General Chair

Yunkai Zhai

Professor, Zhengzhou University, China.

Research field: Telemedicine information system and management, medical information security and blockchain applications, ICT enabling management innovation theory and practice, management research methods and other fields of medicine, industry and management.

Yunkai Zhai, Ph.D., Professor, graduated from Wuhan University of Technology in Management Science and Engineering in 2008 with a Doctor degree in Management. He is currently the dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Management Engineering of Zhengzhou University, the deputy director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Internet Medical System and Application, the deputy director of the National Telemedicine Center and the deputy director of the Henan Telemedicine Center. He is one of the main young academic technical backbones in the field of medical health information management and data analysis in China. Research direction: Medical networking and medical health big data, telemedicine information system and management, medical information security and blockchain application, theory and practice of ICT enabling management innovation, management research methods and other interdisciplinary fields of medicine, industry and management

Co-Chair

Álvaro Rocha

Honorary Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Research field: Maturity models, information systems quality, online service quality, requirements engineering, intelligent information systems, e-Government, e-Health, and information technology in education.

Álvaro Rocha holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science.

He is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lisbon - ISEG, researcher at the ADVANCE (the ISEG Centre for Advanced Research in Management), and a collaborator researcher at both LIACC (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science) and CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are maturity models, information systems quality, online service quality, requirements engineering, intelligent information systems, e-Government, e-Health, and information technology in education.

He is also Vice-Chair of the IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of two Scopus and SCIMago journals: JISEM - Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management; and RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de InAdditionally, he is the Scientific Manager of the Information Systems Engineering & Management book series (https://shorturl.at/oyBKV) at Springer-Verlag, the world's leading publisher of publications in Science, Technology and Health.Melhoria na página de docente.

Moreover, he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Program, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology,  at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre, and at the Government of Cyprus's Research and Innovation Foundation.