The Emerging Banking Leaders Programme

Overview
Programme at a glance
Programme Outline
Programme Faculty
Programme Speakers
Programme Venue

Overview
Welcome
Scotland is the home of much of modern banking and finance, from Adam Smith (“The Wealth of Nations”) and Henry Duncan (the founder of the Savings Bank Movement). We are also home to a thriving FinTech sector, supported and led by world-class academic institutions such as the University of Edinburgh, renowned for cutting-edge research in areas including artificial intelligence, data science and quantum computing.

It is also my home, and home to the Chartered Banker Institute. We are the oldest institute of bankers in the world, founded and headquartered in Edinburgh. I’m delighted to see the Asian Banking School and the University of Edinburgh coming together once again in Scotland, therefore – this year to help global banking leaders develop their understanding of technology and how this will continue to shape the future of banking and finance.

Alongside sustainability (re-shaping the purpose of banking and finance), technology (revolutionising how we deliver finance) is one of two global megatrends impacting every financial institution and our clients and customers. Despite continual advances in FinTech and digital finance, open banking and APIs, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, electronic trading and robo-advisors, however at the heart of banking remains the human capital that banking depends on just as much if not more than its financial and technological capital. There is no better place to develop human capital – your human capital – than here in Edinburgh via this innovative programme developed by the Asian Banking School and the University of Edinburgh, and supported by the Chartered Banker Institute.

Both personally, and on behalf of the Chartered Banker Institute, I would like to extend an invitation to join us in Edinburgh in September. I know you will have an extremely informative and enjoyable visit, and return with actionable insights to help your institutions develop and grow in our digital and technology-driven world.

Simon Thompson FCBI
Chief Executive
Chartered Banker Institute
THE EMERGING BANKING LEADERS PROGRAMME
Preparing Future Leaders for a Digital World
Technological innovations allow us not only to change the way we do things but also to do things we could not do before. Historically, the banking industry has been one of the first sectors to adopt some of these innovations. The first mainframe built for commercial use, for instance, was bought by a bank.

In its essence, banking business remains the same but the environment around it has constantly evolved. Technology has affected the way customers engage with banks, investment opportunities, the risks faced by banks, and the relationship with employees. More and more people have had access to the financial system. New types of currencies have been created. The number of tech-based firms has got higher and higher, bringing novel digital functionalities that considerably affect how we perform tasks and interact with each other. Social awareness, ethical issues, and equality and diversity debates propelled by social media may affect banks’ reputation and their ability to attract funding at reasonable costs. Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance and related areas take advantage of abundant data easily available to some players that can become new competitors to traditional banks.

The advances in technology have made us aware of new possibilities in the near future that we would not have considered otherwise. Simply keeping abreast of all these changes is not enough for banking leaders to deal with the multiple factors influencing the sector. Understanding them and acting accordingly is essential to identify business opportunities and avoid losses for their institutions.

Looking at the rapid growth of the applications of technology in banking over the past decade or so makes us wonder what is coming next. The future is uncertain but those better prepared for the potential impact of technological innovations will be at an advantage.

Designed specifically for high potential talent on a fast track to a leadership position from banking and finance-related institutions, The Emerging Banking Leaders Programme will cover topics such as the current digital landscape, regulatory issues in the context of technological innovation, the use of data science in banks, practical issues involving FinTech as well as discussions around how to inspire and enable change in a digital era.

Led by academics, practitioners and industry experts, the programme will include case studies, examples from the industry as well as ample opportunities for discussion and application in practice.The Emerging Banking Leaders Programme is organised by the Asian Banking School in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Business School.
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PROGRAMME DETAILS
DATE
4 - 8 SEPTEMBER 2023
VENUE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
HRDC PROG NO
10001300336
PROGRAMME FEE*
Malaysian Participants
MYR
40,000
per participant
International Participants
GBP
7,500
per participant
* Fee includes all training activities and materials, company visits, lunches during training days, special dinners, social programme and accommodation (from 3-9 September 2023) in single occupancy rooms in a 4-star hotel.
This programme is an approved HRD Corp claimable course and employers can claim 100% of the programme fee.
The programme fee and roundtrip airfare is STF credit claimable by qualifying Malaysian banks.
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Programme at a glance

