EFMD | AABS Community Webinar
Overview
Enhancing digitalisation strategy in business schools
Inviting different regional perspectives, EFMD-AABS Community Webinar aims to encourage an open dialogue and knowledge sharing on relevant topics and common challenges. Each edition brings together insights from business school professionals from EFMD Global and AABS – Association of African Business Schools and opens lively discussion on a specific topic.
For this community webinar, Enhancing digitalisation strategy in business schools, we address
- Digitalisation as a component of the Business School’s Strategy
- Digitalisation and teaching innovation: a framework
- The experience of PoliMi GSOM: Flex MBA, Flexa and D-HUB, and more.
We invite all business school professionals interested in enhancing digitalisation in business schools and management education and take part in this important discussion.
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
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Host
EFMD
Agenda Passes
The FULL Experience Pass
Woxsen Experience, AABS Academy Workshop, and Deans and Directors Forum
Sunday, 9 November (Woxsen University Campus)
8h00 – 18h00: Arrivals and transport to Woxsen University Campus
20h00 – 22h00: Welcome Dinner to Woxsen
Monday, 10 November (Woxsen University Campus Hyderabad)
11h00 – 17h00: AABS Academy Workshop: “AI For Strategic Academic
Leadership: Transform from AI-Curious to AI-Confident” in Collaboration
with Woxsen University"
18h30 – 20h30: Welcome Cocktail
Wednesday, 12 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 17h00: Day 1: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors Forum
Thursday, 13 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 15h00: Day 2: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors Forum
19h00 – 21h30: Gala Dinner
Friday, 14 November (Hyderabad)
9h00 – 18h00: Official AABS Tour of Hyderabad
(Disclaimer: The tour itinerary, including routes and sites to be visited, is
subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances such as weather
conditions, local regulations, or operational requirements)
Saturday, 15 November (Hyderabad)
8h00 – 12h00: Check-out from hotel
Includes:
- Woxsen Experience on 10 November, featuring a full day of activities such as a campus tour, AI Research Center simulation, sports event, and social events.
- Full workshop participation, including the workshop networking dinner.
- Full attendance at the Forum.
- Accommodation from 9 November to 15 November (1 night at Woxsen University Campus + 5 nights at the Forum hotel, bed and breakfast).
- All meals during the stay at Woxsen University.
- Transportation from the airport to Woxsen University on 9 November.
- Transportation from Woxsen University to the Forum hotel on 10 November.
- All meals, local transportation, and networking/social activities included in the Forum program.
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Excludes:
- Cost of flights (delegates are responsible for booking and covering their own flights).
- Additional nights before 9 November or after 15 November, including early check in and late check out.
- Transportation from the Forum hotel to the airport upon departure.
- Visa application fees, travel insurance, and any related costs.
- Personal expenses, including but not limited to laundry, room service, or minibar charges and any meals or alcoholic beverages not included in the official program.
- Transfers outside official program dates.
- Optional tours, excursions, or activities not part of the official program.
The PLUS Experience Pass
AABS Academy Workshop and Deans and Directors Forum
Monday, 10 November (Hyderabad)
14h00 – 23h00: Arrival and check in
Tuesday, 11 November (Hyderabad)
11h00 – 17h00: AABS Academy Workshop: “AI For Strategic
Academic Leadership: Transform from AI-Curious to AI-Confident” in
Collaboration with Woxsen University
18h30 – 20h30: Welcome Cocktail
Wednesday, 12 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 17h00: Day 1: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors
Forum
Thursday, 13 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 15h00: Day 2: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors
Forum
19h00 – 21h30: Gala Dinner
Friday, 14 November (Hyderabad)
9h00 – 18h00: Official AABS Tour of Hyderabad
(Disclaimer: The tour itinerary, including routes and sites to be
visited, is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances such
as weather conditions, local regulations, or operational
requirements)
Saturday, 15 November (Hyderabad)
8h00 – 12h00: Check-out from hotel
Includes:
- Full workshop participation, including the workshop networking dinner.
