Scientific Committee

Prof. Richard Larson
MIT, USA

Prof. Richard Larson
MIT, USA
Prof. Richard Larson’s career has focused his operations research and systems expertise on a wide variety of problems, in both public and private sectors. He is author, co-author or editor of six books and author or co-author of over 175 scientific articles, primarily in the fields of urban service systems (esp. emergency response systems), disaster planning, pandemics, queueing, logistics, technology-enabled education, smart-energy houses and workforce planning. His first book, Urban Police Patrol Analysis (MIT Press, 1972) was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He is co-author, with Amedeo Odoni, of the widely used Urban Operations Research, Prentice Hall, 1981 (over 1,000 citations). Prof. Larson’s research on queues has not only resulted in new computational techniques (e.g., the Queue Inference Engine – an early example of data-driven research — and the Hypercube Queueing Model – 740 citations), but has also been covered extensively in national and international media.

Prof. Rodolfo Valacca
MediaLife Srl, Italy

Prof. Rodolfo Valacca
MediaLife Srl, Italy
Prof. Rodolfo Valacca is a Management Engineer, Senior Manager specialized in digital innovation. Past University Professor (e.g. at the Polytechnic of Milan, University of Turin) and Author of Publications (e.g. International Journal of Electronic Business, Il Sole24 Ore). For some years he has been dealing with Generative AI. Trained in Artificial Intelligence at the Kellogg Business School of Chicago and MIT Sloan School of Management of Boston, He has worked in NLP, prompt engineering and AI-generated video.

Prof. Dana York
EMLA, USA

Prof. Dana York
EMLA, USA
Prof. Dana York is an expert in the field of research in Lasers for Biomodulation Her academic background includes a degree in Education from the Academy of Distinguished Educators in Clinical Teaching (New York University), PhD in Laser Therapy and MSc in Biophysics and Cellular Technology (University Carol Davila, Bucharest). Professor York has served on the Board of Editors of the International Phototherapy Association of Japan. She has conducted clinical trials for photo biomodulation techniques with different technologies and has published this research in peer reviewed journals as well as presented at international conferences. She was awarded the prize for ‘Best Research paper’ at the Florence Laser Conference in 2002 as well as the International Academy of Laser Medicine and Surgery on Bone Regeneration in 2015. Professor York has recently joined the study group for Artificial Intelligence within the New European Surgery Academy. She sits as a delegate for Universal Healthcare at the United Nations and is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Medicine. Her first degree is as Doctor in Dental Surgery followed by Periodontology Dana is a philanthropist . Her work brings her to Africa to help the cause of the children victims of gender based violence.

Dr. Juergen Weichenberger
Schneider Electric, USA

Dr. Juergen Weichenberger
Schneider Electric, USA
Dr. Juergen Weichenberger has 20 years of experience in building complex solutions leveraging advanced analytics, data science, database design, architecture and implementation on various platforms to solve Complex Industry Problems. Working in the AI industry since the mid-1990s, Juergen have built solutions for various industries and leveraged various methods over time. He joined Schneider Electric in 2022 as Vice President at AI New Value Stream. His focus is to produce industry grade solutions, translating the combination of core algorithms, robotic, cybernetics and human intelligence. Industrial Analytics is the fusion of manufacturing, production, reliability, integrity, quality, sales- and market-analytics and covering 10 Industries. By combining skills and experience, we are creating the next-generation AI & ML Solutions for their clients. Leveraging a unique formula which allows us to model some of the most challenging manufacturing problems while building, scaling, and enabling the end-user to leverage the next generation data products. The New Value Streams at Schneider is specializing on Industrial-Grade Challenges where their are applying ML & AI methods to achieve state of the art results. Personally, He is driving his team and his own education to extend the limits of AI & ML beyond the current possible. He hold more than 15 patents and He is working on new innovations. He is working with his partner eco-system to enrich their accelerators with modern ML/AI techniques and integrating robotic equipment that allows him to create next generation solutions.

