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  

Medical Degree (New University of Lisbon, PT), Internal Medicine Specialist (Hospital Fernando Fonseca, PT) MPhil, PhD in Management (U. of Cambridge, UK) Master HIV/AIDS (U. of Barcelona, SP), Master in Public Law (U. Católica Portuguesa)    I am a Medical Doctor and University Professor at a Medical School and two Business schools, teaching and researching in Digital Health, Leadership and Management education for Medical Students and Health Professionals. I am the past president of SPMS, Portugal's Digital Health Agency, where I led National eHealth efforts for close to 7 years, and the former Member States co-chair of the EU eHealth Network, the highest policy body on eHealth in the Union. Currently work as an Academic, and as independent consultant in Digital Health and Healthcare Transformation (www.henriquemartins.eu)      

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 Crespo de Carvalho (JCC) is a Management professor with over 30 years experience both in teaching, researching, managing and consulting higher education institutions and companies. He has a PhD and Aggregation in Management, an MBA and MSc in Management (Information Systems) (ISCTE), a Post-graduate Diploma in Project Management and an Undergraduate Degree in Engineering (IST). Additionally, he completed in presence Executive Education in Negotiation (Stanford University, Harvard University, INSEAD and AIF), in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and in Strategy and Management (Cranfield University and MIT CTL), in Big Data (IE) and in Applied Project Management (Erasmus University). He has served as Academic Director of NOVA SBE Executive Education and currently he is serving as CEO of ISCTE Executive Education. He published some scientific papers and 25 ISBN books. In a nutshell, consultancy and managing companies, besides innovative executive teaching and management in higher education have always been central to define José Crespo de Carvalho as a professional.

Luís Manuel Nobre de Brito Elvas, with a degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's degree in Integrated Decision Support Systems, is a researcher at the Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR) and at the Association for Research and Development of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (AIDFM).In the context of health informatics, he has worked on data mining techniques, computer vision and artificial intelligence, to extract data patterns, perform image classification and text reports, respectively. In 2022 his work was distinguished by the Portuguese Order of Engineers. He is also Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Student Branch Chapter at iscte.

Born in Ovar in 1959, she graduated in Psychology at the University of Lisbon. Since 1982 she has developed her academic career at Iscte, where she is Full Professor of Social Psychology, Co-coordinator of SocioDigitalLab for Public Policy. She develops a wide activity in teaching and scientific orientation.  Her research activity focuses on the application of Social Psychology to health and environmental issues, and is reflected in numerous scientific publications. She is the author of the book "We and others: The power of social ties" published by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. She was president of the Portuguese Psychological Association. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Bath and a Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Octavian Adrian Postolache is graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1992 and he received the PhD degree in 1999 from the same university, and university habilitation in 2016 from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. In 2000 he became principal researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicações where he is now Senior Researcher. He joined Instituto Universitario de Lisboa/ ISCTE-IUL Lisbon where he is currently Associate Professor. His fields of interests are smart sensors for biomedical, smart ports and environmental applications, pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for biomedical applications and computational intelligence, IoT and data science. He is active member of national and international research teams involved in Portuguese and EU and International projects. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents, 10 books, 18 book chapters, 82 papers in international journals with peer review, more than 270 papers in proceedings of international conferences. He is IEEE Senior Member I&M Society, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IMS, chair of IEEE I&MSTC-13 Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements and chair of IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors MDPI.  He was general chair of IEEE MeMeA 2014, IEEE ISSI 2018 and TPC chair of ICST 2014, Liverpool and ICST 2017 in Sydney, ICST2018 in Limerick. He received IEEE best reviewer and the best associate editor in 2011, 2013 and 2017, and other awards related to his research activity in the field of smart sensing and IoT.

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.