Title: Harnessing the Digital Transformation For Resilient Sustainable Smart Cities

Pr Mohamed ESSAAIDI Prof. Dr., IEEE Senior Member and a Professor at ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat. Mohamed Essaaidi, Prof. Dr., IEEE Senior Member and a Professor at ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat. He obtained the State Doctorate (1997) in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco. He was the Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of General Affairs and Governance, Morocco (2019), Dean of ENSIAS College of IT Engineering of Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco (November 2011-May 2019), Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetuan, Morocco (2001-2011) and Assistant Professor at the same university (1993-2001). Prof. Essaaidi is IEEE Global Cities Alliance, MEA Chairman (2021), IEEE Humanitarian Activities Assessment Committee Member (2021), IEEE Teaching Excellence Editorial Hub, Member (2021). He is also a lecturer on Smart Cities at the ITU IoT Academy (2020-2021) and the Chief of Party of Interactive Digital Center Morocco (2020-2021). He is the founder and past Chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section (2005-2015), co-founder and chair of IEEE Morocco Communications / Computer Society Chapter (2006-2008) and IEEE Education Society Morocco Chapter chair from 2007 to 2009. He has been a member of Committee of Global Accreditation activities of IEEE Education Activities Board (2017-2018). He has been also Director of the Morocco Office of Arab Science and Technology Foundation, ASTF (2006-2009) and the Coordinator of ASTF RD&I Network of Electro-Technology (2006 – 2008). He has authored and co-authored 10 books and more than 200 papers in international refereed journals and conferences in the field of Electrical and Computer engineering and its diverse applications including smart homes, smart mobility smart grid and smart cities. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies, Serial Publications, India (2007-2011) and Guest Editor of several international journals. He is also an active member of the editorial boards of several international journals in the same fields mentioned above. Furthermore, Prof. Essaaidi is the founder and the General Chair / co-chair of several IEEE technically sponsored international conferences, including Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (which is organized on yearly basis since 2000), Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium (2005, 2007). He also organized and co-chaired IEEE Smart Cities Summit in May 2020, the US National Academies 5th Arab American Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontiers Symposium in November 2017, Rabat, Morocco and US NSF sponsored workshop on Smart Cities in January 2016 in Rabat, Morocco. He has also served in the Organizing committees and TPC and presented keynote talks at many other international conferences worldwide including on smart cities. He has been also Committee Member of IEEE Casablanca Core Smart City in 2016 and a member of Madinat Al-Irfane University Smart Campus initiative, Rabat.

Prof. Essaaidi holds 10 patents in the field ICT. Some of these patents received several international innovation awards. He was also a member of the IEEE 802.16 Sponsor Ballot Pool of IEEE Standard Association that defined the technical specifications for WiMAX, and of that of IEEE P2784 - Smart City Planning and Technology Guide Work Group (2020). Prof. Essaaidi supervised several Masters and PhDs theses and he has been the principal investigator and the project manager for several research projects in the framework of national and international programs. Furthermore, in the framework of his position as the director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of General Affairs and Governance, he was extensively involved in the coordination of the World Bank Morocco Country Partnership Framework (2019-2024) and OECD Morocco Country Program (2019-2021) among other international cooperation programs.

Pr. Hassan Hajjaj is a professor of higher education and head of the "Applied Mycology" research team at the Faculty of Sciences of Meknes, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco. A former researcher at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, he worked on the selection and characterization of molecules with cholesterol-lowering properties from molds and higher fungi. Pr. Hajjaj is the coordinator of thematic projects on food security and safety, the thematic project of the Belgian-Moroccan Institutional University Cooperation managed by the VLIR-UOS, among others. National expert-evaluator affiliated with the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST) since 2019.

Pr. Hajjaj is also the coordinator of the Moroccan Network on Molds and Mycotoxins (R3M). His main research interests are: the study of fungal strains and their enzymatic cocktails with biotechnological applications (ligninases, (hemi-)-cellulases, phosphatases, pectinases), the production of biofuels from agri-waste, the extraction and recovery of value-added molecules from agri-waste (lycopene, pectin, polyphenols), fight against food fungal contamination and the production of mycotoxins (aflatoxins, ochratoxins, patulin, citrinin, DON) and, optimization production of bioactive peptides from microorganisms.