Sunday 3 Sep	Monday 4 Sep	Tuesday 5 Sep	Wednesday 6 Sep	Thursday 7 Sep	Friday 8 Sep
Arrival in Edinburgh	Introduction and Programme Overview FinTech Revolution – Disruptions and Opportunities	Finance and Cyber Security: Emerging Threats, Challenges and Solutions Finance Regulation and Technology	Ethics of AI Applications of AI in Banking	FinTech by Design Successful Cases of Connections Between FinTech Firms and Traditional Banks	Inspiring and Enabling Change in a Digital World Case Studies on the Use of Financial Technology
Free Time	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
Guided Tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town, followed by Welcome Drinks at Glasshouse Hotel	Transforming Organisations in the Digital Era Innovations in Payments	Applications of AI in Regulatory Compliance Blockchain Applications in Corporate Governance and Banking	Company Visit to the Royal Bank of Scotland/Natwest Headquarters with a Talk on Data Science	The Use of Technology in the Engagement with Customers Technology as an Enabler for Financial Inclusion and Wellbeing	Knowledge Sharing and Integration of Learning Certificate Ceremony
Evening Break	Evening Break	Evening Break	Evening Break	Evening Break	Evening Break
Free Time	Welcome Dinner at the St Trinnean’s Room, St Leonard’s Hall	Free Time	Free Time	Farewell Dinner at the Royal College of Physicians with talk by the Chartered Banker Institute	Free Time

