Sergey Nuzhdin is a Full Professor of Biological Sciences, at the University of Southern California and a founder of AltaSeads Conservancy. With 183 published peer review manuscripts, Nuzhdin was a member of the top-rated UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Program, before transitioning to the Molecular and Computational, adjunct in Marine and Environmental, Biology programs at USC in 2007. Nuzhdin has trained 30 postdocs and 31 graduate students, of which 20 are now tenured or tenure-track investigators. He has PI'ed 42 research grants, totaling over $32M. Of most relevance, he has been funded by ARPA-E grants to establish a giant kelp seed bank and breeding program, and also to develop sporeless varieties of kelp. He has built kelp breeding grounds at AltaSea and pioneered kelp two-stage breeding to accelerate kelp domestication.

Samir Jaoua is working as a Full Professor at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, at the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France). He is also a qualified Professor in France universities, a Professor at the University of Sfax (Tunisia), and an official member of the Committee of Professors at the University of Sassari (Italy). Samir Jaoua is Microbiologist and molecular and microbial Biotechnologist, having more than 34 years of experience in microbiology and molecular & microbial Biotechnology in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Tunisia, and Qatar. He has been teaching BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. courses in Microbiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Genetic engineering and DNA Technology, Environmental genomics and bioengineering, and many others. He has been supervising 19 successfully defended PhDs, in addition to many BSc senior projects and MSc theses. Prof. Samir Jaoua is mainly a senior author of more than 148 international original research articles published in international peer-reviewed Scopus and web of Sc. Journals.

Jerzy Banski - full professor of human geography in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include rural and agricultural geography, land use, regional policy, and local development. In the period: 2018-2021 he was the director of the IGSO PAS, in 2006-2012 - he was president of the Polish Geographical Society, and in 2017-2022 the chair of the Commission of Local and Regional Development IGU. J.Banski is the author of 420 publications, including 28 books (ex. Transformation of agricultural sector in East-Central Europe after 1989, Springer), 24 books as editor, and more than 190 papers with review processes (ex.Land Use Policy, European Countryside, Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, European Urban and Regional Studies). He was the coordinator of 45 research projects and a member of 40 other national and international projects.

Guy Peer is a conservation biologist whose main focus is on understanding and addressing anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity and ecosystem services. One core topic of expertise is agriculture: agricultural production, expansion, and intensification exert pressures on our society, economy, and environment. To address these pressures, Peer is engaged in interdisciplinary research into the different dimensions of agricultural sustainability, and especially how the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) affects it. His work thus centralizes on the interplay between farmland biodiversity, climate, and soil on one hand, versus production, food security, rural vitality, and farmers' wellbeing on the other hand.

Angelo is a senior scientist and Research Team Leader at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production, CNR, vice-President of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), and co-chair of the EPSO Nutritional Security working group. Angelo's research activities have been mainly focused on the improvement of the nutritional quality of tomato, metabolic engineering of the phenylpropanoid pathway and the evaluation of nutritional benefits of high polyphenols enriched tomato lines on acute and chronic inflammatory bowel disease and dysbiosis using in vitro/in vivo models and most recently clinical trials. More recently, he contributed to develop new tomato lines accumulating high pro-vitamin D3 in the fruit using a CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome editing approach. He has more than 116 peer-reviewed publications and some book chapters.

Xin ping Wang is a research professor on ecohydrology at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a visiting fellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA. He is also a visiting professor at Arid Land Research Centre, Tottori University, Japan. He serves as a consultant and resource person to the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, United Nations, under the North-East Asian Sub-regional Programme for Environmental Cooperation project on implementing the Regional Master Plan for the Prevention and Control of Dust and Sandstorms in North-East Asia. He was once an invited speaker for the Desert Restoration Bites: six tales from six continents at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is a recipient of the Honorary Diploma of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the K. C. Wong Education Foundation (Hong Kong) Award for Western Scholars of China, and the K. C. Wong Education Foundation (Hong Kong) Scholarship for Senior Researchers of China.

