Amedeo Amoresano Ph.D. Associate Professor of Energy Systems at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II. Since 2004, consultant to the Italian government on innovative energy systems. Responsible of National (Operative National Programme),and European Projects. He is currently associated partner in the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) committee for the Concentrated Solar Power, Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes programmes and Artificial Intelligence applied to energy systems.

Dr. Amr Saleh is an Associate Professor of Economics and a Senior Economic Adviser with extensive international experience in economic policy, sustainable development, and public administration. He currently serves as a Senior Economic Adviser to the Chairman of the Economic Department in the UAE and has previously been appointed as Senior Policy Adviser to the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, where he coordinated USAID-funded environmental projects valued at over USD 220 million. Dr. Saleh has worked closely with major international organizations, including the World Bank, UNDP, IFC, USAID, and the World Economic Forum, contributing to policy design, institutional reform, and capacity-building initiatives across the MENA region and beyond. He has taught economics, public administration, and strategic management in several Arab countries and in France at the University of Orléans. With more than 150 training programs delivered globally, his expertise spans sustainable development, governance, economic competitiveness, policy evaluation, and organizational transformation. He is also a frequent media commentator on global and regional socio-economic issues and has contributed to landmark publications such as the Egypt National Competitiveness Report and the Arab Report on Culture of Development.

Sir Santilli is an Italian-American scientist who graduated in theoretical physics from the University of Naples, Italy, in July, 1960; obtained his Ph. D. at the University of Torino, Italy, in 1965; and then emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1967 where he was on the faculty of the University of Miami, Boston University, MIT, and Harvard University under financial support from NASA, UFOSR and DOE. In 1991 he accepted the position of President and Professor at the Institute for Basic Research in Florida. He is the author of 359 papers published in refereed journals and twenty post Ph. D. monographs in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology; he is the Editor of a number of scientific journals in mathematics and physics and was awarded twelve U. S. patents. He is internationally known for developing new mathematics (known as Santilli's Lie-admissible, Lie-isotopic and isodual mathematics) for the construction of hadronic mechanics, chemistry and biology, and for the verification of the 1935 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument that "quantum mechanics is not a complete theory." These discoveries lead to the prediction of new environmental technologies, incompatible with quantum mechanics but fully compatible with hadronic mechanics, which he developed as Chief Scientist at various U. S. publicly traded and private companies. Ruggero Maria Santilli was knighted with the title of Sir on September 8, 2011, by the Republic of San Marino with the Membership in the Millenary Equestrian Order of Sant’Agata. Additionally, Sir R.M. Santilli has received: the Gold Medal from the Universite' d'Orleans, France, on January 6, 1982; the Nomination among the most illustrious applied mathematicians if all times by the Estonia Academy of Sciences in June 9, 1990; a dedication to his name of a lecture hall by the Australian Science and Research Center on September 9, 1992; the Scientific Prize of the Mediterranean Foundation on January 2, 2009; the Frey International Sustainability Award on November 9, 2016; and the "Stella d'Italia" (Star of Italy) with the title of "Cavaliere" from the Italian President Sergio Mattarella on May 31, 2018; and other important awards.

Dr. Richard Navarro, CEO of Renewable Ocean Energy, Inc, and inventor, has 14 inventions, 6 patents issued, 1 pending, 160 presentations, and authored Resurrection of the Blue Planet. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science, cum laude from Western Michigan University, is a former professor, and serial entrepreneur with over 50 years of experience despite being severely hearing impaired. He has a passion for protecting the Earth and finding innovative solutions to common problems and leads a team of engineers and businesspeople.

Dr. Brunner furthermore is a Managing Director and co-founder of Hynergy GmbH, an engineering company to develop technologies and services at the interface between renewable energy and emis sion-free mobility since 2015. Dr. Brunner furthermore is the Managing Director and co-founder of several other German hydrogen technology and green hydrogen companies, including Cryomotive GmbH, the CcH2-CRYOGAS company to disrupt storage and infrastructure for long-haul heavy duty transportation, Hydrogenity GmbH, a green hydrogen produc tion company, as well as Hy2B Wasserstoff GmbH, a leading green hydrogen producer, distrib utor and refueling station operator in Bavaria today. Between 2016 and 2020 Dr. Brunner served Great Wall Motors as their Vice President of Fuel Cell R&D and Hydrogen Business to set up a full-scale hydrogen fuel cell development program including China’s leading hydrogen fuel cell test center. Before 2015 Dr. Brunner has been serving BMW Group in various roles for more than 10 years, most recently as head of BMW’s Technology Project Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Under Dr. Brunner’s supervision several fuel cell electric vehicle prototypes and test fleets as well as novel cryogenic storage and refueling technologies have been developed and demonstrated. Dr. Brunner has been a panel reviewer for the European Commission, the US Department of Energy as well as the Research Council of Norway. He is the author of several reference pub lications on hydrogen technology. In 2019 Dr. Brunner co-initiated the HyPerformer project HyBayern, which has been awarded with € 20 Mio. German funding to establish the first Bavarian Green Hydrogen Region under the company label Hy2B Wasserstoff GmbH. In 2020 Dr. Brunner with Hynergy founded the HyTACC consortium for a National Hydrogen Mobility Center in Lower Bavaria (Pfeffenhausen), which in 2021 has been selected as one of four candidate locations for a future German Innovation Technology Center for Hydrogen. Before starting his professional career in industry in 2004, Dr. Brunner received a doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Munich. Before that he earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany, as well as of École Centrale Paris, France (2015 merged to Centrale Supélec). Later on, Dr. Brunner passed the International Graduate Program of Kyoto University, Japan.

