Omar El Sawy, Professor of Information and Operations Management, USC Marshall School of Business, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Omar El Sawy specializes in IT-enabled business strategy in turbulent environments, and business models for digital platforms. His early work was on strategic decision support systems, design theory, and vigilant information systems and he was General Conference Chair for DSS-91. He is the author of over 100 papers, serves on several editorial boards, and is a six-time winner of the Society for Information Management's Annual Paper Award. He served as Director of Research for Marshall's Institute for Communications Technology Management. Prior to joining USC in 1983, Professor El Sawy worked as an engineer at NCR Corporation, and as manager of computer services at Stanford University. He served as an advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Egypt, and was a Fulbright scholar in Finland. In 2008, he was inducted as the 45th Fellow of the Association of Information Systems. Education: PhD, Stanford University; MBA, American University in Cairo; BS, Cairo University.
Carlos Bana e Costa, Professor of Decision and Information at the Technical Univ. of Lisbon, and Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
Carlos A. Bana e Costa is Full Professor of Decision and Information at the Technical University of Lisbon, School of Engineering (IST), Department of Engineering and Management, and Visiting Professor of Decision Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management-Operational Research Group. He is also head of I&D projects at CEG-IST, the Center of Management Studies of IST. Professor Bana e Costa's primary interests have been in the fields of Management and Decision Sciences, namely Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Decision Conferencing. He has published widely in these areas (publications) and he is co-author of the MACBETH approach for decision-aiding. He has also been developing consultation in public strategic decision-making processes, policy appraisal and bid and suppliers’ performance evaluation, throughout the world, following a socio-technical process consultation approach. He is also a senior partner of BANA Consulting.
Liam Bannon, Director of the Interaction Design Centre, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland.
Liam Bannon is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and Director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick. His research interests range over the gamut of human-technology relations, including cognitive ergonomics, human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, computer-supported collaborative learning, new media and interaction design, information systems development, and social dimensions of new technologies. He was a founding editor of CSCW: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and is serving, or has served, on the editorial boards of; Journal of Cognition, Technology, and Work; Requirements Engineering Journal, Universal Access in the Information Society Journal; International Journal of Cognitive Technology, International Journal of Web-Based Communities, CoDesign Journal; Behaviour and Information Technology Journal, and Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. He has served on numerous International Programme Committees in these areas, and also served as a member of the International Panel of Reviewers for many scientific research organizations - in the UK, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and South Africa. The Interaction Design Centre which he heads is a multidisciplinary group of over 20 researchers involved in research on a variety of national and EU projects in the general HCI, CSCW and Interaction Design areas. Liam is a Fellow of the Irish Ergonomics Society, a Member of the Irish Computer Society, and Irish representative on IFIP TC13 (Human-Computer Interaction).
