Speakers

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Prof. William Yeoh

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China


Professor William Yeoh is an award-winning innovator at Hong Kong Metropolitan University's Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration. Previously, he served at Deakin University's Deakin Business School for 14 years and was the Innovation Head of Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre.

He has successfully supervised 7 doctoral and 10 master theses. He is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research and the Big Data and Analytics Educational Conference Co-Chair. ScholarGPS ranks him as the 7th highest-ranked researcher globally in the Business Intelligence field.

His scholarship has been published in top journals, including 8A* and 28A ABDC-ranked journals, and top conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, HICSS), and has been supported by various funding bodies and industry. His expert opinions have been featured on national news outlets, e.g., ABC Radio, SBS News, Australian Financial Review, The New Daily, etc. 

Teaching Areas & Research Interests: 

Business Intelligence, Business Analytics & Statistics, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, Low Altitude Economy/UAV, Blockchain.


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Prof. Antonio Skarmeta

Universidad de Murcia, Spain


Dr Antonio Skarmeta received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada and B.S. (Hons.) and the Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Murcia Spain. Since 2009 he is Full Professor at the same department and University. Antonio F. Skarmeta has worked on different research projects in the national and international area in the networking, security and IoT and 5G area, like ENABLE, DAIDALOS, SWIFT, SEMIRAMIS, SMARTIE, SOCIOTAL and IoT6 and involved in 5GInspireplus, 5GMobix, GN4+, CyberSec4Europe and BIECO. He coordinated the H2020 project IoTCrawler focusing on IoT advanced discovery on IPv6 networks and OLYMPUS on privacy preserving IdM, and now the 6G-SNS RIGOUROUS, the HE CERTIFY on IoT lifecycle security and HE TITAN on confidential data collaboration & secure and privacy-preserving data processing. He has been chair of several conference and workshop, with special attention to IEEE 5GWF and now the IEEE Future Networks World Forum.



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Prof. Muhamed Turkanović

Maribor University, Eslovenia

CV

  • Associate Professor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from December 2021

  • President of the SIST Technical Committee for Blockchain, 2020+ (Slovenian Institute for Standardization)

  • Member of Slovene national Strategic council for digitalization, 2021+

  • Member of the Council of the Research and Development Center of the University of Maribor (RAZ: UM), 2019 - 2020

  • Coordinator of the DIGI-SI consortium of Digital Innovation Hubs of Slovenia, 2000+

  • Head of the Digital Innovation Hub of the University of Maribor (DIH UM), 2019

  • Deputy Head of the Institute of Informatics, 2019+

  • Head of the Study Program Informatics and technologies of communications (UN, VS, MAG), 2019+

  • Member of the FERI Commission for Pedagogical Affairs, 2019+

  • Assistant Professor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016 - 2021

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of Computer Science, 2016

  • CEO of CEI-Sis, Maribor, 2015-2017

  • CTO of CEI-Systems OG, Salzburg - Austria, 2013-2015

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, 2011

  • Developer and project manager, 2007-2013


Main research topics

  • decentralized technologies - blockchain, smart contracts, etc.

  • digital identity & wallets

  • data technologies

  • security and privacy in ICT

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