Graduate in BSc in Computer Science and Engineering through Iscte-IUL (2019-2022). Graduate in MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Iscte-IUL (2022-2024). Invited Senior Assistant for the courses of Theory of Computation, and Algorithms & Data Structures.

André Glória received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in telecommunication and computer engineering from ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, in 2015 and 2017, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in information science and technology, with a specialty in Internet of Things and Machine Learning, at the same university in 2021. From 2016, he is an Invited Assistant in the field of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Software Development and Artificial Intelligence in the Information, Science and Technology department in ISCTE-IUL, where is also a Researcher on Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Communications, Sustainability and Green Tech, with more than 20 published papers in International Journals and Conferences and the supervision of 10 Master ThesisBesides the academic work, he is also active in the industry, being the co-founder and CTO of a Portuguese startup in the field of sustainable irrigation systems since 2017 and the Head of IoT Innovation for the Portuguese market at Phillip Morris International since 2022.

PhD (2009) under the supervision of Kai Koskimies (Tampere University of Technology) e Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon) in the field of object-oriented frameworks and software product lines. Currently the research focus is on two main topics: - Software components and API usability: automated forms of composing and integrating software components (product lines); tool support for using and learning APIs. - Programming education: pedagogical tools for support teaching and learning of programming; automatic grading systems. Visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (2014) with the support of CMU-Portugal, hosted by Brad A. Myers. Visiting researcher at Aalto University (2020), hosted by Lauri Malmi. Program committee member of the conferences Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (2017-2023) and INFORUM/SOFT-PT (2017-2023).

Holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology from FCUL - University of Lisbon, and a Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from IBS - ISCTE-IUL. Conducted research on the impacts of technological innovation in accounting, focusing on the growing importance of information systems, for the Master’s Thesis. Currently serving as an Invited Assistant at ISCTE, alongside work as an SAP Consultant and Functional Analyst at Toinovate. Previous experience as a Project and Digital Platforms Coordinator, overseeing the development of a digital news platform and as Campaign Director in legislative and municipal elections. Additionally, worked as a freelance journalist.

Bráulio Alexandre Barreira Alturas was born in Lisbon in 1964, but has always lived in Queluz, has a PhD in Business Management with a specialization in Marketing (2005), a Master's Degree in Business Sciences with specialization in Management Information Systems (1995) and Degree in Business Organisation and Management(1989), by ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is currently Associate Professor at the ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Information Science and Technology Department, and researcher at ISTAR-Iscte (Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center). Coordinator of several curricular units of Informatics Applied to Management and Social Sciences and professor in Masters and Postgraduates, as well as a trainer in the area of Organizational Information Systems.

Carlos Coutinho is Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL, and the R&D Director at the SME Caixa Mágica Software, S.A. in Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, awarded in 2013 by the NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA), Portugal. He is responsible for the Cloud Computing area at Iscte-IUL, where he also does research, being area coordinator and Scientific Commission member at ISTAR-IUL, with interests in Enterprise Interoperability, Adaptable Platforms and Systems, SOA, and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). He has more than twenty years of experience teaching the fields of IT at Portuguese universities ISEL, ISCAL, ISGB and Iscte-IUL. He has published 2 book chapters, 9 articles in indexed international scientific journals and more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed international conferences, and is part of the scientific committee of six journals and six yearly international conferences. He was part of the Jury and Main Examiner in the viva voce of four PhD and thirteen MSc. He holds since 2009 a Project Management Institute PMP title and a post-graduation in Project Management by Instituto Superior Bissaya-Barreto (ISBB) in Coimbra, Portugal. He has more than 25 years of experience as an engineer in the enterprise IT area, working in several fields from ICT, Services, Public Administration and the Aerospace industry, in several multinational projects at CMS and other companies like Alcatel, Siemens and Critical Software. He participated and was the company responsible in multiple European Projects like Athena (FP6), TIMBUS (FP7), C2NET, vf-OS, EFPF (H2020), and TaRDIS (HE), and numerous ESA projects (EGOS, OCDT, SCOS-2000 and Galileo).

