The role of AI agents in fostering inclusivity for HEIs’ students with special needs against backdrops of the accreditation trend

Charbel Chedrawi is a holder of a PhD in Business Sciences from “Paris 1 – Sorbonne”. He is a full Professor in the Faculty of Business and Management at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Beirut. He brings more than 20 years of experience in Teaching at one of the finest Universities in Lebanon. Prof. Chedrawi is a multidisciplinary researcher focusing mainly on the various facets of the 4th Industrial Revolution (AI, BlockChain, Big Data, Cloud Computing and so on) and its implications on various field and sectors. He is the author of more than 30 articles in national and international conferences and Journals. He is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). He was the President of the International Association Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society (ICTO), VP of the Lebanese AIS Chapter (LAIS), a founding member of the MENA–AIS chapter and the head of the “5IR” (5th Industrial Revolution) research team.

Nahil Kazoun is a PhD candidate at the University of Nicosia in the research field of artificial intelligence. She got her Masters degree in Business Sciences from the faculty of Business and Management – Saint Joseph University Beirut. She is member of the 5IR (5th Industrial Revolution) research team in IS and IT (blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and so on) applied to organizations. She is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), a member of the MENACIS board (Middle East and North Africa for Information System), a member of the LAIS (Lebanese chapter) and member of Information and Communication Technologies in Organization and Society (ICTO). She is currently working in a leading tech company – Microsoft and SAP Partner in Beirut, Lebanon.

Angelika Kokkinaki is a Professor in Information Systems and serves at the University of Nicosia. She has extensive experience in inter- and intra-organizational information systems, including e-business, e-government, e-learning and e-innovation. She has worked as a researcher and lecturer in the USA, the UK and the Netherlands. She has participated in 30+ national and EU-funded programs and has published over 100 articles in journals and conferences. She holds PhD, Computer Science, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), Lafayette, LA, USA (1995), MSc, Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA (1991) and five-year curriculum Diploma, Computer Engineering and Informatics from Patras University (1987). She is a Chartered Engineer (Technical Chamber of Greece, 1987) and an accredited Project Manager.