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Member of the Management Consortium STHEM BRAZIL Committee and Vice-President Academic at ESPM – Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, responsible for new programs for monitoring the quality of the courses and the development of teachers. He develops research in the areas of neuroscience applied to learning and meditation as a management tool. Introduced the Mindful Leadership discipline in ESPM’s graduate program.

Senior International Development Office – University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

She is Brazilian-Spanish, researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC). Develops research in the areas of open education (Marco OpenEdu), digital skills of teachers (Marco DigCompEdu), blockchain in education and computational thinking. She is a PhD in Educational Technologies, lecturer and international consultant in technologies applied to teaching-learning and education management.

Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, PhD in Statistics. He teaches courses on statistical methodologies and his research interests focus on statistical modeling in the area of structural regression models and statistical education. He is currently a researcher and member of the research team for several internationally funded research projects in areas such as Biostatistics, Psychometric Analysis, Social Sciences, Statistical Education and Mathematical Modeling.

Researcher, consultant and teacher specialized in higher education topics. Economist, Marketing Specialist; Specialist in Distance Education; Master in Educational Management; Doctor in Education; Doctor in Derecho and four Postdoctors. Currently he is Academic Director of the University of the Company (UDE) in Uruguay and Director of the Doctorate of Higher Education (UAI, UNRN, UA) of Argentina. He was Director of the UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), Rector del IAEN (Ecuador), and Dean of Business Sciences (UDE) among other positions. I publish 25 proper books on education topics and was distinguished with Doctorate Honoris Causa.

Director of Digital Innovation, ASU University Design Institute. He works with faculty, staff, and technology partners to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success.

President of STHEM Brasil and Director of Innovation at Semesp. Degree in History, Doctor in Social History from the University of São Paulo (USP) and postdoc in progress by the University of Coimbra. It is dedicated to research on higher education trends and the governance and management models of HEIs. Author of several books in the area of higher education. Professor in undergraduate and graduate courses.

Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra. He has a PhD degree in Colloid Chemistry at the University of Coimbra (UC) and University of Lund, Sweden. He developed his Postdoctoral work at Procter & Gamble in the USA and at BASF in Germany. He has been project leader of more than 40 academic and industrial projects in UC and he currently coordinates a research group (Colloids and Innovative Nanomaterials Group) at UC and promotes cooperative industry-academia networks, both at a national and international level. He is the author of 65 scientific international publications and of several patents, and shows a h-index of 24. He gave ca. 150 communications at universities and companies, in the context of his areas of expertise that include Nanotechnology, Physical Chemistry of Surfactants and Polymers, Colloids, Detergency, Rheological control, Stabilization formulations and coatings.

Theoretical of learning processes in the digital age. He is an assistant professor at the Center for Distance Education and a researcher and strategist at Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. Your role as a social media strategist involves planning, researching and implementing social networking technologies, with a focus on systemic impact and institutional change. His interest in exploring the pedagogical possibilities of the new information and communication technologies led him, together with Stephen Downes (Institute for Information Technology’s e-Learning Research Group, Canada), to propose Connectivity, which he presents as a new teaching paradigm -learning.

Director International Relations and Global Partnerships – University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

Director of training and development of institutions at Tecnológico de Monterrey. In the last 6 years her main function has focused on managing training for the Tec21 Model, as a designer of learning experiences at the Center for Teacher Development and Educational Innovation (CEDDIE) for teachers and managers.

Vice Rector – Tecnologico de Monterrey

Head WE of the Wadhwani Foundation – Latin America. Graduated in Biomedicine by UEL and Master in Entrepreneurship by UNIFEI. For 8 years, it has spared no effort for entrepreneurship and education to go together in a greater purpose of transforming people. He was Coordinator of Entrepreneurship in UNISAL undergraduate and graduate courses, believing in hands-on and skill-based teaching. Today he is Head WE of the Wadhwani Foundation / Latin America, with the objective of generating high-value jobs by training entrepreneurs and local ecosystems.

Rector of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He is also a full professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Unicamp Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). From August 2015 to November 2016, he directed CNPEM’s National Nanotechnology Laboratory (LNNano). He held other leadership positions at the University, including that of Dean of Undergraduate Studies, from 2009 to 2013. He graduated and received his PhD in Physics from Unicamp.

Maria Manuel Borges is an Associate Professor in Information Science at the University of Coimbra. She is Director of the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information and co-coordinator of the Digital Humanities Group of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century (CEIS20). She is Director of the PhD in Information Science and has extensive experience in supervising research work. He is a member of the editorial board of a significant number of national and international scientific journals and Associate Editor of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He is a member of the Interministerial group for the National Policy on Open Science in Portugal, subgroup Evaluation of science. He is a member of the Research Data Alliance and was part of the Advisory Board of the RDA.pt node representing the University of Coimbra. His research interests are centered around Open Science with a particular focus on the issues of research evaluation, the management of research data and the curation of digital information.

Professor in the Department of Education, Faculty of Health, Community Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. He’s teaching background includes graduate and undergraduate courses in educational technology, K-12 education, technical training in petroleum industry and English as a second language. He has co-authored Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry and also Blended Learning in Higher Education. Dr. Vaughan is also the co-founder of the Blended Online Design Network.

Executive Director of Semesp, economist at the University of São Paulo, MBA in Information Technology at FIA / USP, PhD student in Contemporary Studies at the University of Coimbra. Coordinator of the Private Higher Education Information System – Sindata and of the Higher Education Map in Brazil, among other studies.

Sara Dias-Trindade: Doctor in History (didactic) and post-doctor in Education and Communication Technologies from the University of Coimbra. Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (DHEEAA). Integrated researcher and member of the coordination team of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century (CEIS20).

Pedagogical coordinator of the Distance Learning project at the University of Coimbra and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Coimbra. She is a teacher and researcher in the areas of teacher training and the pedagogical use of information and communication technologies. She coordinated Luso-Spanish projects in the area of teacher training as well as being part of the Luso-Brazilian project within the scope of university pedagogy. She participated in several national and international projects in the area of cyberbullying and, currently, she is a responsible researcher of international projects, in the areas of University Pedagogy, teacher training, e-learning and active methodologies. Currently she is an integrated member of the Center for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS20.