LAW
- The legal and ethical challenges of regulating AI and generative AI usage.
- Smart contracts, blockchain, and enforceability in international trade.
- Data protection, privacy law, and cybersecurity obligations for law firms.
- Legal tech startups: disruption, ethics, and access to justice.
- Remote courts / virtual hearings & digitisation of legal proceedings.
- Evolution of legal services pricing: value-based, subscription, and outcome-based models.
- Shareholder activism, ESG and class‐action lawsuits in corporate law.
- Cross-border legal challenges: jurisdiction, compliance & harmonisation in trade & tech.
- Environmental law, climate regulation & duties of corporations in climate risk disclosure.
- Access to justice: legal aid, cost, design of legal services for underserved populations.
- Intellectual property in the age of AI: authorship, ownership and infringement.
- Antitrust / competition law & big tech regulation.
- Immigration law in a digital age: visas, remote work, and digital nomads.
- Legal ethics & professional responsibility with the use of AI tools.
- Cybercrime, digital forensics, and legal frameworks for cyberwar & cyberterrorism.
- Privacy vs. national security: balancing government surveillance powers.
- Contract law reform: standardisation, consumer protection under digital and cross-border contracts.
- Legal frameworks for digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and CBDCs.
- Labour law: gig economy, worker classification & rights.
- Human rights law: climate justice, refugees, digital rights.
- Insurance law and regulation in the context of climate risk.
- Corporate governance reforms: board diversity, ESG metrics, stakeholder accountability.
- Dispute resolution: online dispute resolution mechanisms; arbitration & mediation in the digital age.
- Access to data: freedom of information & regulation of algorithmic transparency.
- Maritime law updates: new international act(s), regulation, and shipping law reforms. (E.g. Carriage of Goods by Sea Act in India)
FINANCE
- ESG investing & sustainable finance: metrics, standards, regulation.
- Use of AI / ML in financial risk management, credit scoring, and fraud detection.
- DeFi, crypto regulation, stablecoins and their impact on traditional banking.
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): policy, implementation and impact.
- Fintech growth: payment innovations, embedded finance, BNPL, digital wallets.
- Personal finance education & financial literacy: young adults, schooling. ESG risk, climate risk disclosure and climate finance regulation.
- Language models and NLP in finance: sentiment analysis, automated reports, explainable AI.
- Infrastructure finance & green bonds/carbon credits.
- Impact of geopolitical risk on global financial markets.
- Tax reform, global minimum tax, digital taxes.
- Banking 2.0: the stablecoin-backed banking revolution.
- Alternative investments: real estate, private equity, venture capital in emerging markets.
- Supply chain finance & trade finance innovations.
- Liquidity risk, interest rate risk, and inflation hedging strategies.
- Financial inclusion: serving unbanked/underbanked populations with technology.
- Cybersecurity & regulation in fintech.
- Behavioural finance: how psychology & digital behaviour affect financial decisions.
- Insurance tech, insurtech innovations & risk pooling in the face of climate change.
- Retirement planning & pension funds in uncertain markets.
- Cross-border capital flows & foreign investment regulation.
- Corporate financial governance, board oversight, especially in non-financial risk.
- Shadow banking & regulatory arbitrage.
- M&A trends: consolidation of fintechs, banking, and regional convergence.
- Short-term credit/microfinance risks in rising interest rate environments.
MANAGEMENT
- Responsible & ethical AI deployment in product/operations management.
- Remote & hybrid work: managing productivity, culture & burnout.
- Digital transformation: integrating new tech, legacy system issues.
- Sustainability in the supply chain & operations management.
- Risk management in uncertain global scenarios: pandemic, climate, geopolitical.
- Data-driven decision making, big data, and analytics in business processes.
- Agile & adaptive management in volatile markets.
- Customer experience & service innovation under tech disruption.
- Change management in organisational culture.
- Employee well-being, mental health & inclusion.
- Diversity, equity & inclusion in workplace policies.
- Talent management: retaining Gen Z / Gen Alpha workforce.
- Cross-functional collaboration & breaking silos.
- Managing innovation: balancing stability & experimentation.
- Crisis management & business continuity planning.
- Leadership in sustainability goals & net-zero targets for companies.
- Ethical supply chains, sourcing & stakeholder responsibility.
- Lean / cost-optimisation under inflation and resource constraints.
- Automation, robotics, and IoT in operational efficiency.
- Performance measurement & KPIs in new work models.
- Organisational learning, upskilling, and continuous education.
- Corporate governance and internal audit in modern organisations.
- Digital ethics & data privacy inside operational workflows.
- Co-creation with consumers/community in product/service design.
- Innovation ecosystems & partnerships (startups, academia, industry).
LEADERSHIP
- Fractional leadership & “C-Suite as a Service”: flexible, part-time top leadership roles.
- Agentic leadership: integrating AI to amplify empathy, truth, and autonomy.
- Leading remote/hybrid teams: trust, culture & performance.
- Conscious unbossing: Gen Z’s aversion to traditional hierarchical management. Neurodiversity & inclusive leadership: supporting diverse cognitive styles.
- Ethical leadership: navigating AI, privacy, fairness.
- Purpose-driven leadership & organisational values alignment.
- Leadership resilience: dealing with disruptions (climate, pandemics, geopolitics).
- Emotional intelligence and empathy in leadership under hybrid work.
- Leadership & sustainability: guiding organisations toward net zero, ESG.
- Developing next-generation leaders: mentorship, coaching, leadership pipelines.
- Cross-cultural leadership: global teams, remote work, differing norms.
- Digital leadership: understanding tech, data & their strategic implications.
- Leading innovation & change: encouraging experimentation.
- Adaptive leadership in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.
- Transparent communication and psychological safety.
- Crisis leadership & decision-making under pressure.
- Collaborative & shared leadership models.
- Leadership role in corporate governance & stakeholder engagement.
- Leading transformation: digital, sustainability, culture shifts.
- Mindful leadership & leader well-being.
- Influence of AI tools on leadership effectiveness and skills.
- Leading for inclusion: gender, race, disability.
- Leadership ethics in the use of data & surveillance of employees.
- Building trust & integrity in leadership in times of misinformation.