Anders Thorstenson
Anders Thorstenson is currently professor of Operations Management at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University in Denmark. He holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Linköping University in Sweden, and obtained the tekn.dr. degree there in Production Economics. He has held academic positions at technical faculties and business schools in Scandinavia, the US and Hong Kong. He has been academic advisor for more than 120 master’s theses and acted as external examiner at several universities and business schools. His main areas of interest regarding research and teaching are Supply Chain Management, Production and Inventory Control, and Business Analytics.

Eric Blanco
Dr Eric Blanco is associate professor in Engineering Design and Product Development in the school of Industrial Engineering and Management at Grenoble Institute of Technology (University of Grenoble Alps). He is currently Deputy Director of the IEM School. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1993. He obtained his Phd in 1998 and his habilitation in 2008 for his research on based oninformation management in collaborative design activities. Theseinterdisciplinary researches integrate engineering and organization sciences models of design activity. His current research deals with performance in product development and R&D organizations. His researches are mainly empirical and carried out in close partnership with industry. He is a member of the Design Society and consultant in industry.

Gaétan de Rassenfosse
Gaétan de Rassenfosse is an Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Science & Technology Policy at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). He joined the Institute of Technology and Public Policy at the College of Management of Technology in late 2014. Prior to that, he was a research fellow then a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne (Australia) from 2010 to 2014. He was affiliated with the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Business and Economics. Gaétan de Rassenfosse obtained a PhD in Economics from the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management in 2010.

Jan C. Fransoo
Jan C. Fransoo is a professor of Operations Management and Logistics in the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Operations Management & Logistics from Eindhoven University of Technology. Professor Fransoo held various visiting appointments at universities in the USA, including Stanford University and MIT, Slovenia, China, and Mexico. He holds senior or advisory editorial positions at nine academic journals in the fields of operations and supply chain management, including Operations Research and Production and Operations Management. He has published over 100 papers in academic journals and presented at many academic and industry conferences, on topics such as production planning, supply chain and inventory management, and transportation planning. His most recent work is addressing issues such as synchromodal transportation, distribution in megacities, and sustainable supply chain management. As part from his academic activities, Professor Fransoo has conducted dozens of projects with industry, and has consulted with the World Bank and various national governments in developed and developing countries.

Lubomir Dimitrov
Full professor, Dr., Vice Rector of the Technical University, Graduated from Moscow Technological University, Russia, in "Technology of Mechanical Engineering, Machine Tools and Instruments" (1980). Specialized at Cambridge University, UK (2004), University of Cincinnati, USA (Fulbright Scholarship, 2001-2002), Saint Joseph's University, USA (1996), Dublin University, Ireland (1992-1993). Doctoral thesis on "Impact of machine elements application on the development of their size structure in CAD systems" (Moscow, 1986). Began his professional career as assistant professor at the Technical University of Sofia in the Department of Machine Elements (1986), Associate Professor in the field of “Mechanics and Machine Elements" (2004), Professor in the field of "Mechatronics”. Main areas of teaching and research: design of machines and machine parts, ERP systems and their application. Author of three textbooks and more than 150 scientific publications. Activities outside TU: Member of the Board of Bulgarian Scientific Union in the area of Mechanical Engineering (since 2012). Expert and advisory capabilities: design of machines and machine parts, control systems, industrial robots, assembly automation, mechatronics.

Mário Amorim Lopes
Mário Amorim Lopes is currently an Invited Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management department at the School of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), an Invited Lecturer at Católica Porto Business School (CPBS), and head of the healthcare division at the Centre of Engineering and Industrial Management (CEGI), INESC-TEC. He holds an MSc in Software Engineering (FEUP), an MSc in Economics (School of Economics, University of Porto) and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management (University of Porto). His research interests cover all things related to health care, from management to health economics and policy. He has also co-founded a startup company, worked for SAP Labs (Palo Alto, CA), and as a contractor for companies such as McKinsey.

Pedro Amorim
Pedro Amorim is Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering and Management Department at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto that also teaches at the Porto Business School. He is the head of the Research Center for Industrial Engineering and Management from INESC TEC – Associate Laboratory. Pedro Amorim is also the Co Founder of LTPlabs, which is a boutique management consultancy company that applies advanced analytical methods to help make better complex decisions. Pedro Amorim was a FCT and Carnegie Mellon-Portugal scholar and has held visiting appointments at Carnegie Mellon, Technical University of Berlin, Ingolstadt School of Management, University of São Paulo and Technical University of Lisbon. In recent years, Pedro Amorim has been supervising and conducting numerous national and European funded projects, co-authoring more than 20 research papers in the fields of supply chain management, optimization and fast moving consumer goods. Pedro is fluent in Portuguese, English and French. He received his undergraduate education and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Vladislav Ivanov
Vladislav Ivanov is currently an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously he worked as a Production Coordinator at KEMET Electronics, Bulgaria – a company specialized in production of capacitors and electronic filters. He holds a PhD in Production Automation (TU - Sofia) and a Master’s Degree in Machine Elements and Non-metallic Constructions (TU-Sofia). His fields of expertise and teaching are Machine Design, Product Development, Manufacturing Strategies, Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. He is a Manager of an Open Innovation Lab at TU-Sofia, which is part of the Danube Transnational Programme. He is a Faculty Advisor of the Formula Student Team of TU-Sofia and has two specializations at the Institute for Product Development, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, (Germany). Final year project supervisor of 15 IEM students.