Caroline Conti was graduated in Electrical Engineering by University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2010, and received her PhD degree in Information Science and Technology by ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), in June of 2017. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Science and Technology of ISCTE-IUL, and a Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Caroline has been working in the area of light field visual media, making her major contributions to the area of light field content processing, representation, and coding. This was also the subject of her PhD Thesis entitled Efficient Solutions for Light Field Coding. She has more than 10 years of research experience in Portugal and, for this period, she has been participating in many national and international research projects addressing immersive multimedia technologies, where she has actively collaborated with experts from academia and industry in this field. More significantly, she has participated in the European Commission’s project 3D VIVANT (Live Immerse Video-Audio Interactive Multimedia) and has been a research intern at the light field display company Holografika Kft., in Budapest, Hungary. Previous work experience also includes working as a research assistant at IT, and as a lecturer for different courses in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering degrees at ISCTE-IUL. She has also been a member of Organizing Committees of international conferences, more recently, in the 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing. Overall, she has contributed more than 30 publications in high Impact Factor journals and in renowned international conferences. She is also author of four book chapters published by Springer. According to Google Scholar, her published work has had more than 600 citations. Additionally, she has secured many competitive scholarships, including the FCT Stimulus of Scientific Employment 2017 program, in which she ranked in the first place in the Junior Researcher category with maximum score of 10. She has also been recognized with many awards/distinctions in national and international conferences and competitions. More significantly, in 2017, she won the 27th edition of the IBM Scientific Prize, which is arguably the most prestigious prize in Computer Science and related fields of Engineering in Portugal.

Catarina Ferreira da Silva, PhD in Informatics (2007), is Associate Professor (2021) with Habilitation in Information Sciences and Technologies (2020), Information Systems at the Department of Information Science and Technology of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). She is the Director of the Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Centre (ISTAR-Iscte) and the Director of the Master programme in Information Systems Management of the Department of Information Science and Technology of the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte), Portugal. She is integrated member of the Information Systems group of the research centre ISTAR. She is member of the Expert Panel of the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum, since 2020. The EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum is an initiative sponsored by the European Commission, Directorate-General of Communications Networks, Content & Technology. She was research member of the Information Systems (IS) research group of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), between 2009-2023 (Portugal). She had the pleasure to co-supervise 5 defended PhD and has the pleasure to co-supervise 3 ongoing PhD students. Between 2013 and September 2019 she was Associate Professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Lyon 1 University Institute of Technology La Doua (IUT Doua), Campus LyonTech-La Doua, France. She was also researcher member of the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) team of the CNRS Laboratory of Informatics on Images and Information Systems (LIRIS UMR 5205) of Lyon, France. She was research assistant, at the University of Coimbra, member of the IS research group of the CISUC between 2009 and 2012. In 2008 and 2009, she was teacher at the Informatics Department of the University of Lyon 1, France and researcher member of the SOC research team of the LIRIS UMR 5205. Between 2004 and 2007, during the preparation of her PhD in Informatics, she worked as researcher at the Information Technology and Knowledge Dissemination Department (Division of Innovation and Services) of the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB) at Sophia Antipolis, France. From 2004 to 2006 she was teaching assistant at the Informatics Department of the University Institute of Technology (IUT) of Nice and Sophia-Antipolis, France. She studied at the University of Aveiro, Portugal (pre-Bolonha Engineering degree, 1994-1999), at the University of Coimbra, Portugal (post-graduation, 2001-2002), at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (master's degree - Information Systems, 2002-2003) and at the University of Lyon 1 (PhD in Informatics, 2004-2007).  

