Ms. Garraoui is an Assistant Professor at the National School of Engineers of Gafsa(ENIGA) and Head of the Department of Electro-mechanical engineering (ENIGA) at the National School of Engineers of Gafsa

She received her PHD in electric System Engineering. Her research activity is focused on renewable energy.

She is a member of PEESE-Lab in Gabes.

Mrs. Najeh Aloui is the Director of Academic Affairs and Scientific Partnership at the University of Gafsa since 2013 to present. 2008-2013: Assistant director of pedagogical affairs and university life at the University of Gafsa.

He is Associate professor at National School of Engineers of Gafsa (ENIGa). He was between February 2018 and August 2019 head of the department Electro-mechanical engineering at the ENIGa. He has studied at the Leibniz University of Hannover. He got there also his PhD (Title of the doctoral thesis: “Numerical and experimental investigations of the strain-adaptive bone remodeling in the periprosthetic canine femur”) and his habilitation (Title of the habilitation thesis: “Importance of material and friction modeling in the numerical simulation based on the FEM “) in mechanical engineering.

Mr. Anas Bouguecha is an expert in

• Mechanics of materials (plasticity, damage and rupture): characterization and modeling
• Plastic deformation in forming processes: technology and simulation by FEM
• Biomechanics
• Numerical resolution

He has more the 100 peer-reviewed papers  in Scientifics journals.

Mrs. Hamdi is an Assistant Professor at the National School of Engineers of Gafsa (ENIGA). She received her PHD in Computing System Engineering. Her research activity is focused on Artificial Intelligence, Swarm Intelligence, Data Clustering and Data Analysis, Ant Clustering Algorithms, Fractals and Chaos Theory.

She is a member of REGIM-Lab (Research Groups in Intelligent Machines). Since 2017, she has been a Microsoft Administrator (MSIA) at the university of Gafsa. Since 2019, she is also the current Director of the Careers and Skills Certification Center of the National School of Engineers of Gafsa (ENIGA).

Mr. Maher Raddaoui is currently the Director of the National School of Engineers of Gafsa(ENIGA). He has a PhD in Physics from the University Aix-Marseille II, France. He is a central Engineer in Energy, Expert in Energy Efficiency, Trainer of new teachers, Trainer of managers of the Phosphate Company of Gafsa and the Tunisian Chemical Group. Among his many works: Thesis supervision on the application of solar and wind energy for the optimization of the operation of certain processes of the Tunisian chemical group, Thesis supervision on the optimization of fuel cells, supervision of thesis on the optimization of heat exchangers alternated.

Jamel Kolsi is the general secretary of the Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax. He has a diploma in Management Information Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax since 1989. He obtained a Master of research in Computer Science and Information Systems and New Technologies in 2004. His main skills are : Information systems analysis, Application development, Programming, Accounting and public finance, Public procurement, Administrative law, Public management, Management by objectives, University evaluation, Quality of public services, Project management, Logical framework.

He is member of an advisory committee at the Ministry of Higher Education for Research, responsible for authorizing the exercise of intermediation services.

He is Co-Founder and Secretary General of the Management Information Association, Scientific Association. He is also member of the Association of Cultural Animation and Leisure of Administrative Managers of the University of Sfax.

Dalel Néji is responsible of the analysis and technical assistance of educational data at ISGIS. She has the diploma of advanced Technological Studies, Specialty: Management Information Technology.

She obtained the Research Master in Transport Sciences and Logistics at the University of Sfax. She participated in different conferences and training sessions on setting up Erasmus + projects. She completed an internship in administrative staff mobility within the international cooperation services at the “PARIS 8” university at France.

Pr Ahmed Frikha is a full professor and the director of the Higher Institute of industrial management of Sfax (ISGIS) since 2014. He obtained his PhD in management sciences in 2002 from the University of Tunis and his HdR in Quantitative Methods in 2013 from the University of Sfax.

He occupied various administrative positions. He was appointed as a department head (2005-2008). He was also nominated as a deputy director (2008-2011 and 2011-2014).

During this period, he worked as coordinator of research and professional masters. He was a member of the scientific council of the institute since 2005 as well as of the Numerical Research Center in the Techno park of Sfax.

Furthermore, he is the founder of different training programs of licenses and masters.

He was designated as the manager of the quality committee of the institute. He was a member of many research projects (CMCU, CNRS and so forth). He participated also as an organization member and scientific committee member of many national and international conferences. In addition, he served as a reviewer for several referred conferences and journals in his specialization fields.

