel A: Driving Excellence through Strategic Academic and Industry Partnerships

This theme will elaborate much needed strategic partnerships and collaborations of business schools with the industry and other allied institutions for solving specific industry problems through research and consulting projects. It will further explore how to exploit the industry-led research initiatives and projects funded by public and private sector companies, business councils and industry associations to address specific business challenges and opportunities to boost the economy. The discussants will draw parallels with Germany, Switzerland, China and other countries for the successful coupling of Business School's partnership with relevant industry.  

13.00-14.00

Lunch & Prayer Break

14.00-15.30 (Parallel Session- Main Hall)

Panel B: Reshaping Curriculum and Pedagogical Innovation for Digital Natives

The Generative AI tools with large language models are changing the landscape of teaching and learning in tertiary education; in this perspective, this theme will delineate the new frontiers in curriculum, pedagogy, and technology to change classroom teaching and assessment practices. The discussion will revolve around in alignment of the anticipated changes in business education due to the technological disruption, innovative social spaces, and changing demands of the market; it will further outline the response of the business school through reshaping the teaching-learning milieu to tech-savvy generations.

14.00-15.30 (Parallel Session -Shalimar Hall)

Panel C: Strengthening Faculty-Student Relationships

As higher education is evolving, the role of the faculty members is becoming more challenging to realize the students’ perspective and be cognizant of the emerging needs of the upcoming generation. This theme will elaborate on the role of faculty members of business schools in redefining and strengthening the relationship of faculty and students in and outside the classrooms not only to optimize learning but also to create trust. It will further help in identifying the new roles and responsibilities that faculty members should adopt to fulfill the changing needs of millennials and Gen-Z.

15.30-15.50

AACSB Accreditation - Why do it?

15.50-16.00

Coffee break

16.00-17.30

Panel D: Achieving Sustainability through Business Education

Business schools require to promote optimum environments for their development, in the most direct or proximal context. The schools need to act as forces for good by developing the sustainability literacy of the leaders and managers they train. This theme will explore the means and ways adopted by the business school to support and achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the national and international contexts. The development of curriculum and instruction around sustainable goals and best practices in the industry will help to understand the required initiatives at both policy and practice levels.

19.30

Dinner at Salim Habib University, Karachi

Timings

Tuesday, 13^th Feb 2024

09.00-10.30

Panel E: Nurturing Responsible and Ethical Leadership in Business Schools

This theme will debate creating an inclusive classroom environment, recruiting, and retaining diverse faculty and staff members, and fostering the culture of tolerance and peace through incorporating cross-cultural competence in Business Education. It will further deliberate the overarching role of ethical leadership in business schools that will permeate the positivity, hope, and optimism among all the stakeholders by leveraging equity, diversity, and inclusivity. In addition, it will also assist business schools in making and gauging their respective social impacts on the relevant stakeholders.

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30

Sponsored Session

11.30-12.30

Panel F: Rethinking Lifelong Learning and Executive Education

The two imperative key discourses, lifelong learning, and technological disruption have been inextricably linked to offer a compelling narrative of the coupling of education models and technological change to enable individual empowerment, social inclusion, and shared prosperity. The discussion in this theme will guide the business schools to design customized executive education programs, micro-credentials, and bite-sized professional development courses, blending online and on-site executive trainings in addressing the emerging skill gaps in early and mid-career professionals in the industry.

12.30- 12.45

Review of Conference

12.45-13.00

Closing ceremony

13.00

Lunch

16.00-17.30

Training Program 1:  Developing a vibrant culture

09.00-10.30

Mentorship forum

10.45- 11.30

Information session by Emerald Publishing

11.30-12.30

Training Program 2: Train the trainer program on entrepreneurship