Jaroslaw Socha is a Full Professor of Forest Sciences, at the University of Agriculture in Krakow. He is Chair of the Council of Forest Sciences Discipline at the University of Agriculture in Krakow and Head of the Department of Forest Resources Management. He is the deputy chairman of the Committee of Forest Sciences and Wood Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His scientific achievements include more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in reputable scientific journals. Supervisor of 7 doctoral theses. He has managed and participated in many international projects (EU FP5, EU FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe, Forest Value) and several national projects. He is currently managing 6 research projects. Awarded 17 individual and team scientific awards between 2005 and 2022. In 2016 he received the Team Award from the Minister of Science and Higher Education. In 2018 he received the award of the Chapter of the Adam Loret Award of the State Forestry in the category "The most momentous, from the point of view of basic and/or practical knowledge, a scientific paper completed and realized in the territory of the Republic of Poland concerning forestry in a broad sense". In addition to several study visits to European and American universities, he has completed fellowships at the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio at the University of British Columbia, Canada - 2014, and an internship at the University of Lisbon - 2015. His current research interests are in three main areas: 1. Causes and consequences of long-term changes in forest productivity. 2. Forest disturbance and adaptation to climate change in forest management with particular emphasis on the use of remote sensing data. 3. Modelling of forest growth and site productivity.

Dr. Zavala studied Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated as MS in 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2004 and a two-year postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany. After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supervised by Profs May Berenbaum and Evan DeLucia, USA. He obtained the position of Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Agronomy. He has published more than 70 research articles in SCI (E) journals. He is interested in plant defenses against insect attack, and how insects respond to plant defenses, using chemical, biochemical, and ecological tools.

Yuan Ming Zhang is a Professor who focuses on quantitative genetics research and specialized in methodologies for genome-wide association studies, quantitative trait locus mapping, and bulked segregant analysis. He received his Ph.D. from Nanjing Agricultural University in 2001. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside. He worked at Southwest University Rongchang campus in 1986 and moved to Nanjing Agricultural University in 1999 and Huazhong Agricultural University in 2014. His current research interests are to establish new methodologies for mining genes for quantitative traits in crops.

Dr. Ali Montazar has a Ph.D. in Irrigation and Drainage and currently is an Irrigation and Water Management Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension. Dr. Montazar has more than 20 years of research, extension, teaching, and technical consulting experience. He has served in several leadership positions in agricultural water management and irrigation engineering and has contributed to the progress and completion of many projects in California and abroad. He has a well-developed applied research and training program in southern California, and currently has several ongoing irrigation and water conservation studies in alfalfa, avocados, carrots, date palm, spinach, lettuce, sweet corn, sugar beets, onions, and wine grapes. His focus is sensor-based irrigation management, on-farm water conservation, drainage and salinity management, and best irrigation and nutrient management practices.

Dr. Adhikari completed his undergraduate degree from CSS Haryana Agricultural University, India; a Masters's degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and a Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Adhikari has over 25 years of experience as a plant breeder in Australia and over five years in Nepal. He currently leads the grain legume breeding program at the University of Sydney. He has released seven varieties of grain legumes in Australia and they are widely adopted by farmers. Dr. Adhikari is an active academic leader involved in teaching and training post-graduate students. More than ten Ph.D. students and several honors students have graduated under his supervision. He has published over 80 papers in international refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.

Dr. Bhowmik received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology from Kagawa University, Japan. Following JSPS, Killam, and NSERC postdoctoral training. Pankaj joined the National Research Council of Canada in Saskatoon in 2009 where he is now a Senior Research Officer and a member of the Cell Technologies team. Pankaj also has an additional role as the Scientific Support Lead for NRC's Sustainable Protein Production (SPP) program where he closely works with small and large companies in the plant biotech and ag-food sector, academia, and other Government Departments to establish multi-organizational research collaborations with external stakeholders. He has more than 20 years of experience in plant cell technologies and tissue culture. His specific research focuses on the improvement of crops through tissue culture, transformation, and gene editing.

