Dr. M.E. Fayad is a full professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University since 2002. Previously, he was J.D. Edwards's professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1999 to 2002. Between 1995 and 1999, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and a faculty of Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada. He has more than fifteen years of industrial experience in addition to ten years as a software architect in companies, such as McDonnell Douglas and Philips Research Laboratory. His reputation has grown by his achievements in the industry—he has been an IEEE distinguished speaker, an associate editor, editorial advisor, a columnist for The Communications of the ACM (his column is Thinking Objectively), a columnist for Al-Ahram Egyptians Newspaper (2 million subscribers), an editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Society Press—Computer Science and Engineering Practice Press (1995–1997), a general chair of IEEE/Arab Computer Society International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2001), Beirut, Lebanon, June 26–29, 2001, and the founder and president of Arab Computer Society (ACS) from April 2004 to April 2007. Dr. Fayad is a well-known and recognized authority in the domain of theory and the applications of Software Engineering, Linguistic Engineering, and the Art of Abstraction. Fayad’s publications are in the very core, archival journals, and conferences in the field of software engineering. Dr. Fayad was a guest editor on 11 theme issues: CACM’s OO Experiences, October 1995, IEEE Computer’s Managing OO Software Development Projects, September 1996, CACM’s Software Patterns, October 1996, CACM’s OO Application Frameworks, October 1997, ACM Computing Surveys—OO Application Frameworks, March 2000, IEEE Software—Software Engineering in-the-small, September/October 2000, and International Journal on Software Practice and Experiences, July 2001, IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation—Object-Oriented Methods for Distributed Control Architecture, October 2002, Annals of Software Engineering Journal—OO Web-Based Software Engineering, October 2002, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Software Architectures and Mobility, July 2010, Pattern Languages: Addressing the Challenges, the Journal of Software, Practice and Experience, March–April 2012, and Critical Look at Agile and Unified Machine Learning in progress. Dr. Fayad has published more than 300 high-quality articles, which include profound and well-cited reports (more than 50 in number) in reputed journals, and over 100 advanced articles in refereed conferences, more than 25 well-received and cited journal columns, 16 blogged columns, 11 well-cited theme issues in prestigious journals and flagship magazines, 24 different workshops in very respected conferences, over 125 tutorials, seminars, and short presentations in more than 25 States in USA since 1978 and 35 different countries, such as, Hong Kong (April 1996), Canada (12 times), Bahrain (2 times), Saudi Arabia (4 times), Egypt (25 times), Lebanon (2), UAE (2 times), Qatar (2 times), Portugal (October 1996, July 1999), Finland (2 times), UK (3 times), Holland (3 times), Germany (4 times), Mexico (October 1998), Argentina (3 times), Chile (2000), Peru (2002), Spain (2002), Brazil (2004), China (4), Morocco (March 2017), and Poland (April 2017), India (3), Vietnam (April 2017), Malaysia (June 2019). He is the founder of 7 new online journals, NASA Red Team Review of QRAS and NSF-USA Research Delegations’ Workshops to Argentina and Chile, Expert witness for Alcatel for major cases between Alcatel (Won) and Cisco 2000-2002 and patent infringement matter -- iRobot Corporation v. Hoover, Inc., and more than ten authoritative books, of which 3 of them are translated into different languages such as Chinese and over 8 books currently in progress. Dr. Fayad is also filling for 8 new, valuable, and innovative patents and has developed over 800 stable software patterns and brought a breakthrough in the software engineering field. Dr. Fayad earned an MS and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. His research topic was OO Software Engineering: Problems and Perspectives. He is the lead author of several classic Wiley books: Transition to OO Software Development, August 1998, Building Application Frameworks, September 1999, Implementing Application Frameworks, September 1999, Domain-Specific Application Frameworks, October 1999, several books by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: Software Patterns, Knowledge Maps, and Domain Analysis, December 2014 and Stable Analysis Pattern for Software and Systems (May 2017), Stable Design Pattern for Software and Systems (September 2017), and Lambert Academic Publishing, Enterprise and Application Frameworks (2019). Several new books in progress — Unified Stable Business Rules and Standard (USBRs&S) progress (expected to be March 2020), Software Architecture On-Demand, Unified Software Engineering Reuse (USER), Unified Software Engineering (USE), Linguistic Engineering, the Art of Stable Abstractions in progress and 50 Books on Cosmic symphonies (Translation in progress)

