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).

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. 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.

Ana Rita finished her Ph.D. in 2024 in Information Science and Technology (ISCTE-IUL), where she researched AI applied to social media data. She chose Twitter (now X) as a research subject to analyze and extract knowledge from historical data on Portuguese technological startups. Her research focused on extracting marketing knowledge from historical social media data using artificial intelligence approaches like text mining and community detection algorithms. Ana Rita is now an integrated researcher at unit research ISTAR-IUL, interested in applied data science, network science, and natural language processing.

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.

António Trigo is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE - IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and a researcher at ISTAR in the Information Systems group. He has published around 40 articles in scientific journals, authored book chapters and written 3 books. He has also organized events, supervised 50 master's dissertations and co-supervised 30. He works in the areas of Engineering and Technology, with an emphasis on Management Information Systems. In his professional activities, he has interacted with 240 people. In addition to publications, he has actively participated in the academic review process as a reviewer for renowned scientific journals and conferences, and is a member of conference scientific committees and journal editorial boards.

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.

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) since 2023 and the Director of the Master programme in Information Systems Management (from 2022 till March 2025), currently Subdirector of this same programme till end of 2025, 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.

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.

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

Inna Paiva (PhD) is Associate Professor (with habilitation) 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. (2012) in Computer Science from the Portuguese MAP-i Consortium (University of Minho, University of Aveiro and University of Porto) and performed a postDoc (2013) at Interactive Critical Systems team, IRIT, University of Toulouse (France). He has been an Assistant Professor (since 2016) at Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and a member of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) research unit (since 2013) of the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS). He has co-lead (since 2016) the MEROP research team, has 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. He is member of the, ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee, and IFIP TC 13 - Working Group 13.2. 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).

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.

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.

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, sensor networks, serious games, 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).

Renato Lopes da Costa is however recognized for his work in academic terms, having published more than a hundred scientific articles in the main international business management journals index by scopus and Wos and, 9 books in the same scientific area.  Throughout his career for several years he developed his business activity in the areas of retail and banking, developing projects of an operational nature in the areas of banking and management control in the retail area. Renato Lopes da Costa completed his doctorate in the area of ​​business strategy at ISCTE - University of Lisbon, where he developed a pioneering work on the practices and praxis used by management consultants in the development of their work in client companies, contributing to the state of the art in scientific area of ​​business strategy in the field of strategy-as-practice research. Renato Lopes da Costa also has the title of Habilitation in Management conferred by the University Institute of Lisbon, completed in 2022. As a university professor, he supervised more than two hundred of masters and doctorates in the area of ​​business management, being recognized for this valence, as well as for his teaching ability in the area of ​​business strategy in undergraduate, master's, executive master's and doctorate degrees, nationally and internationally. Having conducted several courses at Portugal universities, he is currently director of the MscBA - Master in Business Administration at ISCTE (being listed on the prestigious lists of the Financial Times as one of the best European courses in the scientific area of ​​management) and Diretor of the Global Master Series INDEG in Business Management, Marketing e Finance e Risk Management. Between 2021 and 2023, Renato Lopes da Costa belonged to the scientific council of ISCTE as a member of the plenary.

Ricardo Ribeiro is an Associate Professor at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, since 2020, where he is the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence scientific area and the director of the Master in Computer Engineering (previously, he was the director of the undergraduate program in Computer Engineering), and a researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa since its creation, working on Human Language Technologies. He received a Ph.D. (2011) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering and an M.Sc. (2003) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an undergraduate five year degree (1996) in Mathematics/Computer Science from Universidade da Beira Interior. From 1999 to 2011, he was a Lecturer at Iscte, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2020. Since 1996, he has been a researcher at INESC/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal, working in speech and language processing. He has participated in several European and Nationally-funded projects. He 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 was also one the coordinators of the technology transfer project IRIS, a contract with the Supreme Court of Justice of Portugal. He has participated in several scientific events, either as organiser or as member of the program committee (IJCAI, ECAI, LREC, Interspeech, ICASSP) and was the editor of a book on the computational processing of Portuguese. He has successfully co-supervised 3 Ph.D. students and more than 70 M.Sc. students.

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 two hundred papers in leading international scientific journals, that have been cited over 11000 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. Researcher integrated into ISTAR/ISCTE, and 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, Intelligent Systems and Data Privacy.