Catarina Brites received the E.E., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003, 2005, and 2011, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Science and Technology at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Previously, she has been an Invited Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico. In the last years, she has also been responsible for co-supervising several M.Sc. theses in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in the areas of image/video coding, deep learning based image coding, coding and processing of light fields and coding and quality assessment of point clouds. Several of the co-supervised M.Sc. theses have resulted in publications in international peer-reviewed journals (mostly from IEEE) and in renowned international conferences (also peer-reviewed) in the area of ​​multimedia signal processing. Regarding her scientific activity, she has been developing research activity in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MSP-Lx) of Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her current research interests include 2D/3D visual data coding, event data coding, plenoptic imaging (light fields and point clouds) processing and coding, machine learning, visual quality assessment, and multimedia systems. Up to now, she has authored more than 70 international scientific journals and conference research papers and 1 book chapter (bringing together contributions from international experts in the distributed video coding field). According to Google Scholar, her scientific production has more than 3890 citations and her h-index of 30. Furthermore, over the last years, she is or has been actively involved in several European and National R&D projects in the fields of 2D/3D video coding and analysis, plenoptic image coding and quality assessment, deep learning based image coding and event-based vision data coding, being currently Co-Principal Investigator of one National project. In parallel to this activity, she has also had intense collaboration with international journal and conferences. She is or has been an Associate Editor of IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING. She is or has been a Member of the Organizing Committee and the Technical Program Committee of several widely known international conferences in the multimedia signal processing field (IEEE, EURASIP, Springer). She is also an active Reviewer for several international scientific journals (IEEE, Elsevier, EURASIP, IET and SPIE) and international conferences (most of them from IEEE). Additionally, she is a Member of the Technical Commission CT-120 - Image, Audio and Multimedia Information Coding and has been a Member of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Science Academy.

Elsa Cardoso is an Associate Professor at ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), in the Information Science and Technologies Department of the School of Technology and Architecture, and the director of the master program in Integrated Business Intelligence Systems. She is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) and at the Information and Decision Support Systems Group of INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal. She has a PhD (European Doctorate) in Information Sciences and Technologies from ISCTE-IUL, with a specialization in Business Intelligence. Her research interests include business intelligence and analytics, data visualization, data warehouse, and strategic information systems (Balanced Scorecard) applied to Higher Education and Healthcare. She is a member of the Business Intelligence Special Interest Group of EUNIS (European University Information Systems organization). She was the leader of this SIG from 2013 until 2019. Since 2022, she is also a member of the Enterprise Architecture SIG of EUNIS, working on capability maturity models for Higher Education. She has participated in several national and international research projects. She is currently working on the following projects: xSHARE: Expanding the European EHRxF to share and effectively use health data within the EHDS (101136734 - Horizon-HLTH-2023-IND-06) [2023-2026] National Programme for Open Science and Open Research Data (PRR). [2024-2026]   Projects already finalized: Study for the knowledge of fraud in the structural funds in Portugal (POAT-01-6177-FEDER- 000126). Principal Investigator. [2022-2023] Digital Transformation in Research: Science Management and Open Science (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000438). [2021-2023] MAIPro – Project Non-compliance Monitoring and Alert (06/POAT/2021). [2022-2023] IRIS – Summarizing and Informing Decisions: Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques at the Supreme Court of Justice. Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2021-2022] Healthcare Insight – Units Performance Management (HI-UPM/2014/38567; FEDER-QREN). Principal Investigator from Iscte. [2014-2015] GRADUA – Graduates Advancement and Development of University capacities in Albania (Erasmus+ project No. 585961-EPP-1-2017-1-AL-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP (2017 -2926/001 -001). [2019-2021] iLU – Integrative Learning from Urban Data (DSAIPA/DS/0111/2018). Researcher, integrating the INESC ID team. [2018-2022] IA-Incentivos – Artificial Intelligence in Incentive Management (POCI-05-5762-FSE-000231). [2020-2021] https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/elsa-cardoso/cv  