Professor XIONG Youcai is a leading scientist in new material research & development regarding dryland agriculture and ecosystem conservation at Lanzhou University, northwest China. In his academic career, he has published over 200 papers or books (chapters) in international top journals. He has been engaged in fundamental research and technology innovation in agricultural systems and rural communities in semiarid and arid areas over the last two decades. Some of his research work had been published in international journals such as Advances in Agronomy, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Resource Conservations & Recycling, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Cleaner Production, Environmental Pollution, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and Field Crops Research. In recent more than ten years, he also aimed to enhance the research and extension of new materials in dryland water-saving farming systems for small household farmers in developing countries such as Kenya, Pakistan, Sudan, and Ethiopia.

Gaye Krebs is an Associate Professor in Animal Nutrition with the School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Australia. After several decades now she has become an expert in the areas of ruminant nutrition and alternative feeds for livestock. In recent years the focus of her research has been on the utilization of hemp biomass as feed for sheep and cattle, investigating its effects on feed intake, nutrient digestibility, and carcass residues.

Mr. Javier Plaza Martin graduated in Environmental Sciences in 2016 and Agricultural Engineering in 2018, both cases from the University of Salamanca (Spain). He became a full-time Agronomist after finishing his Master's Degree in Agronomic Engineering in 2020 at the University of Salamanca. Since 2019, he has been working as a researcher on different Projects at the University of Salamanca, mainly related to the application of remote sensing techniques to agricultural and livestock systems. In 2021, He finished his Master's in Advanced Multivariate Data Analysis and Big Data at the University of Salamanca. In addition to his dedication to research projects, he works as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the University of Salamanca, attached to the Department of Construction and Agronomy. Since May 2022, he is a Ph.D. in Agrobiotechnology, focusing his doctoral thesis on the study of new strategies based on Geotechnologies for application in Agriculture and Precision livestock farming.

Dr. Michael Gomez Selvaraj (MS) is a Senior Scientist at Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Cali, Colombia, leading plant phenomics platform. Within the CGIAR framework, MS's research aims to increase the accuracy, precision, and throughput of phenotypic estimation of plant traits while reducing costs and minimizing labor through automation, remote sensing, improved data integration, and experimental design. Through effective collaboration with international partners, MS has developed a state-of-the-art facility comprised of automated rainout shelters (for drought screening) and low-nitrogen field plots (for Nitrogen use efficiency screening) integrated with a multi-spectral imaging system mounted on phenotowers on the roof of rainout shelters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). MS's also instigated the development of breakthrough ground-penetrating radar technologies capable of non-destructively quantifying cassava roots. Water and nitrogen use efficient trait screening protocols and standard operating procedures developed from his platform are being implemented in Ghana, Nigeria, and Uganda through NEWEST rice (Nitrogen Use Efficient, Water Use Efficient, and Salt Tolerant), a USAID project in which MS is Principal Investigator for Alliance and serves on the Project Advisory Committee. MS is currently collaborating with international partners and acting as a principal investigator in several research grants to improve food security in developing counties. He has published more than 100 research and technical papers in internationally reputed journals and conferences and his research papers have been highly cited by research communities. He received the outstanding research publication CIAT award (2017) for phenomics research; Valle, Innovative and Intelligent territory award, 2019 for the category: digital transformation in the agricultural sector. He also serves as a reviewer in several reputed international journals.

Dr. Amr Zaitoon is a Research Associate at the University of Guelph in Canada. With more than 10 years of research experience in Food and Material Sciences, his research is focused on packaging as an integral component of food preservation systems to maximize food safety/quality and minimize packaging contributions to solid waste. Dr. Zaitoon is interested in interdisciplinary research projects and has expertise in food engineering, postharvest preservation technologies, encapsulation technologies, controlled release delivery systems, biomaterial engineering, and advanced food packaging systems. Dr. Zaitoon completed his doctoral research in the food packaging and biomaterials laboratory at the Department of Food Science, the University of Guelph in 2021. Before joining the University of Guelph, he worked as a researcher and assistant lecturer at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, for more than five years. He completed his master's degree in Food Engineering at Alexandria University in 2015. Dr. Zaitoon led and participated in many research projects that aim to improve environmental sustainability by reducing food/plastic waste.

