Track 1: Business, management and entrepreneurship

• Marketing luxury

• Managing for growth

• The contribution of practitioners toward Green Economy

• 3D Printing technology, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality: Is society at the tipping point?

• Unintended consequences of innovations and how to manage them

• Employee voice, engagement and loyalty

• Entrepreneurship in MENA region

• Creativity, innovation & entrepreneurship

• Sustainability and regional development

• Corporate social responsibility

• HR and sustainability culture

• Green HRM

• Successful practices to support innovation

• Services management

• Customer experience management

• Green marketing

• Sustainable tourism

• Accounting and financial reporting

• Integrated reporting

• Corporate governance and risk management

• Sustainability accounting

Track 2: Quality management and sustainability

• Emotional intelligence and quality

• TQM and CSR nexus: the role of transformational leadership

• Quality management and the national and international competitiveness

• Synergistic collaboration of management, knowledge management and total quality management

• Enablers of total quality management for sustainable development

• Managerial challenges and enablers for implementing sustainability-focused TQM

• Integrating sustainable thought into the business practices

• Creating and sustaining positive energy

• Intelligent quality tools and methods

• Service Quality

• New Practices in TQM sustainability

• Entrepreneur practices in quality focused organizations

Track 3: Islamic Banking, Finance

• Islamic economy and sustainable development

• Dubai the capital of Islamic economy

• Bridging the gap between theory and practice

• Islamic tourism & hospitality

• New and Innovative Islamic financial products

• Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions

• Performance & Growth of Sukuks

• Islamic Economics

• Takaful (Islamic insurance)

• Case Studies of Islamic Financial Institutions

• CSR: Islamic perspective

• Microfinance

• Islamic Contracts’ Arbitration

• Islamic business ethics

• Islamic capital market

• Shortage of experts in Islamic banking

• Absence of accounting (and auditing) standards pertinent to Islamic organizations

• Lack of uniform standards of credit analysis

• Provision of short term investment instruments

Track 4: Public Management & Government Service Excellence

• Sustainable cities and human settlements

• Innovation as a National Value

• Success Stories: Innovations in Government

• Entrepreneurship in the public sector

• Sustainable transport

• Smart Governments

• Nurturing Innovation

• Sustainability performance in the public sector

• Environmental sustainability in the public sector: leadership & challenges

• The Race for National Competitiveness

• Government as the Engine of Innovation