Fernando Brito e Abreu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from IST/UL and is an associate professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at Iscte-IUL, where he has held various positions such as director of the Master's Degree in Computer Science and Management (MIG), member of Iscte-IUL's Scientific Council representing the ISTAR-IUL Research Unit and responsible for DCTI's internationalization. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at FCT/UNL. He also taught at ISEGI/UNL (now NOVA IMS), IST/UTL, ISEG/UTL, and the Air Force Academy. He was also a guest lecturer at the Département Informatique of the École des Mines de Nantes for a decade, as part of the EMOOSE European master's degree. At these universities, he taught and was responsible for around a dozen subjects in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cycles. He has supervised more than 30 dissertations, including 10 PhDs, 6 of which have already been completed.   He was a researcher in the Software Engineering Group at INESC Lisboa, in the CITI research center (Center for Informatics and Information Technologies) at FCT/UNL and later was one of the founders of the ISTAR-IUL research unit at Iscte-IUL, where he created and was the 1st coordinator of the Software Systems Engineering group, where he remains today. He promoted the signing of various applied research/technology transfer and/or collaboration protocols between: (i) INESC and the Portuguese Navy, (ii) CS/03 and itSMF Portugal, (iii) NAV EPE and FCT/UNL, (iv) SINFIC and FCT/UNL, (v) Turismo de Portugal and Iscte-IUL and (vi) GEOTA and Iscte-IUL. In addition to the projects funded and developed under these protocols, he has coordinated research teams in various national and international scientific projects.   He has produced more than two hundred scientific and technical texts, including articles in journals such as Empirical Software Engineering, Software Quality Journal, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Science of Computer Programming, Journal of Systems and Software, IEEE Latin America, Object Expert, Computer Standards & Interfaces, ERCIM News, Personal Computer World, L'Objet, Qualirama, Sistemas de Informação e Interface. His work has been cited nearly 4K times, with an h-index close to 30, according to Google Scholar. He pioneered in Portugal in Empirical Software Engineering with his research group QUASAR (QUantitative Approaches in Software engineering And Reengineering). Among his proposals are the MOOD (Metrics for Object Oriented Design) suite, currently used in the software industry and the Metamodel Driven Measurement (M2DM) approach. The latter allows the abstract formalization of metrics over a domain metamodel using OCL, a constraint specification language that is part of UML. M2DM has been applied in various domains (e.g. object-oriented design, component-based development, business process modeling, IT infrastructure modeling).   He is currently an editor of the Sofware Quality Journal (Springer) and was previously associate editor of Software Quality Professional (American Society for Quality), Portuguese delegate to IFIP TC2 (Software: Theory and Practice), and member of the technical team of the MPS.BR process model, widely used in Brazil. He has been a regular reviewer for various international journals, conferences, and workshops, as well as an evaluator of research projects. He has participated in the organization of national and international scientific events in a wide variety of roles. He was also president of CS/03 (Sectorial Commission for Quality in Information and Communications Technologies), of the Portuguese Quality Institute, from 2000 to 2007, where he was one of the creators of the international QUATIC conference (https://www.quatic.org). In 2021 he was elected Chairman of the QUATIC Series Scientific Steering Committee.

Filipa R. Prudêncio is an Assistant Professor in the DCTI at ISCTE-IUL. Between 2020 and 2024, she was a Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and in the "Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries" project (USA).  She got a Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Telecommunications, at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and IT, in 2014. She published 16 scientific articles and 34 conference proceedings. As a team member, she contributed to 9 international projects (1 as co-PI). She received the ANACOM-URSI 2023 Award, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from IST, and the Best Student Paper Award at the URSI conference in 2015.

1) Education:Bsc Social and Organizacional Psychology - ISPA 1989 Msc Organizational behaviour - ISPA 2003 Phd Management - HRM ISCTE IUL 2010 2) Professional Activity's (non academic): 1990-1991 Training and Recruitment chief - LAR Regional airlines1991-1993 Human Resources manager - Lar Regional airlines 1992-1993 Training manager - ODS Iberica 1993 Human Resources manager - Euroair SA 1993 Human Tesources manager - SERVICE AIR SA 1993-1997 Trainer - ICL, HCL, Hotel Roma, Páteo Alfacinha, Hotel do Mar, Hospital de São José, Hospital de vila Franca, Group A. Robalo, Centro de medicina física e reabilitação de Alcoitão, ARS Norte, ISSS, Sta Casa Misericordia. 1993-1997 HRM consultant 2000-2002 Consultant - Fernave1997-2008 - Manager - DSHO Lda 3) Academic work2020 - until now:  ECTS coordenator Dept RHCO IBS2005- until now - Researcher at Business Research Unit (BRU) ISCTE IUL 1996 - until now:  Teatcher at ISCTE IUL (senior teacher assistant since 2010) - IBS RH&CO Department  2009 - 2019:  Languages and soft skills lab director ISCTE IUL 2002-2004 Guest speaker - IADE Photography department 1996-2004 Lecturer FCUL Lisbon 1993 a 1996 Assistant ULHT Psychology Department and HRM department 1994-1995 Guest speaker - ESE Lisbon 1995-1996 Lecturer - ESSS, Lisbon 1994-1996 Lecturer- ESCS Lisboa 1991-1995 Guest speaker - ISPA 1990-1993 Lecturer ISHT Lisbon