Abdellatif AKJOUJ is a professor ,he received a PhD in Physics from the University of Science and Technology in Lille, France. He is a co-author of 130+ research publications and wrote several book chapters in subjects related to nanotechnology, nanoplasmonics, biosensors, and magnonics and phononics circuits. Prof. Akjouj’s research interests are in the area of functional materials, surface and interface science, Nanophotonics and Phononics, Plasmonics and biosensors and development of new tools for studying.

Mr.kohji Nakamura is professor researcher at Mie University of Japan and he is also in charge of the Heavy University Regional Revitalization Strategy Planning Office . Pr. Nakamura's research interests include thin-film surfaces, interfaces and magnetism, superconductivity, and strongly correlated systems, he has three patents

on Magnetic resonance type exchange interaction force microscope and observation method using it , exchange interaction force measuring device and Measurement method of exchange interaction force and evaluation method of magnetic characteristics by exchange interaction force . Pr .Nakamura got his first Awards in 2014/12 in American Physical Society Fellow of the American Physical Society . Also he is an association’s membership of THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSIC, THE MAGNETICS SOCIETY OF JAPAN , The Physical Society of Japan and American Physical Society ,

Title : Specifications of a platform for successful distance higher education: case of mathematics

Hassane Allouche is a research professor at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco. He obtained his doctorate in Numerical Analysis at the Faculty of Sciences of Meknes. He has written numerous articles in the field of numerical analysis.

Pr. Mohammed DIOURI is a Research Professor of Food and Nutrition at the Faculty of Sciences of Moulay Ismaïl University (UMI) and previously an assistant professor at Utah State University in the USA. Since 1985 until now, he has been a lecturer in the biology department at the Faculty of Sciences of Moulay Ismaïl University (UMI), where he mainly teaches courses in: Ruminant nutrition, Plant anatomy, Chemical composition of fodder , Cell Biology and Scientific English. For more than 30 years, his scientific work has focused on high fiber nutrition, he biologically processes lignocellulosic biomass to improve low quality feed value and he also studies the feeding behavior of animals and humans, in particular towards - screw fibers. His work has been published and presented at various conferences.

Pr. DIOURI is also interested in research methodology, which is the key to conducting successful scientific research. During his professional career, Pr. DIOURI had the opportunity to have diversified responsibilities. In education: he teaches different courses in the five levels of undergraduate and master's students, he is an organizing member of different master's programs and he was president of the life sciences program at UMI. In research, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal "Applied Biological Research" (2018-present) and editor of the "Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment". in January 2006, he joined the "Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology" research laboratory accredited by the UMI, and he was the Head of the "biotechnology and valorization of plant resources" research team accredited by the UMI for Four years. At the administrative level, he was a member of the Higher Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research, member of the council of the faculty of sciences, member of the scientific committee of the faculty of sciences of the UMI and member of the UMI University Council.

Abdelghani laachachi received, in 2005, his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Metz prepared jointly with School of Mines of Alès in France. Presently he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Materials Research and Technology Department of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). A position he holds at CRP Henri Tudor since 2007. Before joining CRP Henri Tudor, he spent 1 year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caen University and another year as a Research and Teaching Assistant (ATER) at University of Metz.

his research interests include the design, processing and characterization of polymer-based composites with a particular focus on

flame retardancy. surface and bulk modification of organic polymers and textiles to achieve flame retardancy.

Pr.BANTIGNIES Jean-Louis is a professor at University Montpelier II ,head of research department and a member of the board of the teaching department also he is a training manager. Pr.BANTIGNIES’s research interests include supramolecular materials , Confinement in nanotubes and Electro-optical properties of 1D/2D Nanomaterials ,his research areas was on Engineering sciences/Mechanics/Vibrations and Physics/Condensed Matter/Materials Science .