Gustavo López is a 28 years old PhD candidate at the University of Costa Rica. He has focused the past seven years in two specific research areas: software process improvement and Human-Computer Interaction(HCI). His HCI focus lead him to pursue IoT and his Ph.D. focuses on improving notifications delivered through smart devices in IoT environments. His focus in software process improvement allowed him to conduct a research project jointly with a large multi-industry stated-owned company in Costa Rica. With these research interests, he focused his teaching responsibilities in the creation of gamified versions of different courses at the undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science at the University of Costa Rica. In the past 7 years, he has published 9 research articles in indexed journals and over 45 papers in several computer science international conferences.

I am passionate about computer science from a very young age, I cultivated these passions by attending first the electronic professional institute and then the engineering course of the Faculty of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari where I graduated in 2010. After having worked as an informative consultant In 2015, with two of my friends, we founded Apulia Makers 3D, a Digital Manufacturing workshop, one of the first makerspaces in Puglia and Italy. the activities we deal with are 3D Printing, 3D modeling and 3D scanning. We also deal with training and certification and since 2015 we are an AICA Test Center, thanks to which we have the opportunity to disseminate and teach.

Active tech community member and organized several meetups including Adobe Sri Lanka user group(Manager), SL2 College(Project manager), Firefox(Ambassador), Microsoft(Student partner), Google Business Group(active member) & Google Development Group(founding member) in Sri Lanka.

Shivani Trivedi pursued her Bachelor's in Engineering with a specialization in Information Technology followed by a post-grad diploma in Digital Marketing. Shivani has previously worked as an Anchor for ASSOCHAM, India’s largest Chamber of Commerce and Industries. She has also hosted a series named ‘Digital India’ on Indian National Television. Currently, she is working at Rampart - Canada’s leading supplier of military and law enforcement equipment. Her goal is to innovate digital solutions for organizations and contribute towards sustainable living.

Fuqian Shi graduated from the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, and received the Ph. D. degree in engineering. He was a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management System, University of Central Florida, USA, from 2012 to 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Information and Engineering, Wenzhou Medical University. He has published over 80 journal papers and conference proceedings. His research interests include fuzzy inference system, artificial neural networks, and biomechanical engineering. He is a member of ACM and served on over 20 committee board memberships of international conferences. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence and the International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis, and a Special Issue Editor of fuzzy engineering and intelligent transportation in Information: An International Interdisciplinary Journal.

Thinagaran Perumal is the recipient of 2014 Early Career Award from IEEE Consumer Electronics Society for his pioneering contribution in the field of consumer electronics. He completed his PhD at Universiti Putra Malaysia, in the area of smart technology and robotics. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also currently appointed as Head of Cyber-Physical Systems in the university and also been elected as Chair of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Malaysia Chapter. His research interests are towards interoperability aspects of smart homes and Internet of Things (IoT), wearable computing, and cyber-physical systems. His recent research activities include proactive architecture for IoT systems; development of the cognitive IoT frameworks for smart homes and wearable devices for rehabilitation purposes. He is an active member of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and its Future Directions Committee on Internet of Things. He has been invited to give several keynote lectures and plenary talk on Internet of Things in various institutions and organizations internationally. He has published several papers in IEEE Conferences and Journals and is serving as TPC member for several reputed IEEE conferences. For details, please visit www.tperumal.com

Arnamoy is a PhD student in the University of Toronto. He has received his Masters from University of Alberta and his bachelor's from West Bengal University of Technology. He has over 15 peer reviewed papers. and participated in various conferences. He is also an active collaborator with industry (IBM, Huawei, Google) and has served as both contributor and mentor for startups (Smarking, VideoComm technologies, NA3 systems).

Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) is one of the two largest national universities in Vietnam, consists of 06 university members. International University (IU) is a member of VNUHCM and the first public university in Vietnam that uses English as the primary language in teaching and researching. I have worked at School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) of IU since 2004 and experienced in teaching, research and management. My research field is Image Processing, Image Forensics. At present, I have played two roles: Lecturer of SCSE and Director of Center of Education Quality Management (CEQM) of the IU. With the role of a lecturer, I do teaching and research regularly. I teach at least two courses in every semester and publish 1 research paper per year. With the role of Director of CEQM, I am in charge of the IU's quality assurance (QA) activities and strategics, including QA in education, research and services.