Ivan David Dogan finished his major in philosophy at University of Zagreb, specialising in the field of philosophy of technology and management. He is an MBA candidate in Supply Chain Management at Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM).

Ivan David is working as an assistant at ZSEM, under the Department for Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation. He delivers seminars and professional education on leveraging AI for productivity and innovation to the business community. His research activities are shifted towards sociological and managerial aspects of new technologies.

Prof. Dr. Michael Jaensch is a distinguished professor at HTW Berlin, specializing in European, corporate, international, and comparative law. He leads research and teaching in areas such as private law, commercial law, and civil law. Prof. Jaensch is also the chair of multiple examination committees across various programs, including Project Management and Data Science, Real Estate Management, and Business Law. His extensive research includes 20 projects, 112 publications, and 88 presentations. He is based at the Treskowallee campus in Berlin.

Professor Susanne Wilpers has been teaching and researching human resource management at Heilbronn University since 2005. She is currently working on issues relating to the change in international human resource management in the context of opportunities offered by digitization. Before that, she was an HR manager at a multimedia agency and an HR developer at a company in the steel industry. As a doctor of personality psychology from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Asendorpf) and a keen traveler, she sets impulses in the internationalization of the faculty. 

Since March 2021 and February 2024, Prof. Dr. Wilpers has been an elected and reelected member of the advisory board of Heilbronn University. 

Since August 2021 Prof. Dr. Wilpers has been a tutor at the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Prof. Adam Wierzbicki is a Full Professor of Informatics; a researcher with interdisciplinary knowledge and experience in informatics, psychology, and sociology. He is employed at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, where he is Vice-President, Head of the Ph.D programme (since 2010, this interdisciplinary program involved several hundred students), and leader of a research group in Social Informatics. His research interests lie in Social Informatics, an area of informatics that aims to design information systems and algorithms while taking into account their social and psychological impact, as well as the reciprocal impact of human behavior on information systems. Prof. Wierzbicki has been a pioneer of research on Web content credibility. In 2013-2016, he led the Reconcile project that researched methods of Web content credibility evaluation, pioneering research in this area before the term “fake news” was coined. He is the author of the monograph “Web Content Credibility” (Springer, 2018). Prof. Wierzbicki is the Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) and a Senior Member of ACM.

Boris Debić, Google’s Chief History Officer emeritus, is a renowned technologist who spent 15 years with the company from its earliest days through its most accelerated growth phase ($3B to $161B revenue/year, 3500 to 210k workforce). During his tenure at Google, he held several significant roles, including Release Engineering, G+Privacy, Global Infrastructure, Data Center Site Location, AI-Driven Decision Making, Ads Serving and Machine Learning Infrastructure, and Developer Relations. He collaborated with Google.org on the analysis and exchange of global climate modeling data sets and agricultural data to provide food security forecasts, and in providing access to education to Syrian refugees in Jordan and across the Arab world.

Additionally, with support from NASA Ames, Debić directs Mars Society’s NorCal Rover project. He is also a board member of several high-tech startup companies in both the US and Croatia, including Production.Pro, which was featured as a top three at Launch Fest in San Francisco. Before joining Google, he held positions in Silicon Valley startups, most notably E.piphany, the United Nations, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the University of Zagreb.

Boris Debić will participate this year in the prestigious IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 2024 conference.

Dr. Mato Njavro serves as the Dean of Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM) in Croatia. He also teaches at the Luxembourg School of Business and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. With a diverse academic and professional background, Dr. Njavro has worked at the St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, in Singapore, where he served as a senior research fellow. He
was also a lecturer at the Singapore Management University, where he taught a course on China’s economic development. Prior to joining the University of St. Gallen and Singapore Management University, Dr. Njavro was a visiting research fellow at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS). Dr. Njavro authored and co-authored several papers and case studies published by the Harvard Business School publishing. Dr. Njavro has earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics and finance from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He earned his PhD in finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. His professional experience includes working in the investment banking divisions of Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London. (source: https://zsem.hr/en/dr-sc-mato-njavro/)

Professor Grzegorz Mazurek is a graduate of the Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB). During his time at the PUEB, he received a scholarship for two years of study at the University of Tilburg, one of the best European business schools. Among other things, Mazurek worked there as an Assistant and received his third master’s degree (in Organization and Marketing). After returning to Poland in 2005, he defended his dissertation and obtained a doctoral degree from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. The thesis concerned the adaptation of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange to the conditions of Poland’s “new economy” after the country’s transition from Communism. 

