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TBS Center of Excellence on CSR and Sustainable Development led by Soumyadeb Chowdhury has been successful to secure French National Research Agency (ANR) funding MRSEI 2021, for setting up European or/and International Scientific Networks in the field of Sustainable and Equitable Development.

Facilitate sustainable development for small and medium-sized enterprises

The aim of the network will be to work under this theme and develop research that will investigate strategies, interventions and policies to facilitate sustainable development for small and medium-sized enterprises in France and across Europe.

This will be achieved responding to and consolidating the critical areas on Climate Emergency, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity and Inclusiveness, Digital Connectedness.

These themes are aligned to UN Sustainable Agenda, UN Post Covid Recovery Research Priorities, and World Economic Forum green and lean initiatives.

As a key outcome of the MRSEI 2021 grant, the center will further develop the consortium, apply for two H2022 research funding partnering with multiple stakeholders on Green Action and Inclusive Resilience, through multi-disciplinary lens of research generating tangible solutions for the pressing Grand Challenges of this century.

TBS CSR & Sustainable Center of excellence

The consortium formed by the TBS Center of excellence currently comprises of more than 12 countries, 20 institutions and 50 researchers from across six continents.

Headed by the TBS Dean of Research, our CSR Center of Excellence influences our institution via adapted courses, innovative research projects as well as practical actions to stimulate on-campus sustainability and diversity, which even reach our student associations.

Find out more about TBS Centers of Excellence

The Financial Times has recently published its 2021 ranking for Executive MBAs. The TBS Global Executive MBA is ranked 85^th, a good 11 places compared to the 2020 ranking. Since 2018, TBS’ GEMBA has once again ranked among the top 100 in the world.

The Financial Times ranking

The Financial Times is a renowned source of information in the fields of business and services. It publishes 7 rankings per year, all relating to business schools and more specifically to MBAs, EMBA, Masters in Finance, Masters in Management, Online MBA Program as well as continuing education programs.

The data is collected through online questionnaires, which take into account the information given by the business schools and the alumni of the various programs.

Improve both your know-how and your leadership skills with the TBS Global Executive MBA

Firstly, the Global Executive MBA will bring your management knowledge up to speed with the business world environment as courses are taught by internationally renowned experts. Secondly, it will boost the acquisition of sound know-how thus providing you with some in-depth vision about the latest management techniques and strategic issues.

All this during highly interactive sessions:

Managerial skills – Research Methodology in Management
Corporate and business strategy
Strategic Marketing Development
Human Resources & their Impact on Organizations
Value Chain Management & Operations efficiency
Understanding the Global Economy
Hot topics in Management : CSR/Digital/ Legal/ New Business Models

Get on board the Strategic Management MBA or Aerospace MBA degree by sharpening your expertise in pioneering know-how that will boost you to meet the challenges ahead.

LEARN MORE about our Global Executive MBA

TBS is building an ambitious new campus of 8000 m2 located in the startup and innovation district. It will be able to accommodate 1,100 students as of the start of the 2022 academic year, and will offer 700 beds of integrated housing located next to the campus.

Located in the heart of Barcelona’s city center since 1995, the TBS Education campus offers students the opportunity to study in Barcelona for a semester, a year or even longer.

Find out more about our Barcelona Campus

5 reasons to choose Barcelona!

Economic, cultural and technological epicenter in Spain
More than 200,000 students, including 30,000 foreign students
An affordable cost of living
A multicultural and cosmopolitan city
1st student city in Spain (QS 2019)

A new generation campus

TBS thus strengthens its presence in a key European metropolis where some of the world’s best higher education institutions in management are located.

TBS will receive twice as many students in fully eco-responsible and innovative facilities.

This announcement is part of TBS Education’s global development strategy, which aims to strengthen the links between the school and the territories in which it is present.

Designed to meet all the needs of the educational community, the building will respect the strictest criteria of eco-design. It will bring together all the facilities and equipment necessary for pedagogical innovation: multi-space and immersive rooms, spaces dedicated to associations, student life, scientific and business events, and an incubator.

The programs and courses

The Barcelona campus is open to students in the Bachelor’s, Grande Ecole and Master of Science programs, with more than 600 students to date, 36% of whom are international students from over 25 countries.

The courses are taught in English and Spanish by TBS Education professors and lecturers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), which is ranked among the best Spanish and European universities.