Giorgio Cucé is the CEO and Founder of Seares, an innovative Italian company specializing in advanced nautical and energy engineering. With a strong background in mechanical design and a passion for maritime sustainability, Giorgio has led the development of Seadamp, a breakthrough technology that converts wave-induced motion into renewable electricity. His work focuses on bridging the gap between traditional maritime safety systems and future energy autonomy, earning recognition for Seares as a leader in 'blue tech' innovation

Dr. Jaroslav Jerz has completed his PhD from Vienna University of Technology (Austria) with dissertation dedicated to the development of aluminum foam by powder metallurgy. He is materials scientist at the Institute of Materials & Machine Mechanics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia). His scientific work is devoted to advanced metallic materials, development of technologies for their industrial production and transfer of knowledge gained by material research into industrial practice.

Dr. Simmons is the Director of the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also serves as the Chief Science and Technology Officer and Vice-President of the Deconstruction Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, a DOE Office of Science funded project tasked with the development and realization of advanced biofuels and bioproducts produced from sustainable, non-food lignocellulosic biomass. After spending 15 years at Sandia National Laboratories, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2016. He has over 450 publications and holds more than 50 patents.

Huadan Zheng is a Full Professor and Director of the Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory at Jinan University, China, and currently serves as Deputy Director of the Office of Academic Affairs. His research focuses on laser and photoacoustic spectroscopy, fiber and optical sensors, and advanced sensing technologies. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, holds over 30 patents, and has received more than 4,000 citations (h-index 36). Prof. Zheng has led 12 competitive research projects as principal investigator and has been recognized with several prestigious honors, including the Young Top-Tier Talent of Guangdong Province and inclusion in Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists list.

PhD-Eng. Jose I. ROJAS is an Associate Professor from the Department of Physics – Division of Aerospace Engineering, of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTECH), in Spain. After obtaining his MEng. in Aerospace Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSIA UPM), in Madrid (Spain), Dr. Rojas worked as intern in the Division of Development of the Air Navigation System (DDSNA) of Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA), in Madrid. Later, he joined UPC, where he has made research in various National and International R&D projects within the Research Group on Characterization of Materials (GCM): the viscoelastic properties of aerospace aluminium alloys, and composite material applications in the aerospace sector and in concentrated solar power, and, more recently, wind resource assessment focused mainly on thermal winds, and active flow control applications in wind turbines. To continuously improve his formation, he has been student at: the 2005 Community of Ariane Cities (CVA) Summer School, in Barcelona (Spain); the 8th Minerva Winter School, Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot (Israel); and the Summer Session Program (SSP) 2007 of the International Space University (ISU)-Beihang University, in Beijing (China). He has also done a pre-doctoral research stay as Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver (Canada), and a post-doctoral research stay at ACMM-University of Sydney (Australia). Finally, he worked as intern in the Air Transport Section (ATS), Dept. of Peace Keeping Operations (DPKO), United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY (USA), where he worked on heliport certification, and he was representative of the NGO Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC). He is also proud of his contributions to the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aerospace Eng. at UPC, where he has imparted lessons, co-designed and coordinated various subjects and activities, e.g., the Model Rocket Workshop (awarded twice; once with Honorific Mention from the Jury in the 10th Ed. of the Awards to Quality in University Education of the Social Council of the UPC), etc. At present day, he is the Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering of EETAC-UPC and Coordinator of the PhD Doctoral Program in Aerospace Science and Engineering.

Jianliang Jiang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), in 2005. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and the Institute of Semiconductor Technology, Paderborn University, Germany. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Optics and Photonics, BIT, China. His current research interests include RFID technology and its applications, and novel optoelectronic device and its applications.

