📅 Thursday, 22 May 2025 | 🕒 15:45–16:30 (ICT)
📍 Holiday Inn Bangkok & Online Streaming
Start the conference with a provocative keynote by Prof. Gazi Mahabubul Alam from Universiti Putra Malaysia:
“The Era of Digitalization and AI: An Ally or Enemy or Trap for Sustainable Education and Employment.”
This address challenges traditional assumptions about whether education guides innovation or the other way around—and how AI could either support or displace sustainable goals in education and employment.
🔍 Key Themes:
- Is innovation driven by education or vice versa?
- Do AI and digitalisation support or threaten employability?
- Are educational institutions equipped to respond ethically and strategically?
Expect a bold reflection on current transformations in global learning systems and their implications for future workforce readiness.
Keynote speech abstract: Does education dictate innovation, or does innovation drive education? —a discourse with a long history of evictions. Without settling this debate, it is assumed that artificial intelligence (AI) and digitisation are the newest innovations that will help to improve all facets of life, including education and employment. Employment is a vital goal, even though it may not be the only one that education should aim to achieve. The greatest advancements are thought to be digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI), which either replace or enhance the task of humans. This raises the question of whether the relationship between digitisation and AI, education, and employment is reciprocally symbiotic, interdependent, or dominating to one to the other—a subject of the talk.