Over more than 20 years of teaching experience, he taught several courses. His teaching activities are focused on operational research, mathematical programming, decision theory, information theory, manufacturer systems, production management and project management.

As a member of the research Lab, Optimization-Logistics-Decisional Informatics (OLID), his main research interests are multi-criteria decision aid, logistics and optimization, mathematical programming, artificial intelligence and so on. He has published many papers in international journals and several communications.

Accomplished professor and marketing professional, with the skills, passion and professionalism needed to support business and consumer market programs. Strong communication, mentoring, and problem solving skills.

Alessandro Salmi is Associate Professor of Manufacturing Technologies and Systems at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of Politecnico di Torino where he teaches the courses of Additive Manufacturing Systems and Materials, Integrated Manufacturing Systems and Numerical Methods for Process Design in the MSc Programme in Mechanical Engineering. He has published more than 45 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and one book. He has been working in different projects at European and national level. His research interests are currently focused on Additive Manufacturing processes and design optimization, high speed machining (HSM), and FE process simulation. He was one of the authors who won the Best Young Scientist Award at the 4th International Conference on Additive Technologies (iCAT) in 2012. He is a research member at the Integrated Additive Manufacturing Interdepartmental Center at Politecnico di Torino (IAM@PoliTo).

Eleonora Atzeni is an Associate Professor of Manufacturing Technologies and Systems at the Department of Management and Production Engineering of Politecnico di Torino. She teaches courses in the BSc and MSc Programme in Mechanical Engineering, as well as at the MSc Programme in Industrial Production and Technological Innovation. She also teaches PhD and Specializing Master courses. Her main research topic is related to Additive Manufacturing technologies, and she has been working in different projects on this theme, at European and national level. She is a research member at the Integrated Additive Manufacturing Interdepartmental Center at Politecnico di Torino (IAM@PoliTo).

She received the master degree in ”Electronic Systems and Communication Networks” from the Polytechnic School of Tunis in 2009  and the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manouba, Tunisia in 2015.

From 2010 to 2015, she worked on the data’ analysis and evaluation methodology for the engineering of learning scenario in the context of the pervasive, adaptive and context-aware learning. The latter aims at improving the capabilities of pedagogical designers and teachers to evaluate their designed learning scenarios.

Since 2016, She has been an associate researcher in RIADI Laboratory (National School of Computer Science, Manouba, Tunisia). Her research activity is focused on data analysis, statistics and business intelligence applied to the education area.

Dr. BenSassi is the author of a book chapters and over 7 communications to national and international scientific conferences. 

PhD in Management Sciences from University of Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III in France and HDR from University of Jendouba.  

She is assistant professor at FSJEGJ. She  serves currently as head of the Department of Management Sciences. Her research activities concern R&D, innovation management, entrepreneurship, microfinance and  corporate governance. 

She authored many papers published on international journals: International Journal of Business, Bankers Markets and Investors, Gestion 2000 and Revue des Sciences de Gestion.

-Sub-Director of Scientific Research and International Cooperation at the University of Jendouba.

-Director of Career Center and Competency Certification (4C).

-Chief Engineer, Statistics and Information Analysis

-PAQ / PRICE project manager “Certification of skills for better employability of young graduates from northwestern Tunisia”.

-Researcher member in the Erasmus + TUNED project (2016-2019).

-Administrative  member in the Erasmus + SAGESSE project (2017-2020).

-Administrative  member in the Erasmus + SPAAT4FOOD project (2018-2021).

-Researcher member in the Tempus ISLAH  project (2013-2015).

-Administrative  member in the Tempus SEMSEM project (2014-2016).

-EFE consultant in job search techniques, FJIJ trainer “Finding a Job Is a Job”.

-Coach TAMHEED in professional reorientation.

-E-learning trainer ACCENTURE of soft skills.

-ECO-C trainer in relational and interpersonal communication techniques.

PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tunis El-Manar (Tunisia) and Arttois University (France), in 2010.

He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the FSJEGJ.

He is working on semantic Web, knowledge representation, ontologies and data analysis.

PhD in Management Sciences from University of Poitiers in France.

He is assistant professor at FSJEGJ and the director of the Career and Competency Certification Center (4C-FSJEGJ).

He has served as head of the Department of Management Sciences. His research activities concern R&D, innovation management, entrepreneurship, microfinance, corporate governance and stock markets. He co-authored many papers published on international journals: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences,  Journal of Management and Governance, Bankers Markets and Investors and Gestion 2000.