(2021 - Present) Critical Techworks   Data Engineer  

Inna Paiva (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the Instituto Univeritário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).  She has experience in teaching in master’s programmes and programmes for executive education, and engages with courses related to financial accounting, business reporting and public accounting.  She also supervises master’s students’ dissertations and has made various presentations in in international scientific conferences and authored papers and book chapters. For several years, she was the director of the Master’s in Accounting and Taxation and the Bachelor’s Degree Course Accounting, Taxation and Auditing in the Universidade Lusófona. Her research interests lie in the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, accounting quality and family firms. She has published her research in book chapters and in journals such as the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, the  Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, the Review of Accounting and Finance. She has also published a text book: Contabilidade Pública - As Novas Demonstrações para Relato em Sistema de Normalização Contabilística para as Administrações Públicas/ Public Accounting - The New Report Statements in the Accounting Normalization System for Public Administration  and she is the author of practical case studies in the text book Fundamentos de Contabilidade Financeira: teoria e casos/ Foundations of Financial Accounting: theory and case studies.

Aerospace Engineer, specialized in avionics. PhD in Telecommunications. MBA and Master of Management Technology and management expert with interests in strategy and finance.

Research skills in Industrial and Services Engineering focusing on the strategic alignment of operations systems, by designing organisational change programmes that are adequate. Methodological concerns favour qualitative methods and Soft Systems Methodology applied to complex organisational problems. Broad professional experience ranging from engineering functions (Ferro Portugal), logistics management (Renault Portuguesa), consultancy in deployment of information systems (Grupo Violas; Ford of Europe - Southampton Plant), Managing Director (Agiltec), founding and developing its own business to teaching and researching in the university, all together for more than 36 years.

Joaquim Esmerado is an Assistant Professor at DCTI. Develops research in the area of ​​Information Systems, Databases, and Data Science. He has published in Q1 magazines such as the International Journal of Information Management and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology. He is an integrated researcher at ISTAR, member of the Information Systems group.

Jose Andre R. S. Moura received on 19889, the B.Sc., degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), on 2001 the M.Sc. in Computer Networks from Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), and on 2011 the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lancaster University (United Kingdom).  From 1989 to 2000, he worked as SCADA Engineer at EFACEC Sistemas Electronica (Portugal). From 2000 to 2001, he worked as a researcher at INESC-Porto (Portugal). Since 2001, he has been teaching in computer networks at ISCTE-Instituto Universitario Lisboa (Portugal), and he has been a researcher with Instituto de Telecomunicacoes (Portugal). His current research interests include Network Management, system modeling, Edge Computing, Optimization, Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking, and Resilience on Networked Systems.

José Luís Silva holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Portuguese MAP-i Consortium (University of Minho, University of Aveiro and University of Porto) and performed a postDoc at Interactive Critical Systems (ICS) team, IRIT, University of Toulouse (France). He is an Assistant Professor at Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and a member of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) research unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS), ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee, and IFIP TC 13 - Working Groups 13.2. He co-leads the MEROP research team, participated in national and international research projects (including with Airbus and the European Space Agency), and in the Portuguese contribution to Simulated Mars Missions: AMADEE-20 and AMADEE-24 organized by the Austrian Space Forum. His work has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and conferences such as IEEE Access, Elsevier IJHCS, ACM EICS, ACM IUI, ACM/IEEE HRI and INTERACT. In the past, he was Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira, Visiting Researcher at CMU (USA), a Lecturer at Cávado e Ave Polytechnic Institute, a member of the INESC TEC laboratory, and visiting PhD student at both Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) and Newcastle University (UK). His main research interests lie in Human-Robot Interaction, Interactive Systems and Space Exploration. His main awards and honors include ISCTE-IUL Scientific Awards and a Ph.D. Award from Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge.

