2025 Keynotes
Prof. Fatos Xhafa
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Editor in Chief: Elsevier Book Series "Intelligent Data Centric Systems"
Editor in Chief: Springer Book Series "Data Engineering and Communication Technologies"
Editor in Chief: Internet of Things; Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems, Elsevier
Biography: Fatos Xhafa, PhD in Computer Science, is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He has held various tenured and visiting professorship positions. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (2019/2020), Visiting Professor at the Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2009/2010) and a Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2004/2005). Prof. Xhafa has widely published in peer reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters, edited books and proceedings in the field (H-index 62). Prof. Xhafa has an extensive editorial service. He is founder and Editor-In-Chief of Internet of Things - Journal - Elsevier (Scopus and WoS Science) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (Scopus and WoS Science). Prof. Xhafa is a member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and Founder Member of Emerging Technical Subcommittee of Internet of Things. His research interests include IoT and Cloud-to-thing continuum computing, massive data processing and collective intelligence, optimization, and machine learning, among others. Please visit http://www.cs.upc.edu/~fatos/ and http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/x/Xhafa:Fatos.
Prof. Piet Kommers
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Biography: Dr Piet Kommers; UNESCO Professor of Learning Technologies. Emeritus of the University of Twente. He is world’s prominent scholar in the intersection of Media and Education. He initiated the NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Cognitive Tools for Learning and Instruction. His major scientific contribution is the role of conceptual representations for deep learning when short-term memory tends to fail.
Speech Title: A.I.: The Need for Conceptual Thinking in Educatio
His lecture addresses the challenge of upgrading criteria for new student assessment procedures, as artificial intelligence now provides the most up-to-date understanding and application of human expertise.
•What new didactic measures are needed to encourage students to reconcile new with prior knowledge?
•How to fully exploit STEAM (the thematic integration among curricular pillars like Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics)?
•What future facilities for teachers and learners are needed in Open A.I. to stimulate intuition and imagination?
•Demystify ‘Conceptual Thinking’ to let students work together in creative problem-solving.
•How to instigate ‘critical thinking’ to make students resilient towards fake news?
•‘Existential awareness’ and ‘learning by heart’; how to arrange Problem-Based Learning for social-cognitive development?