Prof. Mazurek has worked at Kozminski University since September 2005 in the Department of Marketing; first as Senior Assistant, then as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and since May 2020, as Full Professor. In 2017, he completed the development program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Associate Professor Dr. Dalius Misiūnas is the President of ISM University of Management and Economics in Lithuania. He has more than 10 years of experience in different business organizations – he has worked at SWECO, Ernst & Young, Lietuvos Energija, and Maxima Grupė. He also holds the positions of Independent member and chairman of the management board at Auga Group. Associate Professor Dr. D. Misiūnas has a Bachelor’s degree from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). Upon graduating, he studied at Lund University in Sweden, where he later obtained his PhD. Additionally, he has completed the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance‘s Executive program for Professional Board members.ISM‘s President has also been involved in various educational activities as a member of the Council of Higher Education of Lithuania, as Chairman of the Council of KTU, and as a member of the Board at ISM. Associate Professor Dr. D. Misiūnas is a member of The Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference. In 2017, he was a Member of the Working Group on Network Optimisation of Public Higher Education Institutions, which was created by Lithuania‘s Ministry of Education, Science and Sports; currently, he advises the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on issues of planning the future of the state and its progress as a member of the governmental commission – State progress council, and he is also a member of the Advisory council to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania on economic revitalization and resilience enhancement. Associate Professor Dr. D. Misiūnas also conducts research at ISM University. He and his colleagues wrote a study titled „Designing business insolvency model and its application for assessing implications of COVID-19 in Lithuania”.Associate Professor Dr. D. Misiūnas actively shares his knowledge with ISM‘s community. His teaching areas include leadership, strategy and business management. The President of ISM also shares his insights, expert opinion, and experience during some of the largest conferences in Lithuania, such as Login or EBIT.

Marin Njavro is the co-founder of Luxembourg School of Business, the first and leading business school in Luxembourg accredited by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Luxembourg. Marin is responsible for the School’s overall strategy, operations, and relations with the School’s main stakeholders. Marin, a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, has previously worked for Barclays Capital in London and the corporate law department of Loyens & Loeff in Luxembourg. A lifelong enthusiast about education and technology, Marin has also co-founded an Edtech startup ‘Cogent’ in 2022 with a mission to empower educators by helping them scale what they do using next-gen instructional materials.

Dr. Ralf Dillerup is a distinguished professor and expert in business management and controlling. He currently serves as the head of the Institute for Strategy & Controlling at Heilbronn University and is also a professor of Financial Management in the European MBA program at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Additionally, he is a guest lecturer at the St. Gallen Business School. Dr. Dillerup leads both the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Strategy & Controlling and the Controlling Dialogue initiative.

His extensive professional experience includes senior roles in controlling at Robert Bosch GmbH, particularly within the Thermotechnology division, and roles in corporate planning, procurement, and logistics at Mercedes-Benz AG. Early in his career, he worked in production planning at ASB Greenworld Ltd.

Academically, Dr. Dillerup earned his Ph.D. and served as a research associate at the University of Stuttgart, where he also taught. His teaching experience further extends to Stuttgart’s Cooperative State University and the University of Wales, Swansea. He holds a degree in technically-oriented business administration from the University of Stuttgart.

