On May 31, 2026, the 2026 Alumni Development Forum and Employer Exchange Conference, hosted by Beijing Normal University Business School (BNUBS), was successfully held in the Multi-functional Hall B of Jingshi Building. Centered on the theme New Industrial Opportunities and Talent Ecosystem in the Digital and Intelligent Era, the forum focused on emerging industrial opportunities, innovative talent cultivation models, and upgraded university-enterprise collaborative ecosystems amid pervasive digital and intelligent transformation. It gathered outstanding alumni, employer representatives, as well as faculty and student representatives of BNUBS to exchange insights on high-quality development. Professor Qi Yudong, Dean of BNUBS, attended the event and delivered an opening speech, while Han Lili, Associate Party Secretary of BNUBS, presided over the conference.

Group Photo of Participants

In his opening remarks, Dean Qi Yudong extended a warm welcome and sincere gratitude to all attending alumni, employer representatives, teachers and students. He noted that artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the global development landscape, industrial structures and talent demand systems. Rooted in solid academic accumulation, BNUBS has proactively embraced the digital and intelligent revolution and yielded fruitful outcomes in talent cultivation, disciplinary advancement and faculty development, with graduates at all levels achieving remarkable career progress.Dean Qi expressed his hope that the forum would serve as a robust platform for interconnection between universities and enterprises, deepen collaborative talent cultivation, facilitate students’ holistic growth, and deliver high-caliber economics and management professionals to support national strategic priorities and industrial transformation and upgrading.

Opening Speech by Dean Qi Yudong

During the keynote sharing session, three distinguished alumni delivered insightful speeches based on cutting-edge industrial practices and professional experience, interpreting evolving trends of the digital and intelligent industry and sharing valuable career development insights with the audience. The speakers included Dong Xiaoyu, Chairman of Zhongguancun Original Engine (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.; Ai Juan, Deputy General Manager of the Human Resources Department at CITIC Securities; and Hu Jiani, Director of Financial Services at PwC Beijing Office.

Delivering a speech titled Empowering a New Journey through Digital Intelligence, Building the Future with Talents: Industrial Opportunities and Talent Ecosystem Restructuring in the AI Era, alumnus Dong Xiaoyu conducted a systematic elaboration from four dimensions: emerging industrial opportunities, prevalent talent shortages, ecosystem construction and future developmental prospects. He pointed out that AI-driven digital transformation is triggering profound reforms in traditional industries and spurring vigorous growth of emerging sectors. In this context, structural mismatches between talent supply and demand have become increasingly prominent, constituting a major bottleneck restricting industrial upgrading and the development of new quality productive forces. Accordingly, he proposed collaborative efforts among governments, universities, research institutions and enterprises to build a full-chain talent ecosystem. From the perspective of coordinated advancement of technology and human resources, he envisioned a future development paradigm featuring integrated growth of industries and talents within the intelligent economy.

Alumna Ai Juan focused on The Impact of AI Technological Progress on the Talent Market of the Securities Industry and systematically analyzed the restructuring of the securities industry’s talent ecosystem from four dimensions: current industrial dynamics, structural differentiation of job roles, core competency requirements and practical career guidelines. She emphasized that future talent competition hinges on the integrated competence of solid professional expertise, proficient AI application capabilities and sophisticated humanistic soft skills. On this basis, she encouraged students to uphold lifelong learning principles and make forward-looking career plans to adapt to industrial changes and seize era-driven opportunities.

With the theme Growing Together with the Times, alumna Hu Jiani drew on her 17 years of professional experience in private equity auditing to present a progressive discussion covering personal professional advancement, industrial evolution and adaptive strategies for the AI era. She argued that the accumulation of professional competencies must resonate with industrial dynamics, and that AI functions merely as an efficiency-enhancing tool rather than a substitute for well-established professional experience and ethical norms cultivated by practitioners. She encouraged students to consolidate professional foundations, pursue continuous self-improvement, and embrace industrial changes with a poised and resilient mindset.

Subsequently, Wang Jun, Associate Party Secretary of BNUBS, delivered a dedicated graduate promotion presentation. He comprehensively introduced the specialized concentrations of the upcoming Class of 2027, graduate employment destinations over the past three years, and the School’s practices in career planning and employment guidance. The presentation fully demonstrated BNUBS’s remarkable achievements in talent cultivation and the comprehensive competencies of its graduates, calling upon alumni to support high-quality and full employment of graduating students.

The forum featured a distinctive roundtable dialogue session hosted by Professor Qian Jing from the Department of Human Resource Management of BNUBS. Four outstanding alumni were invited to conduct in-depth discussions on the theme Career Leap and Growth Logic for Economics and Management Professionals. The guests included Bai Jing, Northern Regional Head of Corporate Banking at Natixis; Pan Ke, Senior Vice President of the Investment Banking Committee at CSC Financial; Yue Hongfei, Director of Public Affairs at Alibaba 1688; and Han Sisi, Commercial Strategy and Operation Lead of ByteDance China.

Centering on core topics including career development paths, competency building, industrial adaptation and growth breakthroughs for economics and management talents, the panel shared practical industry experience and answered prevalent career puzzles among students. During the discussion on the impacts of digitalization and AI on career development, the four alumni shared the in-depth application of artificial intelligence in their respective fields and offered targeted suggestions for students’ competency improvement. Alumna Bai Jing stated that AI-era challenges require individuals to proactively master digital tools, optimize prompt engineering capabilities and consolidate professional judgment, while urging enterprises to adjust client structures and embrace emerging industries. Taking the investment banking sector as an example, alumnus Pan Ke illustrated AI’s efficient application in case retrieval and prospectus analysis, noting that AI proficiency has become a core assessment indicator for intern recruitment. Yue Hongfei categorized AI applications into three tiers: generative basic tool utilization, big data analysis and judgment, and high-level AI-driven decision-making. He argued that future business development will prioritize user-oriented personalized design, with AI effectively dismantling traditional information asymmetry. Han Sisi observed that AI is blurring the functional boundaries between product management, R&D and operational roles. Future workplace competition will attach greater importance to professional judgment and aesthetic cognition. She advised students to develop personalized AI workflow systems through daily practice and accumulation.

Roundtable Dialogue Session

The forum constituted not only a valuable reunion for alumni and an in-depth exchange with employers, but also a profound collision of ideas on maintaining strategic composure and clarifying developmental directions amid rapid industrial and technological changes. Moving forward, BNUBS will further optimize alumni liaison mechanisms, expand university-enterprise collaborative platforms for talent cultivation, and leverage joint strengths of alumni and industrial sectors to help students build forward-looking, humane and practical career development pathways in the AI era.

Contributed by Alumni Office

Edited by Li Ani

Reviewed by Han Lili