Prof. Zabihollah (Zabi) Rezaee is currently the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence, tenured Professor of Accounting at the Crews School of Accountancy of the University of Memphis. He served a two-year term (2004-2006) on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and he is currently (2019-2024) the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research (JFAR), one of the 17 journals of the American Accounting Association (AAA). He is currently appointed as the Honorary Advisor of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC) in Hong Kong (December 2019-September 2025).

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Mr. Hans van der Loo Systemic Thinker, Explainer, Keynote speaker, Board Member, EU Policy & Government Relations Advisor. Former Vice President at Royal Dutch Shell, with global business experience with energy/environment projects, government relation and policy shaping. The latter for Shell, WBCSD and now for the DCCI - Direct Climate Cooling Initiative, working together with scientists to offer relieve by peak-shaving the looming heat overshoot, in order to avoid HothouseEarth conditions setting in. Worked in many sectors of energy business: supply, trading, marketing, finance, strategy, business development, innovation (initiator of Shell V-Power), change management, government relations and regulatory affairs. Served as sherpa to 2 Shell CEO's in the European Roundtable of Industrialists and as member of BusinessEurope's Advisory and Support Group. - 30+ years experience in managing international and cross-functional teams in energy and government relations practices. - Experienced compromise broker, initiated innovative lobby practice of 'multi-stakeholder joint advocacy' platforms and accordingly break-through results. - Thought-leader in promoting the position of science and education in public policy to strengthen societal resilience and acceptance for increasingly technology rich solutions. - Experience in corporate, public and private foundation boards. - Comfortable working at senior corporate and government levels; in several languages - Frequently asked conference speaker on systemic change of Human Eco-System, energy & resource challenges, resource security & resilience matters. (Atlantic Strategy Group, Bilderberg, Climate Change Summit, COP21, EU Business Summit, Science Conference European Parliament, WEF, etc) - Advise & Briefings for Corporate Top Teams and Public Policy bodies/Ministries Specialties: Government Relations; Building multi stakeholder coalitions as interest representation platforms; Policy shaping; Leading Innovations (e.g. Shell V-Power); Communication & Education; Inspirational Storytelling & Public Speaking. Systemic thinking.

Masoud Taghavi is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Chung-Ang University (CAU) in Seoul, South Korea, PhD in Mechanical Engineering- Energy Conversion, and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, at Faculty of Noshahr, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Iran. His research interests are mechanical engineering, energy engineering, hydrogen liquefaction, production, and storage, LNG, fuel cell, sustainable energies and green systems, solar energy and photovoltaic panels (PV), renewable energies and HVAC new technologies fields, low energy building, and CCUS. For more than 10 years, Masoud has worked as an HVAC engineer in buildings, a researcher, and a teacher for various universities in Iran. Masoud was introduced as the “Top Researcher” and “Top Lecturer” in the faculty of Noshahr, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Iran, respectively in 2020, and 2021, 2022.

Dr. Behzad Shahmoradi was born in Sanandaj City, Kurdistan, west of Iran in 1976. He completed his B.E. in Environmental Health Engineering from Urmia University of Medical Sciences in 2000. After four year experience as environmental health inspector, he joint University of Mysore, India for M.Sc. in Environmental Science. In 2010, he awarded PhD from University of Mysore, India. Later, he joint Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. As full-time professor, he is supervising both M.Tech. and PhD students. He has published more than 145 scientific papers in reputed journals and have excellent collaboration with peer scientists throughout the world. His interest is synthesis of metal oxide doped ZnO/TiO 2 nanomaterials for environmental application.

John W. Sheffield, Professor of Engineering Technology, Purdue University Dr. Sheffield served as a founding associate director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization - International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies during the first year of operation in 2005. For more than forty years, he has served as an editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He served as the President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy from 2019 - 2024, having previously served as the Executive Vice President. He served as a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, China teaching a graduate course on hydrogen energy technologies from 2019 - 2022. He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the "H2 JRP - Hydrogen Joint Research Platform" from 2022-2024.

Mr. Hans van der Loo Systemic Thinker, Explainer, Keynote speaker, Board Member, EU Policy & Government Relations Advisor. Former Vice President at Royal Dutch Shell, with global business experience with energy/environment projects, government relation and policy shaping. The latter for Shell, WBCSD and now for the DCCI - Direct Climate Cooling Initiative, working together with scientists to offer relieve by peak-shaving the looming heat overshoot, in order to avoid HothouseEarth conditions setting in. Worked in many sectors of energy business: supply, trading, marketing, finance, strategy, business development, innovation (initiator of Shell V-Power), change management, government relations and regulatory affairs. Served as sherpa to 2 Shell CEO's in the European Roundtable of Industrialists and as member of BusinessEurope's Advisory and Support Group. - 30+ years experience in managing international and cross-functional teams in energy and government relations practices. - Experienced compromise broker, initiated innovative lobby practice of 'multi-stakeholder joint advocacy' platforms and accordingly break-through results. - Thought-leader in promoting the position of science and education in public policy to strengthen societal resilience and acceptance for increasingly technology rich solutions. - Experience in corporate, public and private foundation boards. - Comfortable working at senior corporate and government levels; in several languages - Frequently asked conference speaker on systemic change of Human Eco-System, energy & resource challenges, resource security & resilience matters. (Atlantic Strategy Group, Bilderberg, Climate Change Summit, COP21, EU Business Summit, Science Conference European Parliament, WEF, etc) - Advise & Briefings for Corporate Top Teams and Public Policy bodies/Ministries Specialties: Government Relations; Building multi stakeholder coalitions as interest representation platforms; Policy shaping; Leading Innovations (e.g. Shell V-Power); Communication & Education; Inspirational Storytelling & Public Speaking. Systemic thinking.