Keynote Speakers of MSIEID 2022
Pro. Dr. Sikandar Ali Qalati,
School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, China
Research Area: SMEs performance, Energy efficiency, Technology adoption, Entrepreneurship, and Social media usage
Brief introduction of your research experience: A motivated Associate Professor with excellent educational credentials and hands-on experience in activities/event management, education, and research field. Creates, develops, and fine-tunes various experimental study designs. Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills with a keen eye for details; collaborate with faculty and students across different departments to conduct interdisciplinary research. Dr. Qalati has published over 36 SSCI/SCI papers. Dr. Qalati were cited nearly 800 times on (Google scholar), 600 times on (ResearchGate), and 250 times on (Publons). In addition, he is performing an editorial role in Frontiers in Psychology, Sustainability, Plos One, and the Middle East Journal of Management. Dr. Qalati areas of research are SMEs, firm performance, technology adoption, entrepreneurship, social media use, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and economics.
Speech Title: Social media usage by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in developing countries
Abstract: Although larger firms globally can adopt social media and other internet-based strategies without requiring additional resources, social media can be employed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because of its low cost, technical manageability and ease of use, and its capability to connect with and reach to an ample number of consumers. The adoption of social media is constantly growing in enterprises in developing countries and is currently considered a key strategy in SMEs; conversely, SMEs are using several social media podiums. It is one of the most popular choices for small businesses in developing countries because it facilitates rapid and clear communication among two parties (e.g., firm-customer relationship), letting businesses understand customer needs and respond competently and proactively to these needs. Social media is also a somewhat low-cost choice for analytics, conversion tracking, content management, automated publishing, and customer targeting. Social media usage by SMEs is regarded as crucial in the entrepreneurship and business literature in developed and developing countries. It also enables SMEs to maintain their competitive position by strengthening customer relationships, positively impacting sales performance.
Prof. Geoffrey Williams
Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), Malaysia
Research Area: Sustainable Development; Strategic Management; Economist
Brief introduction of your research experience: Professor & Dean of the Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Malaysia University of Science and Technology. Geoffrey Williams is a Professor and Provost for Research and Innovation at the Malaysia University of Science and Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research and a Visiting Research Fellow at Bank Negara Malaysia. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, he has held academic positions at London Business School, Pembroke College University of Oxford and the University of London.He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Geoffrey has been living and working in Asia for 18 years focusing on economic policy, higher education and sustainability. Professor Williams is a regular commentator in the media and writes a regular column in Free Malaysia Today. His academic work has been published in international journals and his recent books include Responsible Management in Asia – Perspectives on CSR (Palgrave-Macmillan) and Advancing Innovation and Sustainable Outcomes in International Graduate Education, with Mohan Raj Gurubatham (IGI Global, Pennsylvania). He was Deputy Chair of the EU Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2012-14) and a Judge for the Prime Minister’s CSR Awards 2010
Speech Title: The impact of Informatization and Innovation on economic development: Will technology change the world?
Abstract: This keynote address will look at new developments in digitalisation and technology especially informatization and economic Innovation and discuss how they might impact the business and economic environment and how they might not.We will look at the technology megatrend in connection with other megatrends and discuss how technology resistant industries may come to dominate employment and economic growth.
Prof. Tao Zhang
Jimei University, China
Brief introduction of your research experience: He received his PhD degree in computer science from Kent State University of United States America. He was the Chief scientific adviser, North American Headquarters, Volkswagen Group, Germany, the senior banking consultant of IBM banking division, United States, the vice president of technology and operations, Bank of America, the CTO of PRECOM Information Technology, a Silicon Valley company. He focus on research of data processing platform with data indexing, modelling, relational maps, variety of algorithms, online data computation, cloud computation, inference engine, decision engine, knowledge mining and etc. He has designed and developed more than 60 software products with independent intellectual property rights, and 100 published papers on the intelligence applications which have been widely used in the fields of intelligent finance and banking, intelligent government, smart education, intelligent medical cares, smart manufacturing, smart city. Intelligent community, intelligent safety, MaaS Travel Service and etc. He is the chief expert in charge of the National Invested Top most Important Intelligent Projects by Department of National Science and technology, National Recognized and Certified Highest Level Talents of Oversea Returned Scientist From Western and American, the overseas Senior Technical Adviser of the CBRC, the chief scientist of Beijing Aerospace ChangFeng Co., Ltd., President of Electronic&Information Branch of Beijing Expert Association, Vice President of Western and American Returned Students' Association, the Chairman of International Conference in the Data Signal Process and Artificial Intelligence for 8 times.
