Invited Talks and Panels

  1. Invited Speaker,  and Panellist, Urban Land Institute (ULI) and InnoSpace Greater Bay Area ESG Tech Series, February and March 2023, Shenzhen.
  2. Invited Speaker, Computer Science Methods for Effective and Sustainable Simulation Studies, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 3-7 October 2022
  3. Invited Speaker, World Frontier Technology Conference, Metaverse Professional Committee of China Association for the Promotion of International Science and Technology, Frontier Science and Technology Forum - Life Science, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Metaverse, September 3,  National Convention Center, Beijing, China.
  4. Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Communications, Information System and Computer Engineering (CISCE 2022) May 27-29, 2022, Shenzhen.
  5. Invited Speaker, Research Seminar Series,  School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia, 21 April 2022
  6. Keynote Speaker,  2022 IEEE 7th  International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing (ICSP 2022), April 16, 2022. Xi'an Shiyou University, China
  7. Keynote Speaker, 2nd  International Conference on Digital Signal and Computer Communications (DSCC 2022), April 8-10, 2022, Changchun, China
  8. Panellist and Invited Speaker, Symposium on Innovation  in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area - Guangming Session, 15 December 2022
  9. Panellist, Innovating in the Greater Bay Area, Dreaming in Changsha, Promotion of Changsha National Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Overseas Professionals & Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Overseas Professionals Innovation Demand, 9 December 202, Shenzhen
  10.  Panellist and Judge, 5th International Innovative & Entrepreneurial Competition Shenzhen, China, Innovation Competition of International Talents, Shenzhen, China, 30 November 2021
  11.  Keynote Speaker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Promotion of Overseas High-level Talents in Yantai, Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, National Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Shandong Provincial Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security (Shandong Provincial Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs), Yantai, Shandong, October 23-25, 2021
  12.  Keynote Speaker, 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Big Data and Business Intelligence 2021 (MLBDBI 2021), October 15-17, 2021,Taiyuan, China.
  13. Keynote Speaker, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronic Information Engineering and Computer Science (IEEE-EIECS 2021), Changchun, China, September 23 - 26, 2021
  14.  Keynote Speaker, 2021 International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Information Security (ICBCTIS2021) , Changsha · China, July 30 - August 1, 2021
  15. Invited Speaker,  "10 Years Athens Business Confucius Institute: Τhe future of a prosperous collaboration", Online Conference, 30/6/2021
  16. Panellist, World Academy of Art and Science Talks Series, “Science, Ethics and Equity”, 24 May 2021
  17.  Keynote Speaker, The 2021 IEEE 6th  International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing (ICSP 2021), Xi'an Shiyou University, Xi'an, China, April 9-11, 2021.
  18. Keynote Speaker, The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics and Computer Engineering (ICCECE 2021), January 15-17, 2021, Guangzhou China
  19. Panellist, Foreign Experts Conference, Shandong, China, December 15-17, 2020
  20. Keynote Speaker,  2nd  Intelligent Software International Forum IFIS2020, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Nansha District Science and Technology Bureau, Guangzhou Nansha District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, November 23-29, 2020
  21. Panellist and Judge, 4th International Innovative & Entrepreneurial Competition Shenzhen, China, Innovation Competition of International Talents, Shenzhen, China, 13 November 2020
  22. Panellist, 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, 7-13 November, 2020.
  23.  Keynote Speaker, 5th IEEE International Conference on Universal Village 2020 (UV2020), October 24-27, 2020, Boston, USA.
  24. Keynote Speaker, The 2020 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Trusted Autonomous System Technology, 18 September 2020, Fuyang Big Data Research Institute, Hangzhou, China.
  25.  Keynote Speaker, 2020 International Conference on Computer Vision and Data Mining (ICCVDM2020), August 14-17, 2020, Xian, China.
  26. Panellist, 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, November 8-11, 2020.
  27. Keynote Speaker, 13th IEEE International conference on Open Source System and Technologies 2019 (ICOSST2019) UET Lahore, Pakistan, 17 -19 December 2019.
  28.   Invited Speaker, Round table on Transforming the Future of Money, World Academy of Arts and Science, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik – November 18-20, 2019
  29. Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Machine Learning, Big Data and Business Intelligence (MLBDBI2019) , November 8-10, 2019, Taiyuan, China
  30. Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Mechanical, Control and Computer Engineering (ICMCCE 2019), October 25-27, 2019 in Hohhot, Mongolia, China
  31. Keynote Speaker, 2018 International Symposium on Simulation and Process Modelling (ISSPM 2018), Shenyang, China, July 21-22, 2018Panellist, 9th Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Doctoral Nanshan Academic Forum, Internet and Information Technology Sub-forum, Shenzhen, 24 April, 2017.
  32. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS 2015), University of Westminster, London, UK, June 10-12, 2015
  33. Televic Tech Day 2014, Data is the Future, 11 September 2014, Izegem, Belgium. (video)
  34. Gamification In The Events Industry Workshop,  London, 5 December 2013 (video)
  35. World Summit on Organisation Design and Big Data, Paris, May 16-17, 2013.
  36. SIMUTools 2013 is the sixth International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques, Cannes, French Riviera - March 5-7, 2013
  37. EIURA (European Industry University Research Association) Forum on Cloud Computing, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Northwood, Dublin, Ireland, 30 September 2011
  38. Trans-disciplinary Workshop on Agents in Archaeology, Natural History Museum, Vienna, 2-4 March, Vienna, Austria.
  39. The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds, (ISGC 2011) in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum (OGF 31), Academia Sinica, Taipei, 21-25 March 2011
  40. The 2011 Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) International Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 16-19 March, 2011
  41. Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative workshop, King’s College London 23 July 2010. Title of the talk: "Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The case of Manzikert".
  42. Access to the Grid: Interfacing the Humanities with Grid Technologies, part of the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference, King's College London, 5 July 2010. Title of the talk: "Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The case of Manzikert".
  43. Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium, 2010, 30/4 - 2/5 2010, Washington DC. Title of the talk: “Landscapes, Movement and Logistics:  Multi-agent Systems and Simulating Medieval Campaigns”.
  44. Simulating Logistical Structures within a Digital Environmental Database Workshop Princeton University, 27-28 April 2010. Title of the talk: " Multi-agent-based simulations and modeling logistics and movement"
  45. Individuals and Environmental Change: eScience for Sustainable Systems Workshop, 21-22 February 2008, Gregynog, Wales, UK, organized by the National Institute for Environmental eScience, University of Cambridge. Title:  “Distributed Data Driven Social Simulations” 
  46. The NSF/ESRC Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems,  Santa Barbara, California April 14-16 2007. Title of the talk:  “Data Driven Simulation of Agent-based Systems”.
  47. The 3rd IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference (Networking 2004), Workshop on Data Processing and Storage Networking: Towards Grid-Computing.  Title:  “Grid-enabling the Midlands”.
  48. UK Society for Modelling and Simulation Annual Meeting, Nottingham 2002. Title “Distributed Simulation of Agent-based systems”.
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