CEIBS Alumni Auto Association
CEIBS Alumni Auto Association (CAAA)

Fourth Board · First Cohort Recruitment

A Global Platform for Automotive AI Co-Creation

Real-problem-driven industry-academia co-creation to empower alumni. Join the Fourth Board or a Community of Practice.

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Applications are open.

Our Vision

To become the world's most influential industry-academia co-creation platform for AI-driven mobility.

Our Mission

Real-problem-driven industry-academia co-creation to empower alumni.

We advance the AI-driven digital transformation of the global automotive industry through product reinvention, organizational evolution and ecosystem synergy.

Product reinvention

AI-driven products and services, from chips and software to intelligent vehicles and robotics.

Organizational evolution

Leadership, talent and agile organizations for the AI-driven era.

Ecosystem synergy

Early collaboration across chips, operating systems, vehicles, robotics, industry and academia.

Our Values

Real Problems · Co-Creation · Action

Real problems

Face genuine pain points. Reject formalism and empty rhetoric.

Co-creation

Not one-way presentations: collide perspectives and bring directors' expertise to the table.

Action

Consensus is not the finish line. Move from insight to execution, then review and improve.

Our Approach

Real-Problem-Driven Global Industry-Academia Co-Creation

  1. 01

    Real business questions

    Members bring live challenges from their own enterprises.

  2. 02

    Global industry-academia co-creation

    Practitioners and scholars work the problem together across markets.

  3. 03

    Actionable experiments and solutions

    Hypotheses become pilots with measurable outcomes.

  4. 04

    Shared learning and industry impact

    Findings are codified and shared back with the community.

Who We Are Seeking

Five contribution profiles, one shared commitment to the mission.

Automotive industry leaders and entrepreneurs

Executives and founders shaping vehicles, components and mobility businesses.

AI, software-defined vehicle, data, and digital transformation leaders

Leaders driving intelligent products, platforms and data capability.

Global market, supply chain, mobility, and cross-border collaboration experts

Experts in globalisation, supply resilience and cross-border operations.

Scholars, researchers, investors, and ecosystem builders

Those who bring rigour, capital and ecosystem perspective.

Community builders and project delivery leaders

People who make communities run and projects land.

Applicants should

  • Be CEIBS alumni
  • Identify with the mission
  • Be willing to contribute in a way that fits your circumstances
  • Bring a real industry challenge, expertise, or resources
  • Be willing to collaborate across organizations and cultures
  • Respect association governance and confidentiality

Recruiting the First Cohort of up to 10 Prospective Directors and CoP Core Members

CAAA is building a committed core of practitioners who learn together, solve real problems, and contribute to the future of the automotive industry.

All applications are subject to eligibility review, interviews, board review, and the Association's formal appointment procedures. Applicants who are not appointed as directors may be invited to join an AI and digital transformation Community of Practice or a project task force.

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Selection Process

  1. Express interest

    Complete the short English questionnaire via the QR code.

  2. Initial review

    Eligibility and mission alignment are reviewed by the recruitment team.

  3. Conversation and needs interview

    A structured conversation about contribution, needs and expectations.

  4. Board review and formal process

    Review by the board following the Association's formal appointment procedures.

  5. Join the board or a thematic CoP/project task force

    Appointment as a director, or an invitation to a CoP or project task force.

Review Process