The students of the Grande Ecole Program can go to the campus from the 1st year of their Master’s degree. In collaboration with the UPC, the school offers “Discovery” courses to deepen your understanding of key themes:

Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence & Data
International Business in Latin America

In the 2nd year of the Master’s degree, you can then pursue your specialization in a field you are passionate about or discover new professions and horizons.

5 MSc programs are offered as part of a work-study program as of the start of the 2021 academic year:

Barcelona, the perfect travel companion

The location of TBS in Barcelona is not a coincidence. Cosmopolitan and vibrant city, Barcelona is today more than ever at the forefront of trends, an inspiring and attractive place for students, researchers and entrepreneurs from all over Europe.

1st student city in Spain (QS 2019)
8th best city in the world to live, visit, research and work in (World Best Cities 2021)
5th most favorable city to create a start-up (EU-Start-Ups 2020 report)
2nd best city in terms of strategy to attract the technology sector (fDi Intelligence 2020 report)
5th city in the TOP 10 Tech Cities of The Future 2020/2021

October 15, 2021 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Paris Time

The “AI Day” Webinar Program

9:00-9:05 am – Welcome to the Post-Covid Talk Series – Prof. Samuel Fosso Wamba – Head of the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics – TBS – Toulouse, France

9:05- 9:10 am – Welcome – Prof. Mercy Mpinganjira– Director of the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems in the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

9:10-9:15 am – Welcome – Prof. Pascale BUENO MERINO – Associate Dean for Research – TBS -Toulouse, France

9:15-10:00 am – Artificial Intelligence myths debunked – how AI is transforming industry for the global good– Prof Michael BLUMENSTEIN, Associate Dean (Research Strategy and Management), Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

10:00-10:45 am – Telemedicine and precision medicine: the role of data in healthcare innovation – Prof Andrea MANTOVANI and Prof Chiara CANTA – TBS -Toulouse, France

10:45-11:15 am – Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy: A Social Media Analysis– Dr NYAWA Serge– TBS -Toulouse, France

11:15-12:00 am – Artificial Intelligence: developing technology that is responsible – Prof Amir M. Sharif, University of Bradford – Bradford, UK

12:00-1:15 pm – LUNCH BREAK

1:15-1:45 pm – Sharing some insights from APEM and TBS collaboration on AI – Thomas Henin, Marketing Director, APEM, France

1:45-2:15 pm – Scaling AI at Airbus – VALENTIN FABRICE –Head of Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence – Airbus, France

2:15-2:45 pm – Regular road object consolidation for connected and autonomous driving– Dr Dieudonné TCHUENTE – TBS -Toulouse, France

2:45-3:15 pm – Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Showcasing recent projects – Prof Abejide Ade-Ibijola – Department of Applied Information Systems, School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

3:15-3:45 pm – A New EU Framework for Regulating AI? The Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act – Prof. W. Gregory Voss – TBS – Toulouse, France

3:45-4:15 pm – Democratizing Data Science for the Non-Sciences – Prof Hossana Twinomurinzi – Head of The Centre for Applied Data Science, School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

4:15-4:45 pm – Assessing the Impact of AI-Enabled Entrepreneurial Capabilities on Innovation and Performance – Dr Yulia W. Sullivan – Hankamer School of Business – Baylor University, US and Prof. Samuel Fosso Wamba –TBS – Toulouse, France

4:45-6:00 pm – Questions & Answers/Closing Remarks – Prof. Samuel Fosso Wamba, Prof Hossana Twinomurinzi & Julius Akinyemi

Speakers

Amir M. SHARIF, University of Bradford

Title: “Artificial Intelligence: developing technology that is responsible”

Bio: Amir M. Sharif is the Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor of Circular Economy. Before joining the University of Bradford in 2017 as Associate Dean (International and Accreditations), Amir held several senior academic leadership positions including as Head of Brunel Business School, Associate Head, Director of MBA Programmes, Director of Learning and Teaching and was the Founding Director of the Operations and Supply Chain Systems group (OASIS) (at Brunel University London).

