Welcome to the Virtual Exhibition. Here you can meet the sponsors of the AMBA & BGA Global Conference 2022, before the main event in May of this year. When sponsors are announced, you can learn more about them and the services they can offer you and your Business School below.

AMBA & BGA would like to thank our sponsors for making this year’s conference possible.

Barco

Barco designs technology to enable bright outcomes around the world. Seeing beyond the image, Barco develop visualisation and collaboration solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences.

Its focus is on three core markets: enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions).

In 2020, Barco realised sales of 770 million euro. It has a global team of 3,300 employees, whose passion for technology is captured in 430 granted patents.

www.barco.com/weConnect

Coursera for Campus

Coursera is the leading online learning platform for higher education, where more than 92+ million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future.

More than 250 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer 5,000+ courses and specialisations, 13+ professional certificates, and 20+ degree programmes.

Coursera for Campus empowers any university and Business School to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to their students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

With Coursera for Campus, higher education institutions can access ready-to-go content from top universities and companies in the world, to complement and support their curriculum.

www.coursera.org/campus

Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®)

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®) is a mission-driven association of leading graduate Business Schools worldwide.

Founded in 1953, GMAC is committed to creating solutions for Business Schools and candidates to better discover, evaluate and connect with each other. In support of this vision, mission and purpose, GMAC provides world-class research, professional development opportunities and assessments for the graduate management education industry, designed to advance the art and science of admission.

Subsidiaries of GMAC include UK-based online publishing company BusinessBecause, a content rich destination that helps students identify the right-fit business schools during the critical consideration and selection phases of their journey, and The MBA Tour™, which supports Business Schools’ global recruiting efforts by organising business education-focused events around the world.

GMAC is a global organisation with offices in China, India, Singapore, the UK and the US.

To learn more about the organisation, please visit www.gmac.com

campusM

Does your digital experience bring personalised, essential information into the hands of your students when they need it without them navigating through your various institutional systems? With more than 6 million students using our platform around the globe, we can help you increase engagement with your student community, drive better academic outcomes and deliver the very best student experience on campus and beyond. We are campusM.

www.campusm.exlibrisgroup.com/

Cengage

Cengage is a global education and technology company built for learners whose products create learning experiences, building confidence and momentum toward the future students want. Cengage has a single belief, that every student has the potential to be unstoppable, so Cengage designs tools that keep them moving toward their goals.

Recently launched Cengage Unlimited for Institutions is a content subscription service that provides student and faculty access to the entire Cengage collection of digital learning platforms, eTextbooks, online assignments and study tools with ease and seamless delivery. With quality content across a wide range of subject areas, from accounting, finance and economics to leadership, organisational development and entrepreneurship, Cengage Unlimited for Institutions provides all the materials you require for your MBA course. Digital courseware and mobile access enable teaching and learning anytime, anywhere, supporting your MBA programme whether it’s delivered full-time or part-time, through classroom, online or blended learning.

www.cengage.co.uk

Inspera

Inspera provides a secure, cloud-based, end-to-end assessment platform that supports your organisation’s examination cycle entirely on-screen, from initial question creation to exam delivery and collaborative marking. Whether you hold assessments on-site or remote, open or closed book, Inspera offers a flexible, robust solution for today’s institutions.

www.inspera.com

Perlego Ltd

Billed by the press as the ‘Spotify for textbooks’, Perlego is on a mission to make education more accessible to all. It has built the first truly unlimited, subscription-based online library.

Perlego Ltd works with more than 3,000 leading publishers to deliver unrestricted access to over 800,000 core titles through one simple membership.

www.perlego.com

Explorance

Explorance is a provider of People Insights solutions. The company empowers institutions with actionable decision-making by measuring students’ needs and expectations. Through scalable automation tools using Blue and expert-based services, Explorance facilitates continuous improvement and accelerates the insight-to-action cycle, leading to personal growth and organisational agility.

