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Dr Mohammad Dastbaz is Head of Department of Information Systems and Multimedia and Head of the eCentre research group. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and has for some years been engaged in collaborative consulting and various research programmes. Dr Dastbaz has been involved in the design and development projects with large companies including the Brake Bros. PLC (developing innovative Web solutions) Cochlear (developing KBS systems for clinics to determine the appropriate hearing aids) as well Rainer (one UK’s largest charities dealing with some 20,000 young people – working on re-engineering complex systems used in social domains and dealing with legal and ethical issues). Dr Dastbaz is chair of e4Business, and IEEE’s Information Visualization (Multimedia Symposium) and sits on various conference committees’s including the i-Society, IEEE’s CGIIV, and the International Conference on Global e-Security. Dr Dastbaz has more than 30 publications including 2 books on Multimedia Design and Web Application Development. In his latest research work Dr Dastbaz has been working on a JISC funded project with Oxford University’s Technology Learning group developing innovative personalised e-learning packages.
Dr Chris Imafidon is a Member of the Information Age Executive Roundtable Speaker forum – which is made up of the top/prominent 15 IT experts, decision-makers, CIO, and executives. He currently serves on the Board of Governors, Woodford County (one of the nation's most successful school). He is a former University lecturer in Cambridge; and regularly gets invitation from the University of Cambridge specialist research seminar series. He has also been a Summer Instructor at Somerville College of Oxford University. He has been visiting professor to various American Universities, including Harvard, Cornell, SUNY, Georgetown, Columbia, Miami, LSU and has collaborated with current or past researchers at Yale University. He is a former head of the Management of Technology Unit at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has directed various Masters/PhD degree studies including various aspects of security.