Prof Enrico Ciavolino

Professor in Psychometrics at Salento University and Adjunct Professor of Multidimensional Data Analysis at WSB University in Poland.

He is Vice-Chancellor to research promotion and fundraising and member of scientific committee of Human and Social Sciences PhD course. He is the head of Sara-Lab (Statistical Analysis for Research and Applications) statistical Division of Espéro (spin-off of the University of Salento) and the Executive Managing Editor of the WoS & Scopus Journal: Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis. He published more than 80 papers in national and international journals in the field of Psychometrics and Statistics. In 2017 and 2018 he received the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission, as the institution managing Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020.

Dr. Saikat Gochhait

He teaches at Symbiosis Institute of Digital & Telecom Management, Symbiosis International Deemed University Pune, India and Neurosciences Research Institute-Samara State Medical University, Russia. He is Ph.D and Post-Doctoral Fellow from the UEx, Spain and National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He was Awarded DITA and MOFA Fellowship in 2017 and 2018. His research publication with foreign authors is indexed in Scopus, ABDC, and Web of Science. He is a Senior IEEE member.

Dr. Abdul Bashiru Jibril

Prof. Abdul Bashiru Jibril is a Senior Lecturer (Marketing) at Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Dr Jibril holds a PhD in Marketing Management from Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic. His research focuses on Technology adoption, social media analytics, Service marketing, Brand management, and Sustainable e-tourism. He is interested in deploying data mining techniques in extracting intelligence to improve business decision making especially for marketers and corporate success in the emerging and developing economies. He has led and involved in a research team to execute several external projects in Europe and Africa. He is currently a principal investigator of a Fair Work project (UK) between University of Oxford and International University of Rabat, Morocco. The results of his research have been published in impacted and ABS/ABDC ranking journals, such as the International Journal of Information management, International Journal of Consumer Studies, etc. and contributed to book chapters (in Springer) and Conference proceedings. He has also actively participated and presented in numerous international scientific conferences (indexed in WoS/Scopus/Springer), with host countries such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, etc. He serves as Associate Editor for Cogent Business and Management (Taylor & Francis), Editorial review board member for International Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics (IJNN) (IGI Global), and Sectional Editor for Current Social Sciences (Bentham Science Publishers).

Assoc. Prof Emma Zavarrone

At IULM University in Milan, Emma Zavarrone Ph. D., is an Associate Professor of Social Statistics and Demography. She teaches courses that are specifically relevant to social media and consist of quantitative research methods and textual analysis. She is presently serving as the University's Rector Delegate for the Third Mission. She holds the scientific coordinator position for a multitude of European initiatives. As a division of the IULM research centre referred to as HumanLab, she serves as the scientific director of the Humanities Analytics Lab (HAL). She engages in collaborative efforts with multiple organisations to develop innovative survey methodologies that prioritise textual analytics algorithms and human-computer interaction. Her principal research focus revolves around the application of natural language processing in the pursuit of sustainability analysis. A considerable collection of her works has been published on a national and international level.

Prof Truong Gia Khanh

Representative Director of FUNDGO Creative Startup Investment Fund in Ho Chi Minh City.Graduated with a bachelor's degree in Marketing from Les Roches Switzerland and a Master's degree in Management from Les Roches Marbella school in Spain, he is currently Director of Viantravel and Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs Association Tourism Club. Male. In addition, he also holds the position of International Business Director of DTS Group and Director of DTS Foundation.

Prof. Roberto Rana

Roberto Leonardo Rana is full professor at Foggia University, in the scientific area of “Commodity Science”. Currently he teaches Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Environmental Education courses at the Department of Economics and the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies respectively. He has involved collaborations with the Laboratory for Anthropogenic Resources of Vienna University of Technology and University of Mato Grosso du Sur (Brasil). Furthermore, he is a Coordinator of the PhD course titled Economics and finance of territorial sustainability and well-being. He took part in many international projects and conferences as chair and speaker. Furthermore, he is an author of more than 100 international publications. Regarding research activities of prof. Rana they concern different items such as: a) EU energy policy in terms of reduction in CO2 emissions (Covenant of Mayors); b) Modifications of local agricultural systems caused by human and climatic factors. c) Environmental assessment by Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint methodology; d) Technological innovations (i.e., blockchain, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, ICT) and their effect in economic sectors; e) measurement of material and energy flows. Prof. Rana is a member of several Editorial Board Memberships and has been Guest editor in different special issues of scientific journals. Finally, he is a member of the Italian Commodity Science Academy, International Society of Commodity Science and Technology and Italian network association Life Cycle Assessment.