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About the Conference

Asia Rising: Humanising Next-Gen Graduate Management Education

A quiet shift is underway across Asia. The region's brightest candidates are increasingly choosing to build their futures closer to home and they're asking questions. 

It’s not just about "where can this degree take me?" but "who will I become along the way?"

The GMAC Asia Conference 2026, hosted by the National University of Singapore, brings Deans, recruitment leaders and programme directors together to answer these questions, not to chase rankings or trade metrics, but to ask honestly what graduate management education is for and how we serve students with greater warmth and intention whilst still maintaining the edge of advance leadership training.

At the heart of the conversation is a hopeful idea: as technology takes on the analytical work that once defined the MBA, we're free to lean into what only people can offer.

The soft skills of empathy, judgement and the wisdom to lead others well coming through as more important than ever. 

The schools that flourish will be those that see candidates not as applications to process, but as individuals with stories worth backing, now and into the long term.

Together we'll explore engagement built on belonging rather than prestige, the "Asia for Asia" mobility reshaping the region, and how AI will ultimately enrich and not replace the human heart of leadership.  A trend becoming to important to ignore.

Asia is rising. 

Join us in Singapore to shape what comes next.

Who Should Attend?

This conference is a must-attend event for those who are located in Asia, Africa or the Middle East and are interested in knowing how to better connect with today’s candidate pool and help create experiences that will best prepare them for the future workplace. Whether you are in marketing, recruitment, admissions or program management, you’ll come away with new intelligence that you can put to work immediately.

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