Professor Saifur Rahman is the 2023 IEEE President & CEO and the founding Director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech, USA, where he is the Joseph R. Loring Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner.  He was the President of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) for 2018 and 2019. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He has published over 150 journal papers and has made over 500 conference and invited presentations. 

In 2006, he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Vice President for Publication Services and Products. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society and has lectured on renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid, energy internet, blockchain, IoT sensor integration, etc. in over 30 countries.  He is the founder of BEM Controls, LLC, a Virginia (USA)-based software company providing building energy management solutions.  He served as the chair of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering. He has conducted several energy efficiency, blockchain and sensor integration projects for Duke Energy, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy and the State of Virginia. He has a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. 

Georges Zissis, PhD is full Professor and Vice-Rector of Toulouse 3 University (France), IEEE HKN member. He is managing the "Light & Matter" research group (LAPLACE laboratory] enrolling 20 researchers. He won, in December 2006 the 1st Award of IEC-International Electrotechnical Committee Centenary Challenge, in conjunction with IT, IEEE and the Observer, for his work on standardization for urban lighting systems. In 2009, he won the Energy Globe Award for France, in 2022 he received the Alfred Monnier Prize, the highest recognition from the French illuminating Engineering Society. 

He was President of the Power Electronics, Electronics, Optoelectronics and System section of the French National Council of Universities, managing 1,500 academics'. He is chairing the 4E-Solid State Lighting Annex for International Energy Agency. He was the 2019-2020 President of IEEE Industry Application Society. Today, he is chairing the IEEE Smart Cities Program and initiated the lEEE Future Directions Smart Lighting project. 

Mozhgan Pourmoradnasseri is an Assistant Professor at the Intelligent Transportation System Lab, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu. Her research interests encompass data-driven approaches to modelling human mobility, with a special focus on active mobility. She has experience in collaborative research projects with cities and industry, aimed at translating her research into practical applications in the real world. She is also passionate about implementing smart, sustainable solutions in urban planning.

Dr Ikram Ur Rehman is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and the Course Leader for MSc in Health Informatics at the University of West London. He has been involved in many national and international e-health and e-learning projects. These projects include chronic disease management (eg diabetes, COPD and cancer), social robotics, decision support systems, behavioural change management, telehealth and telecare in developing countries. Currently, he is leading a British Council-funded project on e-learning, which aims to augment online teaching and learning pedagogies through the use of AI.

In addition, Ikram is passionate about creating innovative and integrated diagnostic technologies, helping citizens make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere and anytime. He is knowledgeable in body area networks, personal area networks, the Internet of Things, the Web of Things and 4G/5G/6G communications. His expertise includes big data analytics and visualisations, medical mobile multimedia communication including image and video processing, analysis and streaming, service quality and experience from the medical perspective.

Alina-Irina Serban (Member, IEEE) received her BEng (2018) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Westminster, London, UK, and the MSc (2019) in Analogue and Digital Integrated Circuit Design from Imperial College London, London, UK. She is currently working on her PhD (Imperial College London) in AI for healthcare focusing on the application of machine learning models to monitor behavioural changes in households with dementia using data collected from unobtrusive Internet of Things technologies. Her research interests include developing smart systems to improve the wellbeing and healthcare of the ageing population using user-centred design methods.

Nagham Saeed is an associate professor in electrical and electronic. Since 2007, Dr Saeed has been teaching and researching in the area of electrical and electronic engineering. Dr Saeed is the head of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) research group. In 2011, she completed her PhD research titled "Intelligent MANET optimisation system" at Brunel University, UK. She has written extensively on energy-efficient intelligent systems in smart cities using artificial intelligence and optimisation approaches. Dr. Saeed has published a respectable number of high-quality publications in well-known international journals related to various disciplines including telecommunications, modelling and simulating, industry applications, information, and smart power. 

She has been an expert reviewer and guest editor for top-rank international scientific journals, conferences, and workshops. She has been serving as a member of many Technical Programme Committees and Editorial Boards. Dr. Saeed is one of the editors of the journals: Smart Applications of 5G Network, and Engineering Future Sustainability

Dr Saeed is a Senior fellow of the HEA, a member of IET, a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) UK & Ireland (UKI) Chair, and IEEE UKI WIE Early Profession Lead. She mentors early career engineers, she promotes women engineers and scientists aiming to change the face of electrical engineering. Dr. Saeed won the IEEE Region 8 Outstanding Women in Engineering Section Volunteer Award 2022.