AMBA's Ambition magazine: Issue 53, May 2022

STRATEGY

Earlier this year, AMBA & BGA, in collaboration with the China Data Analysis and Research Hub (CDA), hosted a webinar bringing together experts from China, Europe and the US to share their experience, visions and ideas on educating 21st-century leaders.

economy drives changes in the economy and wider society. We need to understand how to maintain steady economic growth in China, while improving income inequality and solving other social problems. We also need to learn to compete and co-operate while enhancing a harmonious international community. We would like to have our Chinese students know how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts economy, business, and society, while having an international vision; knowing how to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds and knowing how to solve conflicts in a way that benefits all parties involved. Pamela Mar , Executive Vice President of Fung Academy, Fung Group, Hong Kong, PRChina The future of the supply chain is going to be digital, and data driven. You will be able to run it from your dashboard. It’s going to be sustainable and certified. It’s going to be geographically agile and fully traceable from end to end. This is very different from cheap and cheerful, which is what the supply chain used to be. Gao Xudong , Professor of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, Beijing, PRChina We believe in the importance of innovation – we are always improving our capabilities so we seize future opportunities and deal with the challenges.

Here are some highlights from our speakers.

Lars Y Terenius , European Chair of CDA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden If you looked 25 years ahead in a crystal ball, I think you’d find that medicine had changed quite considerably. You would have new information due to machine learning, doctors would look at patients’ symptoms remotely, and there would be new ways to register and tools that people could use at home. I think we will see a revolution in medicine, while another lesson we will learn is the need to think globally. We need to introduce these technologies and work out how to help people in less- privileged countries. Hong Yongmiao , Dean and Professor of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences School of Economics and Management, Beijing, PRChina Our future leaders and talent need to understand how the digital

Wu Xiaobo , Dean and Professor at Zhejiang University Faculty of Social Sciences, Hangzhou, PRChina

In China, with the sharing of knowledge and interaction between academia and enterprises, with greater co-operation, we could see China enter the fourth industrial revolution. From catching up, China could move ahead. We will see the restructuring of ecosystems, and very close relationships and interactions between industries and universities.

It is a great pleasure to bring together Chinese and Western perspectives, because knowledge is much more evenly distributed than ever before

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