Born in Lisbon in 1973. Graduated in Computer Science and Business Management from ISCTE-IUL in 1997. Master's degree in Information Systems Management from ISCTE-IUL, specialising in Information Security, in 2004. PhD in Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona) in 2008. Since 2020, he has been an Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL. Director of the Department of Digital Technologies. Director of the Master's Degree in Cybersecurity and Resilience. Coordinator of several courses related to Information Security and Cybersecurity. Since 2015, he has been a researcher at ISTAR-IUL, where he is part of the SSE (Software Systems Engineering) group, working in the areas of "Distributed Systems and Applications, Information Security and Cybersecurity", "Management and Protection of Digital Intellectual Property" and "Web and Mobile IS Development". He is an associate researcher at DMAG – Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (UPC, Spain). Since 1996, he has participated in multiple national and international projects funded by FCT, the European Union, the European Space Agency and private entities. He is the author and co-author of dozens of articles and scientific papers in international conferences, newspapers and magazines, as well as project reports. He is also the author of several books on application development with the PHP programming language. Member of OWASP (Open Web Applications Security Project) and leader of the Portuguese chapter (between 2007-2018) and co-leader of the Lisbon chapter (since 2022), collaborating in the dissemination, organisation of events and some of the organisation's projects. Founding member of the Portuguese Association for the Promotion of Information Security (AP2SI). Entrepreneur in ICT startups.

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).

João Pedro Calado Barradas Branco Pavia received his PhD in Information Sciences and Technologies in 2022 and he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Digital Technologies Department of the School of Applied Digital Technologies at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Bachelor Degree in Digital Technologies and Information Security. He is a member of the IEEE and is also a member of COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology, where he collaborates with professionals from various countries to develop solutions focused on the field of intelligent radio communications for seamless inclusive interactions. In addition, another of his collaborations is related to the development of physical layer security solutions for reliable and resilient 6G systems. He has been involved as a local organizer and reviewer at several conferences and symposia. He is also a reviewer for several journals in the field of information sciences and technologies. His research interests include topics related to cybersecurity, wireless communication networks, artificial intelligence, and big data.

Rosário D. Laureano is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, teaching multivariate calculus, multicriteria analysis, nonlinear optimization, and modelling of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics. She has a degree in Pure Mathematics by Faculty of Science of Lisbon University, MSc. in Applied Mathematics by IST-Instituto Superior Técnico of Technical University of Lisbon, and Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods with specialization of Mathematics by ISCTE. Her research interests include synchronization and control of chaotic dynamical systems, quantum dynamics, optimization methods, complex networks, and analysis of error in maths’ learning, being an integrated researcher at ISTAR - Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center and a member of the Executive Committee and the Scientific Council of this research center. Since 2018 she is the coordinator of the CCM - Complexity and Computational Modelling research group of ISTAR. She was a collaborator member of CFCUL (2004-2016) integrating the research line Philosophy of Mathematics and the FCT project Poincaré Philosopher of Science. She is now a member of the ISCTE Data Science Executive Group.