Dr. Victor Chang is an Associate Professor in Information Management and Information Systems and also a Director of PhD Programme at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China. Dr. Victor Chang was a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Leeds Beckett University, UK and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Southampton, UK. He has been a technical lead in web applications, web services, database, grid, cloud, storage/backup, bioinformatics, financial computing which subsequently have become his research interests. Victor has also successfully delivered many IT projects in Taiwan (place of birth), Singapore, Australia, and the UK since 1998. Victor is experienced in a number of different IT subjects and has 27 certifications with 97% on average. He completed PGCert (Higher Education, University Greenwich, 2012) and PhD (C.S, University of Southampton, 2013) within four years while working full-time, whereby the distance between his work and research is about hundreds of miles away. He has over 100 published peer-reviewed papers, including several high-quality journals up-to-date. Victor won £20,000 funding in 2001 (Singapore-Cambridge Trust) and £81,000 funding in 2009 (Department of Health). He was involved in part of the £6.5 million project in 2004, part of the £5.6 million project in 2006 and part of a £300,000 project in 2013. He also won another £200,000 to support his scholarly activities. He is a PI and Co-PI in some projects. Victor is a winner in 2011 European Identity Award in “On Premise to Cloud Migration”. He has won a prestigious European award, Best Project in Research, at the European Cloud and Identity Award in 2016. He was selected to present his research at the United Nations in 2003 and at the House of Commons, UK, in 2011. He won the best papers in 2012 and 2015. Dr Victor Chang has taught numerous undergraduate and postgraduate modules since Year 2011. In some modules he taught, students like his teaching and enjoy his labs and lectures.

Dr Victor Chang is leading expert on Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things and Security. He has demonstrated ten different types of Cloud Computing and Big Data services in both of his practitioner and academic experience. The contributions that he has offered will be published in high-quality journals. Additionally, his proposed frameworks have been adopted by several organizations. In April 2014 he received 5 certificates in a single international conference to set a record. Dr Victor Chang received 1 award and 4 certificates in one single international conference in May 2015 to set another record. He is the Founding Chair of international workshops in Emerging Software as a Service and Enterprise Security. His workshops have been described as the most successful workshops by conference organizers and have attracted audiences with positive response. As a result, he received an IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015. One of his workshops has stepped up as an international conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS) that has attracted high-profiled submissions and high-quality journals’ backing. He is also the founding chair for the international conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk (COMPLEXIS). He is an editor of the Cloud Computing adoption book with IGI Global. He is a reviewer of International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Internet Services and Applications and Journal of Computing and Information Technology. Dr Victor Chang is a joint Editor-in-Chief ofInternational Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), and Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD). He has a leading journal, Business Intelligence as a Service in the Cloud” published in July 2014 by a highly prestigious journal, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). He has been promoted as an Editor of FGCS since October 2014. He has the most popular article in a transaction world leading journal, called “Towards Achieving Data Security with the Cloud Computing Adoption Framework”. He is a guest editor for numerous Q1 journal special issues. Some of his publications are available here.

Ray Walshe is a Funded Investigator (FI) in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in Dublin City University. He runs Big Data projects in the areas of Health/Human Performance, Power Electronics and Personal Communication Platforms. Ray is a recognised expert in Big Data Standards where he some of his work includes : - Lead Editor of ISO WG9 Big Data Standards, -  Head of Ireland Delegation for Big Data at NSAI, - Member of Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG) for DG-CNECT, Software and Services, Cloud Unit at European Commission , - Steering Board member for  NetWorld2020, the European Technology Platform for communications networks and services, - Rapporteur for FOG Computing White Paper for European Standards Development Organisation (ETSI).

Ray’s other passion involves Startup Companies. Startup activities include: - for the European Commission he is Coordinator for Startup Europe Week activities in Ireland, -  He is the Founder of Spark2Start a startup ecosystem event, - Leads the SEC2U and Startup Europe University Network initiatives for Ireland,  -  Works with Startup Companies in Insight Centre for Data Analytics, - Chief Architect for a number of Startups.