Ana Camanho
Ana S. Camanho is an Associate Professor, and Director of the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management of the School of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. She has a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She has published more than 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She has done research projects in the following sectors: banking, retailing, healthcare, education, fisheries, construction industry, regulation of electricity distribution companies, urban quality of life, eco-efficiency and corporate social responsibility. Her research interests include performance assessment, Data Envelopment Analysis, Productivity measurement, Data mining and Customer Relationship Management. She was vice-president of the Portuguese Operational Research Society and Pro-director of the PhD program in Industrial Engineering and Management of the School of Engineering of the University of Porto.

Vladimir Tomasevic
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Tomašević, FRSA; Graduate of Civil engineering department from University of Edinburgh; Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University. Dean of the School of Engineering Management of Union-Nikola Tesla University in Belgrade, Serbia. President of the Society of Engineering Managers of Serbia. Editor-in-Chief of the Serbian Journal of Engineering Management. Founder of the Belgrade Institute for Security Studies. Director of the Serbian Institute for Classical Studies.

Ulrich Bauer
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ulrich Bauer is since 1997 Professor at TU Graz and Head of the Institute for Business Economics and Industrial Sociology. His main fields in teaching are Business Economics, Cost management and Industrial Sociology. In Research he is interested how to control enterprises, operational and strategy and how to develop and handle human resources. He has long lasting management and consulting experience in Industry and at the University, where he was vice rector for Human Resources, Finance and Portfolio Management for 12 years.

Andreas Schumacher
Andreas Schumacher, studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Technology in Vienna and is currently engaged at this University in the Institute of Management Science (department for Industrial and System Engineering). Besides his teaching responsibilities in the field of Production and Quality Management he supervises a wide range of student-works such as seminar-papers, bachelor-thesis and master-thesis and writes his own PhD-Thesis in the area of digitalized production processes. Mr. Schumacher also engages as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Austria Research Institute where he focuses on maturity and readiness modelling for the field of Industry 4.0.

Mete Sevinç
Mete Sevinç is a PhD candidate in the School of Industrial Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. He received a BSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (2012) and a MSc in Industrial Engineering (2014) at Sabanci University, Istanbul. He completed his MSc thesis about an analysis on Innovation Taxonomy and Data Envelopment Analysis. He has previously worked in Turkey, and taken part in research projects in Sweden and Singapore. Currently, he conducts research on Supply Chain Control and Compliance through Bayesian Network Modeling. His research interests include Risk Assessment, Bayesian Network Modeling, Supply Chain Management, Datamining, Statistics and Information Visualization.

Kay Peeters
Kay Peeters is a PhD student at the School of Industrial Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He obtained a BSc and MSc degree in mechanical engineering, for which he completed an internship at the University of Queensland and graduation project for a large material handling automation company. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree aimed at the optimization of a poultry processing plant, with a focus on production planning. His research interests include Markov processes and queuing theory with a focus on applied research.

Rui Sousa
Rui Manuel Alves da Silva e Sousa is Assistant Professor at the Department of Production and Systems/School of Engineering/University of Minho. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, an MSc in Systems and Automation and a PhD in Production and Systems Engineering. His main research interests are: lean manufacturing; formal approaches for production systems analysis/design and engineering education. He supervised more than 30 IME master thesis developed in the industry, mainly in the Lean Manufacturing area. He is author/coauthor of about 60 publications in international journals and conferences.

Bernd Zunk
Bernd Markus Zunk is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head of the Institute of Business Economics and Industrial Sociology at Graz University of Technology. As leader of the “Industrial Marketing, Purchasing and Supply Management Working Group”, consisting of two PhD researchers, his current research interests are in the field of “Attractiveness, Trust and Power in Organizational Relationships”, “Preference of Industrial Customers”, “Personality and Motivation of Purchasing Professionals” as well as “Supplier Risk Management”. Up to now he has supervised more than 45 master theses. Besides, he is part of a team that is responsible for the design of the Industrial Engineering and Management degree programs at Graz University of Technology. Finally, he is author and co-author of five textbooks and more than 70 publications in international journals and conference papers.