Guohui Li was born in October 1986. He graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University and is now an assistant researcher at Yangzhou University Rice Industry Engineering Technology Research Institute. The main research direction is rice cultivation physiology, including rice high-yield cultivation regulation technology, phloem loading, transportation, and phloem unloading mechanism of rice stem and leaf photoassimilates. He has successively presided over the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund Project, the sub-project of Jiangsu Key R&D Plan (Modern Agriculture), and the independent innovation fund project of Jiangsu Province. More than 20 academic papers have been published in Plant and Cell Physiology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Crop Science, Agriculture, Journal of Plant Physiology, Life Science, Chinese Agricultural Science, and other journals. He was awarded the Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Huazhong Agricultural University and the Shennong China Agricultural Science and Technology Award in 2021.

Theodoros Tsiligiridis served as a full professor at the Informatics Laboratory of the Department of Economics and Rural Development at the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. He obtained his M.Sc in probability and statistics from Manchester University, UK, and his Ph.D. in telecommunications from the Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He also served as a Director of an M.Sc course in Geoinformatics at the former Department of General Sciences of AUA. He has published numerous research papers on networking, artificial intelligence, and e-services on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), mainly applied in the agricultural sector. He has served on international program committees of related conferences and editorial boards. Research fields include Computer Networking, Geoinformatics, WebGis, Location Based Services (LBS), Precision Agriculture (PA), Remote Sensing (RS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Evolutionary Systems (ES), and Multimedia Technologies (MT). He currently works in artificial intelligence focusing on machine and deep learning, as well as, neural networks applied in computer networking and bio-earth environmental sectors. The specific applications he is interested in concentrate on sensor networks, LBS and RS applied in PA and big AgriData operations, as well as on WebGIS technologies, applied in pervasive environmental systems.

Shulan Zhang is working as a Full Professor at the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Northwest A&F University in China. She obtained her master's degree in plant nutrition and fertilization in 1992 from the Northwest Agricultural University in China, and her Ph.D. in soil science from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2005. She worked on nutrient management of wheat and maize in irrigated areas from 1992 to 2000. From 2001 onwards she also works on increasing the productivity of grain crops in drylands and soil fertility change of loess soil following long-term fertilization regimes. During her professional career, she has cooperated with both domestic and international scientists (Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Australia). She published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals on wheat/maize yield potential, water use efficiency and nutrient use efficiency (N&P), and soil organic carbon, etc. She serves an editorial board member of Agronomy (Basel) since 2021, and currently as a guest editor is organizing a special issue entitled "Maximizing Crop Yield and Resource Use Efficiency: Innovative Agronomic Practices".

Dr. Nikita- Martzopoulou was an Emeritus Professor in the Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) - Greece. She got the degree from the School of Agriculture - AUTH, where she was qualified for a state scholarship. She got her Ph.D. degree from the Section of Agric. Engineering - Dept. of Agriculture and Horticulture of the University of Reading - England. In 1981, she succeed a scholarship by NATO scientific cooperation for post-doctoral research at the University of Reading. She was the Director of the Laboratory of Agricultural Structures and Equipment, which was established by her the University of AUTH. Since 1994, She is the Director of the Center of Agricultural Structures and Control, installed by her as a project manager in the frame of an Interreg European Programme. Her research interests are greenhouses, livestock, and agricultural buildings, and environmental control of them by applying alternative energy sources. She taught in under and post-graduate courses and She has been involved as a tutor in several training and instructive courses. She has been actively involved in many National and International Symposiums (over 40), some of them as an invited speaker. She was a scientific consultant to the Ministry of Agriculture in Greece and president of several committees. She participated in many research and educational projects (over 15). She has published several scientific papers (over 105) and two books.

Alessandro Magrini achieved a PhD degree in Applied Statistics in 2014 and he is currently an Assistant Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications - University of Florence, Florence, Italy. He teaches the course Business and Economic Statistics for the Bachelor’s Degree programme in Statistics, and the course Statistical Methods for Forecasting and Quantitative Marketing for the Master's Degree programme in Statistics and Data Science. His main research interests include time series modelling and forecasting, productivity analysis, sustainability assessment, policy evaluation, and bankruptcy risk prediction. He has authored several articles in high-quality scientific journals like Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Advances in Statistical Applications, Expert Systems with Applications, Quality & Quantity, Social Indicators Research, and Journal of Business Research.