Dr. Gunnar Juergens is Head of Continental’s Product Line LiDAR, a position he has held since 2019. In this role, Dr. Juergens is responsible for Continental’s LiDAR development and business around the world. Dr. Juergens has held a number of leadership positions across the organization, including Head of Driving Functions in Continental’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Business Unit where he launched serial development for automated driving functions at Continental, and delivered assisted and automated driving functions to customer projects worldwide. As Director of Engineering for the Passive Safety & Sensorics Business Unit, he led global engineering activities across all product segments and introduced Continental’s first vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology to the market. He also held full business responsibility for Safety Engineering Services at Continental during his tenure as CEO Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH. Dr. Juergens began his career with Continental in 2003 as Environmental Manager, Product Development in Germany where he served as the global customer interface for Design for Environment and built hybrid drive system competency in Advanced Engineering. He entered general management during a tenure in India where he established Continental’s Technical Center from scratch, building the foundation of the company’s global engineering support from India. Dr. Juergens earned a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart as well a Master of Science in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He is Board member at Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH, Germany. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, with his family.

David Perpetuini graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Marche Polytechnic University of Ancona in 2012. In 2018, he obtained the title of Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara with a final dissertation entitled:" Complexity analysis of fNIRS signal: validation and clinical applications ". Part of the Ph.D.'s research work was carried out at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics of the University College of London (UCL) and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) in London. Since 2018 he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences of the University "G. D’Annunzio " of Chieti-Pescara. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, his research focuses on the study of brain activity through functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), particularly in Alzheimer's disease patients. In addition, he develops algorithms for the detection of autonomic nervous system activity through functional thermal imaging and investigates the condition of vascular aging through photoplethysmography. He is also interested in the development of affective computing modules to enhance human-machine interaction, as well as the implementation of algorithms for evaluating the psychophysiological state based on signals from smart devices.

Sun Hyung Sang graduated from KAIST University in Electrical and Robotics, Post-doctorate in high pressure electricity, Electronics and robotics engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley and Director of NASA's Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. John Martin has over 25 years of experience as an academic in the field of Computer Science. Dr. John Martin earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Bharathiar University in India and specialized in Machine Learning with an application to biomedical data analytics. He has vast experience in higher education as an educator and administrator in India and the Middle East. Currently, he is working in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at Jazan University (Ministry of Education), KSA. He has published extensively in the fields of machine intelligence and biomedical data analytics and serving as editor and reviewer for refereed indexed journals. He has authored a book entitled “EEG Signal Processing: A Machine Learning based Framework”. His research was patented both nationally and internationally. He is a professional member of IEEE and ACM. His accomplishments as an educator, mentor, author, researcher, adjudicator and technology consultant are acknowledged by the global community. His research interests include Machine Intelligence, Signal Processing and Healthcare Data Analytics.

Dr Mahendra Samarawickrama (GAICD, MBA, SMIEEE, ACS(CP)) is the ACS ICT Professional of the Year 2022. He is a highly accomplished leader and entrepreneur having an impressive track record of driving visions, technological innovations and transformation towards humanity, social justice, and sustainability. He is a Director of The Centre for Sustainable AI. He leads the Australian AI and data-science strategy while building capabilities for social justice and sustainability with diversity, equity and inclusion in AI and data science by mobilising the power of humanity. He has contributed to innovations in ESG, AI ethics and governance, climate and disaster resilience, customer experience and sustainability. He is an Advisory Council Member of Harvard Business Review (HBR), an Expert in AI ethics and governance at Global AI Ethics Institute (GAIEI), an industry Mentor in the UNSW business school, a senior member of IEEE (SMIEEE), an honorary visiting scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Dr. Isidoros Perikos received the Diploma of Computer Engineer and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. Since 2012, he is a member of the Directorate of Greek School Network and Networking Technologies of Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus” participating in numerous National and European projects at the area of learning technologies, network technologies and e-infrastructures. His main research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, affective computing and learning technologies. He has published over 60 papers in international conferences, Journals and workshops proceedings. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence society.