José Reis holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology  by Iscte-IUL. Master's degree in Computer Engineering at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias (UNL - FCT), and  Bachelor’s degree in electrotechnical engineering (Systems and Communications) at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa. At present, I am working in software engineering, specifically in software quality. I am a professor in the scientific area of computer Science, teaching subjects such as, software engineering, decision support systems, project management, information systems, etc. It was Quality Coordinator and Audit at Universidade Europeia - Laureate International Universities and Deputy direction at Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração de Lisboa. I collaborated with several companies, such as Conhecer Mais II- Consultoria em Tecnologias de Informação, Lda (this company is Business Solution Partner of Microsoft Business Solutions to market education and training in Portugal in developing ERP solutions), ITCODE (development the Zib - An addictive stock market game online learning), DBG (development of school management software), ENSINUS (coordinator of Information Technology Center), INSA-Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (coordinator facilities Office and Equipment ), ATEC - Training Academy (Consultant / Trainer).

Leandro F. Pereira is an Associate Professor of Strategy at ISCTE. He is also CEO and Founder of WINNING Consulting, a consultancy firm with more than 300 employees dedicated to management and technology consultancy. Leandro Pereira has a PhD in Management with a specialisation in Project Management from the University of Salamanca and a degree in Management Informatics from the University of Minho. He has more than 200 indexed scientific publications and more than 10 published books. In 2017, Leandro Pereira received the Best CEO of the Year award from Best Team Leaders and Revista Pessoal, as well as the best student award from the University of Minho in the academic field. Leandro Pereira is the Director of the Executive Master's Degree in Programme and Project Management and the Postgraduate Diploma in Agile Project and Business Management at ISCTE Executive Education. Throughout his career he has supervised dozens of PhD students and several hundred Masters students. He was also founding president of PMI Portugal and the Business Case Institute. Leandro Pereira is an international expert in the areas of Strategy, Project Management, Problem Solving and Benefits Realisation Management.

Luís Miguel Martins Nunes, graduated in Computer Science from Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (1993), obtained a MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1997, thesis supervised by Prof. Luís Borges de Almeida) and a PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (2006, thesis supervised by Prof. Eugénio de Oliveira). Entered in Iscte in 1997 as Teaching Assistant and is currently Associated Professor. Has also contributed as a researcher in the area of Machine Learning in several research units since 1997 (INESC, ADETTI, LIACC, IT and ISTAR) remaining a member of ISTAR to this date.

Maria Pinto-Albuquerque is Assistant Professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and researcher at Istar-Iscte. Her work focuses on the relation of the human, as a user or developer, with the computer system. Addressing this relation leads to work in cybersecurity awareness, alignment of security with usability, and requirements engineering. She has been developing tools and techniques, like serious games and creativity techniques, to promote an efficient, responsible, and secure use (by the users) and development (by software engineers, co-developing with all types of stakeholders) of computer systems. She pursues collaborations in particular with Bristol Cybersecurity Group (Univ. of Bristol, UK), UniBW Information Systems Group (University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich), and Security Life Cycle Group of Siemens Technology, Munich. Under collaboration with Bristol Cyber Security Group, she was part of the team that created and developed the cybersecurity awareness game, Decisions and Disruptions, http://www.decisions-disruptions.org/. This game was adapted by the City of London Police and won the UK National Innovation in Cyber Award 2020, https://thenationalcyberawards.org/virtual-awards-ceremony-2020/. Graduated in Applied Maths. and Comp. Science at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She completed the MSc in Computing at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, and the PhD in Computer Science at Lancaster University, UK. Is a member of  IEEE, Iscte Alumni, Lancaster University Alumni, and the British Computer Society.

Maria Santos is Professor on Marketing and member of Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL. She holds a PhD in Management Science, focused on Services Marketing from IAE d'Aix-Marseille III (France). She lectures  Marketing Management and Services Marketing at several courses of IBS, as well as Marketing for Technologies at the School of Technology and Architecture (ISTA).  As supervisor of  PhD, DBA China-ISCTE and Master international students, research have been applied to sustainable consumption and tourism, mega-events, service quality. and entrepreneurial marketing. Internationally, she is member of the Scientific Committee of the Iberoamerican Journal of Strategic Management (RIAE/IJSM),  and she taught at the EU TREPAN Program, a joint initiative between ISCTE-IUL and the University of Craiova. Previously, Maria Santos was a co-founder of the Marketing Research Center, GIEM-ISCTE, having been its President from 1997 to 2006. Under GIEM, she coordinated the organization of 4 editions of the Portuguese Service Marketing Conference (1997, 1998, 2002, 2005), which counted on the contribution of leading experts such as Christopher Lovelock (US), Evert Gummesson (Sweden), Mark Casson (Reading, UK), Pierre Eiglier (France), Benny Bricmont (Canada) and David Stokes (Kingston University).

