Invited Speakers

David Bader
Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Keynote title: Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics
Presentation PDF

Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, 
University of Melbourne, Australia
CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Keynote title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing
Presentation PDF
Lecture (video)

Hristo Djidjev
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Keynote title: Using quantum annealing for discrete optimization
Lecture (video)

Moshe Y Vardi
Professor, Rice University, USA
Keynote title: Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience
Lecture (video)

Christian Blum
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Keynote title: Are you a Hybrid? Yes, of course, everyone is a Hybrid nowadays!
Presentation PDF

George Boustras
European University Cyprus
Keynote title: Critical Infrastructure Protection – on the interface of safety and security
Presentation PDF Video

Hans-Georg Fill
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Keynote title: From Digital Transformation to Digital Ubiquity: The Role of Enterprise Modeling
Presentation PDF Video

Enrique Alba
University of Málaga, Spain
Keynote title: Intelligent Systems for Smart Cities
Presentation (PDF)

Francisco Herrera
Dept. Computer Sciences and Artificial Intelligence Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI) University of Granada
Keynote title: Deep Data and Big Learning: More quality data for better knowledge
Presentation (PDF)

George Spanoudakis
Research Centre for Adaptive Computing Systems (CeNACS), School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London
Keynote title: Cyber security risks: Comprehensive mitigation through technical, contractual and financial mitigation mechanisms
Presentation (PDF)

Mehmet Aksit
Formal Methods and Tools Group, Chair Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science, University of Twente
Keynote title: The Role of Computer Science and Software Technology in Organizing Universities for Industry 4.0 and Beyond
Presentation: PDF
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Jan Bosch
Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Director of the Software Center
Keynote title: Towards a Digital Business Operating System
Presentation: PDF
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Włodzisław Duch
Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory,
Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Keynote title: Neurocognitive informatics for understanding brain functions
Presentation: PDF
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Professor of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Senior Member of the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO), Brazil
Keynote title: Carving Reality at its Digital Joints: The Role of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling in Next-Generation Information Systems Engineering
Presentation (PDF)
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Marjan Mernik
Professor, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Keynote title: Domain-Specific Languages: A Systematic Mapping Study
Presentation (PDF)
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Zbigniew Michalewicz
Chief Scientist, Complexica, Australia
Keynote title: When AI meets Big Data
Presentation (PDF)
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Peter Palensky
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Keynote title: Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent Electrical Power Grids
Presentation (PDF)
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Jan Vitek
Professor, Computer Science, Northeastern University, USA
Head of PRL@PRG, the Programming Research Lab at FIT, CTU in Prague
Keynote title: Data Analysis for the Masses
Presentation (PDF)
Lecture (video)
Interview (video)

Frederik Ahlemann
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Keynote title: How digital transformation shapes corporate IT: Ten theses about the IT organization of the future

Stan Matwin
Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science
Keynote title: Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data

Michael Segal
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Keynote title: Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks?

Clemens Szyperski
Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition

Mohammed Atiquzzaman
School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma
Keynote title : Extending the Internet to Space (download as pdf)
Presentation video
Interview video

Marco Aiello
University of Groningen
Keynote title : EmPowering the Power Grid through ICT
Presentation slides (download as PDF)

Michael Luck (photo by Russel Sach)
King's College London
Keynote title : Toward Electronic Order

Irwin King
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Keynote title : Big Education in the Era of Big Data
Presentation slides (link to presentation materials)

Ivan Stojmenovic
Deakin University, Australia (on leave from  University of Ottawa, Canada)
Keynote title : Mobile Cloud, Crowd and Fog Computing, Communications and Sensing
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