Blue, Explorance’s holistic People Insights platform, is purpose-built to fully automate all major student feedback gathering initiatives – institutional surveys, course evaluations, competency assessments, and more – all on one platform. Through best-in-class integration, powerful automation, and a robust reporting engine, Blue ensures your organisation not only captures feedback but also turns it into the best possible decision.

www.explorance.com

Unibuddy

Unibuddy powers decisions through peer-to-peer connections, delivering an experience which is simple, personal, and authentic. It combines humanity, technology and direct experience to unlock life’s choices. 

Unibuddy matches prospective students with your current students, giving them real-time access to real people with relevant interests. 

It is trusted by more than 450 institutions around the world  

www.unibuddy.com 

VitalSource Technologies

Founded in 1994, VitalSource Technologies is the leading education technology solutions provider committed to helping partners create, deliver, and distribute affordable, accessible, and impactful learning experiences worldwide.

As a recognised innovator in the digital course materials market, VitalSource Technologies is best known for partnering with thousands of publishers and institutions to deliver extraordinary learning experiences to millions of active users globally. Today, we’re committed to powering new, cutting-edge technologies designed to optimise teaching and learning for the 21st century.

McGraw Hill

McGraw Hill is a global pioneer in educational content, assessment, training, and platform innovation; and is one of the world’s largest educational companies, with products and services in more than 60 languages and 130 countries. It is focused on creating solutions that deliver real value and support your teaching and learning goals whether at primary, secondary, tertiary levels or beyond.

McGraw Hill’s most recent innovation is a digital teaching and learning toolkit to support MBA programmes – Total MBA. Powered by Connect®, Total MBA helps your institution orientate your MBA cohorts into their journey, understand their needs in those critical early weeks and pinpoint gaps in understanding. To go beyond and foundations of your programme, Total MBA Plus offers a complete solution to support teaching and learning across your entire MBA course, no matter the pathway or specialism. With Plus, academics are able to pick and choose end-to-end resources to support delivery of a complete MBA programme.

www.mheducation.co.uk

Watch Solutions To Level Up Your MBA Delivery

ETS

ETS is a mission-driven non-profit organisation that delivers learning tools, ground-breaking research and trusted assessments to help students, educators and employers see clearly the next step on their path to new possibilities. ETS experts have worked at graduate, business, and law schools, and are available to offer sound guidance about recruitment, assessment and admissions best practices and solutions. ETS’s GRE® Program helps business schools identify, recruit, and admit qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds. Business programs also use the ETS® Major Field Tests to close their assurance of learning loop effectively, by measuring the critical knowledge and understanding learners obtain from their associate’s, bachelor’s, and MBA curricula.

Learn more at www.ets.org and www.ets.org/gre/business.

UNIwise 

UNIwise supports educational institutions to take advantage of the power of digital assessment. WISEflow, its digital assessment platform, manages the complete assessment and feedback lifecycle across a wide range of assessment types and formats. 

While working in higher education, its founders identified the need for digital assessment, using their experience in research and management to develop WISEflow as a platform that meets both teaching and learning and administrative needs. As a result, WISEflow helps universities to streamline the assessment process, ensure consistency, improve feedback and raise student satisfaction.

UNIwise employees are specialists from within higher education, and our expertise is now trusted by more than 100 institutions across Europe to improve their students’ learning and transform education.

www.UNIwise.co.uk

insendi

insendi, a Study Group company, offers a unique learning experience platform designed by educators for educators, and a range of services to help institutions deliver superior courses. Over the years insendi has developed a platform to equip educators with the most innovative tools to deliver a pedagogically-rich, human-centred learning journey.

In line with Study Group’s vision to build a better world through education, its acquisition also reflects the shared purpose of insendi and Study Group to make education accessible on a global scale through investing in a platform which facilitates premium online and blended learning.

www.insendi.com

Media Minds

With over a decade specialising in graduate management education, Media Minds is a boutique marketing services agency with real experience in the sector. It offers a portfolio of services delivering real results against client goals – from raising a School’s visibility to building reputation, recruiting students, attracting corporate partners, or engaging its alumni community.

