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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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AGOSTINHO DE SOUSA PINTO
ORCID: 0000-0003-1454-030x
Science ID: E510-C11B-61BE

Agostinho de Sousa Pinto is a Coordinating Professor in the Scientific Area of ​​Information Systems at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto. He holds a PhD in Information Technologies and Systems from the University of Minho and also holds the Title of Specialist (Decree Law 207/2009) from the Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
He is Vice-Dean of ISCAP for the area of ​​organizational transformation, research and pedagogical innovation.
He is co-coordinator of the Scientific Area of ​​Information Systems.
He is a Member of the Scientific Technical Council of ISCAP.
He is an integrated researcher and Member of the Coordination Committee of CEOS.PP – Center for Organizational and Societal Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto.
He is the Director of the Master's Degree in Electronic Business and General Coordinator of the Higher Professional Technical Courses. He is the Regent of several Curricular Units in the area of ​​Information Systems. He is part of teams of researchers from national and international projects. He is an External Evaluator of the USAL4EXCELLENCE Program of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Action. He is the Author and co-author of books, book chapters and scientific articles published in conferences and journals indexed by ISI or SCOPUS. In his curriculum, the most frequent terms of scientific production are: Digital Transformation; Shared Services; Organizational Knowledge Management; e-Learning; e-Business; Delta+ Model. He is Co-responsible for Special Sessions in International Conferences such as i) E BDT – E Business Digital Transformation ii) DTLP - Digital Transformation in the Teaching and Learning Process and iii) DTTAM - Digital Transformation in Tourism Activities Management.

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JOSÉ ALFREDO FERREIRA COSTA

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José Alfredo Ferreira Costa is Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), holding a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computing from UNICAMP (1999, Campinas, SP, Brazil) and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from USP (1996, SP, Brazil), both with specialization in computational intelligence, as well as a LL.B. in Digital Law. He specializes in artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, process optimization, web-based system development, and internet governance.
From 2009 to 2013 he served as President of SBIC – Sociedade Brasileira de Inteligência Computacional (formerly SBRN) and in 2012 was General Chair of IDEAL (International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning) held in Natal, RN. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles and supervised more than 45 graduate theses and 100 undergraduate projects.
He leads interdisciplinary extension initiatives—partnering with SOFTEX to offer free programming courses and industry internships for youth—and co-coordinates an AI-driven project with the Rio Grande do Norte Public Prosecutor’s Office to combat domestic violence. An experienced conference organizer and keynote speaker, he has served as General Chair of LA-CCI 2025 (Mexico City), ICDSAI 2025 (Nanjing), Program Chair for multiple IEEE and international events.
As keynote speaker, he has presented:
• “Ethical Challenges in AI” at CBIC 2023, Salvador, Brazil
• “Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Reflections” — Closing lecture at the XXXVI CIUFLA (Unified Congress of UFLA), Federal University of Lavras auditorium, Lavras, MG, Brazil, 2023. 
• “Algorithms vs. Humanism” — Lecture at the V Luso-Brazilian Bioethics Meeting of the Federal Medical Council & II Ibero-American Bioethics Meeting of the Federal Medical Council, Brasília, DF, June 2023.
• “Law, Technology and Innovation” — Lecture at the National Congress on Process, Constitution and Technology, Hangar Convention Center, Belém, Pará, Brazil, September 2022.
• “Considerations on Ethics in AI Applications” — Keynote address at LA-CCI 2021 (7th Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence), Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, November, 2021

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