Bio: Professor Mahmoud Shafik is an international scholar and expert who has made a personal distinction and international leadership recognition, in the field of Intelligent Mechatronics Systems and Digital Technology, with more than 20-years industrial applied research experience in Intelligent Systems, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Everything (IoE), Fly, Drive and Steer-by-wire, 3D Smart Sensors and Actuators for Autonomous Vehicle, Robotic Systems and Industrial Automation, Machine Vision, Innovation for Sustainable Engineering, Cancer Treatment using CVD Diamond Radio Therapy Technology, Information Technology for Blind and Visually Impaired people, Chronic Diseases ICT Technological Solutions, Assisted Living Technology, AD-HOC Wireless Technology, Telehealth, Telecare, Climate Change, Electro-Rheological Fluid Micro Actuators Technology and Software Tools. Shafik has also a number of patents in these areas of industrial applied research and sustainable technology.
Shafik has been chairing and leading several industrial applied research projects from European Commission, and UK Research Councils, of a budget of several millions of euros and have made a great economic and social impact in his area of expertise across the world. His research work has brought many innovative outcomes that have been commercially explored by several Small to Medium (SME’s) and large enterprise (LE’s) organisations. This includes and not limited to: Intersurgical Ltd – UK, Veslatec Oy – Finland, Semelab plc. – UK, PTW Freiburg – Germany, Neotek – France, Kirchmayer Handel & Consulting GmbH – Austria, Spectrum Telecom Installations Ltd – Ireland, Diamond Materials GmbH – Germany, Fireworks International Ltd – UK, Pirotecnia Oscense SA – Spain, Total Motion Systems Ltd –UK, Micromech Limited – UK, Smart Technology Ltd – UK, Audi -Germany, Ford – UK, Schlumberger – France, Nissan – Japan and Rolls Royce - UK.
Shafik is the founder of International Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics-url: http://ojs.unsysdigital.com/index.php/ijrm, Editor-In-Chief of both Journal of Traffic and Logistics url: http://www.jtle.net/ and International Journal of Mechatronics Engineering - https://www.svedbergopen.com/journals/ijme/about-the-journal/. He chaired the 2022 and 2021 International Conference on Manufacturing Research: http://www.icmr.org.uk/). He is serving as a chairman and plenary speaker of International Conference on Intelligent Traffic and Transportation (ICITT), http://www.icitt.org/, International Conference in Communication and Network Technology - http://www.iccnt.org/index.html, and Co-general Chair of International Conference Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research - http://www.icmerr.com/index.html.
Shafik is the Senior lead academic of College of Science and Engineering - University of Derby and international collaboration programs - http://www.derby.ac.uk/. He has been supervising and external examiners for several PhD, and MSc research programmes across worldwide. He is a visiting professor and curriculum consultant for a few universities in EU, Japan, China, and Middle East. He is also a committee member of The Consortium of UK University Manufacturing and Engineering (COMEH) for the Engineering Professors’ Council and is serving as an Assessor and Knowledge Transfer Expert for the UK Knowledge Transfer Network, EPSRC, Innovate-UK and EC Research Programmes.
For more information of Professor Shafik profile, career, achievements and selected publications please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mahmoud-shafik-ph-d/7/237/60 &
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahmoud_Shafik.
Bio: Alexey Vinel (1983) has been a professor with
the School of Information Technology, Halmstad, Halmstad University,
Sweden, since 2015. He was professor II at Western Norway University
of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway in 2018-2021. He received the
Ph.D. degrees from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere,
Finland, in 2013, and from the Institute for Information
Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia, in 2007. He is the Senior
Member of IEEE (2012). His areas of interests include wireless
communications, vehicular networking, and cooperative autonomous
driving.
Bio: Dr Stephen R Pearson is the
CEO of The Sm@rt Group and a former Sandhurst Army Officer in the
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He is a multi-award
winning entrepreneur, with many National awards to his name. He is a
prolific inventor/innovator with Intellectual Property registered
for over 200 products/systems/designs.
Specialising in the
development of systems for Highways, Rail and Assistive Technology
for people with disabilities, his systems can be found all over the
UK, where his vision of creating Smart towns and cities, able to
enhance the lives of people with disabilities is becoming a reality.
An expert in pan-disability product development, he is regularly
called upon by Local Authorities, Rail Operators, Utility Companies
and Disability Organisations to advise and develop solutions that
can solve accessibility issues for people with disabilities. He is
involved with several All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG’s)
covering disabilities in transport and the workplace, held at
Westminster, London.