The team has extensive knowledge of education marketing from working in business schools, agencies and the media. Its senior leaders each have more than 15 years’ experience in the sector, enabling them to apply knowledge and insights to achieve results for clients. Deep experience underpins work with undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education programmes within business schools and cross-university. Services include market research and intelligence, media planning & buying, digital marketing, alumni relations and communications consulting, and professional development workshops.

No big promises or fancy marketing: just real experience, real insights, real results.

www.mediamindsglobal.com

Salesforce.org

Education Cloud enables institutions to drive student success at scale and turn siloed systems to actionable insights that personalise the learner experience and transform individual engagements into lifelong relationships.

Salesforce Education Cloud provides the digital foundation to capture 360-degree views across the entire education journey. Recruitment and admissions, student experience, advancement, and operations teams can use one, integrated platform to capture valuable data that drives learner and institution success.

Business Schools benefit from the latest innovations across the Salesforce platform as well as purpose-built education products and solutions for faculty, staff, and learners that can be customised and scaled to their evolving needs.

Education Cloud, CRM for Higher Education – Salesforce.org

Kortext

Kortext is a student learning content and engagement platform. It is a personalised learning space with access to more than 2 million digital textbooks and learning content from over 4,500 leading publishers. Thousands of universities in more than 100 countries partner with Kortext to deliver digital learning materials directly to their students.

Kortext’s purpose is simple: to empower universities to educate the next generation of difference makers. It aims to make this happen through:

  • providing the learning tools and content, via a smart platform, to enable, study, connection, and collaboration
  • developing advanced functionality for academics, students, and librarians 
  • integrating workflows that aid the discovery, acquisition, access and use of learning content
  • delivering insightful data on study patterns, behaviours and content usage to academics, librarians, course leaders, university administration and leadership

All of the above is focussed on better supporting student experience, retention, progression and outcomes.

www.kortext.com

BlueSky Education

BlueSky Education is the media consultant of choice for many of the world’s most prestigious and ambitious universities and Business Schools. It helps clients enhance their profiles and visibility in key markets around the globe. 

Over the past decade, BlueSky Education has become a globally recognised industry leader in offering effective PR, media relations and communications services to the business and higher education sectors. BlueSky Education takes a genuinely holistic approach to helping clients engage in the most effective way with their key target audiences from potential students and new faculty hires to corporate buyers, partner institutions and funding bodies. It secures effective coverage in influential media titles all over the world. 

www.bluesky-pr.com/higher-business-education

Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships is an education technology company delivering global work experience programs across 18 career fields to help young people pursue their dream careers and prepare for the future of work.

It strives to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all and preparing young people for the future of work. It does this through partnerships with Universities, Business Schools, governments, and other Institutions to provide programmes that are high impact and transformative – either for credit or co-curricular.

www.virtualinternships.com

Revas – Business Simulation Games

Revas Provides simulators to make business courses more practical.

Many teachers are constantly struggling with the problem of not knowing how to teach business in a way that would give their students practice and would encourage them to be involved in something more than just reading and learning definitions from a book. A lot of them have found a solution to the problem by using innovative solutions – business simulations.

Revas simulators allow students to run small virtual businesses from scratch, rather than a multinational corporation, which is tangible as they can easily start similar business when they graduate. Also, instructors can choose from 18 game industries including travel, shipping and hospitality.

www.revas.online/en/

Sinorbis 

Sinorbis is an all-in-one digital marketing platform that makes it easier for education marketers and international student recruiters to reach Chinese students online. 

It provides universities, VET institutes and education service providers with the tools they need to engage with Chinese international students and their parents at every stage of their application journey – and beyond, all the while offering: 

  • Accelerated speed to market – launch your digital presence within weeks without having to jump the usual administrative hurdles.
  • Reduced cost – set up and manage digital marketing initiatives at a fraction of the investment previously required.
  • Increased control – get an integrated view of all digital initiatives in China.

www.sinorbis.com

Austral Group

Austral Education Group is an educational services firm that organises international business academic programmes and consulting experiences for Higher Education programmes in the USA, Europe, and Latin America. They design and deliver high-impact educational content, customised academic travel with seamless logistics, and cultural activities that provide an unforgettable immersion experience.

www.australgroup.com

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