Agenda
The 2025 PRME Global Forum Agenda is subject to change.
*to be confirmed
08:00 AM-09:00 AM EDT
Breakfast provided
09:00 AM-09:15 AM EDT
09:15 AM-09:30 AM EDT
Speaker TBA
09:30 AM-10:30 AM EDT
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a shared blueprint for a sustainable and equitable future. However, achieving them requires leadership that transcends traditional boundaries, fostering collaboration between academia, business, and government. While each sector plays a critical role, systemic change can only be realized through strategic partnerships that align research, policy, and practice.
Academia generates the knowledge and talent needed to drive change, businesses bring innovation and scale, and governments create the enabling policy environments. Yet, challenges such as competing priorities, regulatory constraints, and differing incentives often hinder effective collaboration. This high-level thought leadership dialogue will explore how these sectors can work together to accelerate SDG progress, highlighting bold leadership approaches and innovative partnership models.
This session aims to move beyond discussion to inspire real action, equipping leaders with the mindset and tools needed to forge transformative partnerships for the SDGs.
10:30 AM-10:45 AM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
10:45 AM-12:00 PM EDT
Teach
These sessions introduce innovative teaching strategies and course materials for embedding sustainability into management curricula. Educators will explore techniques for interactive and experiential learning, including covering case studies and collaborative projects, that bring sustainability to the forefront of business education.
Research
This interactive session explores how storytelling and experiential learning can enhance sustainable business education. Using the winning cases from the PRME Sustainability Case Writing Awards, participants will see how real-world business dilemmas help students and executives develop responsible leadership skills.
In addition, the discussion will highlight the role of sustainability and playful learning, drawing connections between hands-on engagement and case-based learning. Educators will gain insights on integrating business cases and play-based methodologies to create more engaging, action-oriented learning experiences.
Partner
This breakout session will introduce the audience to the deep impact AIM2Flourish has successfully created over the last ten years. Launched in 2015 at the PRME Global Forum, the AIM2Flourish program has transformed management education by engaging students to learn more about the power of business to do good. Using the lens of the UN Global Goals, students discover business innovations that are addressing global challenges, conduct appreciative style interviews with the business leaders/entrepreneurs to find untold stories and publish their stories on aim2flourish.com. Participants in this session can expect to learn more about how to incorporate AIM2Flourish into their classes as well as join us in the 10-year anniversary celebration of the program committed to showcasing businesses that are best for the world.
Practice
Join us for a collaborative session to advance the Champions for Climate Leadership (C4CL) pedagogical initiative in support of the SDG 4 Manifesto. The session will focus on key deliverables for 2025, including transforming the C4CL Playbook from a static book into an open-access education resource, developing a conceptual framework for teaching and learning, expanding subject-specific teaching resources, and preparing a pedagogical paper for presentation at RMER 2025. Participants will join breakouts to discuss how we can leverage our networks effectively, integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), connect this work to the PRME Commons Platform, and mobilise knowledge to expand, sustain, and enhance the Playbook’s impact. Your insights and ideas will be invaluable in shaping these deliverables and ensuring their long-term relevance in responsible management education.
12:00 PM-01:00 PM EDT
01:00 PM-02:00 PM EDT
This session would highlight a panel of expert speakers to allow a fruitful and engaging roundtable of discussions surrounding recent shifts in accreditation & ranking standards. PRME will share a unique lens on how to achieve societal impact through the usage of the SDGs as a framework in reporting to the PRME network. Here you will hear from experts in accreditation & ranking institutions on how to navigate these shifts of standards in the industry. Furthermore, we will highlight examples of best practices in the intersections between the PRME community, PRME Programmes, and reporting standards.
02:00 PM-02:15 PM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
02:15 PM-03:30 PM EDT
Teach
Be the Tipping Point (BEtp) is working with educators globally to transform business education for a sustainable future. Our partners include the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, oikos international, global movement initiative, as well as many others.
The session will demonstrate our approach - empowering educators to update their courses while also providing a community of like-minded change makers with the resources necessary for change – and give participants concrete tools for transforming their own teaching.
More here: https://grli.org/Tipping-Point/
Research
Sessions will focus on practical guidance for advancing academic and applied research in sustainable management. Attendees will gain insights into crafting competitive research proposals, learning directly from experienced journal editors and peer reviewers on how to enhance submission quality. Participants will leave with concrete steps for publishing impactful work in leading journals.
Partner
This workshop introduces PRME Chapter UK and Ireland’s Local Networks, seven regional fora where PRME Signatories collaborate, share best practices, and engage with the PRME Principles and UN SDGs at a more localised level. The Local Networks’ success shows how PRME Chapters and individual Signatory schools can partner with academic institutions, business leaders, policymakers, and students to respond to local needs and challenges. Participants will gain (1) understanding of the benefits of addressing the Principles of PRME at more localised levels; (2) inspiration from examples of the PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Local Networks; (3) opportunities to share their stories of localising PRME and generate ideas for future development; and (4) post-workshop blog collating key insights from our session.
