Plenary Speaker of 2026

Professor Emeritus

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Biography: Dr. h.c. László T. Kóczy has Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees and is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, and multiple other scientific societies, he received the Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, etc.
He Is Professor Emeritus at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he was Dean and President of the University Ph.D. Council at Széchenyi István University (Győr), where he works now part time as a Professor Emeritus, and he is now Full Professor at John von Neumann University (Kecskemét), and is Dean’s Senior Advisor at Pécs University of Sciences.
He has been a visiting professor in various countries in four continents, among others, in Japan, Korea, Australia, Italy and Austria.
He published close to 900 scientific books, journal and conference papers, and received about 10,000 citations to them.
He received the Officer and Commander Crosses of the Order of Hungary.

 

 

Keynote Speakers of 2026

Member of the Academia Europaea
IEEE Fellow, EAI Fellow, AAIA Fellow
ACM Distinguished Scientist
ACM Distinguished Speaker
AIIA (InternationaI AI Industry Alliance) president

TU Wien, Austria

Biography: Schahram Dustdar is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the TU Wien, heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems, Austria and part-time ICREA research Professor at UPF Barcelona. He holds several honorary positions: University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney. From January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.

From 1999 – 2007, he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by ProjectNetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Coovally.ai, an AI infrastructure company based in Barcelona. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). Dustdar is the recipient of multiple awards: IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, as well as an IEEE Fellow(2016) and an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow (2021) and was AAIA president (from 2020-2021).

 

 

SMIEEE
Lead Data and AI Ethics Group / Lead Machine Intelligence Group

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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Keynote Speakers of 2025

	Prof. Anderson Rocha		Prof. Donald C. Wunsch		Prof. Sheridan Houghten
	Fellow of lEEE Director-Artificial Intelligence Lab, Digital Forensics and Machine Intelligence University of Campinas, Brazil		Fellow of lEEE Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor Director, Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (KICAIAS) Director, Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA		Senior Member of lEEE Brock University, Canada
	Speech Title: Digital Forensics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence		Speech Title: It's not AI. The literally fatal flaws of Artificial Stupidity. Can Fuzzy Logic Help?		Speech Title: Computational Intelligence for the generation and analysis of biological networks