Dr. Goldenberg is the founder of Engineering Services Inc. (ESI), established in 1982. ESI is a high-technology company involved in the development of robotics-based automation and technology. Under his leadership, the company has achieved significant growth and a global leading role in a wide range of industrial sectors. From 2000 to 2001 Dr. Goldenberg was also the President of Virtek Engineering Science Inc. (VESI), a high-technology company formed after the acquisition of part of ESI by Virtek Vision International Ltd., a publicly listed company. Dr. Goldenberg is also President of Anviv Mechatronics Inc. (AMI), which he founded in 2006. Anviv is a high-technology company involved in the development of mechatronics products. In 2021 Dr. Goldenberg has established two companies active in AI-Embedded Robotics: TNL AI-Embedded Robotics Inc. and ESIRAI Inc. In May 2015 ESI has been acquired by a Chinese consortium located in Shenzhen, P.R. China. He has been the President of ESI after the acquisition until the Chinese consortium became a public company listed in Hong Kong. Dr. Goldenberg has been the Chief Technology Officer of the public company until May 12, 2019, when he left the public company.

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 1995 and 2001, and achieved his Qualification in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from the same University. He is a senior researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI) and a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). He has been the Head of DEMec since June 2023.

Souhail DHOUIB is acting as a Full Professor at the University of Sfax, Tunisia. His teaching and research interests are related to the areas of Decision Science, Computer Science and Management Science. He is the inventor of Dhouib-Matrix concept which gathers several optimization methods: 1) New heuristics (Dhouib-Matrix-TSP1, Dhouib-Matrix-AP1, Dhouib-Matrix-TP1, ... etc.), 2) original optimal methods (Dhouib-Matrix-SPP, Dhouib-Matrix-ALL-SPP, Dhouib-Matrix-MSTP, … etc.), 3) novel metaheuristics (Far-to-Near, Dhouib-Matrix-3, Dhouib-Matrix-4).

Mohammed Bennamoun is Winthrop Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and is a researcher in computer vision, machine/deep learning, robotics, and signal/speech processing. He has published 4 books (available on Amazon), 1 edited book, 1 Encyclopedia article, 14 book chapters, 200+ journal papers, 270+ conference publications, 16 invited and keynote publications. His h-index is 74 and his number of citations is 29,100+ (Google Scholar). He was awarded 70+ competitive research grants, from the Australian Research Council, and numerous other Government, UWA and industry Research Grants. He successfully supervised 30+ PhD students to completion. He won the Best Supervisor of the Year Award at Queensland University of Technology (1998) and received award for research supervision at UWA (2008 and 2016) and Vice-Chancellor Award for mentorship (2016). He delivered conference tutorials at major conferences, including IEEE CVPR 2016, Inter speech 2014, IEEE ICASSP, and ECCV. He was also invited to give a Tutorial at an International Summer School on Deep Learning (Deep Learn 2017).