M. Elangovan has pursued Doctor of Engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan as a Mechanical Engineer and having more than 22 years of experience which is 18 years of industrial research experience and more than 04 years of teaching experience. Presently, working as a Technical Director at Bond-Marine Consultancy, UK. My research areas are CFD, Design, Analysis, Simulations, robotics, ROV, AUV, and Artificial Intelligence. During my service, many funded research projects and consultancy have been completed from various national and international funding agencies, worth around ₹39.9 crores. Moreover, I am an editor and reviewer for various journals. More than 70 papers have been published in journals and conferences.

Dr. M.E. Fayad is a full professor of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University since 2002. Previously, he was J.D. Edwards's professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1999 to 2002. Between 1995 and 1999, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and a faculty of Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada. He has more than fifteen years of industrial experience in addition to ten years as a software architect in companies, such as McDonnell Douglas and Philips Research Laboratory. His reputation has grown by his achievements in the industry—he has been an IEEE distinguished speaker, an associate editor, editorial advisor, a columnist for The Communications of the ACM (his column is Thinking Objectively), a columnist for Al-Ahram Egyptians Newspaper (2 million subscribers), an editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Society Press—Computer Science and Engineering Practice Press (1995–1997), a general chair of IEEE/Arab Computer Society International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2001), Beirut, Lebanon, June 26–29, 2001, and the founder and president of Arab Computer Society (ACS) from April 2004 to April 2007. Dr. Fayad is a well-known and recognized authority in the domain of theory and the applications of Software Engineering, Linguistic Engineering, and the Art of Abstraction. Fayad’s publications are in the very core, archival journals, and conferences in the field of software engineering. Dr. Fayad was a guest editor on 11 theme issues: CACM’s OO Experiences, October 1995, IEEE Computer’s Managing OO Software Development Projects, September 1996, CACM’s Software Patterns, October 1996, CACM’s OO Application Frameworks, October 1997, ACM Computing Surveys—OO Application Frameworks, March 2000, IEEE Software—Software Engineering in-the-small, September/October 2000, and International Journal on Software Practice and Experiences, July 2001, IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation—Object-Oriented Methods for Distributed Control Architecture, October 2002, Annals of Software Engineering Journal—OO Web-Based Software Engineering, October 2002, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Software Architectures and Mobility, July 2010, Pattern Languages: Addressing the Challenges, the Journal of Software, Practice and Experience, March–April 2012, and Critical Look at Agile and Unified Machine Learning in progress. Dr. Fayad has published more than 300 high-quality articles, which include profound and well-cited reports (more than 50 in number) in reputed journals, and over 100 advanced articles in refereed conferences, more than 25 well-received and cited journal columns, 16 blogged columns, 11 well-cited theme issues in prestigious journals and flagship magazines, 24 different workshops in very respected conferences, over 125 tutorials, seminars, and short presentations in more than 25 States in USA since 1978 and 35 different countries, such as, Hong Kong (April 1996), Canada (12 times), Bahrain (2 times), Saudi Arabia (4 times), Egypt (25 times), Lebanon (2), UAE (2 times), Qatar (2 times), Portugal (October 1996, July 1999), Finland (2 times), UK (3 times), Holland (3 times), Germany (4 times), Mexico (October 1998), Argentina (3 times), Chile (2000), Peru (2002), Spain (2002), Brazil (2004), China (4), Morocco (March 2017), and Poland (April 2017), India (3), Vietnam (April 2017), Malaysia (June 2019). He is the founder of 7 new online journals, NASA Red Team Review of QRAS and NSF-USA Research Delegations’ Workshops to Argentina and Chile, Expert witness for Alcatel for major cases between Alcatel (Won) and Cisco 2000-2002 and patent infringement matter -- iRobot Corporation v. Hoover, Inc., and more than ten authoritative books, of which 3 of them are translated into different languages such as Chinese and over 8 books currently in progress. Dr. Fayad is also filling for 8 new, valuable, and innovative patents and has developed over 800 stable software patterns and brought a breakthrough in the software engineering field. Dr. Fayad earned an MS and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. His research topic was OO Software Engineering: Problems and Perspectives. He is the lead author of several classic Wiley books: Transition to OO Software Development, August 1998, Building Application Frameworks, September 1999, Implementing Application Frameworks, September 1999, Domain-Specific Application Frameworks, October 1999, several books by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: Software Patterns, Knowledge Maps, and Domain Analysis, December 2014 and Stable Analysis Pattern for Software and Systems (May 2017), Stable Design Pattern for Software and Systems (September 2017), and Lambert Academic Publishing, Enterprise and Application Frameworks (2019). Several new books in progress — Unified Stable Business Rules and Standard (USBRs&S) progress (expected to be March 2020), Software Architecture On-Demand, Unified Software Engineering Reuse (USER), Unified Software Engineering (USE), Linguistic Engineering, the Art of Stable Abstractions in progress and 50 Books on Cosmic symphonies (Translation in progress)