Practice
Designed to address institutional integration of sustainable practices, these sessions provide tools and resources for implementing campus-wide sustainability initiatives. It will also dive into monitoring progress, with a specific look at how PRME Commons, and other reporting measures can push the needle forward on sustainability.
03:30 PM-03:45 PM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
03:45 PM-05:00 PM EDT
Celebrate the achievements of the winners of the MarketPlace Real World Challenge from the 2nd African Research Initiative Conference (AfRIC) and the finalists and winners of the 2025 PGS Sustainability Awards while also providing a platform for them to demonstrate and inspire leadership in sustainability.
05:00 PM-05:30 PM EDT
08:00 AM-09:00 AM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
09:00 AM-09:10 AM EDT
09:10 AM-10:30 AM EDT
The PRME Secretariat is excited to announce that we are expanding our programmatic work to reflect a more comprehensive and aligned approach to education. In this session we will explore various programmatic offerings that aim to advance education in the responsible management education (RME) space. We will introduce new resources in curriculum, pedagogy, research, and communities of practice available to our Signatory members. Join us in exploring these various opportunities and how you can implement them at your institution!
10:30 AM-10:45 AM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
10:45 AM-12:00 PM EDT
Teach
This session will dive deeper into the pedagogical and curriculum efforts of PRME. Here, participants will be able to engage with the various innovative resources in curriculum, pedagogy, research, and communities of practice that are launching in 2025. Expect to hear more about PRME’s programmatic offerings and engage with the PRME Secretariat to ask questions after the plenary session on programmatic work is presented. If you have interest in learning more about pedagogy, curriculum, Commons & reporting, or the other programmatic streams of PRME, join us to explore how you can implement these programmes in your praxis!
Teach
The Summit covers two topics: (1) How to best use PIR results in reporting on societal impact to PRME, AACSB and EQUIS; (2) What are effective ways to improve the societal impact of a business school across the institution, education, local engagement and research. PIR focuses on sharing practical insights from schools globally, and provides a space for participants to explore relevant solutions for their school. All PRME Signatory institutions are invited to join this session and to network with PIR schools. The PIR survey consists of a student and a faculty survey and takes place between September and March.
Partner
The Summit covers two topics: (1) How to best use PIR results in reporting on societal impact to PRME, AACSB and EQUIS; (2) What are effective ways to improve the societal impact of a business school across the institution, education, local engagement and research. PIR focuses on sharing practical insights from schools globally, and provides a space for participants to explore relevant solutions for their school. All PRME Signatory institutions are invited to join this session and to network with PIR schools. The PIR survey consists of a student and a faculty survey and takes place between September and March.
Practice
Designed to address institutional integration of sustainable practices, these sessions provide tools and resources for implementing campus-wide sustainability initiatives. It will also dive into monitoring progress, with a specific look at how PRME Commons, and other reporting measures can push the needle forward on sustainability.
12:00 PM-01:00 PM EDT
01:00 PM-02:00 PM EDT
Deepen your engagement with the PRME community by connecting with our Working Groups. Each Workign Group will have their own room where attendees can meet with the Chairs and get to know others involved. This will be an informal chance to move room to room, network, and learn to how get involved.
02:00 PM-03:15 PM EDT
Teach
Panelists will discuss internationalization practices that foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas between Global North – Global South PRME Signatory Members. Discussions on interdisciplinarity will include complementarities and collaboration across different business disciplines (e.g. Marketing, Finance, etc.) and other domains (e.g. Design, Arts, etc.). The session will discuss some key questions related to fostering collaboration in business schools between departments and disciplines to sensitize and solve pressing problems of sustainability. The application of existing methods (e.g. case method) and methods that are transferrable in cross-cultural contexts (e.g. business tournaments, experiential methods, social immersion, etc.) for creating collaborative learning experiences will be discussed.
Research
This session will explore how the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) global network and its strategic partners are advancing credible and impactful research to strengthen responsible management education in alignment with PRME’s Teach and Research Principles. It will also discuss how business schools can balance academic rigor with societal impact while navigating pressures from rankings and marketization. By aligning research and education with appropriate incentives, Business Schools can reinforce their role as knowledge producers, enhance their societal contributions, and foster greater trust in management research and education within their ecosystem.
Partner
Sessions on partnerships will guide attendees through building collaborative networks that foster sustainability across academia, industry, and government. Attendees will gain insights into successful partnership frameworks and strategies for leveraging cross-sector resources, helping institutions create impactful alliances and shared projects. Attendees will also gain access to PRME partnerships that have benefits for the entire community.
Practice
This workshop aims to contribute to the development of decolonising practice in situ within the global PRME community. It builds on the approach that the organisers have developed in implementing a decolonisation project in a British Business School in the last three years, summarised in a SAGE report which will be available at the event. It will offer participants the opportunity to concretely experience how creative methods can be used to come-up with a set of individual and collective actions towards decolonisation. The objective is also to springboard a formal community of practice to support the commitment of the PRME community to this global agenda.
03:15 PM-03:30 PM EDT
Coffee and tea provided
03:30 PM-04:00 PM EDT
05:15 PM-05:30 PM EDT
05:30 PM-09:00 PM EDT
Featuring PRME and RRBM's annual awards