Full  Professor  and Dean of the Faculty of the Legal sciences Economics and Management of Jendouba.

She is also a researcher and research director supervising about twenty theses on the topics of corporate finance and market finance as well as behavioral finance.

Hamdi Kessentini is an assistant professor in industrial engineering and director of the career center at the Higher Institute of Industrial Management of Sfax ISGIS.

He is PhD Engineer researcher at École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis ENIT with 15 years of experience in the field of numerical simulation of heat transfer and fluid dynamics in solar thermal systems.

He is graduated in 2004 in Industrial Engineering and then got a Master degree in 2006 on Management of Industrial Systems from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieur de Tunis (ENIT) and Master degree in 2010 on thermal Energy Engineering, foundations, applications, simulations from Politechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, Spain). Got the PhD in thermal engineering in 2014 from UPC and worked as PhD researcher in the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (www.cttc.upc.edu) in several financed projects on solar thermal systems for low, medium and high temperatures.

He is the project holder of the project PAQ-4C ISGIS, 2019-2020, PROMESSE. He was coordinator of the project between ISGIS and IMW Franhaufer center, 2018. He was also the project holder of the bilateral PCI AECID project ENIT-Tunisia and UPC-Spain 2010.

Is a Post-Doc researcher at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering. 

He completed his PhD at Politecnico di Milano in 2020, having previously obtained master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Political Science from New Mexico State University (USA).

Brendan served as a visiting researcher at the University of Arizona in Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, where he worked on cost modelling and the development of systems thinking skills and competencies for project management.

His research includes work in changeable system architectures and the development of cross-disciplinary intelligent systems for control and decision support.

He previously worked on the development of novel maritime vessels under the project LINCOLN, a European funded research project to increase the competitiveness of EU shipbuilding. He currently works on EU projects BRIEFING and NePRev contributing in the areas of digitalization through trainings and outreach.

Is a Post-Doc Researcher in the Manufacturing Group of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering.

She carries out her research activities at the Industry 4.0 Laboratory, focusing on data modelling for the shop floor, on advanced simulation and scheduling of production and on the new digital technologies for manufacturing.

She has been and is still involved in European, regional and industrial research projects, such as L4MS, Africa Innovation Leaders, Lighthouse plant, MAYA, AI2APPS, MSEE, AD-COM, Reckon, RFI and Forgital projects.

She has been and still is also teaching assistant to Industrial Plant Management, Management of logistics and production systems, Industrial Technologies and Asset Lifecycle Management. By now

she is co-author of 10 papers in International Journals, 19 papers presented at international conferences and 4 international book chapters.

Mariana Szefner is a project manager of Erasmus + Projects at the University of Barcelona.

BA in Political Science and Public Administration Management, has over fifteen years of experience in online education, networking and international projects, especially with Latin America and North Africa.

Coordinator of the Master in International Trade Negotiations at the University of Barcelona and the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, also participated in the management of the Master in International and Economic Law and Policy (IELPO LL.M.) of the Universitat de Barcelona.

Mr. Jaume Fortuny is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and he has a MBA in Innovation from the University of Barcelona (UB). He also has postgraduate academic studies in IoT & BigData applied to Industry 4.0, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

He is member of the advisory board of the Catalan Association of ICT Professionals APTICC and he is also member of the roster of experts of the International Telecommunications Union ITU.

In his professional life he has hold different C-positions in the areas of media&broadcasting, telecoms, education and services.

As CIO he has led reference projects as the deployment of educational systems (distance learning systems), the establishment of systems for updating skills (virtual environments for learning-by-doing), the development of complex cloud infrastructures or the implementation of cybersecurity systems.

He has participated in several Erasmus+ projects (FEFE, NQF-J, ENBRAIN, MIELES, EQUAM-BI) as well as in other European Union projects (HAQAA, SPHERE, EULAC-FOCUS)

Mrs. Bogurina holds a Political Science and Public Administration Degree from the University of Barcelona (Hons) and an LL.M. in International Economic Law and Policy from the same University.

After finalizing her IELPO LL.M, she got an internship at the University of Barcelona’s International Chair WTO/Regional Integration, followed by a research contract beginning in March 2014. 

Mrs. Bogurina gained practical expertise in WTO Law (trade remedies with special focus on anti-dumping procedures) and in the Eurasian Integration process after a two-month internship at the Eurasian Economic Commission. 

After returning to the University of Barcelona, Mrs. Bogurina became part of the IELPO LL.M.  Coordination team and a project manager of EU-funded projects with focus on Eastern Europe and Western Balkans.

