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Prof. Amin Beheshti is a Full Professor of Data Science and the Director of AI-enabled Processes (AIP) Research Centre, School of Computing, Macquarie University. Amin is also the head of the Data Analytics Research Lab and Adjunct Academic in Computer Science at UNSW Sydney. Amin completed his Ph.D. and Postdoc in Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney and hold a Master and Bachelor in Computer Science both with First Class Honours. In addition to his contribution to teaching activities, Amin extensively contributed to research projects; where he was the R&D Team Lead and Key Researcher in the 'Case Walls & Data Curation Foundry' and 'Big Data for Intelligence' projects. Amin has been recognized as a high-quality researcher in Big-Data/Data/Process Analytics and has been invited to serve and served as Keynote Speaker, General-Chair, PC-Chair, Organisation-Chair, and program committee member of top international conferences. He is the leading author of the book entitled "Process Analytics", co-authored with other high-profile researchers in UNSW and IBM research, recently published by Springer. Amin was able to secure over $9.8 Million Research Grants for AI-Enabled, Data-Driven, and Intelligence-Led projects.

Prof. Jian Yang is a full professor at Department of Computing, Macquarie University. She received her PhD in Multidatabase Systems area from The Australian National University in 1995. Before she joined Macquarie University, she worked as an associate professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands (2000-2003), a senior research scientist at the Division of Mathematical and Information Science, CSIRO, Australia (1998-2000), and as a lecturer (assistant professor) at Dept of Computer Science, The Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales (1993-1998). Dr. Yang has published papers in the international journals and conferences such as IEEE transactions, Information Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, CACM, VLDB, ICDCS, CAiSE, CoopIS, CIKM, etc. She has served as program committee member in various international conferences such as: ICDE, CAiSE, ER, CoopIS, ICSOC, BPM, ICWS, SCC, WISE, WAIM, etc. She is also a regular reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Data & Knowledge Engineering, VLDB Journal, IEEE Internet Computing, etc. She has served as conference/program co-chairs of ICSOC and BPM. Her main research interests are: social network, big data analytics, web service technology; business process management; interoperability, trust in social networks and e-commerce;

Dr Jia Wu is an ARC DECRA Fellow, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in North America) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. He was awarded Heidelberg Laureate Forum Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science in 2019. Dr Wu is also the Deputy Director of Higher Degree Research (HDR) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Since 2009, he has published 100+ refereed journal and conference papers, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), The Web Conference (WWW), and Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). He was the recipient of SDM’18 Best Paper Award in Data Science Track, IJCNN’17 Best Student Paper Award, and ICDM’21 and ICDM’14 Best Paper Candidate Award. Dr Wu is the Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) and Neural Networks (NN). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Prof. Boualem Benatallah is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of Web service protocols analysis and management, enterprise services integration, large scale and autonomous data sharing, process modelling and service oriented architectures for pervasive computing. He has several ARC (Australian Research Council) funded projects in these areas. He was a visiting scholar at Purdue University (USA), Visiting Professor at INRIA-LORIA (France), Visiting Professor at Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France). He has been a General chair, PC chair and Program Committee member of several top conferences. He has been keynote and tutorial speaker on Web Services at several workshops and conferences. He has published widely in top international journals and conferences.

Prof. Michael Sheng is a full Professor and Head of Department of Computing at Macquarie University. Before moving to Macquarie, Michael spent 10 years at School of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide (UoA). Michael holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and did his post-doc as a research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre. From 1999 to 2001, Sheng also worked at UNSW as a visiting research fellow. Prior to that, he spent 6 years as a senior software engineer in industries. Prof. Sheng has more than 350 publications as edited books and proceedings, refereed book chapters, and refereed technical papers in journals and conferences including ACM Computing Surveys, ACM TOIT, ACM TOMM, ACM TKDD, VLDB Journal, Computer (Oxford), IEEE TPDS, TKDE, DAPD, IEEE TSC, WWWJ, IEEE Computer, IEEE Internet Computing, Communications of the ACM, VLDB, ICDE, ICDM, CIKM, EDBT, WWW, ICSE, ICSOC, ICWS, and CAiSE. Dr. Michael Sheng is the recipient of the ARC Future Fellowship (2014), Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution (2012), and Microsoft Research Fellowship (2003). He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Prof. Aditya Ghose is a full Professor and Director of Decision Systems Lab at School of Computing and Information Technology University of Wollongong. He is also the President of the Service Science Society of Australia, Co-Director of the Centre for Oncology Informatics and Fellow in Institution of Engineers (Australia). Professor Ghose holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, Canada (he also spent parts of his PhD candidature at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and at the University of Tokyo) and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research has been funded by the Australian Research Council (Chief Investigator on 8 ARC Discovery and Linkage Projects), the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Japanese Institute for Advanced Information Technology (AITEC) and various Australian government agencies (such as NSW State Emergency Services and the NSW Defence Innovation Network) as well as companies such as Bluescope Steel, CSC and Pillar Administration. His research has been published in the top venues in service-oriented computing (ICSOC), software engineering (IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ICSE and ER) and AI (Artificial Intelligence Journal, AAAI, AAMAS and ECAI).

