Professor Mahmoud Shafik is an international expert who has made a personal distinction and international leadership recognition, in the field of Intelligent Mechatronics Systems and Digital Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience in Intelligent Systems, Hardware and Software, AI, IoT, Industrial 4.0, 3D Smart Sensors and Actuators for Autonomous Vehicle, Machine Learning, Robotic Systems, Machine Vision, Steer-by-wire, Innovation for Sustainable Engineering, Control and instrumentation, Cancer Treatment using CVD Diamond Radio Therapy Technology, Information Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired people, Chronic Diseases ICT Technological Solutions, Assisted Living Technology, AD-HOC Wireless Technology, TeleHealth, Telecare, Climate Change, Electro-Rheological Fluid Micro Actuators Technologyand Software Tools.Shafik has also a number of patents in these areas of industrial applied research and sustainable technology. Shafik has been chairing and leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission, and UKResearch Councils, of a budget of several millionsof pounds and have made a great economic and social impact in his area of expertise in across the world.

Postdoctoral researcher at Universitat polytechnic of Madrid , she got her Ph.D. thesis in the field of semiconductor physics and their photovoltaic applications exactly the Investigation and Characterization of Hybrid Perovskites (MaPbI3, FaPbI3, CsPbI3) and Copper-Indium-Gallium selenide thin films for Tandem Solar Cells. She has made several stays in foreign universities for several months. The most notorious corresponds to her internship stay during one the academic year 2017/18 at the Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon (Portugal). in 2019 she stayed for six months at Universidade Évora (Portugal) and six months at the Ibn Tofaïl University (kenitra, Marroco) in 2017 and 2018. In both cases, the research subjects were related to the development of solar cells materials and specialized in the preparation and characterization of semiconductor thin films for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications.The research of doctor Bouich activity has been developed in the field of the physics of semiconductors, where she has published more than 16 papers in international journals. In 2018, she integrated a research group named Group of Opto-electronics and Semiconductors (GOPS) and began research in the semiconductor laboratory at the UPV. Since then, Bouich has helped the research group GOPS who is specialized in the preparation and characterization of semiconductor thin films for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications.

Mark Bomberg, D. Sc (Eng) of Warsaw U, Poland, and Technology D. of Lund U, Sweden, is a Research Professor at Mechanical and Aeronautical Department. of Clarkson U., Potsdam, NY, Visiting Prof. At Cracow TU, Poland, Former Prof. of McMaster U, Hamilton, Canada, and International Prof. Tongji U, Shanghai, China. In years1984-2019 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Building Physics (Sage Corp. London, UK). In 1976-2000 worked at Nat. Research Council of Canada. Currently he is an RD manager in a small company in CNY working on integration of HVAC and building enclosures in NZEB and leading a small international research network. He published over 200 refereed papers and 7 books; has more than 1000 research citations and 33,000 reads on Research Gate (Berlin). He received the highest awards in building physics in both USA and Canada namely Ontario Building Envelope Council (BECKIE, 1999) and honorary membership of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Committee of the Nat. Institute of Building Sci. Washington DC (2012).Mark Bomberg, D. Sc (Eng) of Warsaw U, Poland, and Technology D. of Lund U, Sweden, is a Research Professor at Mechanical and Aeronautical Department. of Clarkson U., Potsdam, NY, Visiting Prof. At Cracow TU, Poland, Former Prof. of McMaster U, Hamilton, Canada, and International Prof. Tongji U, Shanghai, China. In years1984-2019 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Building Physics (Sage Corp. London, UK). In 1976-2000 worked at Nat. Research Council of Canada. Currently he is an RD manager in a small company in CNY working on integration of HVAC and building enclosures in NZEB and leading a small international research network. He published over 200 refereed papers and 7 books; has more than 1000 research citations and 33,000 reads on Research Gate (Berlin). He received the highest awards in building physics in both USA and Canada namely Ontario Building Envelope Council (BECKIE, 1999) and honorary membership of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Committee of the Nat. Institute of Building Sci. Washington DC (2012).

Wedad J. Elmaghraby is Dean’s Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests are at the interface of operations management, economics and behavioral decision making. Her current research includes online auctions in business-to-business secondary markets, online platforms to promote sustainable business paradigms, and behavioral factors in business-to-business contract design. She currently serves as a Department Editor at M&SOM and has served as the President of the MSOM Society, the Behavioral Operations Section, and POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management. She currently also serves as the Director of the Deloitte Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Learning and co-director of the Smith Analytics Consortium. Prior to joining the Smith School, she was on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and NYU Stern School of Business in the Operations Management group.

Dr. Bochen Jia is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and his research focuses on occupational issues related to worker capacity changes due to modern risk factors. He is currently working on quantifying the impacts of exoskeletons on worker performance and safety using digital human modeling technology. He is particularly interested in understanding the ability and limitations of human modeling technology in assessing various human-exoskeleton interactions. Dr. Jia is currently working as a task-group leader at ASTM international standards organization to lead the efforts of establishing a practice to guide the proper use of digital human models in the design and evaluation of exoskeleton devices in both occupational and nonoccupational settings. Armed with strong research advantages for the automobile industry in Michigan, his research efforts also extend to ergonomic issues associated with occupant behaviors under complex driving conditions with advanced technologies, such as connected and autonomous vehicle technologies. He is working on understanding occupants’ in-vehicle physical activities during prolonged driving.