David Perpetuini graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Marche Polytechnic University of Ancona in 2012. In 2018, he obtained the title of Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara with a final dissertation entitled:" Complexity analysis of fNIRS signal: validation and clinical applications ". Part of the Ph.D.'s research work was carried out at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics of the University College of London (UCL) and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) in London. Since 2018 he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences of the University "G. D’Annunzio " of Chieti-Pescara. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, his research focuses on the study of brain activity through functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), particularly in Alzheimer's disease patients. In addition, he develops algorithms for the detection of autonomic nervous system activity through functional thermal imaging and investigates the condition of vascular aging through photoplethysmography. He is also interested in the development of affective computing modules to enhance human-machine interaction, as well as the implementation of algorithms for evaluating the psychophysiological state based on signals from smart devices.

Ankush Ghosh is Co-Founder, CTO & Director Planning at ADSRS Education and Research and Adjunct Professor at Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He is a Fellow of IETE and Senior member of IEEE. He has more than 15 years of experience in Academics, Administrative, Research as well as Industry. He has work experience of, Director & CTO, Director-International Relation Dean of Faculty, Deputy Controller, and Faculty positions at various top class institutions in India. He has received his Ph.D. (Engg.) Degree from Jadavpur University, India in 2010. He was a research fellow of the Advanced Technology Cell- DRDO, Govt. of India. He was awarded National Scholarship by HRD, Govt. of India. He has outstanding research experiences and published more than 100 research papers indexed in Scopus/Web of Science. He has more than 10 International patents, copyrights and published many books from Springer & Elsevier. He is serving as an editorial board member of several international journals including Chief Editor. He has delivered Keynote/Invited lecture in a number of international seminar/conferences, refreshers courses, and FDPs. He has guided a large number of M.Tech and Ph.D. students. Dr. Ghosh is an active member of IEEE and organized a number Seminars and workshops in association with IEEE. He is an editor & organizing committee member of the Conference series GlobeConEt, GlobeConPT, GlobeConHT, GUCON, ICCCA, ICEEE, ICACIT, ICACIS. He is Mentor of Startup India, CII, National Entrepreneurship Network, E-cell, IIT Bombay. He has received award for contributing in Innovate India from AICTE- DST, Govt. of India in 2019 and 2020.