Katarzyna Suska has completed her Ph.D. from The Inland Fisheries Institute, Poland, and her postgraduate from The University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. She is the head of the Remote sensing laboratory of the aquatic environment. She has published 4 papers in reputed journals and many studies and scientific monographs. She is experienced in low-altitude photogrammetry, monitoring of ichthyofauna habitats, and conducting electrofishing in rivers.

Dr. Amira Askri is a faculty member in the college of agriculture and veterinary medicine at the United Arab Emirates University, since 2018. She is specialized in soil fertility and organic waste valorization and reuse in agriculture. Her areas of interest are soil fertility and fertilizers, sustainability, organic waste, and soil-plant-environment relations. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in environmental science in 2015 from AgroParisTech-France. She also holds a master's degree in environmental science from AgroParisTech-France and an Engineering degree in natural resources management from the Higher School of Agriculture- Tunisia. Dr. Amira received the Agreenium excellence label (Delivered in 2015 by the International School of Research-Agreenium) in recognition of the quality of her research. Prior to joining the university as a faculty, she joined the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture in Dubai in 2016 as a post-doctoral fellow where she worked on the assessment of water pollution status in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and its effect on the crop yields and human health. Dr. Amira received several certifications and awards during her career such as the Certificate of appreciation from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (2016), the Certificate of leadership and management for scientific Arab woman (2017), the Certificate of appreciation from the United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2017). Dr. Amira is a member of a number of associations including the Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council Community of Experts and the French Association for the Study of the Soil.

Mahmoud Samir El Sharkawy is an Associate Professor in Soil and Water Department at Tanta University, Egypt. He received his Ph. D from the University of Georgia, USA in Crop and Soil Sciences Department and now he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Jiangsu University, China under the School of Environment and Safety Engineering. He is a reviewer for many journals and published his works on Soil science. His research interests are the effect of new soil conditioners on different soil characteristics and their impact on soil and water heavy metals. Soil Fertility assessment, Soil Chemistry, Soil Management, Environmental management, soil and Water Pollution, plant nutrition, Hydroponic system.

Dr. Mahfuz Rahman is an Associate Professor and plant pathology specialist at WVU Extension Service. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in plant pathology from Oregon State University, and Simon Fraser University, Canada, respectively. He conducted post-doctoral research at North Carolina State University on Integrated Disease Management in strawberry Rahman joined WVU Extension Service in the summer of 2011. He conducts applied research and provides leadership for statewide educational/informational programs in plant pathology that include disease identification and management recommendations. Early diagnosis of pest problems remains at the cornerstone of his adaptive and applied research program at WVU that seeks to address disease problems primarily in vegetables and fruits. His research is driven by the urgency of solving growers' problems within a real-world agricultural production framework by asking strategic questions that advance the science of plant pathology to benefit growers. He takes an integrated approach that includes cutting-edge research on pathogen detection and quantification, proactive measures to avoid the introduction of harmful pathogens with planting material, and the adoption of measures based on the disease forecast model. One method that ensures rapid, early, and sensitive diagnosis is the use of molecular detection techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time PCR which are used widely in Rahman's program.

Raphael was born in Contagem, Brazil. He graduated in Biological Sciences at Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) with an exchange program at Xavier University of Louisiana (USA) through Brazil's Science Without Borders program. He has a master's degree in Human Ecology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) through the Flemish Interuniversity Council for University Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS) program, with research on cultural ecosystem services and ecotourism development in protected areas. His experience as an early-career researcher is based on sustainable development, ecology, education, conservation and management of natural resources, and sustainable heritage approaches. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Tech4Culture program at the University of Turin (Italy) where his research addresses landscape ecology methods and assessment, and their recognition as cultural heritage.

