Keynote Speakers
Prof. Joanne
Roberts
Winchester School of
Art at the
University of
Southampton, UK
Professor Joanne
Roberts is Professor
in Arts and Cultural
Management and
Director of the
Winchester Luxury
Research Group at
Winchester School of
Art at the
University of
Southampton, UK.
Joanne gained her
PhD at the Centre
for Urban and
Regional Development
Studies, Newcastle
University, UK, and
she has held
academic posts at
the Universities of
Durham, Newcastle,
and Northumbria, UK.
In previous posts
Joanne has managed
subject groups of
more than 30
academics. From July
2016 until July 2018
she was Director of
Research at
Winchester School of
Art.
Joanne’s areas of
expertise include
creativity and
innovation,
knowledge
management, luxury
and international
business. She is an
active member of
several national and
international
scholarly networks,
including the
British Academy of
Management.
Joanne has written
extensively in the
fields of business
and management. She
has published widely
in leading
international
academic journals
including Journal of
Management Studies,
Journal of Business
Ethics, Management
Learning, and
Research Policy.
Joanne is author of
Multinational
Business Services
Firms (Ashgate,
1998) and A Very
Short, Fairly
Interesting and
Reasonably Cheap
Book About Knowledge
Management (Sage
Publications, 2015).
In addition, she is
co-editor of
Knowledge and
Innovation in the
New Service Economy,
with A. Andersen, J.
Howells, R. Hull and
I. Miles (Edward
Elgar, 2000, Living
with Cyberspace,
with J. Armitage
(Continuum, 2002),
Community, Economic
Creativity and
Organization, with
A. Amin (Oxford
University Press,
2008), and Critical
Luxury Studies: Art,
Design, Media, with
J. Armitage
(Edinburgh
University Press,
2016). Joanne is
also co-editor,.
with John Armitage,
of The Spirit of
Luxury, a special
issue of the journal
Cultural Politics
(Duke University
Press, 2016), and
The Third Realm of
Luxury: Connecting
Real Places and
Imaginary Spaces,
(Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2020).
Presently Joanne is
co-editing The
Oxford Handbook of
Luxury Business with
Pierre-Yves Donzé
and Véronique
Pouillard (Oxford
University Press,
forthcoming 2021).
Prof. Ezendu Ariwa,
University of
Bedfordshire, UK
Professor Ezendu Ariwa holds the position of Professor in Computer Science at University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Computer Science & Technology, with speciality in Practice in Computing. He is also a Visiting Professor at Gulf University, Bahrain, Visiting Professor in Engineering Sustainability and ICT, Anadolu University, Turkey, Visiting Professor, University of Lagos, Nigeria, Visiting Professor and Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence in Cloud Computing, IAMTECH University, Sierra Leone and Visiting Professor, Kano State Polytechnics, Nigeria as well as Visiting Affiliate of the Green IT Observatory, RIMT University, Australia and Visiting Affiliate of ICT University, USA. He also holds the position of Director - Technical and Non-Executive Director and Research Professor for Enterprise Projects at Sun Bio IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, India. He is also the Chair for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Chapter, United Kingdom & Ireland (UK&I), Chair for the IEEE Broadcast Technology Chapter, UK&I and Chair for the IEEE Technology Management Council Chapter, UK&I. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (SMIEE); Chartered FELLOW of the British Computer Society (CITP, FBCS), Fellow of the Institute of Information Technology Training (FIITT), Fellow of Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is also a member of the Elite Group of The British Computer Society (BCS), member of British Institute of Facilities Management and Fellow of Global Strategic Management, Inc., Michigan, USA and Member of the UK Council for Health Informatics. He has experience of doctoral research supervision as well as doctoral external examiner for various Universities both in the UK and internationally. He has a good research profile and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC), Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), Journal of E-Technology, and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of E-Politics and the Associate Editor of International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST). He is a member of Policy Co-ordination Committee of the International Research Foundation for Development (A Corporation of NGO in special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations). Professor Ezendu Ariwa is author of a number of books and more than 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also delivered keynote speeches at various international conferences. He recently published THREE books: Green Technology Applications for Enterprise and Academic Innovation (ISBN13: 9781466651661, IGI publisher, USA); Africa Business, Sustainability and Technology Innovation Practices, (ISBN 978-605-86159-9-1), MacroWorld Publishers); Green Technology in E-Learning and Human Capital: Global Perspectives. MacroWorld Publisher, 2016 (ISBN : 978-605-86159-8-4)
Prof. Alex
Gammerman,
Royal
Holloway, UK
Alex Gammerman is Professor of Computer Science and Director of Computer Learning Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. His current research interest lies in the fields of machine learning, inductive/transductive inference and intelligent data analysis. Areas in which these techniques have been applied include medical diagnosis, forensic science, object recognition and fault diagnosis. Professor Gammerman is Fellow of Royal Statistical Society and British Computer Society. He has published over a hundred research papers and several books on computational learning and probabilistic reasoning.