SHENZHEN, November 1, 2025 – The Institute for Digital Economy & Artificial Systems (IDEAS) took part in the 2025 International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management (iKM2025), engaging with global thought leaders to contribute to the dialogue on technology and innovation. Central to this engagement was AI & Innovation (AI²), the flagship international journal operated by IDEAS, which was featured as an official supporting academic journal for the conference.

The conference provided a vital platform to advance the journal’s ambitious mission of “Field Creation, not Imitation”. AI & Innovation is purposefully designed to establish and lead the new, integrated discipline of “Applied AI & Global Governance,” creating a premier intellectual hub to address the historic imbalance in global discourse and amplify perspectives from the Global South.

This vision was powerfully represented through the leadership of Professor Jin Chen of Tsinghua University, who serves as both the esteemed Chair of the iKM2025 conference and the founding Editor-in-Chief of AI & Innovation. This unique synergy connects a world-class forum for intellectual debate with a definitive platform for translating those insights into high-impact, actionable scholarship.

Representing IDEAS and the journal’s editorial leadership, Dr. Shameem Ahmad Nawber, Deputy Director of IDEAS and Associate Editor of AI & Innovation, engaged with the international academic community throughout the event. The conference featured keynote presentations from prominent scholars, including Professor Eric Tsui of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University—who also serves as a distinguished Associate Editor for the journal—and Professor Mats Magnusson of Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. These engagements are crucial for strengthening the global academic network that underpins the journal’s mission.

As a core initiative, AI & Innovation embodies IDEAS’s commitment to fostering high-quality academic platforms that support and enrich the global conversation. The journal’s presence at iKM2025 is a key milestone in its strategic roadmap of “Reverse Engineering the Path to the Top Tier,” a quantified plan to systematically achieve the highest standards of global academic publishing.