Dr. Ronelus is a STEM learning research scientist who has been conducting advanced pragmatic analysis in the New York City Board of Education for over two decades. He has extensive training in the Physical and Life Sciences. Beyond a rigorous academic background, he is an authority in the domain of STEM education in the PreK-12+ grade bands. He is one of the leading Metaverse Chief Scientists in the world, presently immersed in all aspects of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, IoT, Edge Computing, Blockchain technology, Cryptocurrency, DeSci, DeSTEM, DeFi, DApps, and NFT mediums. He is the founder of the Alchemist Club School & Studios. The Alchemist Club School & Studios is a decentralized education portal designed to push intellectual cultivation to the futuristic cusp of the digital universe via the Blockchain network.

Dr. Isidoros Perikos received the Diploma of Computer Engineer and his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. Since 2012, he is a member of the Directorate of Greek School Network and Networking Technologies of Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus” participating in numerous National and European projects at the area of learning technologies, network technologies and e-infrastructures. His main research interests include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, affective computing and learning technologies. He has published over 60 papers in international conferences, Journals and workshops proceedings. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence society.

Dr. Christopher A. Tucker received his Ph.D. in Cybernetics from the Department of Systems Engineering, The University of Reading, UK under the supervision of Professor Kevin Warwick. One of the last professionally-trained cyberneticists, his academic lineage is in German Philosophy which includes Immanuel Kant and medieval Persian scholars that precludes him to study a wide-breath of topics finding connections between what others see as disparate topics. He has published widely on topics of electromagnetism, machine learning, operational calculus, and robotics.

Dr. Eugene Kolker (Gene) is the Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise Services; Director, Client Success Accelerator; and Director, AI & ML Center of Excellence at DataArt corporation. DataArt is a global IT, software engineering, cloud, data, and AI firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solving problems. Gene is also an ILO Fellow at The Institute for Innovation in Large Organizations, and he serves as the President of 1EKARONI CSP (Consulting, Services, & Products). Previously, Gene was the Chief Economist and Chief Data Officer at Fabuwood, a consumer-tech corporation. Prior to that, he was the Vice President, Chief Data Officer, and Director, Data & Analytics Center of Excellence, IBM Global Services, while working at International Business Machines corporation (IBM). Earlier, Gene held the positions of Chief Data Officer and then Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Seattle Children’s Healthcare System (SC). In parallel, Eugene held the position of Head, Informatics and High-Throughput Analysis at SC. He was also the Founder and President of the BIATECH Informatics Innovation Center, which was acquired by SC. Gene was the Co-Founder and President of Sync.MD/Vyrty, and now he serves on its Advisory Board. Also, Gene has served on numerous Advisory Boards, including Stratos Genomics, which was acquired by Roche Diagnostics and morphed into Roche Sequencing Solutions. Other Advisory Boards and Executive Councils include Enterprise Information and Master Data Management, Gartner; THINK Academy, Data and Analytics Leadership, IBM; Big Data and Analytics, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); Chief Data Officer Forum, Corinium Global Intelligence; and dkNET Information Network, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently, Dr. Eugene Kolker serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering (Technology Management & Innovation Program) and Grossman School of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Program), teaching specialty graduate-level courses. Two courses at Tandon are ‘AI Business Innovation’ and ‘Advanced Business Analytics,’ and one course at Grossman is ‘AI, Generative AI, and Data Science.’ For over a decade, Gene served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Washington’s School of Medicine (Biomedical & Health Informatics Program) in Seattle. Gene has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers in 50 different journals (e.g. Science, Nature, PNAS). His top papers are among the most cited in data science, modeling, and informatics with 5,300+ and 4,900+ citations. Notably, his research was supported by NIH, NSF, DOE, and Gates and Moore Foundations. He also published an award-winning paper in Metabolomics. Gene has been recognized with multiple national and international awards. This recognition includes, for example, being named one of the “Top 50 Professionals in Data and Analytics,” Corinium, London, U.K. and one of the “Top Three Innovators” HIT Award, Leaders improving Healthcare through Information Technology by HIMSS, Chicago, U.S.A.

