“Digitalisation and Well-being”
Prof. Pawan Budhwar (Aston University)
Prof. Budhwar’s keynote explores the evolving relationship between digitalisation and well-being, providing essential background and conceptual frameworks for understanding their intersection. It examines how the rapid adoption of digital technologies, including AI, impacts individual and organizational well-being-offering benefits such as improved communication and productivity, but also presenting challenges like intensified workloads, diminished autonomy, and increased psychosocial risks, including stress and an ‘always-on’ culture. His speech will highlight emerging trends such as the growing focus on digital mental health, personalized digital experiences, and the integration of digital well-being tools, while also addressing challenges around privacy, security, and work-life boundaries. Implications for management include the need for holistic, proactive strategies that integrate well-being considerations into digital transformation, foster worker participation, and ensure responsible technology use. The keynote concludes by outlining a research agenda that calls for interdisciplinary studies on digital well-being, the development of effective interventions, and the alignment of digitalisation with sustainability and CSR goals.
Bio
Pawan Budhwar is the 50th Anniversary Professor of International Human Resource Management at Aston Business School and the Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor International, Aston University, UK. Between September 2020 – April 2023, he was Head of Aston Business School. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Human Resource Management Journal, a Consulting Editor of Journal of International Business Studies and is globally known for his research in the fields of strategic and international HRM, digitalisation, sustainability and emerging markets. He received his doctorate from Manchester Business School, UK in 1998. He has published over 160 articles in leading journals and has also written and/or co-edited over 31 books.
Pawan is the co-founder and first President of Indian Academy of Management, an affiliate of Academy of Management. He has served as an advisor to the Commonwealth Commission for six years and as a co-editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Management for 7 years (2014-2020).
He is the Co-Vice Chair Research & Publications of the British Academy of Management, the Governing Board Member of Centre for Responsible Business (India) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Higher Education Academy (UK), the British Academy of Management and the Indian Academy of Management. He has received millions of pounds of research grants over the years and numerous awards for his contributions to the field of business & management, including the International Federation of Scholarly Management Award in 2022 for Exceptional Services to the Management field worldwide and British Academy of Management Medal for Research Leadership in 2021. In 2023, he was rated 4th in the World Top Business & Management/ Human resource Management Scientists and has over 31,000 Google Scholar citations.Pawan has served or sits on a variety of national and international advisory panels, has presented at the UK Parliament on India-UK trade relations and making female entrepreneurs cyber-ready, and was part of the UK government’s Department of Business & Trade Higher Education Mission to India in September 2023.
“Digitisation to support Circular Economy Transitions”
Prof. Magnus Fröhling (TU München)
Prof. Fröhling’s keynote …
Bio
Magnus Fröhling develops quantitative approaches for the analysis, assessment, planning, and optimisation of circular economy and bioeconomy systems. He considers topics in the areas of industrial value creation, the built environment as well as natural material cycles/ the bioeconomy. In ongoing projects he investigates, e.g., circular economy approaches in the automotive sector, for buildings and cities, a circular carbon economy as well as circularity and sustainability of energy systems. Professor Fröhling is co-initiator and co-speaker of the TUM Mission Network Circular Economy, the interdisciplinary TUM platform for research, teaching, and innovation for the Circular Economy.
Professor Fröhling studied industrial engineering and management at Karlsruhe University. In 2005, he received his PhD for a thesis on material flow-based production planning in the process industries. He obtained his post-doctoral teaching qualification (“Habilitation”) in 2011 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In his habilitation thesis, he worked on resource and energy efficiency in industrial value chains. In 2015, Magnus Fröhling was appointed as professor of Business Administration, esp. Resource Management at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. In 2018, he joined TUM as professor of Circular Economy at the TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability. In 2024 Magnus Fröhling was appointed Full Professor of Circular Economy and Sustainability Assessment.