Maria Manuela Martins is Assistant Professor at Accounting Department of ISCTE Business School - University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). She obtained a Master Degree in Business Administration specialization in Information Systems Management and a PhD in Management, specialization in Accounting (University Institute of Lisbon - ISCTE-IUL). She is a research in the fields of Knowledge Management, Intellectual capital and Financial Accounting.

Nadia Simoes holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in Economics from ISEG (Universidade de Lisboa). Started to teach in the Economics Department of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2002. Director of the Bachelor Degree in Economics (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa). Former Director of the Master in Business Economics and Competition for nine editions of the programme. Researcher of the Economics Group of the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). She has published paper articles in several journals such as Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Acta Oeconomica, International Review of Applied Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Panoeconomicus, International Journal of Social Economics, Economics Bulletin, among others. Associate Editor of the journal International Journal of Education Economics and Development (SCOPUS Q4) and Editor of the journal Cogent Economics & Finance (SCOPUS Q3). Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues (SCOPUS Q1); Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (SCOPUS Q2); Panoeconomicus (SCOPUS Q2); Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (SCOPUS Q2); Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal (SCOPUS Q3); the International Journal of Entrepreneurship (SCOPUS Q3); and Revista Galega de Economia (SCOPUS Q4). NEP Editor for the area of Education (nep-edu). Member of the Editorial Board of the European Training Foundation (European Union). She has participated in several research national and international research projects financed by public institutions (including two projects funded by FCT and a project funded by the Ministry of Employment).  Expert for different national and international institutions such as the EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT OBSERVATORY (EUROPEAN COMMISSION), INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION , CEDEFOP, EUROFOUND, EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXPERTISE, PORTUGUESE LABOUR MINISTRY, and PORTUGUESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.

Master degree in Systems Information Management by Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal - School of Business Sciences and Management -Setúbal , Degree in Industrial Management and Technology by  Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal - School of Technology of Setubal. He has written chapters, and papers to journals about topics regarding information technology management and strategic change management. He is from the Editorial Board - Associate Editor from International Journal of Business Strategy and Automation (IJBSA). He is the Editor of the book Reviving Businesses with New Organizational Change Management Strategies. His main research interests in information systems management, strategy, knowledge management, change management, and information technology management adoption in business contexts throw models and frameworks. currently doing his doctorate in information sciences and technology. He works as a Professor and a Researcher.

PhD in Management, Master in Business Sciences, Degree in Management by Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte) and Bachelor of Accounting at ISCAC Coimbra Business School. Assistant Professor at ISCTE, where he teaches in Undergraduate, Masters and Executives Masters and has coordinated various courses. Executive Director of the Executive Master in Corporate Reporting of INDEG/ISCTE. Received a teaching award (2014). Was member of the Pedagogical Committee (1st cycle degree) and year coordinator in 1st cycle degree. Was CEO of Overgest/ISCTE - Management and Finance Specialization Center and Director of several Executive Masters, Postgraduate Programs, Specialization Courses and Programs for Executives. Was Senior Partner of Paradigma Consulting, SA, Senior Consultant at SE.MAR.TE Consulting, Consulting Supervisor at BDO International, Deputy Director Financial MAP-Plastics (current Map-Key Plastics, SA) and Chartered Accountant of several companies. Was member of the Students' Union Board and a member of Scientific Council (representing the students) of ISCA Coimbra Business School. He is co-author of books in the accounting field, articles and communications to scientific conferences.