Ms. Bogurina participated in several Conferences and Round Tables on Bologna reforms in Higher Education Institutions (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) in the framework of European Union capacity building projects (SPHERE Project, MIMI, EQUAM) intended to promote Bologna reforms in HEIs in former Tempus countries, including the countries of the former Soviet Union space.

She is fluent in Russian/Bielorrusian, English, Spanish and Catalan.

Agustina Calabrese is a Financial and Project Manager of international projects at OBREAL GLOBAL OBSERVATORY.

She oversees numerous EU funded projects and technical assistances.

Agustina is a sociologist, with research experience in the fields of Public Administration. Her main responsibilities have included EU-MED Higher Education Policy analysis, Data Analysis and general project financial control.

She has previous experience with working with Mediterranean universities and associations in the context of the projects LINKING MED GULF, JISER MED, EQUAM and MIMI where she has supervised the project budget and expenditure

Mr. Nicolas Patrici is a Political Scientist and the Programs Manager at OBREAL GLOBAL OBSERVATORY. He has overseen the coordination of ALFA, Erasmus Mundus Action 1, 2 and 3, TEMPUS Projects and Erasmus plus projects. 

Nicolas has an extensive experience in education management and international cooperation.

He has been Fellow researcher at the Observatory of Globalization/WTO-Chair at the University of Barcelona.

He has deep knowledge on the LAC region and experience in the field of EU and LAC HE & Research.

He also works at UB’s AECHE Secretariat that leads the AECHE (Arab-European Conferences on Higher Education) process together with the European University Association (EUA) and the Association of Arab Universities (AARU).

Since December 2014, he is the project manager in the framework of the UB – EUA consortium that has been awarded by the EACEA the Contract Service for the management of the Higher Education Reform Experts (HERE) Network in former TEMPUS countries. 

Nicolas holds his bachelor’s degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), his MPhil from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and has pursued doctoral studies in Paris (Science Po), Leiden University and Barcelona University

Elizabeth Colucci is currently a project expert for OBREAL, leading a number global cooperation projects in higher education between Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.

She has previously worked for the European University Association for 8 years, where she was a Programme Manager responsible for internationalisation in the Higher Education Policy Unit. Prior to that she worked for the Academic Cooperation Association in Brussels, the Fulbright Commission and DG EAC of the European Commission, where she worked for the unit that conceived and managed the Erasmus Mundus programme.

She has extensive experience in EU project management and has also published on topics related to HE internationalisation, mobility, joint degrees, teaching and learning reform, the Bologna Process, HE regional integration and e-learning.

Ramon Torrent has a PhD in Law and is professor of Political Economy and International Economic Law at the University of Barcelona, specialized in Regional Integration and International Economic Relations.

A former UB vice-rector in charge of General Administration and Coordination, he was for ten years (1988 – 1998) a member of the Legal Service of the EU Council and its Director for International Relations since 1993.

After he returned voluntarily to the UB, he has been coordinating several EU International projects with Latin America and the Mediterranean.

He is currently the Executive President of OBREAL GLOBAL OBSERVATORY, but he was its Executive Secretary since its foundation in 2004. Since December 2014, he is also Main Expert number 1 and Team Leader in the framework of the UB – European University Association consortium that has been awarded by the EACEA the Contract Service for the management of the Higher Education Reform Experts (HERE) Network in former TEMPUS countries.

A former UB vice-rector in charge of General Administration and Coordination, he was for ten years (1988 – 1998) a member of the Legal Service of the EU Council and its Director for International Relations since 1993.

After he returned voluntarily to the UB, he has been coordinating several EU International projects with Latin America and the Mediterranean.

He is the Executive Secretary of OBREAL (Observatory of EU – LA Relations) since its foundation in 2004. Since December 2014, he is also Main Expert number 1 and Team Leader in the framework of the UB – European University Association consortium that has been awarded by the EACEA the Contract Service for the management of the Higher Education Reform Experts (HERE) Network in former TEMPUS countries.

Dr. Marija Jankovic is a Professor in Design and System Engineering at CentraleSupélec, University of Paris Saclay.

The research focus of Dr Jankovic is on supporting early complex system design stages, in particular in System Architecture design integrating innovation and uncertainty management. The aim is to support decision making process in the systematic exploration of the system design space as well as supporting decision making with regard to uncertainties inherent to early design.

Dr. Jankovic is interested in the decision making in complex system design, DSM (Design Structure Matrix) and other relational modeling and simulation of complexity, System Architecture design, Uncertainty modeling and management, Design Synthesis.

