King's Business School invites you to attend our Executive Open Day on September 6th, where you will be able to experience some of the executive education we offer here at King's and network with other industry professionals. This open day will cover Data & Analytics, and is the last of three events we will be hosting at the Business School.

The schedule for the day will be as follows:

07:30am - Breakfast & Networking

08:00am - Sessions with King's Business School academics

09:00am - Refreshments, information and Business School staff available to participants

09:30am - Event closes

We will have a number of talks available to guests on the day, please select one of the following sessions to attend and RSVP with the relevant ticket:

Session 1: Leadership in Financial Services
Professor Crawford Spence - Lecture Theatre 2, Bush House

This session will explore the path into leadership positions for those working in various areas of financial services, including accountants, financial analysts, tax advisors and fund managers. Specific attention will be placed upon the way in which leaders in financial services need to balance technical expertise and commercial acumen.

Session 2: Nowcasting and Big Data
Professor George Kapetanios - 2.01, Bush House

Is your GPS phone location useful to predict retail sales? Could your online shopping behaviour estimate future rates of inflation? This talk/seminar answers similar questions providing a brief introduction to various types of big data useful in macroeconomic nowcasting and forecasting. We explain the advantages and challenges of big data and provide various examples of different data categories.

Session 3: Smart City and Smart Living: Past, Present and Beyond
Dr Mamun Rashid - 2.02, Bush House

Knowing the future may not always give you a better life to live. Everything is longsuffering and moving towards super smart future development - with the deployment of pro-active sensing devices, SmartPhones and the advanced use of digital data analytics and acceptance of AI, the smart living is coming to reality. Technology disruptors are accelerating their development less considering on the human capacity on socioeconomic adaptably because of their financial business interest. This is probably the right time to find out the future impact of this technological shift and its acceptance to mitigate the unforeseen circumstances for the future and live rest our lives in a city where we would not live otherwise.

Session 4: Integrated Innovation: a model for solving complex problems through cross-sector collaboration

Rachel Parr, Chief Operating Officer (Health), King's College London

The most complex problems in society, business and the public sector can only be solved with collaborative solutions that bring together expertise from all sectors. This ‘integrated innovation’ model has the potential to deliver solutions that cannot be achieved in isolation.

This session explores the opportunities and challenges of cross-sector partnerships. What are the barriers? What are the underlying assumptions that sectors often make about one another? How can we better leverage one another’s expertise? This interactive session will also seek to learn from case studies of cross-sector partnerships in practice.

Executive Open Days at King's Business School: Data & Analytics