- Full attendance at the Forum.
- Accommodation from 10 November to 15 November (5 nights at the Forum hotel, bed and breakfast).
- All meals, local transportation, and networking/social activities included in the Forum program.
Excludes:
- Cost of flights (delegates are responsible for booking and covering their own flights).
- Additional nights before 10 November or after 15 November, including early check in and late check out.
- Transportation to and from the airport.
- Visa application fees, travel insurance, and any related costs.
- Personal expenses, including but not limited to laundry, room service, or minibar charges and any meals or alcoholic beverages not included in the official program.
- Transfers outside official program dates.
- Optional tours, excursions, or activities not part of the official program.
The CORE Experience Pass
Deans and Directors Forum
Tuesday, 11 November (Hyderabad)
14h00 – 23h00: Arrival and check in
Wednesday, 12 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 17h00: Day 1: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors
Forum
Thursday, 13 November (Hyderabad)
8h30 – 15h00: Day 2: AABS 2025 African Deans and Directors
Forum
19h00 – 21h30: Gala Dinner
Friday, 14 November (Hyderabad)
9h00 – 18h00: Official AABS Tour of Hyderabad
(Disclaimer: The tour itinerary, including routes and sites to be
visited, is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances such
as weather conditions, local regulations, or operational
requirements)
Saturday, 15 November (Hyderabad)
8h00 – 12h00: Check-out from hotel
Includes:
- Full attendance at the Forum.
- Accommodation from 11 November to 15 November (4 nights at the Forum hotel, bed and breakfast).
- All meals, local transportation, and networking/social activities included in the Forum program.
Excludes:
- Cost of flights (delegates are responsible for booking and covering their own flights).
- Additional nights before 11 November or after 15 November, including early check in and late check out.
- Transportation to and from the airport.
- Visa application fees, travel insurance, and any related costs.
- Personal expenses, including but not limited to laundry, room service, or minibar charges and any meals or alcoholic beverages not included in the official program.
- Transfers outside official program dates.
- Optional tours, excursions, or activities not part of the official program.
Logistics
Speakers
Jonathan Foster-Pedley
Jon is Dean and Director of Henley Business School in Africa, part of the Henley Business School UK, a leading global business school with campuses in Europe, Asia and Africa. With Henley Africa being the first school to be accredited by The Association of Africa Business schools (AABS), Henley now holds international quadruple accreditation, AABS, AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. Henley’s purpose is ‘We build the people who build the businesses that build Africa.’
Jon’s career includes roles as educator, dean, corporate executive, airline pilot, aerobatic competitor, writer and speaker. He has 45 years of international working experience. He has been a professor of innovation, MBA director, director of executive education, designer and director of numerous executive education programmes and lecturer in strategy, innovation and executive learning. His interests are economic and educational transformation, sustainability and business evolution.
Henley Africa has been an entrepreneurial success, with a strong reputation for progressive learning design and care for students and clients.
Jon is chairman of the British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa, chairman of the Association of Africa Business Schools, board member of the Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economies, and former vice-chair of the South African Business Schools Association. He is chair and founder of MBAid, an NPO that seeks to turn the energies of business schools to social good, which has worked with over 350 NGOs. Jon is also a Distinguished Professor at Woxsen University, India and a life Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.
Tommaso Agasisti
Tommaso is a Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano School of Management, where he teaches Public Management. Since 2020, he is Associate Dean for International Relations and Quality at PoliMI GSOM – Graduate School of Management. Since 2019, he is a member of the Governing Board of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests deal with the performance evaluation and innovation of public organizations, with special attention to schools, universities, and local governments. He authored more than 100 publications, which appeared in international, peer-reviewed academic journals. Between 2010 and 2019, he sat in the Evaluation Committee of various public and private Italian universities.
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