Agenda

Tim Unwin is the founder of DESC, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and Emeritus Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, Unversity of London.  He was formerly Secretary General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (2011-2015), editor of ICT4D (CUP, 2009) and author of Reclaiming ICT4D (OUP, 2017).

James Crabbe is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (UK), a ‘100 Talents’ Special Visiting Professor at Shanxi University, Honorary Professor at both Changchun University of Science & Technology and at Wuhan Business University, China, and in 2021 was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Poline Bala is Director, Institute of Borneo Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia

Mireia Roura  is a Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. During the last six years, she has been researching about the reverse supply chain of the circular economy of electronic devices to deliver social, environmental, and economic feasible solutions to key issues at various stages of ereuse.org ecosystem.

Knud Erik Skouby  is Professor of Communication, Media and Information Technologies/Electronic Systems, Aalborg University-Copenhagen

Luc St-Pierre is Chief of the Space Applications Section at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and his managing the activities of the Programme on Space Applications and the implementation of Access to Space for All. From 2005 to 2012 he was Senior Geographic Information Systems Officer with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and Programme Officer with the Regional Seas Programme of the UN Environment Programme in the Caribbean from 2000 to 2005. Prior to joining the UN, he acted during ten years as specialist in the management of geospatial information on various projects with government authorities in Africa, Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2006, he graduated from the University of London with a M.Sc. in Environmental Economics, following a first M.Sc. in Geography in 1985 from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. Mr. St-Pierre is from Québec in Canada. 

Carlos Alvarez Pereira is a senior professional combining more than 30 years of experience in research and innovation, entrepreneurship, and business management, with a passion for complexity thinking and transdisciplinarity. He is keen on exploring the cultural transformation required to cross the threshold towards equitable human wellbeing within a healthy biosphere.  He is member of the Advisory Board of the International Bateson Institute (IBI), fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), and member of the Spanish Fulbright Alumni Association, of which he has been Vice-President during 8 years. With an MSc in Aerospace Engineering, he has been a lecturer and researcher in Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He founded and chaired for 14 years the Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute, specialized in the modelling of complex systems and big data applications. He has been the founder and top-level executive during more than 25 years of several consulting companies in Spain, Switzerland, France and Germany in the domains of digital technologies, systems integration and strategic advice.