Programme Outline
SUNDAY, 03 SEPTEMBER 2023
Pre-Programme : Walking Tour of Edinburgh & Welcome Drinks
A guided walking tour in the afternoon will take you from your hotel around the city’s old town. This will be followed by a Welcome Drinks Reception on the rooftop of the Glasshouse Hotel.
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Learning Objective
This programme aims at developing participants’ ability to:
Understand the opportunities, risks and ethical issues related to the use of technology in banking;
Assess the impact of the advent of new technologies on financial institutions;
Respond to the main challenges in the digital world affecting financial institutions;
Anticipate the application of technological advances in the banking sector; and
Lead and foster technology-based innovation in their organisations.
MONDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2023
Morning Session : Introduction and Programme Overview
Learning Objective : Understand the programme structure and to have a broad view of the key issues covered in the programme
In this session, we will welcome participants and will explain how the programme is organised. This will include information on the key topics to be discussed over the week and the activities we have prepared. The primary goal will be to set the scene for helping participants make the most of the programme.
Morning Session : FinTech Revolution : Disruptions and Opportunities
Learning Objective : Attain a critical understanding of how advanced technology reshapes the financial sector.
The world is currently witnessing a rapid explosion of FinTech applications, and thus, new business insights are being developed based on the intersection between Finance and technology. Using advanced technology (for example, AI and Blockchain) in businesses has substantial economic benefits; this session discusses these benefits. Notably, the "dark side" of FinTech applications is also explored. Finally, this session is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the Covid-19 crisis reshapes FinTech advancements.
Afternoon Session : Transforming Organisations in the Digital Era
Learning Objective: Demonstrate a robust and critical understanding of digital transformation in organisational context.
Digital technologies are transforming the ways that corporations do business. This session is designed to help you rethink leadership in the digital era by developing an understanding of how digital technologies are leading to radical changes in the business models, business processes, value creation and growth strategies of organisations. The session will provide conceptual and methodological background for understanding digital business transformation and will offer insights into how to build, and capitalise on, new digital capabilities to achieve higher business opportunities.
Afternoon Session : Innovations in Payments
Learning Objective: Comprehend the role of banks in the context of digital payment technologies.
Digital payments have improved customer experience by increasing the speed of transactions, reducing their costs, and presenting alternative methods of payment that can be chosen by users according to their preference. While this brings new possibilities of fraud, the technology itself has provided solutions to improve fraud detection (e.g., biometric authentication). This session will discuss the importance of banks following these technological advances closely as their customers (e.g., depositors) are active users of modern payment systems.
Welcome Dinner
The dinner will be held at St Trinnean’s Room in the stately nineteenth century mansion, St Leonard’s Hall, Pollock estate. There will be a traditional Ceilidh dance workshop before dinner. A guest speaker will be talking about Banking and Leadership in a Digital Age.
TUESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2023
Morning Session : Finance and Cybersecurity : Emerging Threats, Challenges and Solutions
Learning Objective : Learn how the cyber threat landscape is currently evolving, how this may impact the financial sector, and identify potential solutions.
Cybercrime and cyber threats are constantly evolving, with threat actors ranging from petty fraudsters, to organised cybercriminal gangs, terrorist groups, and hostile nation states. The finance sector and its customers may be targeted by these actors for a variety of reasons including financial gain, corporate espionage or geopolitical strategic purposes. Issues involved range from customer fraud, insider threats, regulatory compliance, reputational risk, ransomware, and weak encryption. This session will explore some emerging threats, organisational challenges, and possible future cyber security solutions.
Morning Session : Financial Regulation and Technology
Learning Objective : Develop awareness of the actions taken by regulations in response to the use of technology in the financial sector.
Regulation is one of the aspects impacted by technological innovations in the financial sector. This session will cover the responses of regulators to prevent negative effects of technological innovations on the customers of financial firms, providing examples related to the UK market. The trends in financial regulation given the advances in technology will also be discussed.
Afternoon Session : Applications of AI in Regulatory Compliance
Learning Objective: Be aware of the main applications of AI in regulatory compliance and their respective implications.
Banks are highly regulated and the requirements imposed on them change frequently. To keep abreast of the newest regulations, internal compliance teams spend considerable time reviewing documents issued by regulators and then monitoring the necessary adjustments in their institutions’ processes. This session will show how deep learning and Natural Language Processing (AI tools) can help financial institutions with reading new requirements. These tools do not replace analysts working in the area but contribute to faster and more efficient compliance.
Afternoon Session : Blockchain Applications in Corporate Governance and Banking
Learning Objective: Understand the potential of blockchain technology in enhancing corporate governance practices within the banking sector.
Blockchain technology has emerged as a disruptive force in the financial industry, offering the ability to validate information automatically while maintaining the confidentiality of data. Key stakeholders in the financial industry, including regulators and central banks, are actively investing in this innovative technology. This session aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the role and implications of blockchain within the context of banking and finance. Participants will be introduced to the essential technical concepts of blockchain and their real-world applications. The session will further explore the potential impact of blockchain on the existing framework of financial services, corporate governance structures, and regulatory environments.
WEDNESDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2023
Morning Session : Ethics of AI
Learning Objective: Understand foundational issues in design and deployment of AI systems in automated decision making.
AI systems are increasingly used to aid decision making. AI decision-making systems offer opportunities for greater efficiency, accuracy, and reduction in human-based cognitive biases. However, these systems also raise serious worries: their outputs are not always easy to understand or justify, they can fail to be accurate in ways that are hard to anticipate, and they may systematically introduce discriminatory considerations into decision making. In this session, we will consider some of the challenges facing the design and deployment of AI systems in decision making and the difficulties of rendering future decision making fair and transparent.
Morning Session : Applications of AI in Banking
Learning Objective: Describe the main applications of AI in banking.
This session will present a high-level overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools applied in different banking areas. The talk will also cover the advantages of these techniques, their main limitations, trends, and the challenges faced by banks when using them. Practical examples of such applications will be provided, including chatbots, automated trading, and machine learning for credit risk assessment.
Afternoon Session : Visit to the Royal Bank of Scotland / Natwest Headquarters
Talks on the “Applications of Data Analytics in Banking” and network session with data scientists from NatWest/Royal Bank of Scotland.
THURSDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2023
Morning Session : FinTech by Design
Learning Objective: Learn how design thinking approaches are providing visions toward possible and preferable futures for banking.
New Open Banking regulation and block chain technology have brought about a rare opportunity to rethink how we associate values with the representation of value. As the primary representation of value shifts from money and toward data, the concept of smart data allows us to attach digital 'strings' to transactions and allow us to design products and services that connect consumers directly with social and environmental issues. This session will introduce some of the design methods that allow the co-creation of new products and services.
Morning Session : Successful Cases of Connections between FinTech Firms and Traditional Banks
Learning Objective: Understand how FinTech firms and incumbent banks can benefit from collaborating with each other.
Traditional financial institutions have dealt with FinTech firms in different ways: competing with them, acquiring them or collaborating with them. This talk will explore the potential benefits and challenges of collaborations between FinTech and banks. Examples of successful collaborations will be given.
Afternoon Session : The Use of Technology in the Engagement with Customers
Learning Objective: Build awareness of applications of technology to strengthen customer relationships.
More and more customers have interacted with financial institutions by means of digital tools. These interactions include not only financial transactions but also requests for information and comments on the quality of the services provided. This scenario has created opportunities for personalised and quick services, which have become core customer expectation. In this session, we will introduce and discuss some of the key tools that can strengthen the connection between banks and their customers while allowing the former to better understand the needs of the latter.
Afternoon Session : Technology as an Enabler for Financial Inclusion and Wellbeing
Learning Objective: Identify technology tools that can contribute to financial inclusion and well-being.
An increase in the number of people engaged with financial institutions can lead to the development of banking systems. Access to financial services can also help improve quality of life. New technologies have made it possible to achieve these objectives. This session will present an overview of technology tools used for promoting financial inclusion and well-being in different countries. Participants will be invited to reflect on how incumbent banks can take part in this process.
Farewell Dinner
Before the programme ends, there will be a Farewell Dinner at the beautiful historical Royal College of Physicians, located in the centre of Edinburgh’s New Town. A guest speaker will be talking about New Technologies and Careers in Banking.
FRIDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER 2023
Morning Session : Inspiring and Enabling Change in a Digital World
Learning Objective: To enable participants to promote successful changes in their organisations.
This session will explore ways to stimulate changes that can benefit organisations. Considering the key aspects of the digital world, drivers of innovative changes and strategies for taking advantage of new technologies will be discussed. Examples of successful changes in financial institutions will be presented.
Morning Session : Case Studies on the Use of Financial Technology
Learning Objective: Enhance participants’ ability to evaluate actions taken by institutions and decide whether such actions could be applied to their own organisations.
This session will make use of case studies to stimulate discussions among participants and personal reflections about challenging situations faced by financial institutions in the context of the previous sessions in the programme. At first, the participants will discuss the cases in groups. Then, the facilitator will present the solutions adopted by the institutions described in the cases. Next, the whole class and the facilitator will discuss the pros and cons of possible solutions to the cases. To conclude, the participants will be asked to build a link between the cases analysed and specific challenges faced by them in their own institutions.
Afternoon Session : Knowledge Sharing and Integration of Learnings
Learning Objective: Make connections between the topics seen in different sessions of the programme and identify their applications in participants’ jobs.
This session will be focused on facilitated group discussions to share reflections of the participants based on the topics seen in the programme. This will allow participants to review the knowledge acquired over the week and connect pieces of information even when they do not seem to be related to each other. We will also consider possible scenarios and changes brought about by new technologies that may affect the banking industry.
Programme Faculty

