BMRI Annual Conference: Artificial Intelligence: utopic and dystopic visions

17 January 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) – everyone is talking about it at the moment. The speed of developments in AI is daunting and the potential implications seem huge. How is AI changing our world? Can we tame its potential and use it as a force for good or does is it an existential threat to the way we live and even understand our lives? This year the Business and Management Institute at the University of Bedfordshire will present a range of current research projects probing more deeply into these questions. We promise you an interesting day… but perhaps no answers! The day will include guest speakers from industry and research and presentations ranging from the very theoretical to the very practical!

BMRI Annual Conference 2024 Programme [PDF]

The Centre for Leadership Innovation together with the Humanistic Management Network announced a Research Webinar series for 2024 on the theme of 'good work'

Centre for Leadership Innovation hosted two academics from Ukraine: Dr Olena Iarmosh from the Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics (Kharkiv) and Dr Roman Nesterenko from Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (Kharkiv) for a week of workshops and webinars on challenges to women's career progression in higher education.

Events included an on-line colloquium with invited speakers Professor Ilaria Boncori from the University of Essex, Anna Goral from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and Lamia Abuhamdia from Middle East University in Amman (Jordan). This initiative was funded by the British Council Going Global Gender Equality partnerships. 

Christina Schwabenland ran a two-hour workshop using LEGO® Serious Play® for 25 delegates at an event organised by Black Talent and Leadership in STEM.

Participants from Price Waterhouse Coopers, Amazon, Cambridge Wireless Ltd and many other technology start ups attended the workshop.

The event had a big success and received many good comments such as:

'...fantastic Christina Schwabenland took us through a brilliant session on engaging the imagination in DEI through this experiential workshop using my favourite method: LEGO® Serious Play®'

'Who knew ducks were such insightful little creatures!'

The 2023 Eleventh Annual Humanistic Management Conference

Leadership for Heritage, Legacy and Humanistic Management

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur, India

Dr Christina Schwabenland, who is the convenor of the UK Chapter of the Humanistic Management Network participated in a speaking tour of six Indian Business Schools, including a panel discussion at the Indian Institute of Management in Nagpur.

She was one of the key speakers on the topic 'Academia Industry Conclave: Leadership, Heritage, and Legacy - present and future prospects'.

Corporate heritage and legacy are increasingly seen as having strategic relevance to business organizations while approaches to managing heritage and legacy differ greatly. Consequently, the Humanistic Management Network jointly with its conference partner IIM Nagpur was aiming to raise our understanding of the topic by asking:

• What is the nexus between corporate heritage, legacy and Humanistic Management?
• How can organizations actively and productively learn about and learn from their heritage?
• How can organizational leadership build a positive legacy?

Dr Schwabenland also participated in several meetings in Mumbai, Bangalore, Lucknow and Delhi.

Read more on the Humanistic Management Network website

Keynote speaker

Lessons learned and lost during the pandemic

Dr Christina Schwabenland

The Third Arab International Conference on Strategic Awareness and Governance

Middle East University, Jordan

Webinar

Work after lockdown: What have we learnt from organisations’ crisis responses to the pandemic?

Dr Jane Parry: University of Southampton