Elevate: Asia Pacific
Conference Elevate: Asia Pacific
Formerly known as the Asia Pacific Annual Conference
Join us in dynamic Jakarta for Elevate: Asia Pacific — a premier event designed for business school leaders committed to professional growth and continuous improvement. This dynamic gathering offers a powerful blend of thought-provoking keynotes, interactive learning sessions, and valuable networking opportunities on today’s trends in quality assurance and business education.
Two Days of Applied Learning
- Sessions built around problem → solution → application
- Practical strategies for Asia Pacific’s evolving business education landscape
- Case studies and peer benchmarking you can adapt to your school
- Clear action points to brief your dean, faculty, and staff
Regional, Actionable Trends
- Societal impact, sustainability, and purpose-led strategies in Asia Pacific
- Digital transformation and responsible use of emerging technologies
- Industry collaboration driving employability and lifelong learning
- Curriculum and assessment innovation aligned to outcomes
2026 Global Standards
What's New: AACSB Global Standards for Business Education™
This year's biggest story for the AACSB community is the arrival of the new Global Standards for Business Education™ — a refreshed framework for continuous improvement and accreditation, shaped by input from 32 listening sessions with members and stakeholders worldwide. Elevate: Asia Pacific will spend real time helping schools understand what's changing and how to prepare.
Strategic Management
Covers strategic planning, physical/digital/financial resources, and faculty and staff resources — the foundation every school builds on.
Learner Success
Covers curriculum, assurance of learning, and learner progression — how schools prove learners are gaining what they need.
Pathways to Impact
Covers teaching effectiveness, scholarship, and societal impact — how a school's work reaches beyond the classroom.
A few of the key changes:
- A clearer structure that separates the standards themselves from the accreditation process.
- Teaching effectiveness now counts toward faculty qualification, phased in for visits starting 2029–30.
- Societal impact is consolidated into a single standard, with more flexibility for how schools define it.
- Eligibility criteria are more rigorous and quantifiable.
Destination
At the Heart of Indonesia’s Momentum.
As Indonesia’s capital and a major center for business, education, and regional exchange, Jakarta offers an energizing setting for the Asia Pacific business education community to connect and look ahead.
A Regional Gateway
Strategically positioned in Southeast Asia, Jakarta brings together perspectives from across Indonesia, ASEAN, and the wider Asia Pacific region.
A Growing Education Hub
Home to a diverse higher education community, Jakarta provides a meaningful setting for dialogue on quality, innovation, and institutional impact.
A Dynamic Business Ecosystem
From established enterprises to fast-growing startups, Jakarta reflects the ambition, complexity, and opportunity shaping business across the region.
Connected Across Asia Pacific
Jakarta’s international air links and regional accessibility make it a convenient meeting point for attendees from across Asia Pacific and beyond.
Why Attend
Arrive Curious. Leave Equipped.
- Actionable quality insights: Gain practical guidance on assurance of learning, impact, and continuous improvement.
- Peer benchmarking: See how leading schools across Asia are innovating.
- Leadership development: Take away strategy and change-management content for deans and leaders.
- Regional relevance: Learn about partnerships, employer expectations, and market dynamics unique to Asia Pacific.
- Networking that delivers: Build relationships with peers and AACSB leadership.
Audience
Who Should Attend
Deans & Associate Deans
Set the direction and own the resourcing decisions. Elevate: Asia Pacific gives deans a compact way to see how the new Global Standards will reshape strategic planning and resource allocation — before they're back home briefing their own faculty — alongside a room full of peer deans navigating the same transition.
Quality Assurance & Accreditation Leads
This is the group most directly on the hook for the AACSB Global Standards rollout. The conference is built around exactly what's needed: interpretive guidance, transition timelines, and how Assurance of Learning and eligibility criteria are changing in practice, not just on paper.
Faculty
Teaching effectiveness now counts toward faculty qualification, which makes this personal, not just administrative. Faculty get an early look at what "teaching effectiveness" will mean for their own evaluation, plus curriculum and digital-agility trends shaping what they teach next.
Administrative Assistants & Program Coordinators
Often the ones actually managing the accreditation calendar, documentation, and logistics day to day. Elevate: Asia Pacific gives them the same shared context as the people they support, plus a peer network of counterparts at other schools solving the same coordination challenges.