Dr Fernando Moreira
Programme Director, The Emerging Banking Leaders Programme
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Banking and Risk Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Service Excellence (CenSE), UEBS
Fernando has acted as the director of the MSc in Banking and Risk from 2015 to 2017. He sits on the Quality and Standards Committee of the Chartered Banker Institute. His research interests are related to the impact of government interventions (including financial regulation) on a number of issues (e.g., financial stability and banks’ risk-taking) and to methodological approaches to assess causality. He teaches risk management focused on financial institutions and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Innovation. Fernando has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at several conferences. He holds a PhD in Management Science and Business Economics from the University of Edinburgh and has previously worked at Keele University (UK) as a Lecturer in Finance and at the Central Bank of Brazil (Supervision Department).
Professor Wendy Loretto
Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Dean, University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS)
Wendy has previously held several leadership roles in the School, including Director of Research and Director of Undergraduate Programmes. Her main research field is age and employment, with a particular focus on changes in employees’ and employers’ attitudes and practices in extended working lives. She is especially interested in the ways in which gender, age and health interact to affect work and retirement experiences amongst older men and women across Europe. Her work has received funding from research councils, industry partners, government and EU and is published widely in leading academic journals. She is currently leading a major 3-year project investigation how best to support healthy ageing at work. She was a member of the UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion external Advisory Group, and is on the Boards of abrdn Financial Fairness Trust and Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. From October 2023 she will be Chair of the Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association (AMBA & BGA).
Dr Khaladdin Rzayev
Lecturer in Finance, UEBS
Dr Rzayev is a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre of the London School of Economics. Dr Rzayev received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and completed his PostDoc at the London School of Economics. Dr Rzayev’s research agenda is focused on market microstructure, Financial Technology (FinTech), and financial econometrics. Dr Rzayev has published in various leading journals, for example, the Journal of Financial Markets.

