Prof. Luiz Moutinho

Visiting Fellow and  Professor of Marketing, Suffolk Business School, University of Suffolk, England.

Visiting Professor of Marketing, The Marketing School, Portugal.

Adjunct Professor, GSB, FBE, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

Title: Futurissimo on Puiblic Services

Abstract:

The introduction covers the dyad between public services and citizen engagement. as well as citizen juries and open data. The next part of the presentation covers the issues of innovation and human-tech. Some of the technologies to be discussed include blockchain, green tech, cybersecurity and cloud computing. The presentation will evolver then to future insights into smart cities and citizen-centric cities. At the end of the talk , other subjects will be covered like, sustainability, Intelligent management systems, design thinking and AI-powered decision support systems.

Biography:

In 2020 he was elected as the member of The Academia Europaea. In 2017 he received a degree of Prof. Honoris Causa from the Univ. of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. In 2024 was rated among the 100 best scientists in Business and Management by Research.com.

During 2015 - 2017 he was professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. This was the first Chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research. Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a Full Professor for 35 years and held posts at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA, Northern Arizona University, USA and California State University, USA. He has held Visiting Professorship positions at numerous universities in China, Lithuania, Austria, New Zealand, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Fiji and Cyprus. 

His areas of research interest encompass marketing and management futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, futures research algorithmic self, EmoWear - a wearable tech device that detects human emotions, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modelling processes of consumer behaviour and tourism futurecast.

Prof. Md. Mamun Habib

Independent University, Bangladesh

Biography:

Prof. Dr. Md. Mamun Habib is a Professor & Head of Management Department at the School of Business & Entrepreneurship (SBE), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

• Dr. Habib is the Visiting Scientist at the Dept. of Industrial Engineering of University of Texas – Arlington, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor at Unirazak, Malaysia and UCSI, Malaysia; PUP, Philippines; Beijing Wuzi University, China; and Universitas Ciputra, Indonesia.

• At present, he is supervising twelve (12) Ph.D. scholars locally and internationally and earlier five (5) Ph.D. scholars have been graduated.

• As a Ph.D. examiner, he has several Ph.D. involvements with UUM, UNIRAZAK, AIMST, UNITAR, Asia e University (AeU), Universiti Selangor (UNISEL), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; Assumption University of Thailand; Institute for Technology and Management (ITM) – University, Birla Institute of

Technology (BIT)–Deemed University, National Institute of Technology (NIT), SOA University, Chitkara University, Aligarh Muslim University, India; University of the Assumption, Philippines.

• He has about 22 years of experience in teaching, training, workshops, consultancy, and research.

• Dr. Habib published over 230 research papers, including Conference Proceedings, Short Journal Papers, Journal articles, and book chapters/books. Among them, about 75 articles are WoS and Scopus Indexed.

• He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM), UK and International Supply Chain Technology Journal (ISCTJ), USA. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Board Member of more than 60 journals, particularly Elsevier (Scopus) and Thomson Reuters (Web of

Science) Indexed Journals.

• As a Keynote Speaker, he delivers lectures at more than 85 international conferences in various countries, particularly USA, UK, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Korea, India, Philippines, Greece, Bulgaria, Australia, Italy, Nigeria etc.

• He conducted more than 220 Webinars/Workshops/ Seminars locally and internationally.

• He is involved in a few grant research projects in the USA, Malaysia, Thailand, Bulgaria, European Union, India, and Bangladesh.

• He is a lead trainer at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) International, UK.

• Earlier he was affiliated with BRAC University, Bangladesh; UNITAR International University, Malaysia; Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Assumption University, Thailand.

• He accomplished his Ph.D. and M.S. with outstanding performance in Computer & Engineering Management (CEM) under the Graduate School of Business (GSB) from Assumption University, Thailand. His Ph.D. research was in the field of Supply Chain Management.

• His core research areas are supply chain management, production & operations management, operations research, research methodology, engineering/technology management, and educational management.

• Prof. Habib is an active member of different professional organizations, including IEEE (Senior Member); Chartered Fellow (FCILT), CILT International, UK; IEOM (President, SCM Technical Division); BSPUA (V.P, R & I); IETI (Senior Member and Board of Director); IRED (Fellow); GRDS (Vice-President) just to name a few. He received “Outstanding Professor in Business Management” by IEOM, USA in 2023

• He also serves as General Chair, Program Chair, Technical Chair, Organizing Committee Member, Technical Committee Member, Track Chair, Session Chair as well as Reviewer of numerous international conferences.

• He is involved with QS World University Ranking and Times Higher Education Ranking as an academician. He is connected to the industry as a Consultant at AmCham; USAID, BAFFA, and so on.

Prof. Qihui Chen
China Agriculture University, China

Biography:
Dr. Qihui Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Economics (Major field: Development Economics; Minor: Statistics) from the University of Minnesota –Twin Cities in 2012. His dissertation, titled “Three Essays on Human Capital Investment in China”, won the 2012-2013 Applied Economics Outstanding Dissertation Award from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chen’s research applies econometric methods to study education, health and welfare issues in developing countries, especially on how government policy, intervention programs, and family resources can affect the accumulation of children’s human capital. His research has appeared in international academic journals such as Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Food Policy, International Journal of Educational Development and Journal of Economic Education, among others. Dr. Chen is currently serving as an Associated Editor of China Agricultural Economic Review and has been a consultant for the World Bank for many years.