The scholar Swen Seebach (PhD) has achieved his Diplom (BA+MA) in Political Sciences from the University of Leipzig. He has studied as part of his ERASMUS at the University of Sussex. Seebach did his doctoral degree in the Study of the Information and Knowledge Society at the Open University of Catalonia (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in collaboration with the University of Halle and gained his International Doctoral Degree (excellent cum laude and with special honors in 2013). He achieved the Special Award for the best doctoral thesis of his year in 2014. In 2014 Seebach achieved a postdoc researcher position at the IN3. In 2014 and 2015 Seebach worked as a junior associate professor at the UAO CEU and the UOC. In 2015 he gained the Juan de la Cierva formación scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competition which allowed him to work as a researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Swen Seebach forms part of the research group PROTCIS (former GRECS). Seebach has been contracted as a researcher in two European Research projects in which he played the role of a field observer and mediator for interdisciplinarity. Seebach has published in various journals and books. He has published a book with the prestigious editorial Routledge. He has published two articles with JCR 1 Quartil, and 5 articles with JCR 3 Quartil. He has also published articles with Scopus and has various other publications of which some are with important scholars in the field of social research.

Dr. Andrej Novak is a research fellow at the Faculty of Mathematics and Economy, University of Vienna, and a professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, as well as a Medical Degree from the School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, where he graduated with a thesis on cellular models in neuroscience. Dr. Novak’s research focuses on applied mathematics and computer science, with a special interest in partial differential equations, optimization theory, medical image processing, and utilizing interpretable predictive analytics in managing heart pathologies. In his teaching career, he has overseen and coordinated more than ten university-level courses in mathematics, quantitative methods, and computer science at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has contributed to developing curricula for several university computer science programs and has taught courses on quantitative methods at various institutions. Dr. Novak has participated in numerous national and
international projects, serving both as a researcher and a member of management committees. He has been the principal investigator for scientific projects and has collaborated with international firms
specializing in algorithmic solutions for imaging and computationally intensive problems. Dr. Novak is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having delivered over 20 international talks in Europe and worldwide, including in the USA, Brazil, Taiwan, and Indonesia.

Alimshan Faizulayev serves as Research Director and Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at
Bang College of Business, Kimep University. Faizulayev holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus and is esteemed as a distinguished academic and researcher. He has
authored or co-authored over 25 research papers, many of which are listed by ABDC (Australian Business Deans Council) and ABS (Association of Business Schools) rankings. Prior to his current role, Dr. Faizulayev worked as a Financial Analyst and Accountant at BGFS Capital in Cyprus. At Kimep University, he received both the Teaching Excellence Award for 2022-2023 and the Research Excellence Award for 2023-2024, underscoring his dedication to impactful education and research in finance. Before joining Kimep, he served as a Senior Lecturer at the Eastern Mediterranean University and as a Guest Lecturer at the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute in the USA. His professional experience includes roles as an Investment Advisor at the Dovec Group of Companies in Cyprus and as a Project Manager at Dogus Yol Tourism in Turkey. Dr. Faizulayev enriched his global perspective through the Erasmus Exchange Program at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management in Croatia, and he currently co-owns and directs research activities at the London Center for Development in the UK since April 2021.
(source: https://www.kimep.kz/faculty/en/2022/10/05/alimshan-faizulayev-ph-d)

Professor Aleksandra Przegalińska is a philosopher and researcher of new technologies development, especially green and sustainable technology, humanoid artificial intelligence, social robots, and wearable technologies. She received a Ph.D. in 2014 from the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. She graduated from The New School for Social Research in New York, where she researched identities in virtual reality, with a particular focus on Second Life. Przegalińska-Skierkowska has on many occasions popularized her research and knowledge in international media such as The Atlantic, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Harvard Business Review. (source: https://www.kozminski.edu.pl/en/community/card/prof-aleksandra-przegalinska-skierkowska)

Dr. Alberto Termine is a researcher in the Department of Innovative Technology at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, and a member of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland. He also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Research Fellow within the Ethics of AI Chair at the IGEM, Munich University of Technology.

Dr. Termine obtained his PhD at the Logic, Uncertainty, Computation and Information Lab in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, with a thesis focused on Probabilistic Model Checking with Markov Models Semantics. His research spans a variety of technical and philosophical topics, including causal and counterfactual methods in explainable AI, probabilistic model checking for trustworthy AI systems, metaphysics and epistemology of machine learning, and the ethical and social dimensions of artificial intelligence.