2026 5th International Conference on Public Service, Economic Management and Sustainable Development

San Murugesan is Director of BRITE Professional Services, an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium (USA). Over a career spanning more than 50 years, he has held senior leadership, research, and technical positions across academia, industry, and government research organisations. An internationally recognised thought leader, Murugesan has led numerous pioneering initiatives and made significant contributions to research, technology development, and professional practice. His areas of expertise include sustainable computing, Green IT, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and smart systems. He has authored and edited numerous publications and has delivered keynote addresses, invited talks, webinars, and professional development courses at conferences and industry events worldwide. Murugesan is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and the Institute of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (IICA). He is also a Golden Core Member and Distinguished Contributor (Charter Member) of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Life Member of IEEE. Further information is available at: www.tinyurl.com/san1bio.

Speech Title: Sustainable Development: Strategies, Innovations, and Technological Pathways

Abstract: Our well-being, economic prosperity, and future are inseparable from the health of our planet. Yet decades of environmental degradation have brought us to an unprecedented global crisis. Extreme weather events—including droughts, floods, heat waves, wildfires, and severe storms—are increasing in both frequency and intensity, disrupting communities, damaging infrastructure, straining economies, and driving up costs. Environmental degradation is also a major public health concern, contributing to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, the spread of infectious illnesses, biodiversity loss, and growing food and water insecurity.

	Prof. Xiongfeng Pan Dalian University of Technology, China Pan Xiongfeng is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology. He serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management and is a think tank expert of the Global Climate Innovation Coalition (GCIC). He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher by Elsevier, and is included in the list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide for lifelong scientific impact. His primary research areas include energy and environmental economics, as well as regional sustainable development. He has led over 50 projects funded by national, provincial, ministerial, and corporate sources. He has published more than 100 academic papers as the first or corresponding author, edited and published three monographs, and authored policy advisory reports that have received endorsements from central leadership. In 2019, he was recognized as an Innovative Talent in Institutions of Higher Education in Liaoning Province.
	Prof. Luiz Moutinho University of Suffolk, UK Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is the Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, England, UK, and IPAM, Marketing Business School. He has been a Full Professor for 36 years, holding full-time positions at various institutions in countries such as Scotland, Wales, USA, Ireland, and Brazil. Professor Moutinho is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management (JM2) and Co-editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. He has another 4 associate editorships as well as being in the editorial boards of another 47 international academic journals and has given keynote speeches in 63 countries worldwide having had 41 books published and over 161 articles published in refereed academic journals. Professor’s prestige follows him wherever he goes, in 2024 was appointed as top 100 scientists in Business and Research by Research.com, in 2020 was instated as The Elected Member of The Academia Europaea and in 2017 received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. Speech Title: Agentic Public Services Abstract: The talk will start by addressing public management , resilience , cybersecurity and citizen-centricity. The conceprt of neurourbanism is then advanced as well as climate-adaptive urban design . Other topics involve crisis management , Decision Science , Green Life and Algorithms + Trust. The discussion proceeds by covering digital ecosystems , Intelligent Mg Systems and autonomous systems. Finally , the concepts of IoT , AGI and Digital Twins in Public Services will be explored.
	Prof.Tariq Samad University of Minnesota, USA Tariq Samad holds the Honeywell/W.R. Sweatt Chair in Technology Management at the University of Minnesota, where he is Senior Fellow for Research & Advancement at the Technological Leadership Institute and Director of Industrial Liaison at the Minnesota Robotics Institute. Previously, he spent 30 years at Honeywell—the last 15 as Corporate Fellow—leading automation and control developments for power, energy, buildings, process industries, automotive, unmanned aircraft, and manufacturing. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC, past President of IEEE Control Systems Society and the American Automatic Control Council, and current VP of Publications for IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. He holds 20 patents, 200+ publications, and Ph.D./M.S. from Carnegie Mellon and B.S. from Yale.
	Prof. San Murugesan Western Sydney University, Australia San Murugesan is Director of BRITE Professional Services, an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium (USA). Over a career spanning more than 50 years, he has held senior leadership, research, and technical positions across academia, industry, and government research organisations. An internationally recognised thought leader, Murugesan has led numerous pioneering initiatives and made significant contributions to research, technology development, and professional practice. His areas of expertise include sustainable computing, Green IT, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and smart systems. He has authored and edited numerous publications and has delivered keynote addresses, invited talks, webinars, and professional development courses at conferences and industry events worldwide. Murugesan is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), and the Institute of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (IICA). He is also a Golden Core Member and Distinguished Contributor (Charter Member) of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Life Member of IEEE. Further information is available at: www.tinyurl.com/san1bio. Speech Title: Sustainable Development: Strategies, Innovations, and Technological Pathways Abstract: Our well-being, economic prosperity, and future are inseparable from the health of our planet. Yet decades of environmental degradation have brought us to an unprecedented global crisis. Extreme weather events—including droughts, floods, heat waves, wildfires, and severe storms—are increasing in both frequency and intensity, disrupting communities, damaging infrastructure, straining economies, and driving up costs. Environmental degradation is also a major public health concern, contributing to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, the spread of infectious illnesses, biodiversity loss, and growing food and water insecurity.

Prof. Xiongfeng Pan

Prof. Luiz Moutinho

Prof.Tariq Samad

Prof. San Murugesan