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Antonio Pesqueira is a senior professional in the health-care and pharmaceutical sectors, focused on integrating technology and optimizing commercial and supply chain processes. His expertise includes commercial systems, sales force effectiveness and digital transformation, with a focus on using data-driven strategies to improve operational efficiency. In academia, Antonio is part of the Technology and Architecture Research Department at ISCTE/IUL, contributing to the PhD program with research centered on digital technology, health-care data governance and innovation. He has co-chaired the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain and Security World Forum and presented at international industry events like the Pharma Track and Trace Summit in 2022 and 2023. Antonio has co-authored over 20 articles in journals such as the Journal of Business Research, addressing topics like digital transformation in health care and agile project management. He is also certified as a Scrum Master and IBM Data Scientist, and serves on the editorial review board for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (IJAIMH). Additionally, he is a member of the scientific committee for AICONF’23 at Oxford University, contributing to discussions on the future of health-care innovation.

Maria José Sousa (PhD in management, with aggregation in management and public management), is a lecturer and researcher at ISCTE/University Institute of Lisbon. She was Pro-Rector between March 2022 and January 2024, and a member of the scientific committee of the PhD “in Law and Economics” (Cycle XXXIX), Università degli Studi del Molise. Is a member of the Advisory Board of Banco Português de Fomento for Public Policies. She took a postdoctoral position from 2016 to 2018, researching the area of digital education, with several publications in journals with a high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems and others). She worked as an expert in a European Commission project for the creation of a new category of digital skills to be integrated into the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the PhD in Management at the European University, a Senior Researcher at the GEE (Strategy and Studies Office) of the Ministry of Economy Portuguese, responsible for Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship Policies and Knowledge and Skills Manager at AMA, IP, Agency for Administrative Modernization (Ministry of the Presidency and the Council of Ministers) and a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation Projects and Qualification Assessment and Development Projects. Her research interests are currently in the public policies of Innovation and Research. She is the co-author of more than 180 scientific articles and book chapters (European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, and others). She is guest editor of more than ten special editions of Elsevier and Springer. She was President of ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in ISO – International Organization for Standardization. She has coordinated several European innovation projects (funded by programs such as Erasmus+, Horizon Europe and ICMPD) and is also an External Expert of COST Association – European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

Rúben Pereira is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) where he also graduated as a master’s in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He has been a consultant in several industries, such as: services, banking, telecommunications, Ecommerce, among others. He is the author of several scientific papers, published in conferences/journals/international books, in the area of Information Technology Services Management (ITSM) and Information Technology Governance (ITG). Its areas of scientific interest extend to: Information Technology Risk Management (ITMM), Business Process Management (BPM), continuous improvement and innovation, process optimization, among others. He is also a fan of entrepreneurship, having already been co-founder of three projects, one of them winner of the Startups Factory and finalist in EDP Innovation.