Dr Hajar Mozaffar
Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Programme Director for MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS)
Hajar Mozaffar is a Senior Lecturer in Innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has a decade of professional experience, prior to her academic career, in management and consultancy roles in large organisational IT implementation projects. Her interdisciplinary research interests have a focus on digital transformation of organisations and digital innovation.

Hajar has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in many interdisciplinary research projects including The Evaluation of NHS England's flagship Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) Programme, The Development and Evaluation of a Complex ePrescribing-based Antimicrobial Stewardship (ePAMS+) intervention for hospitals, Exploratory study of future Artificial Intelligent-based Decision Support Systems, and The Evaluation of Project Iris: Designed for Aging.

Dr Mozaffar holds a PhD in Innovation and Information Systems from the University of Edinburgh Business School (2013). She also holds a BSc and an MSc in Software Engineering (2005). Hajar is currently the Programme Director of MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme in the University of Edinburgh Business School and has many years of experience in teaching digital transformation across different sectors.
Dr Richard Jones
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Dr Richard Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. He is an expert in topics including cybercrime, cyber security, surveillance and crime prevention. He obtained his PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, has been a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford, and has served as a member of the Editorial Boards both of the British Journal of Criminology and the European Journal of Criminology. He is an Expert Fellow of the UK’s Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Digital Economy network, and is currently involved in cyber security projects researching new ways of keeping vulnerable users safe online and scoping potential cyber risks introduced by smart products.
Dr Mark Sprevak
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS), University of Edinburgh
Mark Sprevak is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. His primary research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and artificial intelligence. He has published on the foundations of computational models of human cognition, distributed cognition, as well as on the history of computational models.
Professor Chris Speed
Chair of Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Chris collaborates with a wide variety of partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt and create products and services within a networked society. He is Director for the Edinburgh Futures Institute, an interdisciplinary hub combining education, research and innovation to support collaboration with industry, governments and communities to build a challenge-led, data-rich portfolio of activity that has demonstrable ethical, social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts. Chris has been involved in over 40 research projects since joining the University of Edinburgh, leading on 19 worth a total of £9.9mil and Co-Investigator on 22 projects worth in excess of £55mil. Chris is Director of the £6mil (£5.5Mil AHRC & £0.5Mil SFC) Creative Informatics R&D Partnership, and is Co-I to the Next Stage Digital Economy Centre DECaDE. Chris was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.
Dr Ben Marder
Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Director of PGR Programmes
Ben Marder is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Director of Postgraduate Research Programmes at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research interest surrounds social and commercial consumer behaviour linked to the use of digital technologies (social media). Since 2015 he has had 35+ articles accepted at well-known journals, such as the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising Research, European Journal of Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, International Marketing Review, Computers in Human Behaviour, Journal of Travel Research, New Technology, Work and Employment, Journal of Health Psychology, and the Journal of Business Research. This work has received quite a lot of media attention, including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Harvard Business Review and the BBC.
Professor Tina Harrison
Personal Chair of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption, Head of Marketing
Tina Harrison is Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption and also has a University role as Assistant Principal with overall responsibility for the University’s academic standards and quality assurance arrangements. Tina's research interests are in the area of financial services marketing, specifically financial wellbeing, analyses of consumer use and understanding of financial services and the use of technology in enabling and empowering effective financial management and decision-making. She has led several large funded research projects and industry sponsored research. Her research has been presented widely at conferences and in academic journals. She is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Financial Services Marketing, author of Financial Services Marketing (Prentice-Hall) and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Financial Services Marketing for 17 years (until 2019).
Programme Speakers

