Vinicius Covas gives the keynote at Future Trends Seminar 2025

On May 28, 2025, Dr. Vinicius Covas gave the keynote at the second edition of the Future Trends Seminar, organized by the Anáhuac Graduate School of Business. His message: artificial intelligence is about to reshape entire industries, and organizations need to get ready now.

Context

Under the motto “Take an active part in building the future”, the seminar brought together students, alumni, academics and professionals to examine the trends redesigning business: digital transformation, adaptive leadership, artificial intelligence and global competitiveness, at a time when innovation is no longer optional.

What happened

Dr. Covas, a consultant and lecturer at Universidad Anáhuac México, explained how companies must rethink their strategy to avoid falling behind. He spoke about flexible leadership, building digital brands and what he called the key point: the impact artificial intelligence will have over the next two years.

Key ideas

According to the speaker, AI will stop being just a useful tool and become a force able to reshape entire industries. It is not only about speed: these systems are learning to reason, interpret language in depth, generate creative content and make complex decisions.

He warned that the next generation of AI will surpass many basic human cognitive abilities. That opens opportunities, but also forces people to relearn, adapt and redefine the human role in every industry.

The event closed with open dialogue and collective reflection, followed by networking. The takeaway was that artificial intelligence is not a future promise but a reality already changing how business is done.

Why it matters for the lab

The underlying question, what role people keep once AI systems start making decisions, is central to the lines Communication, agents and social systems and Knowledge, learning and human agency. Taking that reflection to a business school is part of the lab's knowledge transfer to organizations.