Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation
Morning | Purpose, Teaching, and Faculty Empowerment
Joint Opening Keynote
Reengineering the University: Designing the Future or Reacting to It?
Plenary Panel 1
From Teaching to Designing Learning: Innovative Education at Scale
- Flipped classrooms and active learning
- AI-enhanced teaching beyond lectures
- Speed, relevance, and curriculum renewal
Plenary Panel 2
Faculty as Co-Architects of the University
- Innovation rallies and idea pitching
- Faculty-led program and research design
- Breaking institutional and disciplinary barriers
Afternoon | Sharing, Scaling, and Student Leadership
Parallel Sessions
- Track A: Designing Curricula for New Sectors.
- Track B: From Ideas to Institutions: Faculty Innovation Rallies in Action
- Track C: Scaling What Works: Faculty-to-Faculty Learning in Teaching and Research
Student Competition Showcase
Students as Global Innovators and Impact Creators
- Award-winning research and innovation projects
- Interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial solutions
- Joint competition (KFUPM-Tsinghua)
Student-Led Session
Students as Knowledge and Impact Creators — Not Only Consumers
- Research leadership journeys
- Innovation initiatives and ventures
- Competing and winning on the global stage
Plenary Reflection
Designers or Operators? Rethinking What We Prepare Students to Become
From Institutional Design to Global Impact
Morning | Research, AI, and Entrepreneurship
Plenary Panel 4
From Discovery to Impact: Research and Entrepreneurship as One System
Plenary Panel 5
AI Old and New: Designing Education for What We Know — and What We Don’t
Afternoon | Mobility, Humanity, and Global Responsibility
Plenary Panel 6
Beyond Borders: Faculty and Student Mobility for Research with Impact
Joint Strategic Roundtables
Designing the Future University Together
- Innovative teaching
- Faculty-led governance
- Interdisciplinary research
- KFUPM–Tsinghua future pathways
Joint Closing Keynote
Universities That Design the Future
