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Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos is Assistant Professor of Management in the Department of Business Administration in the University of Macedonia. He received a PhD in Management at the University of Ioannina, Greece. He was a postdoc researcher in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition in the University of the Aegean and also in the Department of Business Administration in the University of Macedonia. He has published over 80 journal and conference papers. He has dealt with issues of management and his research interests include leadership, ambidexterity, quality management, innovation management, organisational change, human resource management and production and operational management.

Spiridoula Margariti received her BSc in Electronics from the Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece. She received her MSc and BSc in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece. She also holds a PhD from the same Department. She is a member of Laboratory Teaching Staff of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunication of University of Ioannina and she teaches in both undergraduate and postgraduate study programs of the Department. Her research interests include distributed systems, data networks, complex networks, network performance, fog and cloud computing, modeling and simulation.

Chrysostomos Stylios is Director of the Laboratory of Knowledge and Intelligent Computing, Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Ioannina, Greece. Based on his pioneering research on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) a new field opened and nowadays FCMs are applied in discipline research areas. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers and book chapters. His main scientific interests include fuzzy cognitive maps, artificial intelligence, big data, data mining, soft computing, biosignal processing and analysis; modeling and decision support systems, knowledge-based systems; simulation and modeling complex systems; intelligent systems; hierarchical systems and supervisory control; intelligent manufacturing systems, innovation, technology transfer, educational methodologies and tools, virtual and augmentative reality. Prof. Stylios is scientific coordinator of more than 30 R&D projects funded by EC and national funds with more than 5MEuros budget. Prof. Stylios is senior member of IEEE and member of the TC 8.2 and TC 5.4 of IFAC.

Eleni Arvaniti holds a bachelor degree in business administration and an MBA (University of Patras). She is a PhD student in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering (University of Patras) and the title of her thesis is “Open Social Innovation for regional sustainable development”. She has more than 12 years of experience in the design and implementation of National and EU funded developmental/research projects.

Panagiotis Kafetzopoulos holds a bachelor degree in food technology and an MBA in food enterprises at the University of Patras, Greece. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises in the University of Patras. He has extensive knowledge and practical experience in the food industry and food traceability as he has been working in this sector for over 5 years. His research interests include management, ambidexterity, innovation and food quality and safety. His current research projects are in advancing quality management and ambidexterity strategies and their application to manufacturing organisations.