Prof.Li Da Xu,Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering,IEEE Fellow,USA

Li Da Xu is an Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, Founding Chair of IFIP TC8 WG8.9, Founding Chair of the IEEE SMC Society Technical Committee on Enterprise Information Systems, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the engineering journals entitled Journal of Industrial Information Integration (Elsevier), Journal of Industrial Integration and Management (World Scientific), Enterprise Information Systems (Taylor & Francis) and Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Engineering Management. He is an endowed Changjiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China. His affiliations include the Institute of Computing Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the China State Council Development Research Center, and Old Dominion University, USA. He participated in early research and educational academic activities in the subject of systems science and engineering. Professor Xu collaborated and worked extensively with pioneering scholars such as West Churchman, John Warfield, and Qian Xuesen. Furthermore, he spearheaded early research and educational academic activities in the subject of information systems and enterprise systems, which started in early 1980s. He is the author of the recent book entitled Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture and the co-author of the book entitled Systems Science Methodological Approaches published by Taylor & Francis Group. His work has been cited by Qian Xuesen and other well-known scholars.

Prof. Yale Yu，Principal Industry Consultant & Enterprise Architect，Infosys Australia and New Zealand

Yale has over 31 years’ intensive IT engineering and service delivery experiences crossing multiple industries such as Telecommunication, Entertainment, Oil/energy, Finance, Supply chain and public sectors (education and government); and worked for big international companies, such as HP, EDS, Infosys, Ericsson, Fujitsu, to provide IT services to their clients such as Telstra, Telecom NZ, Toll Global, Optus, China Mobile, Tabcorp, Melco Crown, China Oil & Gas Oilfields, Rabo Bank, NAB, Singapore Development Bank, China governments and University of Sydney and etc. Yale has played some key roles in his professional career, such as CTO & Chief enterprise architect, Enterprise architecture consulting executive & principal industry consultant at HP APJ ES, EAI portfolio lead architect & principal enterprise architect at Infosys Australia, EAI domain manager & lead solution architect at Ericsson Australia, senior eCommerce consultant at Soprano Design, senior lecturer & chief researcher; lab director, project manager in Xi’an Shiyou (Oil & Gas) University and general manager at Xian XieKe HiTech Ltd.

Yale has strong credentials in academic of IT areas with publishing over 31 journal and conferences publications and 2 books related to software and architecture development with over 12 years professional teaching career in university with research interests on theories and frameworks of Enterprise IT and IT transformation strategy design & implementation, EA/SOA/Cloud computing methodologies & solutions, and IT management and innovation. Yale is now still holding the title of honorary and guest professor of Xian Shiyou University since 2004, Hunan University and WenZhou University since 2011, and guest professor and mentor of Xi’an Peihua University in 2015, and gave speeches in Peking University, Hunan University, Xian University and Wenzhou University on subjects as enterprise IT strategy and cloud computing & IT service management in cloud. Yale also gave lectures on the core subject Enterprise Architecture of Master degree in enterprise architecture in University of RMIT as a guest lecturer during 2009 - 2010.

Yale was also invited as a guest/plenary speaker by internationally authoritative forums/conferences, such as TMF World Management Conference and IEEE International Conference of Enterprise Systems (awarded as distinguished plenary speaker by IEEE) on topics of enterprise transformation strategy, enterprise architecture development and IT strategic planning & execution. Yale also have strong research interests on the Chinese ancient philosophy (specially the Dao De Jing or Lao-Tzu) and Western philosophy, Chinese and Western Culture, and Chinese and western strategy theories, Chinese Characters and Calligraph.

Dr.Oleg Gusikhin,Ford Motor Company,USA

Dr.Oleg Gusikhin is a Technical Leader in Advanced Connected Services at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. He received his Ph.D.from the St.Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MS in Electrical Engineering from St. Petersburg State Technical University, and an MBA from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. For over 20 years, he has been working at Ford Motor Company in different functional areas including Information Technology, Advanced Electronics Manufacturing, and Research & Advanced Engineering. During his tenure at Ford, Dr. Gusikhin has been involved in the design and implementation of advanced information technology and intelligent controls for manufacturing and vehicle systems. Dr. Gusikhin is a recipient of two Henry Ford Technology Awards, 2009 Institute of Industrial Engineers Transactions Best Application Paper Prize in Scheduling and Logistics, and 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. He is an Industry Vice-Chair of IFAC Technical Committee "Manufacturing Modeling for Management and Control,” Founding Chair of IEEE SMC Southeastern Michigan chapter, and a Lecturer in the Industrial and Operations Engineering department at the University of Michigan.