Speech Title: Internet of things full scene smart community comprehensive services and demonstration applications
Abstract: "The community is the grass-roots foundation. Only with a solid foundation can the national building be stable.""Strengthen the construction of community service capacity, better provide accurate and refined services for the masses, create a community governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, and effectively enhance the residents' sense of gain, happiness and security“____Xi JingPing.
The smart community has a large number of smart devices and terminals, and generates massive data and diversified service scenarios, providing a platform for the integrated development of various elements of the "new infrastructure".The smart community integrates the big data of underwear, food, housing and transportation in the shared area, optimizes the resource allocation of "new infrastructure", improves the government's ability to make quick decisions and personalized services, and provides a comprehensive carrier for the development of "new infrastructure". For the whole scenario of community public safety, livelihood services and comprehensive governance, the technical system based on Risk Intelligent Research and judgment, intelligent enjoyment of livelihood services, and intelligent and accurate governance urgently needs to be improved. The integrated community service platform based on 5g, edge computing, artificial intelligence, block-chain and other new technologies has not yet formed. The scientific, sophisticated and intelligent safety, service and governance capabilities of the community need to be improved.Based on the new generation technologies such as "cloud, big, material, mobile, smart and chain", facing the whole scene of community public safety, livelihood services and comprehensive management, innovate the mechanism, technology and culture of smart communities in the new era, and create a model of safe, smart and secure communities.
Keynote Speakers of MSIEID 2021
Prof. Guangming Li
College of Economics, Jinan University
Research Area: Circular economics, industrial ecology, tourism economics and environmental economics
Brief introduction of your research experience:
Dr. GuangmingLi, Acting Dean of Shenzhen Tourism College of Jinan University, currently focuses on the college development strategy, disciplinary construction, international cooperation, and industry-research-education collaboration. By earlier years, he worked for the College of Economics of Jinan University, NORINCO, Ganzhou Tourism Bureau, Guangdong Provincial Metallurgical Division, and Firth Industries as an associate professor, operations manager, deputy director, senior engineer and economic analyst respectively. From 1995 to 2000, he studied and worked in New Zealand for nearly 6 years. He graduated from several tertiary institutions such as Northeast University, Massey University and received PhD, Master and Bachelor degrees separately. He has taught 6 courses for undergraduates and postgraduates: “Microeconomics”, “Macroeconomics”, “E-commerce”, “Environmental and natural resource economics”, “Industrial ecology”, and “Multinational corporate operations and management”.
Professor Li recent years mainly focused on the education and research in circular economics, industrial ecology, tourism economics and environmental economics. He is the first scholar in China who systematically did the study of regional ecological industrial network based on the theory and methodology of environmental economics. His works showed that the regional ecological industrial network is an effective path to realize industrial ecology, recycle economy and regional sustainable development of industries. Based on the economic evaluation theory and methods of environment and natural resources, he constructed a theoretical econometric model from the views of social welfare and firm profit maximization respectively, to study the cost, benefit, and effective scale of a regional ecological industrial network and its rational geographic radius.
Speech Title: The roadmap of circular economy’s ecological valuating
A.Prof. Lei Meng
Sino-European International Business School, Sibiu, East China University of Science and Technology
Research Area: Financial sector development; Fixed Income and derivatives markets; Emerging capital markets; Market microstructure
Brief introduction of your research experience: Lei Meng completed his PhD in finance from University of Wales. He is currently an Associate Professor in Finance at School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology(ECUST), and executive dean of ECUST Sibiu Sino-European International Business School, he is also a Visiting Professor at IESEG School of Management, Lille, France. His research interest covers fixed income and derivatives markets, market microstructure, cross-border merger & acquisition and emerging markets. Lei has published in a wide range of well-known finance journals such as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of Fixed Income,Journal of Derivatives and Journal of Futures Markets.