Dr. Mohsen Asadnia is a senior lecturer in the Engineering Department, Macquarie University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-Singapore, and undertook his postdoctoral trainings at Singapore MIT Alliance for research and Technology (SMART) and the University of Western Australia (UWA). His PhD research was focused on development of bio-inspired sensory systems using MEMS techniques. At MIT, he expanded his research interest towards developing artificial inner ear haircell sensors. Dr. Asadnia is currently working on development of novel transistor-based sensor technology for fast, reliable and accurate in situ monitoring of recycled wastewater. In addition, he is also collaborating with multi-disciplinary groups at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and SMART for development of ultra-sensitive MEMS flow sensors for using in intravenous injections.

Dr Hamid Alinejad Rokny is a UNSW Scientia Fellow at the UNSW Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. He received his master degree in artificial intelligence/machine learning and his Ph.D in computational biology from UNSW Australia, 2018. Before finishing his Ph.D, Dr Rokny joined to Prof Alistair Forrest Lab at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Western Australia as a postdoc. His Ph.D and postdoctoral research focuses in using advanced data analytics and cutting-edge machine learning techniques in identifying disease-specific genomic variants, identifying disease-candidate protein-coding and non-coding genes, and identifying gene regulation factors in genetic diseases and disorders, are all important and state-of-the-art research topics, with a great impact on the bio-data science era and health of societies, worldwide. Dr. Rokny is currently leading multiple international projects (jointly with UWA, Uni Adelaide, SUT, and Texas Biomed) investigating the impacts of non-coding regulatory variants in genetic diseases (e.g. neurodevelopmental disorders, breast cancer) through integration of Hi-C, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, and genomic variants. He is keen to see accurate diagnostic genomic tools implemented into the clinic to improve the health care and genomic-based treatments in the Australian health system. Dr Rokny has been invited to serve as Keynote Speaker, program committee member of top international conferences.

Frank Schiliro is a researcher at Macquarie University and Superintendent at Australia Federal Police. Frank holds a Master of Research in data science from Macquarie University. Frank's vision is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the policing domain using technology as the enabler. His research endeavours have been centred around improving the police officer's effectiveness and efficiency in crime response, detection, prevention and disruption through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In doing so he draws from 30 years of knowledge and experience in the policing domain as a police officer with the New South Wales Police Force and Superintendent at the Australian Federal Police. Frank began his career in 1988 with the New South Wales Police Force. He's appointments to positions have enabled him to develop skills and competencies; in policing, criminal investigation (awarded the designation of Detective), fraud, cybercrime, computer forensics, information and communications technology, and open innovation. Frank has developed a mobile application framework called ICOPS (Interactive Constable on Patrol System) that will deliver digital transformation to the police officers and interact with future smart/safe city initiatives. Frank is a certified professional - MACS (Snr) CP with the Australia Computer Society.

Srini is the Senior Account Director in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sydney Australia. Srini has over 20 years of professional experience in software and data technology in entrepreneurial start-ups, mid-size companies and large fortune 500 companies, performing as a strategic thinker and technology evangelist. He is passionate about all things Digital, Analytics, AI, Data overloaded and Seamless Conversation. Srini has been with TCS for over 13 years and has managed several leadership and strategic roles. He has been instrumental in transforming the strategies towards the growth of business in TCS-Westpac relationship. Srini built an extensive network of customers, partners, and professional contacts that enabled company in new business and outcomes align to business goals by providing practical solutions. He also managed complex sales cycles from conceptual stage through opportunity development , bid and proposal development, contract development, and negotiation, and ongoing account leadership. Srini is also on the Industry Advisory Board of Macquarie University.

Stephen Elbourn is the Director of ITIC and highly experienced in the IT industry, having worked as technical lead on network and telephony refresh projects at Telstra, for large government and enterprise customers over many years. ITIC's mission is to help build a pathway between universities and industry. Stephen has been funding research projects (including the inteligence-led teaching and learning, department of computing, Macquarie University) and sponsoring hackathons (such as the Big Data Society, Department of Computing, Macquarie University) in several Universities in Australia. In addition to ITIC, Stephen is the director of two software companies, developing products for cloud migration as well as testing and provisioning automation. Stephen is also on the Industry Advisory Board of Macquarie University.

Dr Richard George is the Chief Data Scientist at Faethm, where he leads the design and development of machine learning algorithms to predict the evolution of work: enabling companies, governments and individuals to navigate the ever-changing nature of work from emerging technology. Richard started his first career as a research scientist (PhD bioinformatics, UCL) and, following an MBA (AGSM) and a stint in life-science venture capital investing, started his second career in strategy consulting. In 2002, Richard was awarded a Link grant to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge and the new biotech start-up Inpharmatica - Europe's first, bioinformatics-driven drug-discovery company. In 2007, Richard founded a drug discovery company as part of his research into the computational analysis of disease pathways at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research institute. In 2010, Richard was awarded a Kauffman Fellowship - a prestigious leadership development program in venture capital, following his successful research career. Prior to joining Faethm, Richard managed Advanced Analytics at Woolworths and led a team of developers and data scientists at Quantium.

Nick Gatland is the Co-Founder/COO of trUUth and Locii. Nick has been the founder of technology and leadership of several companies with roles as COO, CEO & CTO across Virgin Mobile, WeWill & trUUth/locii.