Emerging and existing digital technologies – such as Deep Learning and Blockchain – are fast evolving, technically complex and often lack business cases. Yet, these also present many opportunities for skilled and informed organisations and individuals ready to embrace them.
TECH TALKS at INSEAD are dedicated to exploring these digital technologies and their applications as well as the impact these have on management, business and society.
TECH TALKS are both technical and business talks presented by leading technologists, thought leaders, industry practitioners, innovators, entrepreneurs and academics.
TECH TALKS span a wide spectrum of topics on both emerging and existing technologies and provide technology specific insight as well as management, business and societal perspectives.

Leading a Data-Driven Transformation: How to Build the Right Mindset, Skillset and Processes to Effectively Create Customer Value
Alain Bejjani (Majid Al Futtaim Holding), David Dubois (INSEAD), Joerg Niessing (INSEAD)
4 June 2020 – Webinar

Startups Against Corona – How Corporates and Startups Could Collaborate Better to Find Quick Solutions
Joerg Niessing (INSEAD), Gregor Gimmy (@27 pilots), Christian Heinrich (scoutbee), Mario Pieper (BSH)
19 May 2020 – Webinar

Careem: Selling Rides or Selling Tech? Strategic Agility & Scope in a Platform Business
19 February 2020 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Superstar Economy
27 January 2020 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Customer Centricity in the Digital Age: When and Why Big data can Yield Big Insights
David Dubois (INSEAD)
Tech Talk, INSEAD Asia campus, Singapore
21 January 2020

The Future of Digital Money
8 December 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Master Class: The Future of Digital Money
13 November 2019 – INSEAD Asia Campus, Singapore

The potential of the data economy in the GCC
27 November 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

TECH TALK @ Google: How organizations use crowdsourcing to innovate?
23 October 2019 – Google Dubai

Training with AI, Winning Against Humans – Evidence from Chess Computers
21 October 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

The Honeycomb Disruption
17 September 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

TECH TALK @ Google: Strategy for AI
10 September 2019 – Google Dubai

TECH TALK @ Google: Enterprise Transformation with Blockchain
Salim Ali (Loyakk Inc.)
Tech Talk @ Google Dubai
19 June 2019

Start up, Scale up: A Venture Capital Focus on MENA
11 June 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Blockchain in Financial Services
29 May 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

AI for business: A practitioner’s perspective from the Middle East
Tarik Elazzouzi and Abbes Seqqat (CogTalk)
Tech Talk, INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi
18 December 2018

TECH TALK @ Google: What’s the Big Deal with AI, if any?
1 May 2019 – Google Dubai

What’s the Big Deal with AI, if any?
29 April 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Boundary Spanners: Connecting Start-Ups and Corporations
20 March 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus, Abu Dhabi

Strategy in the Age of AI
26 February 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus

Will there still be jobs? Explaining the shape of employment growth
22 January 2019 – INSEAD Middle East Campus

AI versus Human Judgement
27 November 2018 – INSEAD Middle East Campus

Demystifying AI
23 October 2018 – INSEAD Middle East Campus