Steering Committee
Chair
Imrich Chlamtac
Bruno Kessler Professor, University of Trento, Italy
Chair
Newton University professor, Czech Republic
Prof. M.A. Dagmar CAGÁŇOVÁ, PhD. acts as full prof. in Economics and Management of Enterprise and at present as Vice-Rector for Internationalisation and the Director of Strategic Business Unit International Programmes at Newton University in Prague. At the same time, prof. Cagáňová is a General Chairwoman of Summit Smart City 360°/Summit Smart Life and the Co-founder of the European Alliance for Innovation in Slovakia and the Advisory Board Representative of the ECEG’s ChemSkills/Blueprint project. She is an International Advisory Council Member of Danubius University, Management Committee Member of E-COST (European Collaboration in Science and Technology), the Executive Committee Member in Danubius Academic Consortium (Academic Network for Integral Innovation), as well as a Member of iATDi (International Association for Technological Development and Innovations), Vice-chairwoman of Cultural and Educational Grant Agency (Committee 3), Member of Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. Prof. Cagáňová prior positions at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava were the Vice-dean for International Projects at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Poland and Vice-dean at Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava.
Prof. Cagáňová’s professional interests, research topics, and international collaborations are mainly focused on Intercultural and Innovation Management, Managerial Skills, Communication in Management and Marketing, International Marketing, International Relationships and Diversity, Mobility and Smart Cities, and Gender Diversity. She has been the member of numerous journal editorial boards, co-editor of current content Special issues journals (MONET, WINET), an organiser, and a steering committee member of numerous domestic and international summits and conferences, has participated in 48 domestic and international projects as the project head and team member.
Prof. Cagáňová’s scientific and professional recognitions includes awards as the best habilitation thesis with title “Selected Aspects of
Multiculturality Issues in Industrial Enterprises in the Slovak Republic” at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (for the year 2011), Letter of Appreciation from French ambassador, H.E. Ch. Leonzi for active involvement and outstanding contribution within Smart City, Letter of Appreciation from Taiwanese ambassador, H.E. L. Tseng for active involvement and excellent organization of top representatives meeting
To date, prof. Cagáňová has published more than 400 publications, 7 scientific monographs, 17 papers in current content journals with IF, 102 papers in databases WOS and 157 in databases SCOPUS and has over 1021 citations, 359 of them in quotation databases WOS and SCOPUS, h-index in WOS is 12 and SCOPUS h-index 16.
Chair
Bruno Kessler Professor, University of Trento, Italy
Prof. Chlamtac is the President of EAI, European Alliance for Innovation. He pioneered EAI as a global initiative for promoting growth of ICT-based economy and digital society.
Prof. Chlamtacs prior positions in Italy included CREATE-NET where he was the Founding President, and Bruno Kessler Professor at the University of Trento, ICT Department ranked first in the country. Prior to that Prof. Chlamtac served as Associate Provost for Research and Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications at the University of Texas in Dallas, the number one ranked young university in USA. His other academic appointments and honorary professorships include professorship at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Prof. Chlamtac’s scientific recognitions include IEEE and ACM Fellowship, the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility, the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal Communications, New Talents in Simulation of SCS, Fulbright Scholarship, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He was listed in ISIHighlyCited.Com among the 250 most cited Computer Science researchers worldwide. Prof. Chlamtac is also included in the list of Notable People from the University of Minnesota where he received his PhD and holds an Honorary Citizenship in Slovakia where he was born.
Prof. Chlamtac published over four hundred refereed articles, and multiple books. He is the co-author of the first textbook on “Local Networks” (Lexington Books 1980), and IEEE Network Editor‘s choice and Amazon.com engineering books best-seller “Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures”. As part of his contribution to the research community, Prof. Chlamtac founded the ACM SigMobile, where he established ACM Mobicom and other leading conferences, and serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Springer WINET and MONET journals.
Prof. Chlamtac is also a co-founder and past President of multiple startups in Europe, USA and Israel, including Boston Communications Networks, CONSIP Ltd the first network emulator company, and of BCN Ltd one of the largest system integrator companies in Central Europe.
