Dr. Florian Kongoli is a scientist, entrepreneur, and global leader in sustainability and metallurgy. He holds a Ph.D. from Tohoku University (Japan) and degrees from the University of Montreal (Canada). As CEO of FLOGEN Technologies and Chairman of FLOGEN Star Outreach, he has led global initiatives in sustainable development, scientific innovation, and policy. He has received numerous international honors, including the Gold Medal of Nancy (France), Honorary Citizenship of Rio de Janeiro, and election to several prestigious academies. His FLOGEN Sustainability Framework has been adopted into law, setting a global precedent for science-driven policy.

Professor Ts. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in power electronics and drives jointly from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2009. He is currently a professor and deputy executive director of University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM and a member of working group committee on Photovoltaic Standards of Department of Standards Malaysia. With the experience in solar energy fields more than 15 years, he has monitored more than 75 onsite inverter tests under the FiT, LSS and NEM scheme in Malaysia and published more than 70 high impact journals, 50 conference papers and 4 book chapters. He is one of the recipients of NAM research training fellowship for young scientist and Royal Academy Engineering UK’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2019 he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship followed by Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020.

IR Prof. Dr. Leong Wai Yie received her PhD and Bachelor's (Hons I) in Electrical Engineering from The University of Queensland, Australia, in 2005 and 2000 respectively. She has authored 10 book series on innovations in Electronics and Biomedical Engineering. She currently serves as the Immediate Past Chair of IET Malaysia, Council Member of IET UK, Vice President of IEM (2020–2022), and Vice President of INWES (2020–2023). She is also actively involved in the Women in Engineering Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). Prof. Leong has been recognized as a Top Research Scientist in Malaysia and was honored with the 2023 INWES Distinguished Woman in Engineering Award for her outstanding contributions to engineering and leadership in the global community.

Gilles Jacquemod graduated from ICPI (CPE) Lyon, and received MSc degree (DEA) in microelectronics from Ecole Centrale Lyon in 1986. He received the Ph.D. degree in integrated electronics from INSA Lyon, in 1989. From 1990 to 2000, he worked at LEOM, Ecole Centrale Lyon, as an Associate Professor, on analog integrated circuit design and behavioral modeling of mixed domain systems. He was also involved in the application of signal processing and communication systems. In 2000, he joined the LEAT laboratory and the Ecole Polytechnique of Nice-Sophia Antipolis University as full professor. Since 2010, he is with EpOC research team (URE UNS 006). His primary research interests include analog integrated circuit design and behavioral modeling of mixed domain systems. He is also involved in RF design applied to wireless communication. He is director of the CNFM PACA pole. He is President of the CIM-PACA Design Platform. He was advisor more than 30 PhD students. He is author and co-author of more than 250 journal and conference papers, and holds 4 patents.

Xingxing Huang Doctor of EngineeringProfessor-level Chief Scientist, Director at S.C.I.Energy (Swiss), Future Energy Research Institute Swiss Innovation and Horizon Europe Funding: Reshaping energy and empowering the future.

1. Current Position o March 2012 – Present: Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center, South Korea o March 2012 – Present: Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University, South Korea 2. Educational Attainment o BA and MA in Sociology from Korea University, South Korea o PhD in Environmental Sociology from The University of Queensland, Australia 3. Past Major Professional Activities Since 2000 o Professor at Jeju National University, South Korea (March 1981 – February 2012) o President, Asia-Pacific Sociological Association o Teaching Professor at The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom o Member, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development of the Republic of Korea o Delegate of South Korean Government to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) o Delegate of South Korean Government to OECD Environmental Meeting o Research Associate, Environmental Policy Committee for Sustainable Development, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea o Acting Director of Jeju Secretariat, UNESCO World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves 4. Academic Research Publications: 13 books including Environmental Sociology and 60 academic research papers in domestic and international journals 5. Unpublished Research Projects; 100 environment-related projects funded by domestic

Professor Wong Ming-hung was Emeritus Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He had been appointed as Chair Professor of Biology from 1990 until August 2013 and had served as Head of Department of Biology of HKBU from 1986 to 2004. Professor Wong is an outstanding academic and leader in Environmental Science and ecology as evidenced by his prodigious output of scientific publications. He has published over 540 refereed research articles (SCI), 32 book chapters, and edited 25 books/journal issues and filed 4 patents. He is currently the most cited Chinese scientist in the world under Environmental Science (ISI Web of Knowledge). His major research areas include environment and human health, and remediation of contaminated sites. At present, he is Editor-in-chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health (Springer) and Book Series Editor (Urbanization, Industrialization and the Environment) of CRC Press. His reputation has been widely recognised internationally and capped by receiving two DSc Degrees awarded by the University of Durham, UK and the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1992 and 2004 respectively.

M. Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at UNSW, and past Professor in the University of Athens, Greece. Visiting Professor : Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University, Seoul University National University of Singapore, and UITM Univ Malaysia. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor in Chief of the Energy and Buildings Journal, Past Editor in Chief of the Advances Building Energy Research, Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal, E- Prime, Journal of Low Carbon and Sustainable Energy, and Member of the Editorial Board of 24 Journals. Editor of the Series of Book on Buildings, published by Earthscan Science Publishers. Editor and author of 20 international books published by Elsevier, Earthscan, Springer, etc. Author of 462 scientific articles published in journals. Reviewer of research projects in 29 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc. Ranked as the top world cited researcher in the field of Building and Construction by the Stanford University ranking system, for 2019-2022. Highly Cited Researcher in the Clarivate ranking for 4 continuous years. Ranked as no 451 researchers n the world in all scientific disciplines in the list prepared by Stanford University in 2021 for the 200000 more influential researchers. He has received many international awards.

Prof. Wang Rongming, born in June 1969, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is a candidate for the National Hundred Thousand Talents Program, has been awarded the honorary title of "Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions", enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council, is an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar in China, and a Leading Scholar of Beijing University of Science and Technology. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in science from Peking University in 1991 and 1994, and his doctorate in engineering from the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials in 1997. In 2000, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of Israel, and was a visiting scholar at Lawrence National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2004 to 2005. From 2005 to 2015, he served as a professor at the School of Physics, Beihang University, a "Blue Sky Scholar" Distinguished Professor, and the head of the "Blue Sky" Innovation Team. He was the Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Science and Technology Beijing and the Executive Vice President of the Fusion Innovation Institute. He is currently the Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Magneto-optical Composite Materials and Interface Science, the Team Leader of the Beijing Materials Gene Engineering High-precision Innovation Center, and a member of the Science, Technology, and Health Committee of the 15th Central Committee of the China Democratic League, a member of the Science and Technology Professional Committee of the 16th Beijing Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League, and the Chairman of the Beijing University of Science and Technology Branch of the China Democratic League. He is also the Executive Editor of the famous academic journal J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. of the British Physical Society, and an editorial board member of many international and national academic journals such as Rare Metals, Nanomaterials, IOP SciNotes, Progress in Natural Science – Materials International, and Nanotechnologies in Construction. He is also a member of the China Invention Association, a special executive director of the China Materials Research Society, the Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Nanomaterials and Devices Branch, the Vice Chairman of the Functional Materials Branch of the Chinese Society for Metals, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Nanomaterials Discipline Branch of the Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of China, and a member of the Beijing Chaoyang District Political Consultative Conference.

Prof. Adrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow, is the Director of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors (PESC) Center, the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the “one thousand foreign experts plan”, and holds honorary professorships from many universities He got the IEEE Fellow grade for “pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters” and served as Associate Editor for many IEEE Transactions. He authorized the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013). His main research interests are switching-capacitor converters and inverters, large dc gain converters, soft-switching converters. He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences.

Mark Bomberg, D. Sc (Eng) of Warsaw U, Poland, and Technology D. of Lund U, Sweden, is a Research Professor at Mechanical and Aeronautical Department. of Clarkson U., Potsdam, NY, Visiting Prof. At Cracow TU, Poland, Former Prof. of McMaster U, Hamilton, Canada, and International Prof. Tongji U, Shanghai, China. In years1984-2019 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Building Physics (Sage Corp. London, UK). In 1976-2000 worked at Nat. Research Council of Canada. Currently he is an RD manager in a small company in CNY working on integration of HVAC and building enclosures in NZEB and leading a small international research network. He published over 200 refereed papers and 7 books; has more than 1000 research citations and 33,000 reads on Research Gate (Berlin). He received the highest awards in building physics in both USA and Canada namely Ontario Building Envelope Council (BECKIE, 1999) and honorary membership of Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Committee of the Nat. Institute of Building Sci. Washington DC (2012).

David W. Yarbrough is V. President of R&D Services, Inc. a testing and consulting company located in Watertown, TN. He is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, emeritus at Tennessee Technological University having retired in 2002 as Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineer, a retired Research Staff Member (part time) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a Fellow: the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Tennessee Academy of Science, and the International Thermal Conductivity Conference. Yarbrough is a graduate of Georgia Tech (BChE 1960, MS 1961, PhD 1966).

