M.F. Montemor is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Chemical Engineering. Her scientific activity focusses on new functional coatings for surface protection and forenergy storage. She is co-author of 20 book chapters and above 350 scientific papers. Her h index is 76.She has been awarded with the EFC medal and has received a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by University of Mons. Leading a scientific team of approximately 20 researchers, including PhD students, pos-docs and young researchers, she fosters a creative research environment conducive to cutting-edge research and innovation that addresses synergies between materials engineering research and industry needs.She is co-founder of the company “Charge2C-NewCap” that fabricates supercapacitors.

Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, security and economics of multi-energy systems. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry, governments and regulatory bodies about the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon energy future. He is currently Director of the joint Imperial-Tsinghua Research Centre on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems, Member of OFGEM Climate Resilience Expert Panel, Member of the UK Smart System Forum, Member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Smart Networks for the Energy Transition, and Member of the Joint EU Programme in Energy Systems Integration of the European Energy Research Alliance. He co-authored 4 books and published over 500 technical papers.

Dr. Weidong Zhu is currently working as a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He has completed his Dual B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1986 and completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University, 1988 and completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, at University of California at Berkeley, 1994. He has received many awards like the CAREER Award, National Science Foundation in the year of 2004, and Bayer Teaching Excellence Award, International Symposium on Multi-/Inter-Disciplinary Engineering in the year of 2006. His research spans the fields of dynamics, vibration, control, applied mechanics, structural health monitoring, and wind energy, and integrates analytical development, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. Much of the current research can be divided into three areas: 1) vibration and stability of distributed structural systems; 2) finite element modeling, modal testing, model updating, and structural damage detection; and 3) infinitely variable transmission and wind energy. In the first area.

Professor Adrian David Cheok AM FRSA FIET FIES FIEAust FZS FRAS Member of the Order of Australia, Professor NUIST, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineers in Scotland, Fellow of Engineers Australia, Fellow of Sigma Xi (USA), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK), Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (UK), Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

Prof. Dr. Foo Keng Yuen is the UNESCO Co-Chair on Eco-hydraulics for Sustainable Water Infrastructures for SDG 6 in the Asia and the Pacific Region. His research interests are environmental engineering, waste utilization, water treatment technology, catalysis, food security and toxicology, and environmental health. He has involved in different kinds of university, national and international research grants, amounting to approximately RM 10 million. His aptitude for high quality research of international standing has been supported by the consultancy projects of exceeding RM 3 million, more than 100 international publications, with a total citation of exceeding 20,000, and an author h-index of 53. Foo’s scholastic achievements and thought leadership are recognised locally and internationally. He is honoured to be the Top 2% Scientists in their Respective Fields and Top 2% Highly Cited Scientists in the world by the Stanford University, California consequentially for 5 years. Foo has been nominated to be the honoree of the Ten Outstanding Young Malaysians (TOYM) 2022, Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) 2019, National Young Scientist Award 2017, International Young Inventor Award, Marquis Who's Who in the World, Top 100 Engineers, and Honorary Doctorate of Letters by International Biographical Centre Cambridge, England, and special award or medal winners in International Inventions, Competitions and Exhibitions. He serves as the Editor, Editorial Board Members, Scientific Adviser, Technical Committee, Review Committee, Keynote and Invited Speakers in international scientific journals, conferences, and research seminars. Foo has been nominated as the Chief Consultant for several UNESCO’s international workshops, connecting with more than 30 industrial partners, currently has been appointed as the technical consultant for TG Ocean Health Food Industries Limited Company and research and development (R&D) consultant for Gold Choice Food Industries Limited Company.

Jun-Ki Choi, Ph.D. is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dayton and Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Training and Assessment Center (ITAC). His research focuses on industrial decarbonization, renewable energy systems, life cycle assessment, circular economy, and multiscale energy and environmental modeling that connects engineering design with policy and societal impacts. Dr. Choi has led more than $9 million in externally funded research and published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles addressing energy efficiency, renewable manufacturing, and sustainability transitions. Through the DOE IAC program, he has conducted and overseen more than 1,100 industrial energy assessments, helping manufacturers reduce energy use, costs, and carbon emissions while training the next generation of clean energy engineers. Internationally, Dr. Choi has held visiting and teaching appointments at institutions including KAIST, Seoul National University, the University of Bologna, and CUNY. He has delivered over 40 invited talks worldwide on system thinking for industrial decarbonization. He holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, and currently serves as the Anderson Endowed Chair in Engineering Innovation.

