Opening address to London Symposium 2022
Monday, 25th April 2022
8:45am to 9:00am
Bayes Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ
- Lower Ground Auditorium
- Welcome all the student delegates from Bayes and the overseas business schools (Gibbs, Mannheim, Luiss), the speakers and faculty.
- Introduction to ‘Being Bayesian’
Lay out what it means to be at Bayes Business School and how Bayesian thinking helps us to understand the world, adapt our thinking and decide how to act. Bayesian decision-making recognises there is no perfect answer but helps us understand any situation based on updating our knowledge and beliefs with new information we have encountered. It urges us to research and gain more and better evidence for and against any and all the options available in order to make better decisions. This means we have to actively seek the truth by obtaining a balance of different inputs from getting deeper and different perspectives and data.
Our Symposium this year will ‘Be Bayesian’ in its approach by encouraging a diversity of perspectives and inputs on our question ‘What next for London and the UK?’ from different speakers in the context of a panel discussion on each topic and use the business/site visits so students can gather new data from the ‘coalface’ of businesses. We will encourage students to enquire, question and discuss ideas in the Symposium to help them form clear perspectives and nuanced arguments and understanding for their own elective work.
What's next for London post-crisis and with the UK independent on the world stage?
Questions to address:
- How we should position the city on the world stage going forward and what are our biggest opportunities?
- Why it’s time to build for London and the City, what growth means for London going forward and its role in the broader economy?
- How can we take up the challenge to revive higher productivity and growth, and in what industries and markets?