In majority of cases, the research projects are done in collaboration with industry or government; and with direct implementation and verification of research results. Dr. Jankovic collaborates with some of the major French and international companies: Snecma, Thales, EADS, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Schlumberger, etc. She is also one of the coordinators of the Research and Innovation group at INCOSE French Chapter (Association Française de l’Ingenierie Système).

Dr Jankovic has published 29 journal papers (published or accepted) up to date (such as Journal of Mechanical Design, Journal of Engineering Design, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering design and Management, Concurrent Engineering, etc.), 2 editorials, more than 56 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 3 book chapters.

Bernard Yannou (LinkedIn) is a Full Professor of Design Engineering and Director of the Industrial Engineering Research Department (Laboratoire Génie Industriel, LGI) at CentraleSupélec. He received a M.S. (1988) in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (ENSC), a M.S. (1989) in Computer Science from Paris-6 University, and a Ph.D. (1994) in Industrial Engineering from ENSC.

His research interests are design automation, design management / methodologies / new product development, innovation engineering, value and user centered design, artificial intelligence and computers in design, system thinking and engineering, design under uncertainty, decision-based design, sustainable design and industrial ecology, and multidisciplinary design optimization.

In education, he holds the course Design Science at CentraleSupélec. He also developed and teaches Radical Innovation Design methodology (RID). Beyond Design Thinking, RID is a novel, complete and well-structured innovative design methodology that prioritizes the improvement of the user experience within a field of activity.

Bernard YANNOU has conducted research for a number of industrial companies: Dassault Systemes, Renault, Schlumberger, Johnson Controls, Airbus, Eurocopter, Snecma, Areva, Alstom Grid, Valeo, city of Paris. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. theses in design engineering and is currently supervising 4 Ph.D. doctorates. He has been the author or co-author of more than 300 papers with review committee, including 80 journal papers. He also coordinated 10 books on product design and innovation in industrial contexts.

He is member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society, member of the ASME and of INCOSE/AFIS on system engineering. He currently sits on the Editorial Boards of 3 journals: Design Science Journal, Research in Engineering Design, International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation.

Oualid Jouini is a full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at CentraleSupélec. His research interests are in optimization and operations management. The main purpose of his research is to develop stochastic models which provide qualitative as well as quantitative insights for practitioners. He has published 38 journal papers. He is the head of the research chair Call Centers at CentraleSupélec. He is the coordinator of the research master Complex System Engineering, and the coordinator of the master program Supply Chain and Operations Management at University of Paris Saclay. He won several awards, including the IBM Faculty Award 2017 for a healthcare project on streamlining the pathway of severe trauma care. He is Associate Editor in 4 journals, including the INFORMS journal Service Science.

Evren Sahin is a Full Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management.

Her main areas of research are: supply chain management and operations management for service activities, with a particular focus on healthcare and urban logistics fields. She was Director of the Research Chair on Manufacturing & Logistics Management, in partnership with Faurécia. She is currently involved in the research and teaching activities of the Supply Chain Management Research Chair with L’Oréal, Air Liquide and Safran. She has been the author of more than 100 papers with review committee, including 37 journal papers. She currently sits on the Editorial Board of the Flexible Service and Manufacturing Journal. She is serving as expert nominated the French Ministry of Research for quality evaluation of research institutions and educational curricula in her domain. In education, she is the head of the last year engineering program on Supply Chain and Operations Management at CentraleSupelec.

Her academic background:

• Since 2015, Professor in Industrial Engineering and Supply Chain, CentraleSupélec
• 2004, PhD, Industrial Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris

Luca Fumagalli is Assistant Professor at Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano since 2010.

His PhD thesis concerned ontology-based solutions for the support to maintenance processes.

He has been working in different projects at European and national level. His research interests are currently focused on innovations in maintenance management and innovations in operations at manufacturing shop floor level, within the scope of Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 framework.

He is author or co-author of more than 60 papers at national and international level.

Marco Macchi is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering.

In his research activity at Politecnico di Milano, he is responsible for several European funded projects in the fields of smart manufacturing, maintenance and industrial sustainability. Furthermore, he is responsible for the Observatory on Technologies and Services for Maintenance and is Research Co-director of the Observatory on Industria 4.0 of the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano. He is also involved in industrial networks, through associations as ANIMP (the National society of industrial plants), and his role as Scientific Director of the Italian Journal Manutenzione Tecnica e Management official journal of A.I.MAN.