Before joining academia, Amir worked for several years as an industry practitioner in the financial services and professional services sector including for JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank and KPMG, gaining deep experience across technology, manufacturing and the public sector as a result. Starting his academic career as a researcher within the field of artificial intelligence, Amir rapidly developed his research interests to apply his knowledge to addressing complex societal challenges in the areas of food security, circular economy, healthcare, operations / supply chain management, decision-making and humanitarian logistics. His specific area of interest is in the application of systems thinking, causal and cognitive models to explore human decision-making behaviours in complex environments. He has extensive international teaching and research experience including across Europe, MENA / Gulf region, South Asia and the UK (having also taught at the University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths College (University of London)).

Dieudonné TCHUENTE, TBS

Title : Regular road object consolidation for connected and autonomous driving

Bio: Dr. Dieudonné Tchuente is assistant professor in computer science and big data at Toulouse Business School.

His research interests include user modeling for personalized applications in information systems, intelligent transportation systems, social networks analysis, AI and big data applications. He has also been senior consultant and big data architect for many years in many telecommunications or transport companies, working on many R&D data driven projects such as the design of new cloud-based services from crowdsourced vehicles sensors data, for connected and autonomous driving.

Gregory VOSS, TBS

Bio: Voss is an Associate Professor of Business Law at TBS Business School. His research interests center on technology law, with a focus on EU law regulating new technologies (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation, EU Digital Agenda, and EU Copyright law). He also writes about legal strategy in this context, and about comparative law in data privacy. His articles have appeared in law and technology journals in the United States and France, among other research outlets, and he has contributed to research handbooks and monographs published in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Canada. His practitioner book “Navigating EU Privacy and Data Protection Laws” (co-written with Katherine Woodcock) was published by the American Bar Association.

He teaches in the M1 Big Data program at TBS Barcelona, and in the MS AI & Business Transformation taught jointly by TBS Toulouse and ISAE. In addition to being a member of TBS’s Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics Center of Excellence, he is an associated member of the Research Institute on European, International and Comparative Law (IRDEIC) at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole.

Chiara CANTA and Andrea MANTOVANI, TBS

Title: “Telemedicine and precision medicine: the role of data in healthcare innovation”

General Presentation of the project (10 minutes, Chiara and Andrea)
Privacy regulation, intellectual property rights, and medical innovation (10 minutes, Chiara)
Health data pooling platforms (10 minutes, Andrea)

Chiara Canta earned her PhD in 2010 from Toulouse School of Economics. She was a post-doctoral fellow at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Assistant Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. Since 2017, she is Associate Professor at Toulouse Business School.

Her research focuses on health economics, public economics, and industrial organization, and has been published in journals such has the Journal of Health Economics, Economic Theory, Social Choice and Welfare, and European Economic Review.

Andrea Mantovani received is PhD in Economics from CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain. He joined Toulouse Business School in 2020 as Associate Professor. His main research focuses on industrial economics, digital platforms, managerial economics, competition policy, economics of innovation, and environmental economics.

He has published in journals such as Management Science, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, European Economic Review, and Health Economics, among others.

Michael BLUMENSTEIN, Associate Dean (Research Strategy and Management), Faculty of Engineering and IT
University of Technology Sydney

Title: “Artificial Intelligence myths debunked – how AI is transforming industry for the global good”

Bio: Michael Blumenstein is currently a Professor and the Associate Dean (Research Strategy and Management) in the Faculty of Engineering & IT at UTS where he concluded his role as Head of the School of Software. He formerly served as the Head of the School of Information and Communication Technology at Griffith University, and earlier as the Dean (Research) in the Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology Group.
Michael is a nationally and internationally recognised expert in the areas of automated Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, and his current research interests include Marine Life and Shark Detection from Video Imagery, Document Analysis, Video-based/multi-lingual Text Detection and Signature Verification. He has published over 300 papers in refereed books, conferences and journals. His research also spans various projects applying Artificial Intelligence to the fields of Engineering, Environmental Science, Neurobiology and Coastal Management. Michael has secured internal/nationally competitive research grants to undertake these projects with funds exceeding AUD $6 Million. Components of his research into the predictive assessment of beach conditions have been commercialised for use by local government agencies, coastal management authorities and in
commercial applications.
In addition, Michael’s team has developed SharkSpotter, a world-first AI-based technology for detecting Sharks in the ocean from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The software was developed in collaboration with local company, The Ripper Group, to protect beachgoers and to save lives. It has
been deployed at over 50 beaches in Australia (including within New South Wales and Queensland).
SharkSpotter has attracted numerous industry awards, including recent recognition at the National iAwards for the 2018 AI or Machine Learning Innovation of the Year. Following the success of SharkSpotter, Michael’s team has developed world-first technology to protect North Queensland’s
waterways from predators via the launch of CrocSpotter in 2019. In 2020, Michael’s Team was conferred the Australian Association for Unmanned Systems (AAUS) Industry Champions Innovation Award for research undertaken on their AI-Spotter suite of technology.
In 2009 Michael was named as one of Australia’s Top 10 Emerging Leaders in Innovation in the Australian’s Top 100 Emerging Leaders Series supported by Microsoft. Michael is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Abejide ADE-IBIJOLA, Associate Professor: Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Department of Applied Information Systems, School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, College of Business and Economics