Dr. Gunnar Juergens is Head of Continental’s Product Line LiDAR, a position he has held since 2019. In this role, Dr. Juergens is responsible for Continental’s LiDAR development and business around the world. Dr. Juergens has held a number of leadership positions across the organization, including Head of Driving Functions in Continental’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Business Unit where he launched serial development for automated driving functions at Continental, and delivered assisted and automated driving functions to customer projects worldwide. As Director of Engineering for the Passive Safety & Sensorics Business Unit, he led global engineering activities across all product segments and introduced Continental’s first vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology to the market. He also held full business responsibility for Safety Engineering Services at Continental during his tenure as CEO Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH. Dr. Juergens began his career with Continental in 2003 as Environmental Manager, Product Development in Germany where he served as the global customer interface for Design for Environment and built hybrid drive system competency in Advanced Engineering. He entered general management during a tenure in India where he established Continental’s Technical Center from scratch, building the foundation of the company’s global engineering support from India. Dr. Juergens earned a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart as well a Master of Science in Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He is Board member at Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH, Germany. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California, with his family.

Dr. John Martin has over 25 years of experience as an academic in the field of Computer Science. Dr. John Martin earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Bharathiar University in India and specialized in Machine Learning with an application to biomedical data analytics. He has vast experience in higher education as an educator and administrator in India and the Middle East. Currently, he is working in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at Jazan University (Ministry of Education), KSA. He has published extensively in the fields of machine intelligence and biomedical data analytics and serving as editor and reviewer for refereed indexed journals. He has authored a book entitled “EEG Signal Processing: A Machine Learning based Framework”. His research was patented both nationally and internationally. He is a professional member of IEEE and ACM. His accomplishments as an educator, mentor, author, researcher, adjudicator and technology consultant are acknowledged by the global community. His research interests include Machine Intelligence, Signal Processing and Healthcare Data Analytics.

Dr Mahendra Samarawickrama (GAICD, MBA, SMIEEE, ACS(CP)) is the ACS ICT Professional of the Year 2022. He is a highly accomplished leader and entrepreneur having an impressive track record of driving visions, technological innovations and transformation towards humanity, social justice, and sustainability. He is a Director of The Centre for Sustainable AI. He leads the Australian AI and data-science strategy while building capabilities for social justice and sustainability with diversity, equity and inclusion in AI and data science by mobilising the power of humanity. He has contributed to innovations in ESG, AI ethics and governance, climate and disaster resilience, customer experience and sustainability. He is an Advisory Council Member of Harvard Business Review (HBR), an Expert in AI ethics and governance at Global AI Ethics Institute (GAIEI), an industry Mentor in the UNSW business school, a senior member of IEEE (SMIEEE), an honorary visiting scholar at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Dr. Ayodele Bakare has over 20 years of experience as an IT consultant in private and public organizations. He specializes in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Information/Cybersecurity, Information Security, Auditing, Cloud Computing, Business Process Management, enterprise application management, Linux administration, IT governance, systems analysis and design, and enterprise architecture. He has also written many policies and strategies on behalf of the Nigerian government for Nigeria in areas such as cloud computing, data management, IT enabled outsourcing, information security and quality assurance in IT projects. Dr. Ayodele holds a Doctorate degree in IT, a Masters in IT and another Masters in Advance IT and Business Management at the Walden University, USA and University of Wales, UK respectively. He also holds different professional certifications in areas such as networking, cloud computing, information security, Big Data analytics, EDMS, leadership, and management. Finally, he is a member of the American National Society of Leadership and Success.