Professor Mohamed TAHIRI is currently Full professor of supramolecular chemistry, spectroscopy, composite materials, electroplating techniques, Economical Impact on environmental, water and environmental engineering, biomass and biogas, Climate change, innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship. Since January 2010, he has held the Innovation Chair and TTO at Hassan II University in Casablanca. He coordinated the Erasmus + Yabda project from 2017 to 2021 (www.yabdaproject.eu) and represented the University in the other Tempus projects OSMOSE, BUCUM and Erasmus + INSITE, SALEEM. In his faculty, he holds a Bachelor's degree in sanitation management in urban and rural areas since 2009 till now. Since 2020, He’s Director of Research Laboratory at Hassan II University of Casablanca (Organic Synthesis, Extraction and Valorisation: SOEVLab) He’s International Expert with UNIDO (Vien) 2012: Bioenergy, Water and Environment Management, Applied Chemistry

Assoc. Prof. Dr Mohd Hariri Arifin is a reputable Geophysics lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) with over 10 years of experience in teaching and research. He gained his PhD in Geophysics Exploration at Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has been a Board of Geologists Malaysia, PG29 member since 2016. His passion and dedication to research have led him to publish almost 60 articles and 313 citations on early May 2025. Dr Hariri teaches a few courses such as Geophysics, Engineering Geophysics and Environmental Geophysics for undergraduate students and supervises postgraduate students. Dr Hariri has extensive experience in consulting multiple projects of his expertise such as assessing rock slope and tunnel stability, and landslide problems. His effort and contribution in the geology field widen as he has gained numerous grants for groundwater study, environmental site assessment, and sustainability of geothermal resources. He is also President of the Malaysia Geothermal Association (MyGA) & Deputy Dean for Industry and Community partnership at his faculty.

Prof. Ronghai Qu, Fellow IEEE, Fellow of China Electrotechnical Society, received his B.E. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Uniersity of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. He had been with the General Electric (GE) Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY as a Senior Electrical Engineer with the Electrical Machines and Drives Laboratory from 2003 to 2010. He was the recipient of 11 GE GRC awards including EPST Technical Achievement Award, Outstanding Teamwork and Management Award. In 2010 he joined Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China. He is currently director of State and Province Joint Engineering Research Center of Novel Electrical Machines, and director of Center for Advanced Electrical Machines and Drives (CAEMD). From 2012 to 2016, he served as deputy dean of school of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He is currently a member of ICEM NPO AdCom and the chair of IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Wuhan Chapter. His research interests include Design and Drive of Electrical Machines. He has published over 400 technical papers including 14 IEEE award papers and holds over 170 patents. Dr. Qu is also a winner of several other awards including 2020 Science and Technology Invention Award (1st prize) from China Electrotechnical Society, the 7th Nagamori Awards from Nagamori Foundation, Japan, 2021, and 2 gold Medals from the 47th Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2019, the 12th Innovation and Entrepreneurial Figure Award, China Association of Inventions,2022.

Prof. Hanshen Li received his B.S.E. degree in Electric Power Engineering and Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, and the M.E. degree in Information, Production and Systems Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from SJTU, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, China. Prof. Li has been a researcher at China Electric Power Planning and Engineering Institute (EPPEI) since 2023. His research interests include planning and operation of active distribution networks, where Li has published 50+ papers with over 200 total citations. He has been an editorial board of Journal of Energy Science and Technology since 2023, and also member of IEEE, IEEJ, CSEE and CES.

Yu Wang is a Professor and Hongshen Outstanding Scholar at Chongqing University. He is a IEEE Senior Member, recognized as one of Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Cited Scientists, and a top 1% Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science. With over 100 papers published in international journals and conferences, his work has garnered over 4,000 citations. He serves as editorial board member for Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and holds committee positions at the Chinese Association of Automation (Committee of New Energy and Energy Storage Systems) and China Energy Society (Smart Microgrid Committee). His research focuses on power system analysis and control, microgrid and distributed energy resource, and artificial intelligence applications in power systems

Hidayatullah Mohammad Ali, Senior Lecturer. Dr. Hidayatullah Mohammad Ali is an aerospace engineer and academician from Universiti Putra Malaysia, specializing in aerodynamic optimization on active flow control. He holds a PhD and Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering from UPM, and a Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering. His research focuses on computational and experimental fluid dynamics (CFD and EFD), particularly in low-Reynoldsnumber UAV aerodynamics using plasma-based actuation. Dr. Hidayatullah integrates sustainable design principles in aerospace systems, supporting the advancement of clean and energy-efficient technologies. He has presented at international symposia, contributed to indexed publications, and actively collaborates across academia and industry. His work aligns with the United nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reflecting a commitment to innovation with global impact.

Professor Ashwani Gupta has been a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland College Park Campus since 1983 after spending six years at MIT as member of research staff in the Energy Laboratory and Department of Chemical Engineering and three years at Sheffield University as independent research worker and research fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology. He has over 25 years of experience in Combustion engineering since his graduation from Southampton University in 1970. He is the co-author of two books entitled "Swirl flows" and "Flowfield Modeling and Diagnostics". His honors include a higher doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Sheffield , Energy Systems Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 1990, a best paper award by ASME in 1991 and four best paper awards by AIAA in 1987, 1989, 1992 and 1994. He is the founding co-editor of the Energy Engineering and Environment Series published by CRC Press and Associate Editor of the Journal of Propulsion and Power. He is the Chairman of AIAA Terrestrial Energy Systems technical committee and member of the ASME Fuels and Combustion Technology executive committee. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Institute of Energy, U.K. and member of ASME , SAE , ASEE and the Combustion Institute.