He is Affiliated Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy (https://inbot.iit.it/). Since 2022, he has been the Scientific Director of the Center for Scientific Research and Technological Innovation in the Neurological Field, NemoLab, at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy (https://nemolab.it/). His research interests include computer vision and artificial intelligence with applications in robotics, video analysis, human behavior analysis, extended reality and digital humanities. He is the author of over 300 international articles and collaborates with numerous national and international companies in technology transfer and innovation activities. Since 2021, he has been included in the annual "World's Top 2% Scientists" list curated by Stanford University and Elsevier, which lists the top 2% of the world's most cited scientists within the "Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing" category. He has been Program Chair or General Chair of various international conferences and summer schools (e.g. IEEE / ASME MESA Mechatronic Embedded System & Applications 2016 and 2017, IEEE ECMR European Conference on Mobile Robotics 2017, BigDat 2020, DeepLearn 2021) and co-organizer of many international workshops (eg DeepRetail ICPR 2020, D2CH CVPR 2021, AI4DH ICIAP 2022). He is also involved in several national and international technology transfer projects in the fields of AI, Deep Learning, data interoperability, cloud-based technologies, and big multimedia data analysis, extended reality and digital humanities. He is a member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, the European AI Alliance, and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He served as expert for the EU Commission in the AI H2020 and Horizon Europe Calls and as co-speaker of the European IPEI CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest - Cloud Infrastructure and Services) for the Data Exchange & AI services of the next generation of European Cloud & Edge Services.

Dr.Satya Brink is an internationally known Canadian researcher and policy advisor known for her large picture thinking and her integrated evidence-based policy advice to achieve measurable results for learners and national human capital. Her career spans 40 years in policy research on lifelong learning and its components. She conducted or managed research on learning outcomes of learners in preschool, school, university and postgraduate studies, work and adulthood based on national and international cross sectional and longitudinal surveys. She was the Canadian delegate to the OECD governing board for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). She co-chaired the OECD Programme for International Adult Assessment of Competencies (PIAAC) for the inaugural cycle. She has worked for international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Bank, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL). Her consulting clients include governments and organizations in developed countries such as Finland and Ireland and developing countries such as Senegal and Egypt. She is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada. She is the author of the book “Longevity Dividend – Later life, Lifelong Learning and Productive Societies” published by Springer, 2023. She is currently working on the potential transformation of the education system to meet future needs.

Mindy L. Kornhaber is an Associate Professor, Emerita with The Pennsylvania State University. Her work focuses on the intersection of education policy and cognitive development. She has conducted extensive research on policies and practices aimed at promoting more equitable schooling, particularly policies focused on school accountability and the effects of these policies on teacher practice. Previously, Dr. Kornhaber served as a researcher at the Civil Rights Project at Harvard Law School, where she investigated the civil rights implications of high-stakes test policies. She also worked as a principal investigator at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, identifying school practices that associate the theory of multiple intelligences with positive outcomes for students. Recently, she acted as a Curriculum Designer for the Aspire Institute, a spin-off of the Harvard Business School, where she designed an online professional development course for low-income, first-generation college students that enrolled more than 10,000 students worldwide. She is the author of numerous publications and has been recognized with "Top 10 Article" awards by the Education Policy Analysis Archives in 2014 and 2016, and by Educational Policy in 2004. She also served as the Associate Editor for the American Journal of Education from 2012 to 2020. Dr. Kornhaber holds a Doctor of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education