Willi Semmler is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development Emeritus at the New School for Social Research, New York. He was a Postdoc at Columbia University, a professor at American University, Washington, D.C., and Bielefeld University, Germany, and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Vienna. He is an honorary doctor of the American University Europe-Fon and was an evaluator of research projects for the EU Commission and a visiting scholar at the ECB and the IMF while working for the IEO at the IMF. He is also a member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, directed by Edmund Phelps (Nobel Laureate in Economics), a research associate at La Sapienza, Rome, a senior research associate at the IIASA, Vienna, and an associate editor of the journal Econometrics and Statistics. His research is on empirical macroeconomics, financial economics, and the economics of climate change. He has numerous journal and book publications, and his research has appeared in publications of the World Bank, the IMF, the ECB, and ILO.

Prof. Bernard H. Foing, president Space Renaissance International, executive director of ILEWG, CEO LUNEX EuroSpaceHub and EuroMoonMars Earth Space Innovation, Qomosys Chief Scientist. ERA chair at Riga Latvia, guest Prof at Leiden observatory, ISU, IPSA and formerly EPFL, VU Amsterdam . Member IAF committees (IPC, space exploration, astronomy, space habitats, traffic management, ITACCUS former chair), founder of ArtMoonMars and MoonGallery. Full member International Academy of Astronautics since 2010, vice-chair COSPAR planetary and PEX Panel on Exploration Panel, co-director IMA International Moonbase Alliance, founder Moon Village & MVA, EGU space instrumentation officer. Former ESA Chief Scientist, senior advisor to DG, chair of ESTEC staff association committee (2012-2017) & SMART-1 Lead scientist. Co-Investigator of SOHO, XMM, BIOPAN, SMART-1, Mars Express, COROT, ISS/Expose, BIOMEX, ExoMars. Publications : 980 articles, including 240 refereed papers. Edited 10 Books. Academics : Habilitation 1990. He has been working at CNRS, and as post-doc astronomer ESO European Southern Observatory Chile, PhD astrophysics & space techniques

Professor Li’s research areas include waste resource utilization, green and low-carbon technologies, and new pollutant control. She has obtained funds from the National Natural Science Foundation, National Key R&D Program, and Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and published over 70 papers. She was selected as a National High-Level Talent, and Outstanding Agricultural Research Talent of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. She also serves as a member of the Chinese Society of Microbiology, a director of the Beijing Society of Microbiology, and a member of the national ecological farm expert group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Jinsong Wu received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2006. He is proposer (2021) the Founder (2022) and Founding Editor-in-Chief (2022-present) for the new international journal, Green Technologies and Sustainability (GTS), KeAi. He received 2020 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee (TCGCC) Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award, for his outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking. He was the leading editor and a coauthor of the comprehensive book, entitled Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, September 2012). He received the 2017, 2019, and 2021 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Awards.

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Vipul Jainis an Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Logistics Management at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia, with extensive international academic and leadership experience. He has held senior academic roles at Victoria University of Wellington, including Undergraduate Programme Director, PhD Programme Director, and Research Director, where he shaped academic programmes and research strategy. His global experience includes visiting professorships and research roles in the UK and France, leading a major EU-funded logistics project, and prior faculty and programme leadership positions at IIT Delhi, where he also established a supply chain research lab to strengthen industry and government engagement. Vipul is highly cited in his area of research on Operations and Supply Chain Management and has more than 150 archival publications to his credit in high impact factor journals, as well as conference papers, edited books, and books chapters. Vipul demonstrates strong scholarly leadership through his editorial roles, serving as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and Area Editor for many prestigious journals, where he plays a key role in shaping research quality, direction, and impact in the field. He is also an editorial board member for 15 prestigious international journals and has guest edited many special issues for reputed international journals, along with serving as editor for seven book series. Vipul has been actively involved in conducting Management Development/Training Programmes for Senior Managers and Executives of Public and Private Organizations on various issues and challenges encountered in Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Vipul is involved as a general chair, programme chair, scientific and advisory committee member for various prestigious international conferences and has chaired many sessions in INFORMS, IEEE IEEM conferences in USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Asia Pacific etc. Vipul was the co-chair of the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management 2023 conference held from Dec 5 to 7 in Wellington.

Omar A. Ismail is the co founder and CTO of Hydroforge, a hydrogen technology startup focused on driving green hydrogen below 2 USD/kg. He is a PhD candidate in the Multiscale Energy Transport Laboratory at City University of Hong Kong, led by Prof. Weihong Li, where Hydroforge’s core patents and innovations originated. Omar is a certified renewable and hydrogen energy consultant with the Renewable Energy Institute, and a member of ASME and CSME. He has authored 7+ peer reviewed publications and is an inventor on multiple pending patents. Before academia, Omar spent a decade as an engineering consultant and team lead in Egypt and Canada, delivering more than 10 sustainability and renewable energy projects and helping clients reduce annual waste by over 40 million USD. He brings a rare blend of deep technical expertise, IP driven innovation, and real world execution experience across diverse markets.