2026 Invited Speakers
Dr. Prof. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
University of Burgos, Spain
Biography: Prof. Dr. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez is Full Professor of Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of Burgos. He holds three doctoral degrees, PhD in Didactics of Social Sciences (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), PhD in Education (University of Burgos), and PhD in the History of the Americas (University of Extremadura), each awarded with an Extraordinary Doctoral Award. His research focuses on education for democratic citizenship, the curricular inclusion and didactic treatment of controversial issues and social problems, literary education, equality, transdisciplinarity, and the pedagogical use of educational technology.
Currently, he serves as Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Culture, and Social Projection at the University of Burgos, and as Director of the Chair in Human Rights and Democratic Culture - Auschwitz Birkenau National Institute, the only one worldwide in direct collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. In recognition of his impact, he was distinguished among the world’s top ten Social Sciences researchers in the USERN 2022 World Prize.
Dr. Kim Hung Joe Lam
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Biography: Dr. Kim‑hung Joe Lam (MBA, IHERD Fellow; FAHE) serves as Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of the Analytical Sciences for Testing and Certification (ASTC) programme in Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also currently a Fellow of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development (IHERD) and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (FAHE).
Prof. Jie Yang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Biography: Jie Yang received a bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where a master’s degree in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System was achieved three years later. In 1994, he received Ph.D. at Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany. Now he is the Professor and Director of Institute of Image Processing and Pattern recognition in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the principal investigator of more than 30 national and ministry scientific research projects in image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and artificial intelligence. He has published six books，more than five hundreds of articles in national or international academic journals and conferences. Google citation over 29300，H-index 88. Up to now, he has awarded six research achievement prizes from ministry of Education, China and Shanghai municipality. He has owned 48 patents. Three Ph.D. dissertation he supervised was evaluated as “National Best Ph.D. Dissertation” in 2009, in 2017, in 2019. He has been chairman and keynote speaker of more than 20 international conferences. He is selected in the list of 2025 World Top 2% Career-long Impact Scientists issued by Stanford University and Elsevier.