Dr. Mira Maulida, C.TL, is a highly accomplished senior corporate strategist and sustainable transformation leader with more than 25 years of international experience across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Her expertise spans corporate strategy, international business development, ESG integration, and large-scale business transformation. She has held executive and senior leadership roles, including CEO of CADMAN Group and Vice President for MONDI Group’s EMEA operations. Dr. Mira has also contributed to strategic growth initiatives in global organizations such as AstraZeneca and Asia Pulp & Paper. She currently serves as a Board Advisor at the International Strategic Partnership Centre (ISPC Indonesia) and is a faculty member at BINUS University and the University of Indonesia, where she teaches international business and strategic management. As a Certified Transformational Leader, she works closely with C-suites and boards, advising on future-proofing organizations, driving sustainable change, and shaping international partnership strategies. Dr. Mira holds a Doctorate in Strategic Management and advanced degrees in international business and industrial management.

Prof. Dr. Ederaldo Godoy Junior is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Taubaté (UNITAU), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the area of​​Energy Utilization from the São Paulo State University (UNESP). He is currently a Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering / Ecodevelopment and Environmental Management at UNITAU, as well as an Energy Research Analyst at the Energy Research Company (EPE). His research expertise includes anaerobic/aerobic wastewater treatment, biogas/biomethane technology, water reuse, and biofuels. Dr. Godoy Junior has led and collaborated on numerous institutional and industrial projects, is a CNPq-sponsored inventor-researcher, holds patents related to renewable energy and sanitation technologies, and has received multiple awards for eco-efficient technological innovations.

Li Fang was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hohai University in 2003. From 2003 to 2004, he worked at Hohai University. In 2004, he joined Nanjing Institute of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include power electronics, intelligent control, and industrial network technologies. He has led and participated in the completion of one Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation project, one Jiangsu Provincial Higher Education Natural Science Foundation project, and one Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory Open Fund project. He holds eight granted invention patents and two granted utility model patents. He has led the completion of over ten industry-academia-research projects, with total funding exceeding two million yuan. As first author, he has published over ten papers. He has taught courses including Microcomputer Principles and Applications, Power Electronics Technology, Electrical Control and PLC, and Fieldbus Technology.

Dr. Md Jahirul Islam (Jahirul M. I.) is a senior researcher at Central Queensland University, Australia, and is recognised among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists for year 2025 & 2024 (Elsevier & Stanford). He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with expertise in renewable energy, hydrogen, waste-to-energy, and sustainable technologies. Dr. Islam has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, achieving over 7,000 citations and an h-index of 35, and has secured more than AUD $1.9 million in competitive research funding. His work has been recognised through several national and international awards, including the Advance Queensland Industry Fellowship Award, the Best Oral Presentation Award at NEFES 2025 (Japan), and finalist recognition in the Waste Recycling Industry Association Queensland (WRIQ) 2025 Industry Award. Widely invited as a keynote and invited speaker at international conferences across Europe, Asia, and Australia, Dr. Islam also serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for leading journals, contributing to global research excellence.

Mehdi Aliehyaei is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transport Engineering (DIME) at the University of Genoa, Italy. He has over 16 years of academic and industrial experience and previously served as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Islamic Azad University (Pardis Branch, Iran), with earlier appointments as Assistant Professor, Guest Researcher at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), and Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ontario Tech University (Canada). His research focuses on industrial decarbonization, renewable and hydrogen energy systems, heat recovery, carbon capture, and photovoltaic technologies, supported by expertise in process integration, thermoeconomic and life-cycle assessment (LCA), and multi-objective optimization. He has authored 115 journal articles, contributed three English book chapters, and published six books in Persian, with more than 6,500 citations (h-index 49). Dr. Aliehyaei has supervised 67 M.Sc. theses and six Ph.D. theses and has contributed to major internationally funded projects including SHERLOCK (Erasmus+), RESSKILL (LIFE), and STREACS (Horizon Europe), as well as funded collaborations in China and India.

Dr. Yang Hu, who obtained his PhD from Wuhan University in 2021 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Tsinghua University in 2023, has formulated strategic plans for several companies, serving as CEO or holding corresponding positions. He focuses on the research and engineering industrialization application of new materials, with research and industrialization content covering energy catalysis (zero-carbon electrochemical ammonia synthesis, medium-high temperature fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, nano and mesoporous material preparation, atmospheric water extraction), environmental protection (high-efficiency SCR reaction using liquid ammonia instead of urea, hydrogen sulfide gas separation), and semiconductor materials (photoresist). He has participated in and completed dozens of national-level projects in China, and published nearly 30 high-level papers and patents. His current major achievements include: 1. Zero-carbon electrochemical green ammonia synthesis (Magnesium Chloride Cycle, MCC method for ammonia synthesis) - a world first; 2. Development of high-efficiency tail gas treatment system using liquid ammonia (HSCR technology) - a world first, with engineering practice and commercial implementation in China; 3. Development and industrialization of the world's first high-etching-resistant electron beam photoresist - a world first, with commercial practice. Dr. Yang Hu started his entrepreneurial journey during his PhD studies, mainly focusing on environmental protection, energy, and information data issues in social development. He aims to promote industrial upgrading and development through the research and engineering marketization application of new materials, driving high-quality green development of human society and resource environment in a coordinated manner. Dr. Yang Hu is willing to work with numerous collaborators to promote the beautiful development of society and achieve the beauty of integration.

