Harald Kitzmann is a Professor at University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, Narva College, Junior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship. Value driven line and project manager with 30+ years’ experience in strategic and operational transitions, Controlling and production management of small and midsize, inter-cultural manufacturing companies across a wide range of industries. Internationally recognized for collaborative leadership style with proactive approach, and keen ability to work out and implement effective organisation-specific and (non-) traditional solutions in complex systems to solve challenges in volatile external and internal environments; capable of blending big-picture, strategic views with operational daily need considerations to ensure business viability. Along with professional activities, the focus in scientific activities is in the development of holistic and sustainable systems for production and regional areas; especially the ecological, technological, social and economic feasibility with considering interests of all stakeholders and targets in circular economic and management of flexibility. Scientific and Teaching experiences has been demonstrated to undergraduate and master level students in lectures at the Tallinn University of Technology and Moscow State Technical University (Bauman University), but also to researchers and practicing experts in presentation at conferences, seminars and workshops in European Union countries and in Russia and Ukraine.

Youness El Hamzaoui, a data scientist, is a full time research professor at the faculty of engineering of the Autonomous University of Carmen. Campeche State. United States of Mexico. He has a doctorate in engineering and applied sciences, is a member of the national system of researchers of the national council of science and technology, and has the desirable profile granted by the program of science and technology, has the desirable profile granted by the program for the professional development of teachers for higher education of the secretary of higher education. His research field is basically focused on complex systems modeling in particular, neural networks, genetic programming, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, particle swarm algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms and machine learning.
Now Dr. Youness El Hamzaoui is working to understand how smart irrigation systems work and why it has emerged in society as a national and international problem with a great social impact, using data mining tools, machine learning, heuristic optimization and inferential statistics. 

Hamza Zidoum is the head of the Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Research Group in the Department of Computer Science, and Assistant Professor of computer science at Sultan Qaboos University. He did his PhD., and MSc. in Artificial Intelligence in the University of Franche-Comte, France. His current research interests fall in the areas of Constraint Programming, and Machine Learning with emphasis on Natural Language Processing, and Health applications. He is a member of the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). He served as Researcher in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He received an Engineering Degree in electronics from the University Farhat Abbas, Setif, Algeria. He has been an expert for the Ministry for Higher Education in Oman. He has extensive academic experience at various academic and research organizations in Europe and Asia, including UFR Sciences & Techniques, University of Franche-Comté, ENSMM École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques, Besançon, France ; IUT Institut Universitaire de Technologie Clermont-Ferrand, France, University of UAE, Al-Ain, and University of Qatar, Doha. Outside work, he enjoys the practice of Aikido, mountaineering and rock climbing.