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Ignacio Blanquer (Ph.D.) is an associate professor of the Computer System Department at UPV. He has been involved in Parallel Computation and Medical Image processing, participating in more than 55 national and European Research Projects, has authored and co-authored 34 articles in indexed journals and book chapters and in more than 80 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings. Ignacio is the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project EUBraBIGSEA  and was the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project EUBrazil Cloud Connect

Andrea Bondavalli is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Firenze. Previously he has been a researcher and a senior researcher of the Italian National Research Council, working at the CNUCE Institute in Pisa. Andrea Bondavalli supports as an expert the European Commission in the selection and evaluation of project proposals and regularly consults companies in the application field.

Dr. Breitman worked as a tenured CS Professor at PUC-Rio. Over her career she held joint industry projects with NASA, HP, IBM and Microsoft, where she also worked. At EMC Brazil R&D Center she oversaw the filing for 40+ patents, and the successful completion of large scale joint research projects. She also serves as a cloud computing and IoT expert for the European Commission.

José María Cela received the PhD degree in telecommunication engineering from the Univesidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Currently, he is a director of Computer Applications in Science and Engineering Department (CASE) at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His research interests cover the areas of parallel computing, PDE solvers, and optimization algorithms. José is the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project HPC4E

Alvaro L.G.A. Coutinho is the Director of the High Performance Computing Center and a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering in The Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE), The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Has coordinated and participatipated in over 80 industry projects. Alvaro is the Brazilian Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project HPC4E

Christof Fetzer received his Ph.D. from UC San Diego (1997). Dr. Fetzer joined AT&T Labs-Research in August 1999 and was a principal member of technical staff until March 2004. Since April 2004, he is head of the Systems Engineering Chair in the Computer Science Department at the Dresden University of Technology. He is the chair of the Distributed Systems Engineering International Masters Program at the Computer Science Department. Prof Christof is the European Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project SecureCloud.

Afonso Lamounier is Vice President Government Relations at SAP Latin America & Caribbean, based in Sao Paulo/Brazil. Afonso has over 17 years of experience in developing business opportunities with governments. Prior to joining SAP, Afonso worked at Microsoft for over 12 years, building the company’s Public Sector business in Brazil and in Latin America.

Flávio holds a permanent position at the Brazilian Central Bank and he currently works as a Parliamentary Advisor at Camara dos Deputados (Brazilian Lower House of Representatives). In 2016, he got appointed by the President of Brazil for a 3-year term as a member of the Advisory Board of Anatel.

Katarzyna Materka is an experienced Quality Assurance Specialist. She graduated Warsaw School of Economics, Post-Graduate Studies in Quality Management and she achieved Master’s Degree in Musicology on University of Warsaw. At 7bulls she is a Team Leader Senior Quality Assurance responsible for planning, coordinating and supervising the QA team. Katarzyna also takes care of defining testing strategy and procedures.

Creator of the "Dinos do Brazil" project and computer engineer graduated from USP in 2012 with international experience.

Wagner Meira Jr. is main professor of Computer Science ate Federal University of Minas Gerais. Wagner holds a PhD in Computer Science by University of Rochester (1997), and he is a bacheral in Computer Science from Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is a researcher at CNPq, published over 300 articles and is co-author of "Data Mining and Analysis - Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms", published by Cambridge University in 2014. Wagner is the Brazilian Coordinator of EU-Brazil collaborative project EUBraBIGSEA

Philippe Olivier Alexander Navaux, is professor of the Informatics Institute from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He has conducted several research projects with private companies (Microsoft, Intel, HP, DELL, Altus and Itautec) and has oriented more than 80 Master and PhD students and has published near 400 papers in journals and conferences.

Dr. Ognjen Prnjat holds the position of European and Regional e-Infrastructure manager in the Greek Research and Technology Network. In this role he is responsible for organizing various aspects of computing infrastructures in South-East European region and beyond, their interoperation with pan-European e-Science infrastructure; as well as GRNET involvement in pan-European and worldwide e-Infrastructures.