Updated 27 August 2025
INSEAD, The Business School for the World, today announced the launch of the INSEAD Global AI Forum Series 2025, to be held across its key locations in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Fontainebleau and San Francisco.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the boundaries of human achievements. As AI begins to rival and surpass human intelligence across diverse tasks, it presents both extraordinary opportunities and significant risks. This makes the careful integration of human and machine intelligence critical to societal progress.
The INSEAD Human and Machine Intelligence Institute (HUMII) is a newly created think tank that will explore how human and machine intelligence can work together to improve societal outcomes in the age of intelligence. It focuses on building skills for future business leader, research insights into human and machine co-intelligence, and applying knowledge to enhance human agency.
Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD, said, “As a leading global business school, INSEAD is uniquely positioned to lead discussions on the societal implications of human-machine co-intelligence, on AI's impact on people, businesses and society. While we leverage the huge potential of AI to create value, we must also safeguard the essence of human agency.”
INSEAD Global AI Forum Series 2025
Supporting HUMII’s vision, INSEAD will host four Global AI Forums in 2025.
Anchored by its faculty, each Forum will gather dignitaries, industry leaders, alumni, and students for vibrant discussions on AI's impact on business, society, and the economy.
These dialogues and debates will foster deeper insights into how AI and human cognition can complement and elevate each other. This understanding will help leaders harness AI to drive responsible, human-centric innovation, and shape organisations and societies that place people at their centre.
Forum Dates, Locations and Programme Highlights:
23 April – 1 May: INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi
- From Algorithms to Leadership: The AI Revolution in Management Education
- Falcon, Open-Source AI, and the UAE’s Path to Global Leadership
- AI Startups in MENA: Fuelling Innovation, Competing Globally
- AI and the New Organisational Landscape: Innovation, Culture and Competitiveness
- Empowering Digital Twins with AI for Real-Time Optimal Decision Making
30 May: INSEAD Asia Campus, Singapore
- Keynote Speech: Andrea Phua, Senior Director, National AI Group & Senior Director, Digital Economy Office, Ministry of Digital Development and Information; Lead Author, Singapore National AI Strategy
- Launching Botipedia
- Navigating the AI Event Horizon: Strategic Responses to the Rise of AGI and ASI
- Geopolitics and the AI Race
- AI: A Window on China
- AI x Business: Building and Transforming at Scale
4 June: INSEAD Europe Campus, Fontainebleau
- Putting Human and Alien Intelligences to Work
- AI Forecasting for Business
- Human and Machine Intelligence
- AI and Economic Growth
- AI and Organisations: Performance and People
- ASML – Building a Tech Leader
- Personalisation and Experimentation with AI
- AI: A Window on AI in China and the rest of Asia
25-26 September: INSEAD Hub for Business Innovation, San Francisco
- Launching Botipedia
- "McKinsey in a Box": How AI will share the Future of Consulting
- Navigating the AI Event Horizon: Strategic Responses to the Rise of AGI and ASI
- Fireside Chat: Prof. Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation and Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris, Founding Managing Director, Industry Programs and Partnerships, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI), Stanford Business School
- Using Psychological Science to Understand and Improve the Impact of AI
- Working with AI
Confirmed speakers include:
Middle East
- Ali Abbasi, Division Lead, Services, Mastercard Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Vikas A. Aggarwal, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD
- Mehdi El Amin Fichtali, Founder & CEO, FinaMaze
- Frederic Godart, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD
- Mete Guney, Executive Vice President, Commercial & New Payment Flows, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Hakim Hacid, Chief Researcher, Technology Innovation Institute
- Laurence Ouaknine, CEO, Sthrive
- Sophie Smith, Founder and CEO at Nabta Health
- Enver Yucesan, Professor of Operations Management at INSEAD
- Peter Zemsky, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
Asia
- Guoli Chen, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
- Weiru Chen, Associate Professor of Strategy, CEIBS
- Jason P. Davis, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD
- Pushan Dutt, Professor of Economics at INSEAD
- Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD
- Oliver Jay, Managing Director, OpenAI International
- Hyunjin Kim, Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
- Ming Liao, Professor of Practice in Business Analytics at CUHK
- Chin Yin Ong, Chief People Officer, Grab
- Philip M. Parker, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science
- Kevin Pereira, Managing Director, Blu
- Andrea Phua, Senior Director (National AI Group) and Senior Director (Digital Economy Office) at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information, Singapore
Europe
- Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics at INSEAD
- Annet Aris, Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
- Demba Ba, Gorden McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University's School of Engineering
- Francois Candelon, Partner, Seven2
- Theos Evgeniou, professor of Decision Sciences and Technology Management at INSEAD
- Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD
- Fabrice Fishcher (MBA'03J), Founder and CEO, blu
- Martin Gonzalez, Google DeepMind
- Hyunjin Kim, Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
- Ruben Lobel, Product Data Scientist Lead, Waymo
- Robert Maciejko, Co-Founder at INSEAD AI
- Pattie Maes, Germeshausen Professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Lab
- Kevin Pereira, Managing Director, Blu
- Phanish Puranam, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
- Alexandra Roulet, Assistant Professor of Economics at INSEAD
- Ville Satopaa, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD
- Spyros Zoumpoulis, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD
- Martin Tingley, Windows Experimentation Lead, Microsoft
North America
- Sebastian Bak, Global Co-Lead for AI, BCG X
- Jason P. Davis, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD
- Johannes Eichstaedt, Visiting Assistant Professor at INSEAD
- Joao Felipe, Co-founder and CEO, Xavier AI
- Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD
- Fabrice Fishcher (MBA'03J), Founder and CEO, blu
- Gemma Garriga, VP of Engineering, GitHub
- Julian Green, Co-Founder and CEO, Brightband
- Stephane Kasriel, Meta FAIR VP FAIR Foundations
- Mara Larson-Richards, Head of Venture Capital Team at Salesforce
- Panos Madamopoulos, Managing Director, Managing Director, Industry Programs & Partnerships, Stanford University's Human-Centered AI (HAI) Institute
- Robert Maciejko, Co-Founder at INSEAD AI
- Shayak Mazumder, CEO and CTO, Adya AI
- Philip M. Parker, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science
- Geoff Ralston, President Emeritus of Y Combinator
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