Agenda

Alireza Yari received his B.Sc. degree in control system engineering in 1993 from the University of Tehran, Iran, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in System engineering in 2000 from Kitami institute of technology, Japan. He is currently doing research in Information Technology research faculty of Iran Telecom Research Center (ITRC). He is now the head of Information technology research faculty and is directing many national projects, such as, data governance and open data in the country.

Mr. Movahed has a BS degree in software engineering and a MS degree in information technology management and now he is a candidate of PhD in Cyber space. He has six years of experience as the CEO of a company in the field of computers and 17 years of experience in IT  Department of governmental organizations. During these 17 years, he has implemented several projects, such as,  the service window of the Ministry of Culture launched in 2018, and digital government service window launched in 2022.

Thought tech leader in Government and Private sector with more than 18 years, Laila is a global advisor in Smart Cities and Digital Transformation. She is also one of the pioneers specialized in Metaverse since 2006. She is one of the leading experts in Smart Cities in Middle East and she is a Smart Cities associate in RMA advisory and different global consulting firms.  She has worked with different UN’s organizations and worked as a Research fellowship in UNU eGov. She is also the founder of Smart Cities Ambassadors program. She is a global winning award and considered as one of the inspiring and influencing women leaders in Middle East and recently awarded as top 50 inspiring Women in Oman and in Middle East and within the most 20 inspiring personalities in Oman 2021. She is a global jury and mentor in different global competitions and leading change with her energy to empower others. She is also a global keynote speaker participated in more than 100 conferences; author and traveler.

Kris R. Villanueva - Libunao is the former Undersecretary, Deputy-Director General and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council. She is a policy and management consultant with extensive knowledge in smart city technologies, digital trust, and emerging technologies governance. She holds a Certified Sustainability ESG Practitioner (CSR-P) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications and has worked with various public and private sector agencies as a policy and innovation consultant, providing technical and research support.

Kris is also a cyber relations and data governance expert and has worked with several organizations to provide technical services for research projects on API management, open ecosystems in the public sector, and telecommunications. She has served as the Executive Director and Chief Sustainability Officer of SmartCT since 2019, leading the organization's
decision-making and development of organizational strategies with a focus on openness in community building, policies, and leadership. She is also involved in community building and initiatives, serving as a Southeast Asian Women Leaders Ecosystem Builder, contributor to URBAN AI, pioneer member of the AI for Sustainable Cities Network, and Director for Impact and Initiatives at The Maximal Impact Foundation.

Mr. Mehdi Hosseinpour has about 20 years of experience in Iran Telecom Reserch Center (ITRC). He has graduated with a master's degree in telecommunications from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran, Iran). He has been working as the director of research groups in ITRC since 2017, and before that he was the manager of several projects in the group, such as, the project of drafting the data governance law in Iran. In addition, he is the author of two books on principles and methodologies of implementing data governance. Currently, he is looking for methods to evaluate the management and quality of data in data governance, according to the activity in the information technology laboratory.

Maryam Tayefeh Mahmoudi holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering-Software, a B.A. in Business Management, a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering-Software, and a Ph.D degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Tehran with emphasis on intelligent organization of educational contents. Within the past years, she has been involved in a variety of research works at Knowledge Management & e-Organization, and Multimedia Systems Research Groups of IT Research Faculty in ICT Research Institute (ex ITRC), working on issues like automatic generation and personalization of ideas and contents, decision support and recommendation systems for research & education purposes, augmented reality for added-value multimedia content generation, as well as making conceptual models for IT research projects with emphasis on using ontological structures. She is a co-author of many research papers in different international journals and proceedings of conferences.