Gonzalo Cuevas was born in Spain in 1940. He received the Engineer degree in Telecommunications and the Ph.D degree in Telecommunications from the High School of Telecommunications, Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain, in 1965 and 1974 respectively. Founder of the Software Process Improvement Investigation Group in Spain.

Manuel Pérez Cota is Professor and Researcher at the University of Vigo (UVIGO) in Vigo, Spain. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering (Universidad La Salle) and Electronics and Communications Engineering (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM, 1980), a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1990). He is the director of the international research group SI1-GEAC (http://cuautla.uvigo.es/si1-geac/). He was the first director and developer of the Computer Department (Computer Science School of the University of Vigo). He collaborates in different Master and PhD programs in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Finland, Argentina, Bolivia and México, and has been supervisor of several PhDs. He has been involved in different European and International projects. He has published quite extensively and has many publications (including books, book chapters, Scientific Citation Index journal articles, and international journal articles, as well as publications in refereed conference proceedings). He is a member of different international committees and associations (ACM, IEEE, AISTI, AIPO, ANALCT).

Stewart R. Santos Arce (S07-M’09-SM’14) received the degree of Engineer in Communications and Electronics from the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, in 2007, the title of Master of Science and Doctor of Science, both with Specialty in Electrical Engineering, of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in 2009 and 2014 respectively.
He is currently a full-time research-professor in the Department of Electronics at the University Center of Exact Sciences and Engineering at the University of Guadalajara. His main research interests focus on parallel neuronal computating for real-time digital signals applied to processing, analysis, segmentation and feature extraction of remote sensing images.In IEEE, he has participated as Student Activities Committee chair (SAC), Young Professionals chair (YP), Communication Society Treasurer (COMSOC), Membership Depelopment and IEEE Guadalajara Section vice-chair. He currently serves as president of IEEE Guadalajara Section, during the period 2017-2018.

J. Ignacio Castillo has been working for 19 years in IT&C industries [Datacenter Dynamics, RedUno-TELMEX, IFE, DICINET], as well as in private and public universities as professor [UDEFA, UACM, BUAP, UPAEP, UTM]. He has participated in more than 40 national and international projects as a team member, or leader on technical and management positions. Castillo is an IEEE Senior Member. He participates with ISO/IEC 27000 committee, Mexican NB. As professor he has lectured more than 100 undergraduate and graduate courses, he wrote journal and conference papers, one book, technical reports and is referee for magazines and conferences; he organized national and international conferences and seminars. He had offered more than 60 keynote, invited talks and webinars, but also he wrote more than 100 divulgation articles for magazines and newspapers.

Since 2008 Castillo is a tenured Professor at Electronics & Telecommunications Dep. with Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México UACM (Autonomous University of Mexico City). He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Sciences (95), completed with honors, and his M.Sc. degree in Semiconductor Devices (98) both from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

Founding partner of RockTech, a company dedicated to the research and development of new technologies. RockTech has 12 professionals, a large group of business partners, and the main research centers in Mexico.

After almost a decade of experience in banking, and taking advantage of his background in engineering and the huge technological advances DLS Venture Capital was established in July 2016, a crowdfunding platform that promotes investment through Financial Technology (FinTech). Generating an investment portfolio it integrates sustainable projects that are applicable to daily life, from the extraction of Nickel in water recycling to integral architecture development.