Jian Song
Tsinghua University, China

Dr. Jian Song received his B. Eng and PhD degrees from Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He is now professor of the Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University. He is also the Director of DTV Technology R&D Center which is one of the major technical contributors for the Chinese digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard.

Dr. Song is very active in serving the community, and has served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Broadcasting since 2010 and the member of BTS Administration Committee member since 2011. He also has great involvement with International Telecommunication Union, and became WP 6A vice chairman in 2012.

Dr. Song's current research interest is in the digital broadcasting, network convergence, and the integrated system of visible light and powerline communications. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the aforementioned areas.

Dr. Song is Fellow of IEEE, IET, and CIE, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries since March 2017.

Rajkumar Buyya
University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Fellow of IEEE, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is al​so serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 525 publications and seven text books including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=109, g-index=230, 58,300+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index ranked Dr. Buyya as #1 author in the world (2005-2016) for both field rating and citations evaluations in the area of Distributed and Parallel Computing. "A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Recently, Dr. Buyya is recognized as "2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" by Thomson Reuters.

Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received "2010 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award". Recently, Dr. Buyya received "Mahatma Gandhi Award" along with Gold Medal for his outstanding and extraordinary achievements in Information Technology field and services rendered to promote greater friendship and India-International cooperation. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established over 45 years ago. For further information on Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com.

Xiaolan Fu
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Xiaolan Fu is Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green College at Oxford University. She was President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK) (2010-2011). In 2015 and 2016 she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and to the Governing Council of the UN's Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries. Her recent books include China's Path to Innovation, China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery, and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. Her papers appeared widely in leading international journals. She received the European Commission Gate2Growth Academic Network 2005 ‘European Best Paper’ Award. She currently leads an ESRC/DFID funded project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low Income Countries and an EC FP7 funded project on MNEs and Development. She is also a Senior Research Associate of the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at Fudan University.

Consultant, United States

He retired from AT&T in 2017. Dr Sherif has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from Stevens Institute of Technology, N.J. He is the author and editor of several books including Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce, 3nd ed. (2016), Managing Projects in Telecommunication Services (2006) and Handbook of Enterprise Integration (2009). He is an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, of Technovation, the ITU Journal and the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research.

Stephen Ibaraki
Social Entrepreneur and Futurist - Chair REDDS Capital, Canada

With more than 100 executive roles, lifetime achievement awards and recognitions, a few of Stephen Ibaraki's positions include: co-chair Practitioner Board Association for Computing Machinery; founding chair Global Industry Council and vice-chair board IP3 International Federation for Information Processing; top 5 blogger IDG-IT World (Canada); founding managing partner REDDS Venture Investment Partners; keynote at the International Conference on Software Engineering (Austin USA); founding chair Technology Advisory Council Financial Services Roundtable FinTech Ideas Festival(FSR: 91.7 trillion managed assets, 1.2 trillion annual revenue); invited board advisor within the IEEE divisions. There is more information as nominated founding fellow, past board chair and president government-chartered Canadian Information Processing Society at http://www.cips.ca/stephen-ibaraki.