Dr. Muhammad Imran is an Associate Professor at the Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China. He completed his Ph.D. followed by a Post Doctorate Fellowship from the School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. His research interests include Corporate Finance and Macroeconomics, Energy Economics and Green Finance, Digital Economy, and Organizational Behavior. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Development, Chinese Management Studies, and Complexity. Also, as review editor of Frontiers in Psychology, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He has published more than twenty articles in S/SCI journals such as Small Business Economics, Panoeconomicus, Frontiers in Psychology, Physica A, Chinese Management Studies, Financial Innovations, and others. He presented his research work at different international conferences in Singapore, Turkey, Thailand, China, Pakistan, and others.

Mario Serrano studied agronomic engineering at the"Antonio Narro" Agrarian Autonomous University, Mexico. He did his Master's and doctoral studies at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute. From 2004 to 2008 he received a postdoctoral fellow from the Max-Planck Society, to work at the Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany. Afterward, from 2008 until 2014, he held a Junior Group Leader position at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Since 2015 he has held the position of Associate Professor at the Center for Genomic Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Campus Morelos, Mexico. His work is the characterization of the plant's innate immunity to the necrotroph fungus, Botrytis cinerea, using genomic and chemical genetic methods and the identification and molecular characterization of biocontrols to this pathogen.

Anabela Afonso Fernandes da Silva, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Agronomy Department of the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) and a full member of the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB). She is specialized in agrometeorology, crop water needs, and oliviculture. Research interests focus on Agrometeorology, crop production, olive oil and table olives technology, and olive oil quality. In the area of Agrometeorology, the line of research is developed with a focus on the study of water relations in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, with a focus on determining the water needs of crops, knowledge, and behavior of water stress indicators to irrigation management, using the plant as a biosensor, the dynamic of water use in production systems with different management strategies of the soil surface and influence on fruit quality/yield. This line of research is developed mainly in the olive tree crop (Olea europaea L.), and legume crops such as chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.). She is the coordinator of a national project for the Olive Oil Operational Group and has coordinated a national project of PRODER Irrigolive, and has participated in 15 national projects. She has 22 articles published in international scientific journals with scientific arbitration and indexed to the Scopus or JCR database, more than fifty works presented at national and international scientific meetings, and Editor of the American Journal of Agriculture and Forestry (AJAF) and Global Journal of Botanical Science and a Special Issues in Horticulturae Journal. Scientific supervisor of several undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervisor of a Ph.D. Thesis.

Habtamu Alem holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Economics from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He works as a research scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) in the Department of Economics and Society. Alem was a researcher for the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research and an executive officer for the Norwegian Institute of Agricultural Research. He is now the project coordinator for the SYSTEMIC project, which covers eight EU nations. Alem's research interest is food and nutrition security; Environmental and production economics; Climate change; Econometrics; impact assessment; circular economics; cost-benefit analysis; consumer economics; Risk analysis; and topics related to development economics (developing and developed countries).

Nor Azizun Rusdi completed her undergraduate degree from University Putra Malaysia in Biochemistry and a Master's degree from the same University in Plant Biotechnology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Biology from the University of Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. She is a Senior lecturer from Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. Dr. Nor Azizun Rusdi is an active academic leader involved in teaching and supervising post-graduate students. She has published numerous scientific papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has more than 16 years of experience in research and teaching in Plant Biochemistry, Physiology, and Plant Biotechnology. Dr. Nor Azizun Rusdi is an active academic leader involved in teaching and supervising post-graduate students. She currently executes her research project in plant functional genomics, plant tissue culture of wild orchids, and natural product studies from medicinal plants.

Dr. Rewati Bhattarai is a Food Science and Technology lecturer at Curtin University. His current research focuses on innovations in alternative plant proteins from cereals and legumes for food and nutraceuticals. He is exploring innovative technologies to enhance techno-functionalities in different plant proteins. Recently, he has been working with world renounced scientists to investigate the role of di-tyrosine cross-linking in visco-elastic properties in plant proteins and doughs. In addition, Dr. Rewati is a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Linkage grant to develop the process for purification of the bioactive legume protein γ- conglutin as a nutraceutical for maintaining healthy blood glucose levels.

