MANAGING BOARD

President:

Zlatogor Minchev, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Vice-President:

Boril Borisov, JTSAC Associate, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Organizing Secretary:

Stayka Angelova, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Area Chair: Future Governance & Policy

Velizar Shalamanov, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Area Chair: Future Diplomacy & Fine Art

HE Sri Astari Rasjid, NASDEM, Indonesia

Area Chair: Future Economics

Dimitar Dimitrov, University of National & World Economy, Bulgaria

Area Chair: Future Media

Evgeni Krastev, Military TV Channel, Bulgaria

Honourable Advisor: New Digital Media

Plamen Kolev, HiLife Media Group

Area Chair: Digital Arts & Culture

Pier Luigi Capucci, Noema, Italy

Honourable Advisor: Social Communications, Wellbeing & Arts

Sonia Avakian-Bedrossian, Armenian General Benevolent Union

Area Chair: Future Security Issues

Galit Ben-Israel, Beit Berl College, Israel

Honourable Advisor: Civil Affairs & Security

Vilis Tsurov, AOR 'Atlantic', Bulgaria

Area Chair: Future Society & Religion

Nabiollah Masoumi, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Area Chair: Future Philosophy & Psychology

Mahmud El Darawish, Popular Movement Against Corruption and for Innovative Economy, Jordan

Honourable Advisor: Future Physical & Mental Health

Zornitza Mladenova, The Foundation for Global Community Health, Las Vegas, USA

Area Chair: Industrial Mathematics & Modelling

Svetozar Margenov, Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Honourable Advisor: Natural Sciences, HPC & Supercomputing

Stoyan Markov, National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Bulgaria

Honourable Advisor: Industrial Innovations

Nikolay Jordanov, KONTRAX Group

Area Chair: Future Education & Training

Eddy Linton, New Mexico Military Institute, USA

Honourable Advisor: Progressive Education & Culture

Kameliya Kurkchieva, Sofia Municipality, Bulgaria

Honourable Advisor: Innovative Foreign Languages Education & Training

Krasimir Krastev, Ivan Bogorov Language School, Dimitrovgrad

Honourable Advisor: Innovative Education & Mathematics

Petar Kenderov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Honourable Advisor: Innovative Education & Research

Dragan Domazet, Belgrade Metropolitan University

Honourable Advisor: Innovative Project & Risk Management

Daniel Todorov, Easy Credit, Bulgaria

Area Chair: Transcending, Alternative & Mixed Realities

Esteban Clua, Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Area Chair: Big Security & Safety

Vyacheslav Kharchenko, National Aerospace University KhAI, Ukraine

Honourable Advisor: Innovative Future ICT

Radoslav Yoshinov, Laboratory of Telematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Area Chair: Digital Transformation & Innovations

Luben Boyanov, University of National & World Economy, Bulgaria

Area Chair: Digital Forensics

Igor Franc, e-Sigurnost Association, Serbia

Honourable Advisor: Cryptography & Information Security

Stefka Bouyuklieva, VTU 'St. St. Cyril & Mathodius', Bulgaria

Honourable Advisor: Bioinformatics & HPC

Ivaylo Georgiev, Institute of Microbiology 'Stephan Angeloff', Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Area Chair: Future Smart Technologies & AI

Stiliyan Georgiev, Visteon Corporation, USA

The forum aims to facilitate the orchestration of human and smart machines' knowledge and experience exchanging. Thus achieving a better understanding, handling, sensing and collective securing the future cyber-physical transformed ecosystem of living. Three key phases are implemented for these objectives achievement in a multi-cyclic, dynamic and parallel manner, moving us throughout the levels of comprehension and readiness, towards a successful and resilient digital society fostered transformation:

(i) Building an expert community and developing a joint research agenda;

(ii) Consultations and identification of demo cases;

(iii) Development and testing of innovative solutions.

Establish an international community of proven experts and researchers for proactively meeting of new digital society tangible & intangible human-machine transcendence with identification and addressing of future threats, challenges, divides, opportunities, gaps & uncertainties.

We build a forum of competence, joining high-level professionals with rising young researchers for sharing ideas, thoughts, concerns, results, events and innovations, while mixing both human & technological evolutionary knowledge, senses and intellect with research, business & policy making experience for better securing the digital future in the new 21st century.

Multi-aspect analytical foreseeing of future digital transformation with our Mission & Vision joint cooperative efforts to produce project studies, publications, media campaigns, policy and strategic documents. We seek and provide dual advice with support to scientists, policy makers & business leaders for defining a future digital society research agenda. Our strategy is to build a bridge between scientists and practitioners through regular consultations, engaging also young people, via innovative competitions, simulation games & demonstrations of achievements along with the lines of our Objectives.