Opening Academic Year 2024-2025
Dear colleagues,
We warmly invite you to celebrate the Opening of the new Academic Year FEB on Thursday, September 5th, 2024 from 15:00-16:15, in Kapteynborg room 15. Staff, students, alumni, and our relations are all invited and very welcome to join us.
This year’s theme is ‘The Impact of Digitalization and AI on FEB and its stakeholders’.
We welcome speakers to address this highly relevant and timely topic: Lusanne Tehupuring (CEO Enatom) and Willem Jonker (Chairman of the Board of AiNed). We will also present the First-Year Students of the Year awards to FEB’s best students and raise a glass to the new academic year! The opening will be chaired by Tammo Bijmolt (FEB).
The Opening will be followed by drinks, snacks and live music.
You don’t have to register for this event.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Wilma Mellens, organizer of the Opening Academic Year FEB.
We hope to see you on September 5th!
On behalf of the Faculty Board,
Professor Peter Verhoef
Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business
On behalf of the EBF Board,
Lianne Alberts
Chair of the EBF 2024-2025
Programme Thursday 5 September 2024, Kapteynborg, 5419.0015
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14:30
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Welcome with coffee and tea |
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15:00
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Opening by Chair prof. Tammo Bijmolt Speech by FEB dean prof. Peter Verhoef and EBF chair Lianne Alberts |
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15:15
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Handing out the First-Year Students of the Year awards by prof. Manda Broekhuis |
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15:25 |
Introduction theme by prof. Tammo Bijmolt Speech by speaker Lusanne Tehupuring Speech by prof. Willem Jonker Q&A from the audience |
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16:15-17:30
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Drinks, snacks and live music |
The Impact of Digitalization and AI on FEB and its stakeholders
Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing education and research, profoundly affecting the Faculty of Economics and Business in many ways. And in recent years Generative AI has further accelerated these developments. These technologies provide significant opportunities and challenges for students, faculty members, and all stakeholders of FEB.
Within FEB’s theme “Digitalization & AI”, education is offered, and (applied) research projects are conducted; across all disciplines within Economics and Business. Of course, these technological developments are very important for FEB’s stakeholders too. Oftentimes external partners, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, participate in projects for their mutual benefits.
Both speakers, Lusanne Tehupuring and Willem Jonker, will share their insights and provide new perspectives on this theme.
Speaker: Lusanne Tehupuring
Lusanne Tehupuring is the CEO and co-founder of Enatom, an emerging tech startup that specializes in high-end 3D visualization techniques within the field of human anatomy. With Enatom, it is her mission to increase educational equality worldwide by providing an exceptional learning experience accessible anytime, anywhere. Tehupuring has a commercial background and a strong connection with the Dutch startup ecosystem.
Speaker: Willem Jonker
Willem Jonker is Professor and has a broad background in the ICT domain, both in the industrial sector and academia. Among others, he worked at KPN Research, the European Computer industry Research Centre in Munich and Philips Research, where he was appointed Vice President in 2006. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente. In his previous position as CEO of EIT Digital in Brussels, he gained extensive experience in mobilizing a European innovation ecosystem in the field of digitization with a multitude of stakeholders. He is currently Chairman of the Board of AiNed.
Chair: Tammo Bijmolt
Tammo H.A. Bijmolt is Professor in Marketing Research at the University of Groningen, chairman of the Marketing Department, director of the Groningen Digital Business Centre, and one of the theme leaders of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. He is past president of the European Marketing Academy (EMAC). His research interests include customer behavior, digital marketing, retailing, e- commerce, and meta-analysis. His publications have appeared in leading international journals, and received several awards.
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