India Strategy Conference: December 15-18, 2024 | Venue: IIM Ahmedabad
Strategizing in an AI dominated world
Over the past decade or so, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Machine Learning (ML) and data-driven techniques, with decision-making, has been highly influential in the way organizations are strategizing for the future. This has led to firms re-imagine their decision-making processes, customer interfaces and even the business models. AI has profoundly influenced the reshaping of organizational dynamics. It has permeated operational frameworks and strategic formulations within businesses across the world. AI, as a concept, denotes a network of computer systems endowed with the capacity to comprehend a complex environment, and make choices encompassing information from a diverse set of data forms such as numerical data, speech, text, and images. AI systems also exhibit a learning capability, drawing insights from historical patterns, and executing actions to optimize the realization of predefined objectives. The application of AI technologies has, in turn, undergone a transformative impact on the decision-making processes of organizations.
We hope through the India Strategy Conference 2024, we will be able to bring together researchers, educators, and managers to a common platform for discussing these issues and to enable the global community of strategy scholars and practitioners to engage with these phenomena.
CONFERENCE TRACKS
Track 1) Conference Theme : Strategizing in an AI dominated world
Track 2) Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) and Non-Market Strategy
Track 3) Internationalization and Global Strategy
Track 4) Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation
Track 5) Family Business and Entrepreneurship
Track 6) Leadership and Human Capital
Pre-conference Workshops and Sessions
The conference will also host a variety of professional development workshops and interactive sessions. These will be designed for multiple audiences as indicated below:
- Methods Workshops: The 12 workshops will deep dive into methods in smaller groups. These will be primarily for early stage researchers (doctoral students and faculty). Further details on the workshops are under the Programme tab.
- Editors’ Panels: Panels of editors from Top international journals will discuss the submission to publication process and answer queries from the audience on how to increase the chances of publishing in top journals.
- Practitioner Sessions: There will be sessions where the participants will be introduced to contemporary issues facing the world of practice. In these sessions, top executives who handle strategic issues will participate and share unique experiences from their professional careers. These sessions are aimed at building interfaces between the world of practice and academic research.
- Career Talks: Veteran academics will share their academic journeys and provide useful tips to the early career academics to excel in professional journeys.
- Director’s Panel: This panel aims to bring together academic leaders from Indian business schools and overseas to share their rich and varied experiences and to explore some of the critical aspects of advancing scholarship in India.
All the sessions including the pre-conference workshops will be free for attendees registered for the conference. The applications for these pre-conference workshops will open after proposal acceptances are sent.
Important deadlines
- Submission System opens: June 1, 2024
- Proposal submission deadline: August 25, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2024
- Regular registration fee payment: December 10, 2024
- Pre-conference workshops: December 15-16, 2024
- Conference Dates: December 17-18, 2024
Awards
The accepted proposals will be considered for awards, including Best Paper Award (and runners-up), Best Track submission, Best Doctoral Student, Best Emerging Scholar in Strategy, and other sponsored awards. The awards will include a certificate and cash prize.
Registration
Registration fees for the conference will be as follows:
| Participant Type | Early Bird (Before Nov 8, 2024) |
Regular (Before Dec 10, 2024) |
Onsite (Dec 15-18, 2024) |
| Full-time Academics (from outside India) |
US$ 350 | US$ 400 | US$ 450 |
| Full-time Academics (from India) |
INR 20,000 | INR 25,000 | INR 30,000 |
| Full-time Doctoral Students Academic Associates Research Associates Teaching Associates |
INR 10,000 | INR 15,000 | INR 20,000 |
| Executives, Entrepreneurs, Other Students | INR 20,000 | INR 25,000 | INR 30,000 |
Registration is open! Please Sign-up and then go to: https://payments.iima.ac.in/online/pg/320
Accommodation
IIM Ahmedabad will provide accommodation to a few attendees based on available accommodation. In addition to the campus accommodation, there will be accommodation available at nearby hotels in the city. For more details, please visit the Accommodation tab on this website.
Conference Administration
Secretariat: isc2024@iima.ac.in and secretariat@indiastrategy.org
Co-chairs: Prof. Chitra Singla, IIM Ahmedabad (chitras@iima.ac.in)
Prof. Amit Karna, IIM Ahmedabad (karna@iima.ac.in)
Prof. Seung Hoon Lee, ISB (SeungHoon_Lee@isb.edu)