He is also a member of AIDI (the Italian Association of Industrial Plant Teachers).

His research interests are advanced production systems, maintenance management, and asset lifecycle management.

He has published or edited 5 books, more than 125 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

He is also the co-guest editor of 3 Special Issues on Maintenance and Asset Management in well recognized scientific journals.

Finally, he has been the Chair of the Int. Programme Committee of the series of IFAC workshop on Advanced Maintenance, Engineering, Services and Technology (IFAC A-MEST 2010, 2012, 2016).

His research interests are advanced production systems, maintenance management, and asset life cycle management.

Marco Taisch is professor at the Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), where he teaches the courses of Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, and Operations Management.

He has been the director of the Executive MBA and the fulltime International MBA of the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. He has been from 2011 till 2013, member of the VTT Strategic Advisory Board.

Member of the IEEE Engineering Management Society, IEEE Man, Systems and Cybernetics Society and senior member of the IIE Institute of Industrial Engineer, from 2007 until2013, has chaired the IFIP Working Group 5.7 on Advances in Production Management Systems. Currently, he is in the editorial board of Production Planning & Control.

The team of Manufacturing Management and Engineering that he is leading counts around 40 researchers working in the field of Sustainable Manufacturing, Energy Efficient Manufacturing, Sustainable Mass Customization, Lean Product andService Design, Product Data Modeling, Internet of Things, Internet of Services and Cyber-Physical Systems in themanufacturing sectors always with a strong industrial collaboration (i.e. Bosch, Centro Ricerche Fiat, COMAU,SAP, Siemens Schneider Electric,  Whirlpool, etc.). The team took part in more than 20 international funded projects. Currently he is working on CTC, MAN-MADE, white-R, ELICiT, PSYMBIOSYS, BEinCPPS, Manutelligence, PERFoRM, MAYA, sCorPiuS and WMF2018.

He has been the coordinator of IMS2020, which has developed a roadmap for research in Sustainable Manufacturing at IMS level, scientific leader of ActionPlanT, which developed a roadmap on ICT for Manufacturing. Currently, he is contributing the So-Smart and Pathfinder roadmaps. Recently, he has been nominated member to the Factories of the Future PPP Partnership Board.

He has published or edited 7 books and more than 125 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

He is also acting as Chairman of the Program Committee of the World Manufacturing Forum.

Sergio Terzi is Associate Professor of Product Lifecycle Management at Politecnico di Milano,

Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, where he teaches Industrial technologies and Design and Management of Production Systems. His main area of research is the management of design and engineering processes, with a particular attention on the digital solutions available for supporting the lifecycle engineering perspective.

He is author of 4 books and more than 150 papers at national and international level in the field of product lifecycle management. He is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Product Lifecycle Management, member of the IFIP Working Group 5.1 and 5.7, and member of the IEEE TMS.

He is one of the founders of the International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management and he is involved in several other international committees.

He is used to work on European research projects, since FP5. He was the Dissemination Manager of the LEANPPD project, one of the WP leaders of the Linked Design project, the WP3 leader of the ELICiT project.

He is currently the Scientific Coordinator –on behalf of Politecnico di Milano –of the European MANUTELLIGENCE research project, and the Project Coordinator of the LINCOLN project. He is also the Director of the Management Academy, the Italian business unit of MIP –Graduate School of Business of Politecnico di Milano, responsible for executive education for the national market.

Romano Borchiellini is Full Professor at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Torino.

He is expert on analysis and modelling of thermal systems with more than 150 publications.

He is President of the advisory board of the Energy Center Initiative in Torino and project manager of the Energy Center Lab.

Luca Iuliano was born in San Maurizio Canavese, Turin, Italy, in 1961.

He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 1985.

From 1990 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Manufacturing Systems and Economics, Politecnico di Torino.

From 1998 to 2001, he was an Associate Professor at the same institution. Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Management and Production Engineering, Politecnico di Torino.

His research interests include High Speed Machining (HSM) and nonconventional machining of Ni-based superalloys and Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs), reverse engineering (RE), additive manufacturing (AM), and Rapid Manufacturing/Tooling (RM/RT).
Prof. Iuliano is the author of two Italian books on AM and investment casting and the author and editor of a handbook on foundry. He has published over 70 papers in academic journals and in national and international conference proceedings.

He is a member of the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Italian Society of Manufacturing Technology (ASME). He is a Project Manager of the Interdepartmental Integrated Additive Manufacturing@PoliTo Center (IAM@PoliTo).