Title: Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Showcasing recent projects.

Bio: Prof. Abejide Ade-Ibijola holds a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is currently an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Applications in the Department of Applied Information Systems at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa. Abejide is rated by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and he is mainly interested in problems/algorithms in Artificial Intelligence, and innovations for driving the 4th Industrial Revolution. Abejide has bagged 100+ career awards and recognitions. He is a Two-time Winner of the UJ Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards for the Innovation of the year 2019 and Teacher Excellence 2020. More at: abejide.org.

Hossana TWINOMURINZI, Professor with the Department of Applied Information Systems, University of Johannesburg

Title: Democratizing Data Science for the Non-Sciences

Bio: Hossana Twinomurinzi BSc Hons (Mathematics), Masters (IT), PhD (IT) is a C2 NRF Rated Researcher and Professor with the Department of Applied Information Systems, University of Johannesburg. He is currently leading the Centre for Applied Data Science in the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems. He is also Associate Editor for the African Journal of Information and Communication. His primary research interests are in Data Science, Digital Skills / Government / Development. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies and Reading and Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa. He has extensive management and executive experience having served in chief executive and senior management positions.

Mercy MPINGANJIRA

Bio: Prof Mercy Mpinganjira is the Director of the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She joined the University of Johannesburg in 2007. Before becoming the Director of the School, she was the Head of the Department of Marketing Management. Prof Mpinganjira holds a PhD (Management), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Newcastle in Australia. She also has a BSc (with distinction) from the University of Malawi. Professor Mpinganjira’s research interests are in the areas of Consumer Behaviour and Digital Marketing. Her work has been published in several books, national and international journals as well as conference proceedings. Her current research includes studies on AI in Marketing.

Samuel FOSSO WAMBA, TBS

Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba is a Professor at TBS Education, France, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. He also holds two master’s degrees: one MSc in mathematics from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada and another MSc in electronic commerce (major: computer science) from HEC Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on the business value of I.T., inter-organizational systems adoption, use and impacts, supply chain management, electronic commerce, blockchain, artificial intelligence for business, social media, business analytics, big data, and open data. He is a CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional and the Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia. Apart from teaching and conducting research, He leads the newly created Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics at TBS Education. He has been recently recognized as the most influential scholar in big data analytics and enterprises based on the number of published articles and citations and among the 2% of the most influential scholars in the world based on the Mendeley database that includes 100,000 top scientists. He ranks in ClarivateTMs 1% most cited scholars in the world for 2020, from the “Highly Cited ResearchersTM” list that identifies global research scientists who show exceptional influence-reflected in the publication of multiple papers frequently cited by their peers. He ranks in CDO Magazine’s Leading Academic Data Leaders 2021. Furthermore, his current Google Scholar h-index is 52, with 12,124 citations by September 3, 2021.

Serge NYAWA

Title: Covid-19 Vaccine hesitancy: A Social Media Analysis,

Authors: Serge Nyawa, Samuel Fosso-Wamba and Dieudonné Tchuenté

Abstract : Despite the availability of vaccine doses, a huge part of the population is hesitating to be vaccinated against COVID19, most of them are taking a wait-and-see approach (France (60%), Russia (57%) and South Africa (47%), USA (30%), UK (22%), by May 2021). Anti-vaccination activists are spreading negative rumours about available vaccines. The World Health Organization considers vaccine hesitancy as one of the more important global health threats. Most often, vaccine hesitancy comes out after debates or partial information relatively to a specific disease. The reasons why people can hesitate to be vaccinated are of many folds: a lack of confidence, complacency or unnecessity, and difficult accessibility. This study contributes to the growing literature on developing tools to identify people who are hesitating and antivaxxers. We rely on Machine Learning and deep learning models to develop and compare within the same framework models able to recognize messages from an hesitant and an antivaxxer. We obtain that Random Forest outperforms the others methods with 85% of accuracy. Our result can be used to improve government vaccination campaigns against COVID19 on social media.

