Nektarios Georgalas works for British Telecom since 1998, currently a Principal Researcher in Applied Research. He leads innovation programmes with industrial and academic partners in IoT, Edge Computing, AI, Autonomics, Smart City, Mobility, Cloud, Data Centres and NFV/SDN. He led standards teams in TeleManagement Forum defining telecoms market strategy towards software-defined ecosystems of digital services in dynamic marketplaces and standardising key capabilities and APIs for Smart Cities. He received 20 international awards including IEEE Outstanding Leadership awards for IEEE Conferences General Co-chair, Programme Co-chair and keynote speaker service. He has 16 patents and has authored 80 papers.

Dr Alexander Bolotov completed his first PhD, in Logic, in 1992 at the Moscow State University. From 1987 to 1993 he worked as a lecturer at the Moscow State University before moving to the University of Pittsburgh (USA) in 1993-1994 as a visiting scholar, and then to Manchester Metropolitan University, where he also earned a second PhD, in Computer Science, in 2000. From 2001 Alexander Bolotov has been working at the University of Westminster, from 2005 as Principal Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering. He has been awarded the title of Reader from August 2023. Alexander is a leader of the Software Systems Engineering Group. He authored or co-authored one book, one book chapter, sixteen journal articles, and over eighty peer reviewed conference papers. Dr Bolotov is a Chair of the UK Automated Reasoning Workshop. His main research interests are in the areas of formal specification and verification of concurrent and distributed systems, autonomous computing, automated reasoning, temporal reasoning, information theory, logical aspects of artificial intelligence and computer science, application of formal methods in software engineering, graph-based knowledge representation, e-learning technologies.

Markos Mentzelopoulos is senior academic for the Computer Science department in the University of Westminster and is also the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development course, delivering modules on game programming, pervasive computing, VR and AR team-based game making. Markos has a great experience of developing video games and interactive applications as part of his scholarly activities using latest technologies such as Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE, Hydra, Kinect and his work has already been published in IEEE, Springer and ACM conferences and Journals. Markos has been awarded and delivered successfully EU Project Keep+ including an interdisciplinary project called REVRLaw to use legal pedagogy and gamification to develop a new virtual reality game in Criminal Law that adds a new take on traditional, written problem-based questions. Markos is a board member for the IEEE - immersive learning research network (iLRN) since 2016.

Tamas Kiss is a Professor of Distributed Computing at the School of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the University Research Centre for Parallel Computing. Since 2020 he is an Editor in Chief at the Journal of Grid Computing published by Springer Nature.  He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing, and MSc Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. The leading research outputs of his team (in collaboration with various research groups in Europe) in the past few years have been the MiCADO cloud orchestrator solution that enables the automated deployment and run-time management of microservices-based applications in heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, and the CloudSME and CloudiFacturing platforms that support manufacturing and engineering companies to utilise cloud-based high-performance computing services to run simulation and optimisation applications.

Dr Ayman El Hajjar is the course leader for the MSc Cyber security and forensics and involved mainly in teaching security modules in the school of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Westminster. He is also the head of the Cyber Security research group . His main research focuses on looking at how existing security protocols can be used on infrastructure-less decentralized networks such as blockchain networks and the Internet of Things. 

Alexandra (Aleka) Psarrou is a Reader in Computational Vision at the University of Westminster and served as Head of School (2002-2019). She received her BSc in Computer Science (1987) and PhD in Computer Vision (1996) from Queen Mary, London. Her research background is in machine learning with particular emphasis in neural networks for analysis of visual behavior. Most recently she has been applying computational techniques in modelling image quality and systems performance for mobile phone cameras and automotive applications.