With over 16 years of Industry Experience in the field of Data Science, Dr. Sheela has addressed business problems in domains like Industry 4.0, Health Care, Smart city, etc., and provided innovative Machine Learning solutions. Built a team of Data Scientists, Big Data Architects, Visualization and Project Management for enabling end-to-end solution. Prior to joining Kyndryl, Dr. Sheela worked as an Expert – Data Science, Bosch; Senior Research Scientist and Scientist at the Research Centers of Infosys and General Motors respectively. Sheela received Engineering (2000) from RVCE, Bengaluru, MS (2002) and PhD (2006) from University of Texas at Arlington, USA, with majors in Machine Learning and Optimization. Dr. Sheela is recognized as one of the Top 10 Data Scientist in India, 2020 by the Analytics India Magazine; as one of the Top 10 Women Technology Leaders, 2021, by the Reva University along with Terralogic; as one of the Top150 AI leaders and Influencers, 2021, by 3AI. Receiver of Tool Method Invention Award, Best Poster Award, International Best Speaker Award, and many more for her innovative and novel work. She has filed four patents and has more than 25 International journal and conferences publications to her credit. She is the Associate Editor for Inderscience - International Journal of Big Data Management Journal. Advisory Board member for Data Science program at multiple Institutes like, IIT Roorkee, Times Group India, PSG Institute of TechnologyCoimbatore, SSN Institute- Chennai, Jain University- Bengaluru, etc., Dr. Sheela is a member of various societies like, Confederation of Indian Industry, Alpha Pi Mu, Institute of Industrial Engineers, NASSCOM, INFORMS etc

Dr. D. Sugumar is an Associate Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences (Deemed University) with teaching experience of 19 years. He has received the B.E. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Bharathiar University, M.E. degree in Communication Systems from Anna University, Chennai, and Ph. D degree in Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University. Research interest includes 1) Blind Source Separation, 2) AI-ML based Signal Processing and 5G communication and 3) Wearables, Flexible & Metamaterial based Antennas for RF/Wireless Communication and medical applications. He is a life member of AMIE, ISTE, IAENG, IACSIT and Senior member of IEEE (Signal Processing Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, & Antenna & Propagation Society). He has published 59 national and international conferences papers and 33 journal articles. (Out of that 28- Scopus /WOS indexed articles). He also authored 2 books, 5 book chapters and filed 3 Patents. He has received the best teacher award in the year 2010, innovative professional award in the year 2016, Dedicated faculty international award in the year 2017 and young achiever Award in the year 2019. He has contributed as a reviewer for the Interscience and Elsevier Journals. He has organized several workshops, trainings, guest lectures and seminars, also has contributed as a chair person and resource person in various international conferences, Workshops, Add on programs and seminars. Doing RF & Antenna Design Consultancy for the past 7 Years and generated fund 2.5 Lakhs. He was the PI and Co-PI for 6 different seed money projects funded by government and non-government agencies

Dr.Rajkumar Rajasekaran is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology where he has been since 2002. He received a B.E. from Madras University in 1999, and an M.Tech from VIT University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the VIT His research interests span both Data Science. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding, data, and Analysis and Visualization, mainly through the application of data mining, statistics, and performance evaluation. In the Data Science arena, he has worked on Exploratory data analytics, Social network Data Analysis,Using R Studio. He has explored the presence and implications of Data Exploration and Live Data straming Analytics. In the Data Science network arena, he has focused on the analysis of social, biological, and data networks.

Madhurananda Pahar received his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Calcutta, India, and his MSc in Computing for Financial Markets followed by his PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Stirling, Scotland. His research interest lies in the area of applied machine learning to the field of Biology and currently, he is working as a research scholar at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Previously, he was working in machine learning and signal processing for audio and smart sensors in bio-medicine. He was involved in the application of deep learning to detect and classify tuberculosis and COVID-19 vocal audio in real-world environments as well as the monitoring of patient behaviour using smart sensors such as an accelerometer. Currently, he is working to develop cutting-edge deep learning methods in human diseases such as Schizophrenia and Lupas for the study of genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and epi-transcriptomics.

Nora Bereczki is a marketing expert with over 10 years of experience in various industries, including robotics and industrial automation. With a strong focus on user experience, she has worked on both client and agency sides, gaining extensive knowledge in B2B marketing, tech industry and scale-up startups. Currently on maternity leave, Nora is exploring her own projects, including experimenting with AI technologies