Mark Apperley is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. For a large part of his academic career, the main focus of Mark’s research has human-computer interaction (HCI) and information visualization. However, over the past twelve years he has also taken on a strong involvement in energy informatics, specifically the application of ICT in renewable and efficient energy utilization. His work in this area has included vehicle-to-grid technologies, community energy systems, and smart micro-grids.

Professor Emeritus Derek Clements-Croome at Reading University has worked in the building design and contracting industry before entering university life. He has founded and directed courses including a BSc in building environmental engineering at Loughborough University in 1970 and an inter¬disciplinary Government funded MSc in Intelligent Buildings at Reading University in 1996. He has also worked in architecture and building engineering at the University of Bath (1978-1988) with Professor Sir Ted Happold. He founded the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group in 2006 and co-founded the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group in 1992 and was commended by the CIB for linking the CIBSE IBG with his work as Coordinator for the W098 Commission on Intelligent and Responsive Buildings. He was Vice President for CIBSE in 2007—9 and holds their Bronze and Silver Medal Derek has been a commissioner on air quality and also biodiversity for some Boroughs in London. He was a member of the UK Green Building Council team who wrote the Report Health and Wellbeing in Homes ---July 2016 and the World Green Council Report on Health and Wellbeing in Offices 2014. He contributed to the BCO Report 2018 on Wellness Matters: the Guide to Specification 2019 and reports on Ventilation for COVID 19 in 2021 and also The Use of Wearables in the Office in 2021. He is a research project reviewer for Government Ministries in New Zealand and Denmark. He is an adviser for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He edits the INBI Journal and has edited and written chapters in the 3rd Edition of Creating the Productive Workplace Routledge 2018. His book Designing Buildings for People: Sustainable Liveable Architecture was published by Crowood Press in late 2020 and includes his work on assessing the impact on the environment on people’s health and wellbeing including the economic and sustainability implications. He has edited the 3rd edition of the book Intelligent Buildings and Infrastructure with Sustainable and Social Values being published by the ICE- Emerald in late 2024.

Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea). He received BA and MA Degree in Sociology from Korea University (South Korea), and PhD in Environmental Sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a Teaching Professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the President of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a Delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD Environmental Meeting, etc. He has published 13 books including Environmental Sociology, and has conducted 95 environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

Helena Belchior Rocha, PhD in Social Work, is an Assistant professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies and subdirector of the Soft Skills Lab and Director of the Transversal Competences Nucleos. Integrated researcher at CIES, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, linked to national and international research projects, namely 3 from Marie Curie Actions. She was pionner in Ecology and sustainability in Social Work creating the EcoSocial Model for intervention. Coordinator of the 1st year of Social Work Graduation,. Scientific Coordinator of the Cost Action Line - Digital Human Rights, and member of K-Peritia (culture expertize) Cost Action Line. Author of papers and communications at national and international congresses, in the areas of social work theory and methodology, environment, sustainability, community Intervention, ethics, human rights, social policies and Well-being, education and soft skills. Member of the Editorial Board of national/international journals. Member of Inclusive Policy Lab UNESCO. Award of the Development Networks Award - Project "Promotion of Education for Global Citizenship - UN17" (ISCTE-IUL / COI Foundation)

Fred Schwartz is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, and is Executive Director of York’s International Renewable Energy Academy. He is also Executive Director of the Solar Valley Consortium at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology at the University of California, Riverside. He has worked in the field of renewable energy since the late 1970’s, and has received awards from the President of the United States, US EPA, and the United Nations.