Mohamed JEMNI is a Professor of Computer Science and Educational Technologies at the University of Tunis, Tunisia. He is the Director of ICT at The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization ALECSO (www.alecso.org). He has been the General Director of the Computing Center El Khawarizmi, the Internet services provider for the sector of higher education and scientific research in Tunisia, from 2008 to 2013. He is a Senior member IEEE, member of the Executive board of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (www.ieeetclt.org) and he is co-editor of Springer Lecture Notes in educational Technology.
At ALECSO, he is currently leading several projects related to the promotion of effective use of ICT in education in the Arab world, namely, OER, MOOCs, cloud computing and the strategic project ALECSP-APPS with three main components: ALecsoApps Store, AlecsoApps Editor and AlecsoApps Award (www.alecsoapps.com), aiming to provide a technological environment for the promotion of an emerging digital creative Arab Mobile industry, related to the fields of education, culture and science.
His Research Projects Involvements during the last 28 years are Educational Technologies, High Performance and Grid computing and Accessibility of ICT to People with Disabilities. He published more than 300 papers in international journals, conferences and books, and produced many studies for international organizations such as UNESCO, ITU and ALECSO.  Prof. Jemni and his laboratory have received several awards, including the Silver medal of the International Fair of Inventions in Kuwait 2007, the UNESCO Prize 2008 for the e-learning curriculum they developed for visually impaired, President's Award for the integration of persons with disabilities 2009 and the "World Summit Award (WSA) - Mobile 2010" in the field of social inclusion. In April 2012, his laboratory LaTICE received the Google Student AWARD and he has received the Best Communication Paper of the Web For All 2012. Prof. Jemni received the International Telecommunication Union Award: “ICT Innovation application challenge” during the WSIS Forum in Geneva in May 2013.
He is member of the steering committee of G3ICT – United Nations, Global initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies and he is also the president of a Tunisian NGO created in June 2011: the Tunisian Association of e-accessibility (www.e-access.tn). He has launched many initiatives to promote ICT accessibility in the Arab region including the project of WCAG2.0 translation to Arabic (www.alecso.org/wcag2.0/) to promote accessibility of Arabic Web Content and the 2009 initiative for using ICT to develop Arab Sign language. His full CV is available at his web page : www.latice.rnu.tn/english/memb_jemni.htm

Prof. Dr. Brahim Hnich's primary area of research is in Artificial Intelligence (AI). He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (1997) from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. In January 2003, he received his PhD from Uppsala University under the supervision of Prof. A . Hamfelt (Sweden) and Prof. T. Walsh (UK). His PhD thesis
was nominated for the European Coordinating Committee of AI best theses award. In January 2008, he received his Habilitation (HDR) from University of Montepplier II, Montpellier, France. Since 1998, Dr. Hnich has published in international peer-reviewed journals such the AI journal, the journal of AI Research and the Communications of the ACM, and multiple papers at the international (IJCAI), American (AAAI) and European (ECAI) AI conferences. Two of his papers presented at the 2003 IJCAI and 2004 ECAI conferences have been selected among the best papers. In 2005, he has been nominated for the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award of 1.2 Million Euros and has been short-listed among the 8 finalists among 41 nominees worldwide. He is currently an Associate Professor at the department of Computer Science at Monastir University, Tunisia. From 2006 till 2009, he worked as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the department of Computer Engineering at Izmir University of economics (Turkey), and as a full Professor as of 2009 till 2016. He was a Research Fellow at the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork (UCC) between 2003 and 2006. In October 2003, he was appointed Docent (equivalent to Associate professor) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Dr. Hnich is an associate editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal and was the co-chair of ECAI 2004, IJCAI 2005, CSCLP 2005 and CP 2005 workshops on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints and is the co-editor of their proceedings. He is the editor of a volume entitled "Recent Advances in Constraints" for the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series in 2005. He acts as a reviewer for many international conferences and journals including AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, the Constraints journal, the AI journal and the journal of AI research. He has been involved in the organization of international conferences and workshops, both on their organizing and program committees. His research interests include, among others (stochastic) constraint programming, global constraints, and symmetry in combinatorial problems.