Kharchenko, Vyacheslav: - VyacheslavKharchenko, HeadofComputerSystems, NetworksandCybersecurity, National Aerospace University KhAI, Head of Centre for Safety Infrastructure Research and Analysis, RPC Radiy. Education and degrees: Kharkiv High Military Engineering Rocket College (1969-1974), PhD (1981), Central Patent Institute (1983-1986), Honor Inventor of Ukraine (1990), Professor on Control Systems Department (1991), Doctor of Science on Engineering (1995). Experience: supervisor and developer of 12 national standards on NPP and aerospace I&C safety; supervisor of 45 PhD and Drs dissertations; invited researcher and professor (UK, 2004; Germany, 2006; Slovakia, 2010; USA, 2011; UK, 2016, 2017); national coordinator of 8 EU projects; consultant of R&D companies on critical software and systems development and certification. Conferences: invited speaker of 21 conferences (Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom, etc); 19 awards for the best papers; General Chair of Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT) Conferences (2006-2018), PC Chair of the WS CrISS, GreenSCom, TheRMIT (2011-2018); supervisor of standing CriCTechS Seminar (2001-2018). Publications: 32 books and chapters (Springer, IGI Global, etc); 225 papers in Journals and Proceedings indexed in Web of Science and Scopus; more 800 patents. R&D interests: software and FPGA systems dependability; diversity for safety and security; IT-Infrastructure (Cloud, IoT) intrusion-tolerance and resilience, green IT engineering.

Kor, Ah Lian: - Dr Ah-Lian Kor received the degree of MSc in 1995 (Malaya University, Malaysia) and PhD in 2002 (Leeds Beckett University, UK). She is part of Leeds Beckett MSc Sustainable Computing Curriculum Development Team. She has been involved in several EU projects for Green Computing, Innovative Training Model for Social Enterprises Professional Qualifications, Integrated System for Learning and Education Services, and Internet of Things. She has published more 100 papers, chapters and other works on ontology, Semantics Web, Web Services, Portal, semantics for GIS etc. She is active in AI research and has developed an intelligent map understanding system and reasoning system. She is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Web Portals; a member of IQN (international quality network for spatial cognition); sits on many international conference program / technical committees (e.g. IEEE Cloud Computing, Cyberlaws Conference, ICT-EurAsia, etc.); an active paper reviewer for journals and conferences (e.g. AMCIS, International Journal of Emergency Services, Interscience Journal, etc.); Editorial Advisory Board Member for International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems and International Journal on Advances in Security; an associate member of the EPSRC funded e-GISE (e-Government and System Evaluation Network)and has helped organise an international workshop (eGOV05) for the network.

Rucinski, Andrzej: - Andrzej Rucinski, Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for the Study of Earth, Ocean, and Space, Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, USA. Ambassador of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, USA. Ambassador of Polish Congress Ambassadors, Poland. Member of eCollaborative Ventures (eCV) Collaboratory, USA. He was educated both in Poland and the former Soviet Union and has conducted his academic career in both the United States, Europe (France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom), Africa (Ethiopia), Asia (India, Kazakhstan). His service has been with high tech industry, governments, ranging from the state level (National Infrastructure Institute, serving as the Chief Scientist) to a global level (NATO, United Nations Organization). He has been a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Design Automation Technical Committee. He chaired the leading conference in microelectronics education, the 2009 Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE'09) in San Francisco. At the University of New Hampshire, he is the founding Director of the Internet of Things Research and Development Laboratory, a former Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory. Member of ASEE, ACM, IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE-SA, IGIP, SEFI, and ACM Distinguished Speaker. He was the Member of the US State Department/Fulbright National Screening Committee.