Invited Speakers

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, US
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
Presentation slides (download as PDF)