Alberto del Bimbo is Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of University of Firenze. He is the author of over 350 scietific papers in Computer Vision and Multimedia. With University of Firenze, he was Vice-Dean for Research and Technology Transfer, President of the Foundation for Research and Innovation, Director of the Department of Sistemi e Informatica, Director of MICC – Media Integration and Communication Center and Director of the Master program in Multimedia. Presently, he is the Director of NEMECH the research center on New Media for Cultural Heritage. Prof. Del Bimbo has been the leader of a large number of national and international projects with societal impact. Prof. Del Bimbo is the Chair of ACM SIGMM, the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia. He has served as the General Chair of ACM Multimedia 2022, ICPR 2020, ICMR 2019, ECCV 2012, ICMR 2011, ACM Multimedia 2010, and IEEE ICMCS 1999 and the Program Chair of ICPR 2016, ICPR 2010, and ACM Multimedia 2008. He is Associate Editor of MTAP and PAAA journals. He was the Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and Pattern Recognition. Prof. Del Bimbo is IAPR Fellow, IEEE Senior Member and ACM Distinguished Scientist. He has been the recipient of the 2016 ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.