Speech Title: Central Bank Digital Currencies: challenges and opportunities
Abstract: As countries around the world compete to launch initiatives that could potentially lead to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), it is worth investigating the opportunities CBDCs may offer and the challenges they could face. Given the nature of CBDCs, executing monetary policy would be much more efficient for central banks, retail users may also have better consumer experience in the age of digital economy. However, adoption of CBDC on large scale will reduce commercial banks’ balance sheets, thus leads to the question of potential financial instability. The role of central banks in the digital infrastructure, privacy and security issues are also called in to question.
Prof. George Mickhail
Bryant University - Beijing Institute of Technology
Research Area: Financial Statement Analysis; Management Accounting; Financial Risk; Management; Accounting; Financial Analysis
Brief introduction of your research experience:
Professor George Mickhail is a geopolitical risk analyst who fosters the interaction of business with academe, due to his hybrid educational and professional background in accounting, computer science, operations research and information systems. He is an alumnus of Ain Shams University, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, The London School of Economics & Political Science, University of Wollongong, and a former Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Scholar. His research on MetaCapitalism is focused on the geopolitical risks of financial networks. He is an eclectic published author in leading scholarly and professional practice journals. He has also won competitive research funding, fellowships and a former Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar. In September 2018, he took up his appointment as Professor and Chair of Accounting at Bryant University partnership program with the Beijing Institute of Technology in Zhuhai after 30 years at the Universities of Sydney and Wollongong in Australia. Since 1995, he held visiting professorial and research fellowships at major AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS & IAE FRANCE accredited business schools in France and the United States. Prior to academe, he worked for international accounting firms, InfoTech consulting firms and Global 500 financial services institutions. He is actively involved with the profession, comments regularly on geopolitical economic affairs, and his research is cited in the global press.
Speech Title: A MetaCapitalism Performance Measurement Model of Innovation in the Greater Bay Area
Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the concept of MetaCapitalismand provide the analytical accounting measurement model MetaCapitalism of Innovation.
Design/methodology/approach – The approach employed in this paper seeks to correlate the fundamentals analysis of the MetaCapitalism efficiency indicators and Earnings Management to the technical analysis of the market response to the changes in those indicators over timeusing a number of technology companies (may include some from the Greater Bay Area).
Results/findings – It is the contention of this paper that ‘correctly handling the relationship between efficiency and fairness’, which is one the central precepts of President Xi Jinping seminal article “扎实推动共同富裕“ (“Solidly promote common prosperity”) in the Qiushi journal is so fundamental to the performance evaluation of innovation.
Professor Dr.Gordana Kierans
Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU)
Research Area: Circular Economy, Leadership
Brief introduction of your research experience:
Professor, author and TEDx Speaker, has 20 years of business experience at the interface between leading Business Schools and companies. During her career, she has worked with entrepreneurs, SMEs, multinationals, governments and NGOs, in Germany and world-wide. She has also worked with top academics in the area of the Circular Economy which inspired her to create a practical hands-on programme. She has also developed a Udemy course on Circular Economy with focus on entrepreneurs.
Dr Kierans was born and raised in Croatia but she lived for 25 years abroad (Italy, Germany, Belgium) which resulted in the knowledge of six languages. She completed all her studies in Germany, including her Doctorate. In addition, Dr Kierans is also an Alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education. She was also invited to deliver a TEDx TALK in Europe. Today, she is a Partner at MGT OPEN, as well as a Professor at the Shenzhen Technology University (SZTU) in Shenzhen, China.
Title: The Circular Economy: Four Elements of Success After Expert Interviews
Abstract:
As Professor Kierans presented in 2020, ever since the Industrial Revolution, our system of production has been a linear economy that has evolved into a “take-make-use-and-dispose” structure powered almost exclusively by fossil fuels. This led to global warming and the climate change the planet is facing. The linear economy also forced numerous countries to turn the tide and opt for carbon neutrality, like China and the European Union.
One way of reaching the carbon neutrality is by implementing a circular way of production. The circular economy actually separates economic growth and development apart from the consumption of limited resources, creating a new industrial economy. To support the transition to the carbon-neutral future, the European Union adapted an ambitious action plan for the circular economy.
However, for the circular economy to succeed as the new business reality free of waste, four factors play a crucial role. In 2020, Professor Kierans presented these factors that she identified in her work as a consultant. This year, she returns with fresh data obtained from a series of expert interviews with leading investors in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, the UK and China. She will present the recent findings and discuss, what needs to happen next.
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