Simon Thompson
Chief Executive, Chartered Banker Institute
Simon Thompson is Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute. Under his leadership, the Institute has grown to become the largest professional body for bankers in the UK, with nearly 35,000 members and students in more than 100 countries. In 2022, the Institute launched the Principles for Responsible Banking Academy in partnership with UNEP FI to support the alignment of banks’ strategies, operations and activities with the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Simon is the author of Green & Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice, published by Kogan Page. He chairs the UK’s Green Finance Education Charter on behalf of the Department for Net Zero and Energy Security and is a Board member of the UK’s Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) and Green Jobs Delivery Group. Simon is a former Vice President of the European Bank Training Network. Simon is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He has an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Bangor University (2022) and BPP University (2015) for his contribution to banking, business and education.
James Varga
CEO & Founder, DirectID
James founded The ID Co. in 2011 with a mission to create financial inclusion globally by leveraging the identity and data users have with their bank accounts to give them access or products and services conveniently and let them prove their identity, financial health and credit risk in seconds anywhere in the world. DirectID, its global credit and risk platform, provides intelligent insights based on bank data that help its customers understand their customers and make better credit and risk decisions. It delivers easy and immediate access to the most accurate, relevant and valuable insights and operates throughout the customer lifecycle from origination to portfolio management through to collections and recoveries. James is active in local and global efforts to help people do more online, including board positions with Fintech Scotland, the Ministerial Trade Board for Scotland and Trust In Digital Life (TDL); involvement with Fintech Delivery Panel (FDP), FDATA, Open Banking Excellence, Holland Fintech, EIT Digital; and is the Fintech Export Champion for Scotland on behalf of the Department of Industry and Trade.
Programme Venue

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL
The University of Edinburgh Business School enjoys a long tradition of teaching and research, opening the doors to its first cohort of students in October 1919. The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education programmes in business and management and provides a platform for research, discussion, and debate on a wide range of business issues.
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Classes will be held in the Conference Room of the University of Edinburgh Business School building situated on the top floor. It offers unobscured views over George Square and Edinburgh’s Old Town. The adjoining Roof Terrace will be used for daytime refreshments and lunch breaks.
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ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation will be provided in single occupancy rooms from 3 - 9 September 2023 at the 4-star Courtyard by Marriott Edinburgh Hotel. The hotel is well located just 15 minutes to the University of Edinburgh Business School and 30 minutes from Edinburgh Airport by car/taxi. On foot, Princes Street, Waverley Station and the Edinburgh Tram on York Place can be reached in less than 10 minutes.
Transportation from the hotel to the school will be provided on programme days.
WELCOME DRINKS RECEPTION
SUNDAY, 3 SEPT 2023
This will be held at the Calton Suite of the Glasshouse Hotel. Situated atop the hotel’s two-acre roof-top garden, participants will be able to enjoy a stunning view of Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. Built from a former chapel constructed in 1846, the Glasshouse is part of the YTL Luxury Hotels collection - the hospitality arm of one of Malaysia's most dynamic conglomerates, YTL Corporation Berhad.
WELCOME DINNER
MONDAY, 4 SEPT 2023
St Leonard's Hall is a stately nineteenth-century mansion within the grounds of the Pollock Estate and with the iconic Arthur's Seat as its backdrop. It will be the venue of the Welcome Dinner as well as a special activity where prior to dinner, participants will be led through the traditional Scottish group dance called Ceilidh by an experienced Highland dancer and an accordion player.
FAREWELL DINNER
THURSDAY, 7 SEPT 2023
Set in a stunning city centre location, in the heart of Edinburgh's New Town, the Cullen Suite at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh will be the venue for the Farewell Dinner. It has a rich heritage which spans over 300 years and has stunning views across the rooftops of Edinburgh’s New Town out to the Firth of Forth.