As the recipient of Lancashire’s
Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2014, Steve has a passion for
entrepreneurship and has established himself as an expert in Youth
Entrepreneurship, and in particular the use of AI to enable the
positive identification of young people with the potential to become
successful entrepreneurs. He has written several papers on the
subject and attended several International Conferences as a speaker
on Youth Entrepreneurship.
His work has seen him invited to be a
member of NewLabs in Detroit, Michigan, USA, as well as Brooklyn,
New York, USA, collaborating in robotic solutions for street
crossings to assist children and senior citizens crossing busy
interstates.
Some of his more recent work involves the use of AI
to detect emergency vehicles approaching traffic lights and change
the lights in favour of the emergency vehicle to speed up the
response time to emergencies. With many other emerging technologies
and innovations currently being developed, Steve is undoubtedly one
of the key innovators in the UK.
Speech Title: Hydrogen in transport: not competition, but cooperation with electromobility also looking at Hydrogen Valleys opportunities
Bio: Professor Stefano Barberis PhD. received his PhD in Turbomachinery and Advanced Energy Systems Engineering at University of Genova in 2016. He is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with expertise in renewable energy sources, project management, techno-economical feasibility studies, research activities on energy storage, hydrogen and renewable energy systems, due diligence, innovation and technology transfer. He is currently appointed as Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Genova in the Thermochemical Power Group (Www.tpg.unige.it/TPG) where he leads R&D activities on energy storage and use of hydrogen in innovative environment.
Fellow of IEEE
Fellow of the European Alliance for
Innovation (EAI)
Fellow of the Industry Academy of the International
Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)
Bio: Shlomi Dolev received his
B.Sc. in Engineering and B.A. in Computer Science in 1984 and 1985,
and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Computer Science in 1990 and 1992 from the
Technion Israel Institute of Technology. From 1992 to 1995, he was at
Texas A&M University. In 1995, he joined the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University. Shlomi is the founding
department head of the Computer Science Department at Ben-Gurion
University, established in 2000. He is the author of a book entitled
Self-Stabilization, published by MIT Press in 2000. His publications,
more than four hundred conferences, journals, and patents, including
papers in JACM, SIAM journal on computing, Nature Photonics, Nature
Communications, Physical Review, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking,
Journal of Cryptology, Neural Computation, and Nanotechnology. Shlomi
served as an Associate Editor in several international journals,
including the IEEE Transactions on Computers and Theoretical Computer
Sciences.
Prof. Dolev holds the Ben-Gurion University Rita Altura
trust chair in Computer Sciences. From 2011 to 2014, Prof. Dolev
served as the Dean of the Natural Sciences Faculty at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev. Since 2010, he has served six years as the
Head of the Inter-University Computation Center of Israel. He is a
co-founder of Secret Double Octopus Ltd. 2015.
He is also a
co-founder of SecretSkyDB Ltd. 2017. In 2015, Shlomi was appointed as
the steering committee head of the computer science discipline of the
Ministry of Education of Israel, and in 2019, became a fellow of the
European Alliance for Innovation (EAI); in 2020, became an IEEE
Fellow, and in 2024, a Fellow of the Industry Academy of the
International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). Prof.
Dolev has been affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT) since 2023.
Bio: José Paulo Lousado is a researcher and currently Coordinating Professor at the Polytechnic University of Viseu, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from DETI / University of Aveiro, and a master's degree in Science, Technology and Innovation Management from DEGEI / University of Aveiro. He has a degree in Mathematics / Informatics from the University of Beira Interior – Covilhã, Portugal. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the Lamego Higher School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic University of Viseu, Portugal, where he currently teaches courses on Industrial Internet of Things, Data Engineering and Big Data, Computer Programming and SQL/NoSQL Database Systems. He is currently the Coordinator of the Master's Course in Information Technologies and Automation. He was the Research Manager of the NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-023623 project (funded by the European Union). His areas of interest are Internet of Things, Big Data, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Systems, Digital Twins, Microcontrollers Programming, Sensors Networks, Bioinformatics, and e-Health. He is on the scientific board of several scientific journals and regularly collaborates as a reviewer in several conferences and scientific journals. He is currently a member of the DIH Connect5 team, funded by the European Union) and Deputy Editor of Millenium, a scientific journal from the Polytechnic University of Viseu, which is indexed in Scopus. He is an IEEE Senior Member and is also a member of the IEEE SMC society.