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.