Prof. Francesco Iarlori
AI Transformation Strategist, Italy

Prof. Francesco Iarlori
AI Transformation Strategist, Italy
Prof. Richard Larson’s career has focused his operations research and systems expertise on a wide variety of problems, in both public and private sectors. He is author, co-author or editor of six books and author or co-author of over 175 scientific articles, primarily in the fields of urban service systems (esp. emergency response systems), disaster planning, pandemics, queueing, logistics, technology-enabled education, smart-energy houses and workforce planning. His first book, Urban Police Patrol Analysis (MIT Press, 1972) was awarded the Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He is co-author, with Amedeo Odoni, of the widely used Urban Operations Research, Prentice Hall, 1981 (over 1,000 citations). Prof. Larson’s research on queues has not only resulted in new computational techniques (e.g., the Queue Inference Engine – an early example of data-driven research — and the Hypercube Queueing Model – 740 citations), but has also been covered extensively in national and international media.

Dr. Tony de Bree
Tony de Bree Consulting, Training & Coaching, Netherlands

Dr. Tony de Bree
Tony de Bree Consulting, Training & Coaching, Netherlands
Dr. Tony de Bree worked 26 years in global Financial Services including corporate venturing en T&D. He completed his EEP MBA at business schools like The Wharton School. He has a PHD in B.A. on ‘Digital Transformation in FinServ’. He is bestselling author of management books in English & Dutch. He started making money online as side-hustle in 2001. He left the Corporate Rat Race to (2011) to become a successful entrepreneur. He obtained a FinTech Certificate @MIT & ‘ICT-Member Board Of Advisors’. He is online trendwatcher, AI-Entrepreneur, digital strategy & change consultant, AI-speaker, mentor, business & career coach & digital content creator.

Prof. Dana York
EMLA, USA

Prof. Dana York
EMLA, USA
Prof. Dana York is an expert in the field of research in Lasers for Biomodulation Her academic background includes a degree in Education from the Academy of Distinguished Educators in Clinical Teaching (New York University), PhD in Laser Therapy and MSc in Biophysics and Cellular Technology (University Carol Davila, Bucharest). Professor York has served on the Board of Editors of the International Phototherapy Association of Japan. She has conducted clinical trials for photo biomodulation techniques with different technologies and has published this research in peer reviewed journals as well as presented at international conferences. She was awarded the prize for ‘Best Research paper’ at the Florence Laser Conference in 2002 as well as the International Academy of Laser Medicine and Surgery on Bone Regeneration in 2015. Professor York has recently joined the study group for Artificial Intelligence within the New European Surgery Academy. She sits as a delegate for Universal Healthcare at the United Nations and is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Medicine. Her first degree is as Doctor in Dental Surgery followed by Periodontology Dana is a philanthropist . Her work brings her to Africa to help the cause of the children victims of gender based violence.

Dr. Juergen Weichenberger
Schneider Electric, USA

Dr. Juergen Weichenberger
Schneider Electric, USA
Dr. Juergen Weichenberger has 20 years of experience in building complex solutions leveraging advanced analytics, data science, database design, architecture and implementation on various platforms to solve Complex Industry Problems. Working in the AI industry since the mid-1990s, Juergen have built solutions for various industries and leveraged various methods over time. He joined Schneider Electric in 2022 as Vice President at AI New Value Stream. His focus is to produce industry grade solutions, translating the combination of core algorithms, robotic, cybernetics and human intelligence. Industrial Analytics is the fusion of manufacturing, production, reliability, integrity, quality, sales- and market-analytics and covering 10 Industries. By combining skills and experience, we are creating the next-generation AI & ML Solutions for their clients. Leveraging a unique formula which allows us to model some of the most challenging manufacturing problems while building, scaling, and enabling the end-user to leverage the next generation data products. The New Value Streams at Schneider is specializing on Industrial-Grade Challenges where their are applying ML & AI methods to achieve state of the art results. Personally, He is driving his team and his own education to extend the limits of AI & ML beyond the current possible. He hold more than 15 patents and He is working on new innovations. He is working with his partner eco-system to enrich their accelerators with modern ML/AI techniques and integrating robotic equipment that allows him to create next generation solutions.