Pedro Santana is Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Integrated Researcher at ISTAR-IUL. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Lisbon (2011), the M.Sc. degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence from New University of Lisbon (2005), and the Licenciate degree (5-years B.Sc. degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New University of Lisbon (2002).  His research interests include artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-computer interaction. He has published over 80 articles in international conferences, scientific journals, and book chapters. His research work is often developed in the context of national and european funded projects (FCT, P2020, EU-FP7, EU-FP5, ESA, MDN, QREN).  In the past, he held research positions at the Institute of Telecommunications (2013-2020), at the UNINOVA institute of New University of Lisbon (2011-2013, 2001-2003), at the Agent Modelling Laboratory (LabMAg) of University of Lisbon (2004-2011), and at the robotics and automation company IntRoSys S.A. (2003-2006). He also held teaching assistant positions at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of New University of Lisbon (2010-2012) and at the Department of Informatics of Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (2008-2010).

Ricardo Ribeiro (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he is the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence scientific area, and an integrated researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa, working on Human Language Technologies. His current research interests focus on high-level information extraction from unrestricted text, speech or music, and improving machine-learning techniques using domain-related information. He has participated in several European and Nationally-funded projects and was the Human Language Technologies INESC-ID team coordinator in RAGE (2015-2019) European-funded project and the principal investigator of a Ministry of National Defence funded project on information extraction from text. He has participated in several scientific events, either as organiser or as member of the program committee (IJCAI, ICASSP, LREC, Interspeech) and was the editor of a book on the computational processing of Portuguese.

Ricardo A. Fonseca was born in Lisbon, Portugal on September 11th, 1973. He received his degree in Physics Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1996 and joined the Laser and Plasma Group at this institute. In 2000 he spent one year at the University of California Los Angeles working on the numerical modeling of high-intensity laser-plasma interactions. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 2002, on the subject of Laser-Plasma Electron Accelerators. He has published over one hundred papers in leading international scientific journals, that have been cited over 6000 times. In 2003 he took up a permanent position at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. From September 2013 to November 2018 he was the dean for technology at this institute, and he is currently a full professor of physics and electromagnetism.

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.

Rui Neto Marinheiro graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1995 with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Telecommunications and Computers. He obtained his PhD in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in July 2001. After returning to Portugal, he began his teaching activity at the Department of Information Science and Technology at the School of Technology and Architecture of Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has an extensive teaching experience and has taught dozens of courses at all levels of education. Currently, he is also the Director of the Degree in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering. Additionally, he has participated in many continuing education programmes and provided cooperation and consultancy services to other institutions. At Iscte, he has also been involved in academic management activities, such as introducing e-Learning teaching, coordinating the Audio-visual Centre, and managing laboratories. Recently, he has been involved in initiatives that promote and manage mobilities, such as the Erasmus+ program. Regarding his research, integrated in the Instituto de Telecomunicações, he has participated in many international and national projects as a principal or local investigator. He has also participated in organizing many scientific events and has dozens of international scientific publications in the area of computer networks, including network architectures, mobility and heterogeneous networks, communication architecture and systems for the Internet of things, software defined networks, and medium access control protocols.

Full-time assistant professor with exclusive dedication at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. IEEE Senior Member. Has experience in Computer Science, with emphasis on algorithms and distributed systems, working mainly in the following scenarios: Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Communication Protocols, BIGDATA and Data Privacy.

Vitor Basto Fernandes graduated in information systems management 1995 (including an internship at Ascom Tech AG - Switzerland), post-graduated in distributed systems in 1997 and got his PhD on multimedia transport protocols in 2006, all from University of Minho (Portugal), where he has also been teaching assistant. He worked at Integral Vision Inc (UK) as software quality engineer in 1996 and was co-founder of PSI-Information Systems Lda (Portugal) in 1997, where he was project manager in B2B e-commerce web based software development. From 2005 he has been lecturing at the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal), and invited assistant professor in the same university in 2007 and 2008. In 2008 he joined the Informatics Engineering Department of Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal) as adjunct professor, where he has been coordinator professor between 2014 and 2016. He coordinated the MSc Program in Mobile Computing from 2010 to 2012, was head of the Research Center in Computer Science and Communications at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria between 2012 and 2016, and researcher in several international projects in the areas of information systems integration, anti-spam filtering and multiobjective optimization, and principal investigator of two funded FCT (the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology) research projects in the areas of research management and research internationalization. He publishes regularly in top-tier journals and conference papers, and organized international events in the areas of his research interests.Vitor Basto-Fernandes is currently associate professor with habilitation at the University Institute of Lisbon.