Awarded with the Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the International Organization for Inclusion and Educational Quality. Level two in the National System of Researchers of CONACyT. Six occasions as distinguished 2004-2006-2008-2010-; 2012-; 2014-2015; QUALIFIED TO AUDIT AND IMPLEMENT INSTITUTIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS by Mexican Accreditation Entity (EMA: ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems; ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management System; ISO 21001: 2018 Management System for educational organizations; ISO 50001 Energy management systems; Certification in labor competence in the EC0217-CONOCER Competency Standard (teaching of training courses in a group face-to-face manner) Member of the Inter-secretarial Commission for Biosafety of Genetically Organisms Modified in Mexico.

Dr. Hossam Moursi is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University. His research is in the area of drainage water management with the goal of increasing the productivity and resiliency of crop production while minimizing the drainage's negative impacts on water quality. Hossam received his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University in 2022 and his master's degree from Utah State University in 2016. His Ph.D. work focused on the reuse of agricultural drainage water to provide supplemental irrigation and reduce nutrient losses from drained landscapes. His master's research was on assessing the impact of climate change on water availability and agricultural water demand. Hossam has 10+ years of professional and academic experience in the field of water resources engineering. He has participated in multi-disciplinary field and modeling studies that focused on conserving water resources.

Hadia Hussain was born in Pakistan. She graduated in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology at GC University Faisalabad, Pakistan. She has a master's degree in Plant Biotechnology with research on molecular screening of mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV) resistant candidate genotypes based on the MYR-1 gene at the Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad. She started her experience as a researcher in plant molecular biology, cloning, PCR, and Transgenic plant. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate under Chinese government scholarship at Northeast Normal University China. Where her research is based on the functional characterization of ABA-responsive genes and transcription factors in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana including their role in hormone signaling, plant growth and development, and plant response to environmental stresses.

Takudzwa Mlambo leads disruptive innovations in Zimbabwe using Precision Forest Technology, ie: Plant Master Software to facilitate the planting and monitoring of 1 billion trees in Zimbabwe by 2030. As an Innovator, his participation has increased visibility on regional and international platforms. He has led their youth group, Forestry & Citrus Research (FACIR), which won the 2022 POTRAZ Hackathon Challenge in Zimbabwe. He was recently awarded the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (Ruforum), and the 2022 Young Entrepreneurs Competition Award at the Ruforum Annual General Meeting in Harare in December 2022 which is centered around recognizing outstanding contributions to Entrepreneurship Development in Africa.

Nesrine Sghaier received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and bioinformatics from the Science Faculty of Gabes University, Tunisia, and an M.S. degree in computer science from the Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia, Gabes University, Tunisia. Her research interests are systems biology and computational biology, to learn about the gene regulatory network underlying complex agronomic traits. Her research interests include machine learning, information retrieval, Data science, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence. She currently works on genomic signal processing and Pattern Recognition in Biomolecular data processing.

Dr. Jennifer L Mac Nicol completed her Bachelor of Animal Biology Honors with a minor in Nutritional Science at the University of Guelph. It is at the University of Guelph where she also completed her Master's by Thesis and Ph.D. studies in the Department of Animal Biosciences out of the Ontario Agricultural College. Dr. Mac Nicol's research has focused on the influence of nutraceutical supplements on equine exercise and gastrointestinal (GI) physiology. During her PhD Dr. MacNicol was a Vanier scholar with projects that focused on the use of in vitro methods to model regions of the equine GI tract. She has a special interest in GI microbial metabolic activity, its development in neonates, and how this can deviate during the development of disease.

Mr. Damas Theobald Msaki studied BSc. Animal Science (2000) and later graduated with an MSc in Tropical Animal Production in 2014, both degrees at the Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. He then joined the International Training Programme (ITP) through the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) of Sweden. He conducted several change projects that researched on the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in smallholder livestock production systems along Kibaha Town Council (Tanzania), under the theme, "Healthy Livestock, Safe Food". He's been a champion in creating awareness in his surrounding communities about rational antimicrobial use (AMU) and the effects pertaining to food-borne antimicrobial resistance (AMR).