Bio: Serge Nyawa is currently an Assistant Professor at Toulouse Business School. He is interested in Financial Economics, Econometrics, Big Data and Social Media Analytics. His research includes financial systemic risk, estimation and forecasting of high dimensional covolatility matrices for portfolio allocation, risk management, asset pricing, Machine learning and Social Media Analytics.

Thomas HENIN

Titre : Sharing some insights from APEM and TBS collaboration on AI

Bio: Thomas worked for various B2C & B2B companies on several continents and has been entrusted with multiple roles in sales, marketing, strategic & innovation management, and business management. He joined the APEM Group in 2019 as Group Marketing Director to support the company’s strategic choices. He is conducting several innovations, digitalization, and data-driven projects to set the path for future value.

Yulia W. SULLIVAN

Title: Assessing the Impact of AI-Enabled Entrepreneurial Capabilities on Innovation and Performance

Bio: Yulia W. Sullivan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Business Analytics in Hankamer Business School at Baylor University. She earned her PhD degree in information systems from the University of North Texas. Her research interests include cognitive information systems, human-computer interaction, the value of IT, IS and decision making, and mixed methods research. Her work has been accepted and/or published in several journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, and others. She has also presented her research at many international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Fabrice VALENTIN, Head of Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, AIRBUS

Fabrice Valentin was appointed Head of AA & AI in February 2021, in charge of a Product Service Line aiming at providing end-to-end AI solutions.
The various teams are composed of Data Scientists, AI as well as IT experts & specialists and their mission is to scale AI across all of Airbus. Before embarking on this journey, Fabrice was leading an intrapreneurship project as part of the Airbus BizLab aiming at providing an innovative digital service solution for the air transport industry while he was also in charge of the Market Forecast department within Strategy.
Previous to this, Fabrice Valentin has been involved with technology valuation for the CTO and performing various roles for the Commercial / Strategy function of Airbus in Toulouse headquarters as well as Operations
in Germany.
Fabrice Valentin has studied both in France and Germany and graduated as electrical engineer from the Karlsruhe University in 2004.
Before joining Airbus and after being involved in a few start-ups, he ran R&D projects for a German automotive supplier in several countries, USA (California), and India (Bangalore), where he set up an engineering department.

The U-Multirank 8^th Edition is online. TBS has been ranked amongst the top performing universities around the globe! For U-Multirank’s 2021 edition, TBS is among the Global Top 25 performers in the area of student mobility. Its shows top performance across various indicators, with 13 ‘A’ scores (very good) overall. TBS is one of 61 universities included in U-Multirank for France.

This ranking compares 30 performances items from universities and business school in the world.

This ranking compares 30 performance items of universities and business schools around the world. This year, it lists 1,948 establishments in 97 countries including 61 in France.

Each establishment is rated on a scale from A (very good) to E (very poor), for each of the ranking indicators divided into five categories: Teaching & Learning, Research, Knowledge Transfer, International Orientation and Regional Engagement.

U-Multirank

U-Multirank is an alternative approach to comparing universities and offers a solution to the flaws of traditional league tables. Its multi-dimensional approach compares the performance of universities across a range of different activities grading each of them from ‘A’ (very good) to ‘E’ (weak).

U-Multirank is a non-commercial, global, multi-dimensional transparency tool, combining institutional rankings of entire universities with a set of 28 subjects rankings. Each ranking presents more than 30 performance indicators, covering five dimensions: teaching & learning, research. Knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement.
The major aim of U-Multirank is to make diversity of higher education visible – hence it includes a diverse set of higher education institutions with different missions and different profiles. Our unique interactive web tool allows for comparisons among institutions with similar profiles.

11 new professors from all over the world are joining our school.

Ireland, India, Portugal, France, the United States, Russia, Colombia, Brazil and Switzerland join the many nationalities already at TBS to support and train our students!

We are pleased to welcome this year: