This event offers a platform for insightful talks and conversation, reconnecting with City, University of London, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), and networking with alumni, University staff, prospective students and strategic partners in the region.
, 18:30 – 22:00 CST
Participants will be able to hear the latest update from the University and Bayes and are invited to enjoy engaging talks and inspirational conversations.
This is an opportunity for our City and Bayes community in China to come together again, to catch up with friends and network contacts and make new ones.
Programme
18:30
Registration & Networking
19:30
Welcome - Professor Juliet John
Latest news from City, University of London and Bayes Business School - Professor Juliet John and Professor Andre Spicer
‘Transforming Organisations through AI: Navigating the Future of Business’ - Professor Feng Li
Q&A
Presentation of Certificates of Recognition
Networking and buffet dinner
Meet the academics
Professor Juliet John
Professor Juliet John is Vice-President (Education) of City, University of London.
Educated at Cambridge and UCL, Professor John joined City in 2020. She was previously Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she held various leadership roles. Before joining Royal Holloway, she was Professor of English at the University of Liverpool.
Professor John is an internationally recognised Dickensian, much of her work focusing on the relationship between Dickens’s work and the popular cultural contexts of the Victorian and post-Victorian periods, but she is also interested in questions of popular culture more generally.
She is academic advisor to the Dickens Museum, has advised the Museum of London, is a Fellow of Gladstone’s Library and twice a Trustee of the Dickens Society of America.
Professor John has been the recipient of individual and team teaching awards and has taught abroad by invitation, as well as giving numerous international keynote research lectures. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the English Association, a strategic reviewer and member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College.
Both her research and her professional practice are informed by a belief in dialogue between academia and the world beyond, for example, through the media, schools, cultural institutions, and cultural policy bodies.
Professor André Spicer
Professor André Spicer is Dean of Bayes Business School. He is also a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the Head of the Faculty of Management. He is an expert in the areas of Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Professor Spicer is originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand. He began his studies at the University of Otago and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Prior to joining City, he was a Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Warwick.
He has been a visiting professor at London Business School, the Kellogg School at Northwestern, McGill University, Lund University, University of St Gallen and the University of Sydney.
Professor Spicer is known for his research on wellbeing, organizational politics, organisational culture, employee identity, new organizational forms, workspace and leadership. His work looks at a wide range of settings including knowledge intensive firms, financial institutions, government departments, seaports, universities, libraries, media organizations, and social movements.
Professor Feng Li
Professor Feng Li, PhD, is Associate Dean for Research & Innovation and Chair of Information Management at Bayes Business School.
His research investigates how digital technologies can be used to facilitate strategic innovation and organisational transformation across different sectors and domains.
He advises senior business leaders and policy makers on how to manage the transition to new technologies, new business models, and new organisational designs in the digital economy.
In addition to delivering strong business outcomes, he also studies how digital innovations can be used to alleviate significant societal challenges using financially sustainable and operationally scalable approaches.
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