Prof. Sr Dr. Zulkiflee Abd Latif is the current director of Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development (IBSD). He is currently a Professor at UiTM and has more than 20 years of teaching, research and industrial experience (KLCCB). Dr. Latif specializes in Remote sensing & GIS techniques in forestry and environmental related applications. He is currently Head of Applied Remote Sensing & Geospatial Research Group, UiTM and a Fellow to Royal Institute of Surveyors, Malaysia (RISM). His research interests are in geomatics, remote sensing, GIS, and soft computing techniques in forestry, natural hazard, health, and environmental modeling. He holds a Bachelor of Geomatics from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a Ph.D. in Forestry Remote Sensing from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. More than 90 articles in high impact journals, books, and conference proceedings resulted from the numerous local and international grants he was able to obtain. He now serves on the editorial boards of the Malaysia Surveyor Journal, Environment Asia, Journal of Applied Geospatial Information, and Malaysia Surveyor Journal (RISM). 

Dr. Je-Ruei Liu is currently working as a professor in the Institute of Biotechnology as well as in the Department of Animal Science and Technology National Taiwan University Taipei 106, Taiwan. He is also an Associate Dean in the College of Bioresource and Agriculture at National Taiwan University since October 2020 and has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He is a member of several professional societies such as Taiwan Association for Food Science and Technology, The Chinese Society for Animal Science, Taiwan Association for Lactic Acid Bacteria, and The American Society for Microbiology. He received several awards including the Young Scientist Award and the Academic Award of Chinese Society of Animal Science. He published more than 90 articles in high impact journals, books, and conference proceedings, and has 2 patents. Dr. Je-Ruei Liu is the Editor-in-Chief of many peer reviewed journals and area of expertise credits with many publications in national and international journals. He received his PhD from the National Taiwan University's Institute of Animal Science.

Areas of Expertise:

•        Molecular Biology

•        Enzymology

•        Fermentation Technology

•        Microbiology

•        Animal Science

Prof. Shermon Cruz is one of the world’s leading futurists and the first Non-American and Asian Chair of the Washington-based Association of Professional Futurists (APF), the largest professional association of credentialed professional futurists in the world with a membership of 500 professional foresight practitioners and experts in over 60 countries. A Global Advisor to the UNESCO and Dubai Future Foundation Global Futures Literacy Initiative, Prof. Cruz is also a UNESCO Chair Candidate on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cities.  Prof. Cruz is a co-founder, vice-president, and chief futurist of the Philippine Futures Thinking Society (PhilFutures). He is the Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, a strategic foresight and futures innovation firm with global operations based in Manila. He is also the current Chair/CEO of The Millennium Project Philippines Node, a global foresight research think-tank linked to the Washington-based The Millennium Project, a strategic foresight research think tank that publishes The Global State of the Future Index since 1997. Prof. Cruz is a Partner and co-organizer of the 2021 Global Foresight Summit based in Madrid, Spain, Partner at the CSIRO Data 61 Asia Pacific Foresight Group based in Australia, Partner at the Supertrends Institute, a Switzerland based strategic foresight consulting company based in Switzerland and Partner at MakeOurFuture.Org, a futures thinking and strategic foresight firm based in the USA. Prof. Cruz is the Regional Editor of the Journal of Futures Studies, a global futures thinking journal published by the Graduate Institute of Futures Studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan and Foresight published by Emerald. He formerly Chaired the Asia Pacific Futures Network, a network of top futurists and government foresight institutions in the Asia and the Pacific that includes futures and foresight organizations and experts membership from the strategic foresight units of the governments of Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Asian Development Bank, UNESCO, UNDP among others. As a futures researcher and academic, he was formerly the supervising fellow and former research fellow at the Development Academy of the Philippines Graduate School of Public and Development Management Certificate Course on Futures Thinking and formerly a Policy Foresight Expert at the Development Academy of the Philippines, NUCESO and Aboitiz CLICK Program on Policy Foresight. As a part time lecturer, he crafted and designed the first futures thinking, public policy and anticipatory governance course for the undergraduate and graduate programs of the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance and Northwestern University, Laoag. He is a sought-after futurist speaker, resource advisor and expert of the Philippine Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Innovation, and Futures Thinking (Public Policy and Governance), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Anticipatory Risk Management), the Philippine Navy (Anticipatory Risk Management), and many other institutions and universities. He has worked and advance futures and foresight in over 30 countries with the best in the futures and strategic foresight field and has conducted futures literacy to around 15,000 people around the world. He has served and provided support to more than around 500 corporate, government and community-based clients on strategic foresight and provided foresight training and certifications to more than 5,000 professionals, experts, think tanks and organizations around the world.  Prof. Cruz is an expert in strategic foresight informed public policy and governance, strategy development, scenario-based planning, emerging issues analysis, horizon scanning, narrative foresight and anticipatory government and risk management. He is currently a PhD candidate in Futures Studies and Anticipatory Governance Candidate at the University of Sunshine Coast as a Higher Education by Research Scholar of the Australian Government. 

Dr. Budi Guntoro is a full-time professor in Livestock Social Economics Department, Faculty of Animal Science UGM and has more than 25 years of teaching, research and industrial experience. He is the dean in the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada as well as the secretary-general of Southeast Asia Network of Animal Science (SEANAS). He is also the 2nd Vice President of Asian Association of Agricultural Colleges and Universities (AAACU) and the Chairman of Indonesian Higher Education in Animal Science Association (FPPTPI). Dr. Guntoro is the president of Indonesian Livestock Socio-Economist Society (PERSEPSI). More than 55 articles in journals, proceedings and books which resulted from the numerous local and international grants he was able to obtain. He now serves as the Editorial Member in the Bulletin of Animal Science and an Editorial Board in the International Journal of Asian Tourism Management. Dr. Budi Guntoro received his PhD from Katsetsart University Thailand in 2005.

Dr. Sami I. Ali is an associate professor of Plant Biochemistry at the National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. He received a ParOwn Scholarship for Ph.D. training for 6 months (2012) and a Fulbright postdoctoral scholarship for one year (2016-2017) at Michigan State University, USA. His research interests are (1) Plant natural products: fractionation, isolation, and identification of secondary metabolites from medicinal plants and microalgae. (2) Biological activity: antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activity. He has an on-going research project which is the PI of the project “Development of New Prototypes of Functional Foods from Vegetables Contain High Amounts of Bioavailable and Bioactive Phenolic Compounds: Influence of Hydrothermal Processing and In Vitro Simulated Gastrointestinal Digestion” funded by NRC (2022-2024). Dr. Ali is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Arab Scientific Community Organization, Egyptian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Egyptian Botanical Society. Also, a member of the National Committee for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is also a member of the Organizing Committee of different conferences, workshops, and symposiums and a reviewer for different international and SCOPUS-indexed journals such as Elsevier (Journal of Herbal Medicine, Industrial Crops and Products, LWT - Food Science and Technology), Springer (Journal of Forestry Research, Waste and Biomass Valorization, and Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology), Frontiers (Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Plant Science), Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE), MDPI (Molecules, Plants, and Foods), and Hindawi (BioMed Research International). He also served as a reviewer for different international conferences such as ICMEMSCE2018 in Xiamen, China and ICMMPM2019 in Jeju Island, South Korea. Dr. Ali published 33 papers in international journals out of these 26 are in Scopus-indexed journals; besides 2 published chapters in an international Book. He received his PhD from the Cairo University-Egypt in 2014.