Shahryar has his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in industrial engineering, along with an MBA certificate in business analytics. In 2016, he became an accredited management consultant and, in 2018, passed the required assessments to become a certified professional in engineering management. later, he also became a Lean six sigma belt holder and a certified graduate technologist. He has been awarded an honorary professorship in management and industrial engineering in 2022. Consequently, most of his research and consultation works are now related to industrial management and business analytics. He has worked in industries, business schools, and universities in a variety of roles ranging from consultant to lecturer and professor. Currently, he is an associate professor in the department of business administration (University of Gothenburg).

I am currently the Director of Swinburne’s Key IoT Lab and I also lead Swinburne’s Industry 4.0 Program, which is affiliated with the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute. Before that I was Research Director of CSIRO’s ICT Centre and a Professor at RMIT University. Prior to CSIRO and RMIT, I held research and management positions in several industrial laboratories in the USA, including Telcordia Technologies (where I helped found two of Telcordia’s Research Centers in Austin, Texas, and Poznan, Poland); Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas; GTE (currently a Verizon) Laboratories in Boston, Massachusetts; and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in Piscataway, New Jersey I have authored/co-authored 227 articles that have received more than 20,200 citations. I am ranked by Microsoft Academic as one of the Top Authors in the fields of the Internet of Things (2013-2022), Context Awareness (1990-2022), Middleware (1990-2021), and Workflow (1993-2002). According to Elsevier’s Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (August 2021 data update), I am in the 2% of top-cited authors (top 1%, if self-citations are not considered) in both the career and yearly rankings. I am ranked by Microsoft Academic as one of the Top Authors in the fields of the Internet of Things (2013-2022), Context Awareness (1990-2022), Middleware (1990-2021), and Workflow (1993-2002). I have won numerous awards, including 3 best paper awards in major CORE A*/A-ranked international conferences, 3 major organization-wide research awards from CSIRO and Swinburne, and 4 state iAwards from the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA). My personal research has attracted $60.5M external research funding from industry and government research funding sources in Australia, EU, and USA. In the past 5 years in Swinburne, I am/was the lead CI or a CI of 19 industry/government-funded research projects that have been/are awarded $47.5M of research grants and include a $19.5M funding allocation to Swinburne. I have more than 10 years of executive organizational leadership experience in world class research organisations. In conjunction to the above leadership roles, I have led or co-led 7 large-scale, cross-disciplinary initiatives of major impact and influence that raised $100M+ of research funding for my organisation, including: Swinburne's Industry 4.0 program, CSIRO's Human Services Delivery Research Alliance (HSDRA) with the Department of Human Services, Digital Water ManagementTrasformation in the Water Information Research and Development Alliance (WIRADA) between CSIRO and BoM, CSIRO’s Smart Farming, and Telcordia Information Awareness.

Dr. M.G.H.Zaidi is an Indian national, physical chemist, academician, inventor and academic administrator. Most notably, his entire academics and innovations has been developed in India. He has conferred the Degrees of B.Sc. (1985) and M.Sc. (1987) from Lucknow University (L.U.), U.P., India. He has received Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (1992) with thesis entitled ”Synthesis of Some Newer High Temperature resistant Polymers” in early age of 25 years under the learned supervision of Professor J. S. Shukla from L.U. India. He has been sincerely dedicated to Department of Chemistry, G.B.Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar Uttarakhand, since 1998-99.He has availed research funding from several national, international and private organizations for innovations and propagation research in polymer materials. He has made pioneering contributions to the field polymer science & technology which has received immense acclaim among peers across the world. Dr.Zaidi is the methodical and solution oriented scientist, authored & coauthored more than 125 articles including reviews, high impact factor articles, perspectives, conference proceedings, book chapters and has a number of patents to his credit. In particular, his highly cited works on synthesis of polymer materials applicable in structural engineering, nano-biotechnology, electronics, energy storage, valorization of solid waste, computational methods in polymer science , degradation and stabilization of polymer materials and impact of nanomaterials on ecosystem. He is enthusiastic and capable of working independently, simultaneously handling multiple projects with interest in development of novel polymer materials. His work is noteworthy based on underlying theme of imaginative implementation of polymer science & technology with multidisciplinary applicability. He has advised several students for masters and doctorate degrees in the disciplines of chemistry and agricultural chemicals. He has been contributing his academic expertise as member of editorial board of journals, invited referee by more than 30 peer reviewed journals, invited speaker & committee member of national & international scientific events.

Dr. Xuanhui Qu is the Cheung Kong Scholars Program Professor in Materials and former Dean of Materials Science and Engineering School at University of Science and Technology Beijing. Prior to this, he was a Professor and the Executive Director of Powder Metallurgy Research Institute at Central South University. He obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University in 1981, 1984 and 1992 respectively. During 1986 to 1988, he was studying and working as a visiting scientist at The University of British Columbia (Canada). Now he is the standing committee member of Chinese Materials Research Society and the President of Powder Metallurgy Branch of Chinese Society for Metals. Professor Qu's publication list exceeds 600 articles covering advanced materials and processing. He has co-authored 5 books and got over 200 patents. Professor Qu's current research focus is on metal injection molding(MIM), additive manufacture(AM), refractory metals and alloys, metal and ceramic matrix composites.

Juan José Encinas Cantaro born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. Session Chair and participant of the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference-IEOM 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He received a certificate for attendance and presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing-ICIMA 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019 in Cusco, Peru. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019 in Lima, Peru. He with experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.