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Professional Development Workshop: Career Path
Location: Entrepreneurship Centre SH211
Online Link: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/8309586082
Meeting ID: 830 958 6082
Time: 9:00-10:30
Panelists:
- Sandra Schillo, University of Ottawa
- Jahan Peerally, HEC
- Jennifer McGill, Pier Labs
- Bryan Daniel, Pier Labs
Moderator: Jahan Peerally
The panelists will share their experiences through their career journeys and engage with the participants addressing various topics, including recruitment pathways in different contexts, impact and collaborators, role of science and society, turning points and decision points, and skillsets.
PhD Academy Paper Presentations
Time: 11:00-12:30
Session 1
Location: SH212B (Main 1)
Presenters:
- Aparajit Sridharan: "Do Good Boys Perish or Prevail? CSR Idiosyncrasy and Corporate Survival"
- Skye Shu: "Middle-Age Crisis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Investigating the Influence of Development Stages and CSR Strategies"
Discussants: David Wicks, SMU; Feng Liu, SMU
Session 2
Location: SH211E
Presenters:
- Esnaina Quader: "A Comparative Analysis of Multinational Enterprises' Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals through Public-Private Partnerships in Developing and Developed Countries"
- James Pérez-Morón: "Microfranchises as an Inclusive Business Model at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Post-Conflict Zones"
Discussants: Jahan Ara Peerally, HEC Montreal; Ramesh Venkat, SMU
Session 3
Location: SH211B (Incubator Space)
Online Link: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/88066261271
Meeting ID: 880 6626 1271
Presenters:
- Brian Halubanza: "Innovative AI and IoT-Based Strategies for Locust Management in Zambia: A Sustainable Approach to Ensuring Food Security"
- Fabrice Bitoto Ewolo: "Contribution of Alternative Financing Sources to Africa's Sustainable Development: Does Financial Innovation Matter?"
Discussants: Alejandra Rosales Soto, CETYS; Jason Rhinelander, SMU
Session 4
Location: SH211E
Presenters:
- Diana Montserrath: "Design of a Knowledge Mobilization Model to Understand the Problem of Diabetes in Mexico"
- Jin Saebom: "Breaking the Vicious Cycle: How Vulnerable Cities Can Develop Smart and Sustainable with Adaptation Planning"
Discussants: Sandra Schillo, University of Ottawa; Tony Charles, SMU; Kent Williams, Acadia University
Session 5
Location: SH213H (Studio Office)
Online Link: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/85430501365
Meeting ID: 854 3050 1365
Presenters:
- Priyanka Sharma: "Indigenous Technology, Innovation and Inclusive Development: A Study of the Silk Reeling Sector of Jammu and Kashmir"
- Diana Peprah: "Building Trust and Legitimacy in Health Information Systems: A Case of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) in Ghana"
- Rachidi Aboudou: "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Livelihood of Smallholder Rice Farmers in Developing Countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Discussants: Louise Earl, SMU and University of Ottawa; Claudia De Fuentes, SMU; Carlos Freire, MacEwan University
Session 6
Location: SH209 (Video Conference Room)
Presenters:
- Juan Torrente: "Organizational Mattering and its Mediating Effect between Leadership and Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Regional Innovation Systems"
- Joseph Jung: "Impact of Government Support on Clean Technology Innovation in Canada: In-House vs. Outsourced R&D Expenditures for Low-Carbon Economy Transition"
Discussants: Susan Cozzens, Georgia Tech; Chantal Hervieux, SMU; Thomas Woodson, Stony Brook University
Session 7
Location: SH212A (Main II)
Presenters:
- Fariba Seyedjafarrangraz: "Unveiling Regulatory Dynamics in Digital Banking: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Evolution and Adaptation"
- Arzu Ulusoy Shipstone: "The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Innovation Policy"
- Ricardo Jáquez Cortés: "Factors of the Technology Transfer Process Involved in the Digitalization of Tourism SMEs: A Case Study of a Boutique Hotel in Mexico"
Discussants: Tatevik Poghosyan, TBS; Ashraf Al Zaman, SMU; Annika Voltan, IONS
Hackathon
Location: Entrepreneurship Centre SH211
Time: 13:00-17:00
Online Link: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/89697458447
Meeting ID: 896 9745 8447
Breakout rooms and online group work with mentors.
Conference Opening Keynote: Innovation and Sustainable Development
Location: Entrepreneurship Centre SH211
Online Link: https://smu-ca.zoom.us/j/84625115418
Meeting ID: 846 2511 5418
Time: 15:45 - 17:15
Keynote Speaker: Cristina Chaminade, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV)
Moderator: Susan Cozzens, Georgia Tech
Cristina Chaminade´s keynote revolves around the interaction between innovation and sustainable development, particularly looking at the issues of directionality, agency, scale and speed of change of sustainability transformations. The presentation is structured around 4 key questions:
- Why shall we discuss innovation and radical sustainability transformations?
- What are the implications for innovation studies of adopting weak or strong sustainability as a goal? that is he issue of directionality
- How can system innovation be enacted and accelerated? that is, issues of the speed of change and agency, and last
- So what? That is, how relating innovation to biodiversity loss and climate change can open a new and extremely fruitful research agenda for innovation studies.
The presentation is based on the recent work of Cristina Chaminade, which can be found here:
- On the directionality of innovation and transformations- https://doi.org/10.20900/jsr20200007.
- On the speed of transformations- https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114621
- On scaling innovations (in conservation)- https://unearthodox.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Unearthodox-Scaling-Conservation-Innovation.pdf
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