Speaker of ICITM 2018
Prof. phil. habil. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Prof.
Dr. phil. habil. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers is the Vicepresident for
Quality and Academic Affairs at the Baden-Wurttemberg
Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, Germany. He has been
appointed Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong
Learning at the same university. Before he has held positions as
Associate Professor in the Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Professor
for Technology Enhanced Learning in the University Augsburg, and
Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and
Technology of the University of Maryland University College.
Ulf is an educational scientist and holds degrees in English
Language, Social Sciences and Educational Sciences from the
University of Bielefeld, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors
in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was
awarded a Habilitation in 2008 from the University of
Duisburg-Essen. In his research he established a groundbreaking
model for quality from the learner’s perspective and an
internationally awarded quality culture model for educational
organisations. He has created many international, European and
national projects on education quality, ICT and learning in all
education sectors and almost all continents. Ulf is founding
member and past President of the European Foundation for Quality
in E-Learning (2011-2014), has been President of the Society for
Media in Science as well as serving on advisory boards to
several professional associations in the field.
Ulf is an internationally recognized researcher and innovator in
the area of E-Learning. He has extensive experience in helping
individuals achieving superior learning performances and has run
lighthouse initiatives in the field of e-learning and knowledge
management as well as e-business, including knowledge-technology
consulting for small and medium sized enterprises. Ulf has
developed the Learners’ Quality Model for e-learning, which is a
basis for learner centered quality development in e-learning. He
is working as advisor to governments and non-governmental
organisations in the field of learning and development
cooperation and is member of several advisory boards and
editorial committees. Ulf is the author/ publisher of several
books on quality and organisational innovation and culture and
more than 130 articles and book chapters, has been a featured
speaker at numerous international conferences, and is member of
several professional associations for e-learning and education.
Prof. Luigi Maria Galantucci, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
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Speaker of ICITM 2017
Prof. Ezendu Ariwa
Chair, IEEE Consumer Electronics & Broadcast Technology Chapter, UK & Ireland
Chair, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Chapter, UK & Ireland
Associate Vice Chair, BCS Health & Care Executive
BCS, Committee member for Green IT Specialist Group
Professor Ezendu Ariwa is the Chair of IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Chapter, United Kingdom & Ireland (UK&I) He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (SMIEE). He holds the position of Director of Planning for International Outreach, at IAMTECH University, Sierra Leone, and Director of Studies (PhD Supervision) at the London School of Commerce (Associate College of Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK). In addition, he holds the position of Visiting Professor, Gulf University, Bahrain, University of Lagos, Nigeria and Kano State Polytechnics, Nigeria as well as Visiting Professor in Management Sciences and Computer Science at the Karakurum International University, Pakistan; Visiting Affiliate of the Green IT Observatory, RIMT University, Australia and Visiting Affiliate of ICT University, USA. Professor Ezendu Ariwa is also a Visiting Professor, Engineering Sustainability & ICT at Anadolu University, Turkey as well as the Director and Adjunct Professor, Agriculture Mechanization Centre (AMC) at Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Nigeria
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). His research interest includes: Green Technology and Engineering Management Sustainability, Strategic Systems and Knowledge Management, ICT for Development, Knowledge Transfer in Developing Economy; Open Learning and Social Enterprise, Green Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, Green Technology Sustainability in Aviation and Maritime.
Dr. BRANISLAV VUKSANOVIC,
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Branislav Vuksanovic is a senior lecturer in digital signal processing at the University of Portsmouth. During his career he has worked as a lecturer at Derby University and a research fellow at Birmingham and Sheffield University. Before obtaining his PhD in active noise control he worked as a power engineer in the electricity board in Croatia. His current interests are in digital signal and image processing in various applications such are biomedicine, radar and smart grids. He is a member of IET and ASR.