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Prof. Elsyed Ahmed Elnashar

Full-Professor at Kaferelsheikh University

Ms. Kristie Abercrombie

Director of Logistics at 412 Food Rescue

Mr. Rajesh Mehta

Senior Consultant, Energy and Materials Transition TNO

Dr Stephen Poon

Associate Professor at MILA University, Malaysia

Mr. Salvatore J. Monte

President at Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc.

Mr. John H. Giordanengo

Principal Restoration Economist, Ecologist, CEO

Dr. Joan Lynam

Program Chair at Louisiana Tech University

Prof. Jose Carlos Miranda Gois

University of Coimbra

Ms. Luise Ende

Research Associate at the Institute of Psychology

Ms. Ana Arcanjo

Researcher at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Dr Stephen Poon

Associate Professor at MILA University, Malaysia

Stephen is a social creative catalyst, who has his own particular view of the world, worked and studied all over the Europe. His multicultural background is reflected in his versatile approach and continuous interest in creativity and innovation, circular economy and social change. Actively in research, published in the scholarly journals, chapters and magazines in current issues and debates on integrated sustainability and urban creativity, discourse across a wide range of disciplinarities in intra, cross, multi, inter and trans practices. Stephen currently serves on the Academic and Research Committee for Malaysia Green Building Council (MGBC), Steering Committee for MINDS (Malaysia Invention & Design Society) and member for MRM (Malaysian Design Council). Former Malaysia Chair Representative of Professional Standard & Education for ACED (Asian Council on Ergonomics & Design) and Advisor in Special Interest Group (Ergonomics in Design for All) for HFEM (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Malaysia). Editorial Board for Invention Asia magazine and Journal of Green Building & Construction Economics (WOS-ISI-indexed). Reviewer Task Panel for Human Factors and Ergonomics Journal (MyCITE-indexed) and The Social Science Journal (SCOPUS-indexed), SAGE Open Journal (SCOPUS-ESCI-indexed), Place Branding and Public Diplomacy Journal (SCOPUS-indexed), Open Science Journal (PKP-indexed), Journal of Urban Culture Research (SCOPUS-indexed), Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (SCOPUS-indexed), Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (ISI-WOS-indexed), Chapter Review: New Media/New Society?, Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration (SCOPUS-indexed), RELIGACIÓN: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (SCOPUS-indexed), Sustainable Development Journal (SCOPUS-indexed), Technology – Architecture + Design Journal (SCOPUS-indexed), Journal Advances in Civil Engineering (SCOPUS-indexed), Journal of Environmental and Public Health (SCOPUS-indexed), Territory, Politics, Governance Interdisciplinary Journal (SCOPUS-WOS-indexed), JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences (WOS-indexed), Journal New Design Ideas (SCOPUS-indexed), Security and Communication Networks Journal (SCOPUS-WOS-indexed), Chapter Review: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Preliminary Judge for International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX) and Arts & Creativity Exhibition (ACE). Panel Judge for ErgoLympic (Ergonomics Product Design Competition). Scientific Committee for the 5th Biennial HFEM (Human Factors and Ergonomics Malaysia) Conference, the 9th International Conference on Innovation, Knowledge, and Management (ICIKM2020), the 5th International Conference of Southeast Asian Network of Ergonomics Societies (SEANES2018), Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 and International Conference on Invention & Design (ICID2016), also certified Train the Trainer (TTT) from PSMB (Human Resources Development Fund), agency under Ministry of Human Resources Malaysia. Stephen is also an academic and researcher in universities and colleges where he has been a faculty member since 2004. He holds the lectureship for integrated sustainability, creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship and contextualising practice. Current affiliation with MILA University.

Mr. John H. Giordanengo

Principal Restoration Economist, Ecologist, CEO

John is an entrepreneur at heart, a passion that dovetails well with his life-long commitment to conservation and sustainable economics. This includes John’s founding of three small businesses, co-found three non-profit organizations, and serving on multiple non-profit boards dedicated to conservation, ecology, systems restoration, and sustainability. Giordanengo’s innate skills include not only the understanding and restoration of highly complex systems, but the facilitation of diverse stakeholder groups pursuing restoration across political, economic, and ecological boundaries. John’s first career was in recycling and composting systems in the ’90s, before pursuing a graduate degree in ecological restoration at Colorado State University. He has since dedicated his life to restoring degraded systems, including investigative research, writing, and education supporting economic restoration. Thirty years of experience have imbued John with an unexpected quality; the desire to refine humanity’s understanding of the structure of sustainable economies and ecosystems. This has brought John across North and South America, where he has provided a variety of design, planning, research, and implementation services for a range of private, non-profit, and government clients. John’s educational work includes over 150 articles, technical manuals, and restoration guidelines for state, local, and non-profit entities. His recent book, Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies, was a finalist in the 2023 CO book awards. Yes, John loves writing a worthy story. Less obvious, he is as comfortable tromping through wetlands and sowing seeds as he is on stage, where he delivers keynote addresses and seminars across the U.S. His lecture circuit includes ecological, economic, sustainability, and restoration topics. As a life-long musician, warming stages for international acts such as the English Beat and No Doubt, John has developed an energetic speaking style, helping him engage audiences not simply to convey novel information in a common-sense manner, but to inspire action. Over the decades, John has come to realize that the surest path to social & environmental well-being is through economic restoration.

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