Aristides I. Ferreira is an Associate Professor at ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, where he is the Director of the Master programme in Human Resource Management and Organizational Consulting. He is also a member of the Scientific Board and a researcher at the Business Research Unit in the same institute. He earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Minho (Portugal) and had a Postdoctoral in Management at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). He has been teaching courses related with Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior and Change Management in several Undergraduate Degrees, Master and PhD, mainly in Management Degrees. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Psychological Assessment since 2018. His research interests include psychological assessment, leadership, creativity, change management and presenteeism. In recent years, he has been a researcher in several funded research projects and has collaborated with several private organizations. His research work has appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Project Management, the Journal of Business Research, the British Journal of Management and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. 

Born in Lisbon in 1973. Graduated in Computer Science and Management, ISCTE-IUL, 1997. Master in Information Systems Management, ISCTE-IUL, specialisation in the information security area, 2004. PhD in Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), 2008. Since 2020, Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL, in the Information Sciences and Technologies Department, where it teaches different curricular units related with Information Security, Web and Mobile-based Information Systems Development and Management, Project Management and Entrepreneurship. Previously a researcher at ADETTI-IUL with interest in the research areas of “Distributed Applications and Systems”, “Information Security”, “Mobile and Web Information Security” integrated into the NUIGRAM (Natural User Interaction Graphics and Mobility) research group. Since January 2015 integrates  SSE (Software Systems Engineering) research group of ISTAR-IUL, working in the same research areas. Associated Researcher of the Distributed Multimedia Applications Group - DMAG (UPC, Spain). Since 1996 has participated in multiple national and international projects, financed by entities such as the National Science Foundation, the European Union, European Space Agency and others. Author and co-author of multiple research articles and communications in international conferences, journals and magazines, and also multiple project reports and deliverables. Also author of several PHP development books. OWASP (Open Web Applications Security Project) member and leader of the Portuguese chapter (between 2007-2018) and Lisbon chapter co-leader (since 2022), cooperating in event organisation, information dissemination and other projects. Founding member of the AP2SI (Associação Portuguesa para a Promoção da Segurança de Informação). Entrepreneur in some IT-based startups.

João C. Ferreira is Assistant Professor with habilitation at ISCTE-IUL. He graduated in Physics from the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL / IST), Portugal, received an MSc in Telecommunications and a PhD in Computer Engineering from UTL / IST and a second PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Minho. His research interests are in: data science, Text Mining, IoT, Blockchain AI, and AI application to health, energy, transportation, Electric Vehicle, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and sustainable mobility systems. He has authored more than 250 papers in computer science. He has executed more than 40 projects (6 as PI), more than 200 scientific paper reviews and more than 30 scientific project evaluations. IEEE CIS Chair 2016-2018 and current vice-chair of IEEE Blockchain PT, CIS PT chapter and Bruxels AI and robotics.  Main organizer of international conferences such as: OAIR 2013, INTSYS from 2018 to 2022. IEEE senior member since 2015. Guest Editor and topic editor of MDPI in the topics of energies, electronics and Sensors. President of the IEEE CIS in PT (2017-2018). Author of a patent in the area of Edge Computer in a monitoring system for fishing vessels Coordinator of the Master of Decision Support Systems, Professional Master for the Digitalization of Business and of the summer (smart cities) and winter (IoT Systems and Blockchain) schools. Vice-Chair Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Blockchain in Portugal and Industry Ambassador in Portugal   He is participating in the following projects - H2020 Infrastress, Sparta, ENSURECEC, EFFECTOR, MARISA, ANDANTE, Interreg Block4Coop, BALCAT, AIM Health, PT2020 Monitoring persistent track and Multicam and the Digital Demo, EEagrants Fish2fork (PI) and Social IoT (PI)

José Miguel Sales Dias holds a BSc (1985) in Electrical Engineering, a MSc (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (both from IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD (1998) in Information Sciences and Technology, major in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), where he is Full Professor, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality, Ambient Assisted Living, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), AI, Data Science, Design Thinking and Operating Systems.. Past Invited Associate Professor at NOVA IMS teaching Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems degree. Research is centered on natural and multimodal human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, ambient assisted living, and design thinking, targeting the digital inclusion of hearing and vision-impaired citizens and the elderly. Deputy Director of ISTAR, an R&D unit of ISCTE, and member of its Digital Living Spaces group . Appointed (2022) by the Rectory of Iscte, as member of the Board of Directors of AI4PA a Digital Innovation Hub in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for the Public Administration. Nominated (2022) by the Rectory of Iscte as a member of the Installation Commission of the Iscte School of Applied Digital Technologies in Sintra, Portugal. Member of the Provisional Scientific Commission of the same School. Coordinates the Degree in Software and Applications Development of this School. Nominated (2023) by the Rectory of Iscte member of the Steering Committee of the SocioDigital Lab for Pulic Policy, the Associate Lab that gathers 6 research units of Iscte. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Regularly commissioned by the EU, Cyprus, and Portuguese Ministry of Economy for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author, or editor of 15 scientific books or journal editions, 23 indexed journal papers, 38 indexed book chapters, 171 other publications, workshops, or keynotes in peer-reviewed international conferences, and 71 in national conferences. Since 1992 participated or participates in 33 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP, H2020, Erasmus+), and 19 Portuguese (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT, SAMA, POAT,  DIH). Principal Investigator of 16 R&D projects. From 1998 to 2020, he raised more than 13.394.483,58 € of R&D funding to ISCTE, Microsoft, and ADENE, giving an average of 446.483/year in 30 years. Obtained 7 scientific prizes. Member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA, IEEE, editorial boards of several journals and of several IPCs of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech, Accessibility, and Ambient Assisted Living. Past member (2017-2020) of the Board of Directors of ADENE, the Portuguese Energy Agency, where he oversaw the Innovation Group, the Information and Communication Technologies Unit, the Quality Control Unit, and the Institutional and International Relations Unit. Past member (2018-2020) of the Board of Directors of MEDENER, the Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management, which deals with energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources in the region. Past Director (2005-2016) of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and Natural HCI technologies of Microsoft Corporation, in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC), where he collaborated closely with global Microsoft software product groups (in the USA, China and Europe) and local teams of marketing, finance, human resources, IT, sales and services. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Past President of ADETTI and ADETTI-IUL, ISCTE R&D centers. Past Vice-president of the GPCG, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born on December 1st, 1961,  Happy father of two ladies and one gentleman.  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Dias2/  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-2695 https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=48Zq8ecAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT  

Assistant Professor, sub-director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism Iscte-IUL where he also coordinates the scientific area of Construction Technologies. Integrated researcher at ISTAR-Iscte where he coordinates the Digital Living Spaces research group. Researcher and consultant in sustainable construction and digital transformation of the construction industry, through the Building Information Modelling methodology and technologies such as photogrammetry, IoT, VR and AR.   Graduated in Civil Engineering (2000), MSc in Structural Engineering (2003) by Lisbon University (IST) and PhD in Civil Engineering (2010) by the University of Porto.

Rúben Pereira is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) where he also graduated as a Master in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He has been a consultant in several industries, such as: services, banking, telecommunications, Ecommerce, among others. He is the author of several scientific papers, published in conferences / journals / international books, in the area of Information Technology Services Management (ITSM) and Information Technology Governance (ITG). Its areas of scientific interest extend to: Information Technology Risk Management (ITMM), Business Process Management (BPM), continuous improvement and innovation, process optimization, among others. He is also a fan of entrepreneurship, having already been co-founder of three projects, one of them winner of the Startups Factory and finalist in EDP Innovation.