Part A: Academic Conference
Track 1: Hybrid concepts and practice in Finance and Accounting
Track Director: – Dr. Rachel Mindra
▪ Loan management during the lockdowns
▪ Portfolio management after opening up
▪ Risk management in the covid times
▪ Financial Distress during and after covid
▪ Financial perspectives for challenged firms
▪ Corporate Governance distresses
Track 2: ICT and Digitization Triggers from Covid era
Track Director – Dr. Sonny Nyeko
▪ The Digital era – perspectives for firms in emerging economies
▪ Business continuity in the digital era
▪ Emerging ICTs, why we all care
▪ How the Social Media world interacts
▪ Trending – Business models
▪ Novel marketing models to get and keep the customer
▪ The warmth and coldness that shot the hospitality industry
Track 3: The Green program and eyebrows for Energy Economics
Track Director – Prof. Joseph Ntayi
▪ Do it or leave it: oil exploitation prospects versus the green economy
▪ Covid survivors’ competitiveness economic models
▪ Covid Victims and the resurrection economics
▪ Renewable Energy verbal tic, exactly where are we?
▪ Climate change talk- who is drumming, who is to dance?
Track 4: Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovations
Track Director – Dr. Ernest Abaho
• Is Social Entrepreneurship real?
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems that evaded Covid times
• Fall and Rise of business opportunities; OR the Rise and Fall?
• The paradox: Strategy Scholars were in Class as Managers were in Crisis
• The Crises of Covid-19: individual, group level, institutional and national
• Work from Home – the questions we can now ask.
• Is it Knowledge Management or thematic knowledge creation?
• The answers that we can now tell articulate