Speakers

Professor Gilles Brassard

Canadian computer scientist. He has been faculty member of the Université de Montréal since 1979, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988.

He shared the 2025 Alain Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science.

Professor Brassard laid the foundations of quantum cryptography at a time when nobody could have predicted that the quantum information revolution would usher in a multi-billion-dollar industry, much less that the United Nations would proclaim 2025 to be the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and that the ACM would grant him the Turing Award for this work. He is also among the inventors of quantum teleportation, which is one of the most fundamental pillars of the theory of quantum information. Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Officer of the Order of Canada and Ordre national du Québec, his many accolades include the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Micius Quantum Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, in addition to the Turing Award. He has been granted honorary doctorates from ETH Zürich, the University of Ottawa, Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, and now the University of Waterloo. . University of Montreal Plenary Keynote Speech

Professor Rachid Yazami

Renowned Moroccan scientist, engineer, and inventor best known for developing the graphite anode, a crucial component in over 95% of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering modern electronics. He has spent over 30 years researching battery technology, receiving prestigious accolades including the 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize, IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies 2012, Draper Prize 2014, Royal Medal (Morocco) 2014, Legion of honour 2016, Takreem Award for Scientific Innovation and Technology (Kuwait City, 2018), Arab Investor Forum Award in Green Applications (UNESCO, Paris, 2019), The Mohammed bin Rashid Medal for Scientific Excellence and for Life Achievement (Dubai, 2020), The VinFuture Grand Prize (Hanoi, 2023) KVI PTE LTD, Singapour Plenary Keynote Speech

Professor Alvaro Rocha

Alvaro Rocha was listed in 2023 and 2024 as a World s Top 1% Scientist by Stanford University and Elsevier, a World s

Top 0.05% Scientist by ScholarGPS, and a World s Top 1% Scientist by ResearchGate for the fields of Information Science and Information Systems.

He is Professor at ISEG, University of Lisbon, Invited Professor at University of Calabria, Honorary Professor at Amity University, President of ITMA - Information and Technology Management Association, Vice-Chair of IEEE SMC Portugal Chapter, and Book Series Scientific Manager at Springer-Nature. He holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a Habil. in Information Science, a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, an M.Sc. in Information Management, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He is a researcher at ADVANCE (the ISEG Centre for Advanced Research in Management), and a collaborator researcher at CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are maturity models, cybersecurity, management information systems, intelligent systems, e-government, e-health, and information technology in education. He is also Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two Scopus and/or WoS journals: JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação / Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). University of Lisbon, Portugal Plenary Keynote Speech