The Closing Session of the Faculty of Management and Business Intelligence's DTCI 2026 Conference

The closing session was convened within the framework of the DTCI 2026 Conference on "Digital Transformation & Competitive Intelligence in Financial and Business Organizations", held at the Faculty of Management and Business Intelligence, Modern University for Technology and Information (MTI).

The session occurred in the presence of the following notable group of experts in the Business field:

-          Prof. Talaat Asaad

-          Prof. Ahmed Zamel 

-          Prof. Mohamed Elbanna

-          Prof. Abdelrehim El Bahtity

-          Prof. Ahmed Elsadawy

-          Prof. Mohamed Abdrabou

The conference's closing session demonstrated a rich scientific output of the covered and proposed presentations of all axes. These contributions accentuate the importance of the integration of Digital Transformation and Competitive Intelligence with regard to supporting institutions' sustainability and raising their efficiency to face any future challenges.

Within this scope, the session suggested the following recommendations:

§  First: Strengthening the role of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in supporting the business environment, thus contributing to the achievement of sustainable development aims and the advancement of the national economy.

• Second: Developing Competitive Intelligence systems within organizations to support decision-makers and build knowledge-based and data-driven strategies.
• Third: Increasing investment in human resources through training and development of staff in the fields of Digital Transformation and Modern Technologies.
• Fourth: Promoting the culture of organizational innovation and encouraging creativity and experimentation within institutions, in ways that support the enhancement of the institutional performance.
• Fifth: Activating integration of academic and professional sectors to connect both the scientific research outputs and labor market requirements.
• Sixth: Developing novel performance indicators for the constant measurement of digital performance, in addition to the analysis of its impact on organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Seventh: Merging Digital Transformation concepts and Modern Technologies into academic curriculum for the qualification of the graduates to meet the demands of the digital labor market.
• Eighth: Developing the academic curriculum so as to prepare the graduates for the transition from traditional roles to the data driven analytical and strategic roles.
• Ninth: Processing data as a strategic asset and developing mechanisms for the measurement of its value and its inclusion into the cognitive assets of organizations.
• Tenth: Evaluating the applied state-of –the –art technologies, determining the appropriate methods for their depreciation, while keeping up with their rapid development to ensure the accuracy of the financial statements.
• Eleventh: Reinforcing the role of the administrative accountants as strategic partners in supporting the decision-making process through by providing and analyzing the data.
• Twelfth: Improving the auditing profession to create a model of continuous auditing which draws on modern technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Blockchain, and Smart Contracts.
• Thirteenth: Strengthening communication between the business community and academic institutions through holding joint conferences and scientific events.

Fourteenth: Advancing research methodologies and statistical approaches by prioritizing the quantitative modeling and econometrics.