Bin Gao is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to this, he was a research associate at Cornell University and a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University and his M.S. and B.S. degrees at Nanjing University, China. Prof. Gao's research mainly focuses on biochar technology, environmental nanotechnology, and contaminant fate and transport. He has an extensive list of publications in the field of environmental science and engineering. Prof. Gao has received numerous professional honors such as the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, SSSA Fellow, University of Florida Term Professorship, University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, and NSF CAREER Award.

Dr. Scott Alan Bradford is a Research Leader and a Supervisory Soil Scientist in the USDA, ARS, Sustainable Agricultural Water Systems Unit. He is a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, a recipient of the 2019 Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Award, and the former Editor-in-Chief for Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (2017-2020). Dr. Bradford has authored over 164 publications on a wide variety of topics in soil physics, contaminant hydrology, and environmental engineering. His research focus is currently on managed aquifer recharge.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

Maria De Falco is an Associate Professor of Cytology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). 2001: Ph.D. in Molecular Systematics (April); Master in Biotechnology (September). 2004: Winner of the "Young Histochemist Award" promoted by the International Federation Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry (IFSHC). Member of the Italian Society of Histochemistry and the Italian Embryological Group. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Emerging Contaminants section. From 2011 to today she is a member of the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems. For about ten years the main line of research has been to investigate the effects of endocrine disruptors on the functionality of different hormonal systems using experimental models in vivo and in vitro.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.