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Session 4 I Day 1 Closing Plenary

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hall B, Plenary

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Dr Raul V. Rodriguez
Vice President
Woxsen University

Leadership in an era of automation, globalisation and stakeholder scrutiny

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Biography

As Vice President of Woxsen University, and Sir Cary Cooper Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Raul engages directly with institutional systems; as a computational social scientist, he models the forces that destabilise them. His work proceeds from a simple premise: that geopolitical orders, corporate environments, and social systems are best understood as boundedly rational systems shaped by constraint, uncertainty, and incentive misalignment. The task is not description, but prediction under complexity. He works on AI + institutional fragility, human judgment under algorithmic pressure, organisational collapse dynamics, cognitive overload in modern societies, early-warning systems for systemic failure, complexity science applied to management and governance. Basically bridging: management, behavioral science, systems science, AI governance, institutional economics, organisational psychology, public policy & computational social science. A central concern of his work is the measurement of irrationality as a system property, operationalised through systems such as Behavioral GPS™, UHIS, IAMS, and N-PACE across municipalities, healthcare, and infrastructure. Raul's research in necrobotics explores alternative substrates of intelligence and their implications for human–AI interaction. Dr. Rodriguez has published 70+ peer-reviewed articles and 30+ books across cognitive science, political economy, decision theory, and AI, and teaches areas including necrobotics, cognitive architectures, quantum AI, and strategic behavior. His work spans platforms such as Web Summit, WEF, World Summit AI, Davos, NYU, Wharton, nasscom, CII, IATA, EFMD, and advisory roles with governments and sectors including healthcare, airlines, and smart cities. Ranked Best 40U40 Business Professors 2026 by Poets & Quants.
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Session 4 I Q&A

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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