The conference will be divided into five components: the Research symposium, the Academic conference, the Business forum and Learning journeys. These will be guided under the following sub-themes.
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.
Part B: The Business Forum
Panel 1: The Micro Enterprises 3-M Support Model
Panel Chair – Dr. Juliet Wakaisuka
To finance or to train Micro entrepreneurs? The prospects of catalysing micro enterprises for house
hold income and employment generation. Findings from the Mak RIF studies.
Panel 2: The Digital wave of Social media
Panel Chair – Dr. Aaron Ecel
Up and round as social media seems to run organizations, to disfranchise managerial controls, to
penetrate board room walls and deflate confidentiality rule? The 4th Industrial Revolution is here.
Artificial Intelligence is the way to go. How prepared are we in Uganda and the rest of Africa?
Panel 3: Ending the rhetoric on Climate Change: what should we do and say nigh on?
Panel Chair – Dr. Susan Watundu
Globally the talk and action on climate change has reached fever pitch. International conventions
have been held and binding resolutions taken. In Uganda, its time for action. We are equally
affected. What should be the direction from talk to action?
