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SKEMA USA hosts panel conference: AI for Business Education
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In February, SKEMA US had the privilege of welcoming to their campus executives from large US companies to discuss the topic of AI for business education.
The event began with a 30-minute keynote by SKEMA professor Margherita Pagani, followed by a one-hour panel discussion moderated by journalist and Poets&Quants chief editor John Byrne. The expert speakers included:
- Seth Dobrin, chief AI officer at IBM,
- Igor Jablokov, CEO of Pryon,
- Udo Sglavo, vice president of Analytics, Research and Development at SAS Institute,
- Patrice Houdayer, director of Programmes, International Affairs and Student Life at SKEMA.
While Professor Pagani focused on the impact of AI and related emerging technologies on value creation, especially business, ethical, and societal values, the panelists discussed how AI is currently used in the business world, how it affects employees, customers, and populations in general, what business schools should do to train future generations of leaders, and more.
Some of SKEMA’s global executive members came from France to attend the conference, and of course, many SKEMA students, faculty, and partners joined the event from the Raleigh area.
"The avant-garde school of AI"
This event was hosted in honour of SKEMA USA's ten-year anniversary, and as part of SKEMA’s global strategy to establish itself as the "avant-garde school of AI". In the next decade, the Raleigh campus will continue to focus on deploying AI in all educational programmes and to contribute to the development of the SKEMA AI Institute.