Temurbek Ismoilov is a researcher specializing in hydrogen energy and renewable energy systems. He is currently affiliated with Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research focuses on green hydrogen production, underground hydrogen storage, and sustainable energy transition technologies. With a strong interest in integrating renewable energy with hydrogen systems, his work explores innovative solutions for energy production, transport, and storage to support a low-carbon future.

Ph.D. at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc, affiliated with the LISTIC Laboratory at Polytech Annecy. My research is centered on the application of machine learning to renewable energy and hydrogen-based systems. I specialize in developing intelligent models for energy system optimization, performance enhancement, and health management. My work spans a variety of tasks, including fault detection, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and stability analysis. I am deeply committed to leveraging artificial intelligence to create efficient, sustainable, and explainable solutions that address real-world challenges in the energy sector.

Dr. Nivin Abdelmeguid is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. Her research addresses the nexus of energy, environment, and sustainable development with a focus on climate policy. She earned her PhD in Euro-Mediterranean Studies, specializing in energy and environmental economics. Beyond academia, she serves as a consultant for national and international organizations, including the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP Egypt), and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. Dr. Abdelmeguid was a Lead Author for Egypt’s 2024 Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), contributing to key chapters on institutional arrangements and the progress tracking toward nationally determined contributions in the energy sector. In addition, she was selected as an Expert Reviewer by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the Working Group II contribution to the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities (SRCities). Her research further explores energy transitions, decarbonization, and climate adaptation and mitigation, with particular attention to how governance, policy design, and innovation align with global sustainability agendas such as the circular economy and emerging paradigms of sustainable regeneration. Her published work covers a broad spectrum of energy and environmental economics, addressing Egypt’s energy transition, the water–energy–climate nexus, and gender-responsive climate finance. She has also explored environmental justice in the Arab region and contributed to international volumes on regenerative development and innovation in the global energy sector, promoting forward-looking perspectives on equitable and net-zero transitions.

Mohammad Abuali, MSc, is an Energy Systems Engineer specializing in renewable energy, green hydrogen, and sustainability. He holds a Master’s degree in Energy Systems Engineering and has hands-on experience in hydrogen production, energy research, business development, and project management. Mohammad is actively engaged in energy awareness and sustainability initiatives and is currently working toward establishing an energy-focused innovation initiative, contributing to the advancement of clean and future energy solutions.

Silvia Roscioli is a Naval Engineer specialized in environmental sustainability. Her master's thesis addressed SO₂ abatement in ship exhausts, and she is now pursuing a PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her research focuses on magnetic gearboxes as an innovation for remote power-transmission applications, due to their higher efficiency and reduced maintenance needs. She applies both engineering modelling and statistical analysis, and has experience with finite-element tools and parametric studies.

Martina Barrasso is a Mechanical Engineer specialized in energy efficiency for sustainable development. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Industrial Engineering for Energy Processes at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on the development of supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to minimize energy waste through non-invasive strategies. Her studies have been carried out within the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) program on energy efficiency in the industrial sector. She emphasizes that innovative solutions often lie in the adopted strategy, where combining statistical methods and engineering approaches represents the first step toward reducing energy waste without structural modifications.

Dr. Stuart So is a faculty member at the University of Exeter and the Programme Director for MSc Business Analytics. His research includes clean energy, sustainability, and climate change mitigation in the area of sustainable operations management (SOM), and sentiment analysis and sustainability modelling underpinned by AI/ML specialising in NLP and environmental analytics on the side of data science. Stuart received his doctorate from Macquarie University and completed his fellowship at the City University of Hong Kong. Stuart has published over 50 research articles in major peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He received two best paper awards and a research acknowledgement prizefrom the IEEE Conference, ANZAM Conference, and the University of Melbourne respectively. Stuart is an editorial board member of journals at MDPI, IGI-Globaland Emerald and guest edited a number of special issues in information management and environmental analytics for Emerald and MDPI. Professionally, Stuart is an ISO14001 EMS auditor, ISO22000 FSMS auditor, Certified Carbon Auditor (Energy Institute) and Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE). He contributes to practice as an environmental consultant and a data scientist.