Prof. Biaoxin Chen

Executive Chairperson, Greater Bay Area Industrial and Educational Alliance, China

Chen Biaoxin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice President, Professor of Guangdong University of Science and Technology, and professional leader of cross-border e-commerce. Currently the executive chairperson of the Greater Bay Area Industry and Education Alliance, the co-president of Guangdong Bosi Cloud Science and Education Technology Co., Ltd., the chief social scientist in Dongguan City, and the digital economy and cross-border e-commerce of China Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association Vice Chairperson of the Special Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Cross-border E-commerce Working Committee of the China Association of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Enterprises, Executive Director of the National E-commerce Digital Education Development Alliance, and Chairperson of the Industry-Education Integration and School-Enterprise Cooperation Branch of the Guangdong Higher Education Society.

Prof. Jiaxian Zhou

City University of Macau, China

Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Management Accountant, Engineer, Professor Zhou is currently Co-Director of Hang Seng University Hong Kong (CQAM), Professor, Hong Kong Product Association, Bayu Scholar and Pengcheng Peacock Project B Talent. Before entering the education industry, Professor Zhou worked as a high-tech enterprise manager for 15 years. Professor Zhou holds two patents, has edited four books, and has published more than 150 academic papers, of which more than 85 papers have been indexed by SSCI/SCI, including 43 District 1 papers and 17 highly cited papers.

In addition, one of his Chinese CSSCI papers was reproduced in full by the photocopied materials of Renmin University of China, and two conference papers won the Best Paper Award in 2019. From 2020 to February 2024, his papers were cited 5138 times, with an h-index of 40 and an i10 index of 76. On September 16, 2024, Professor Zhou was ranked as one of the top 2% scientists in the world by Stanford University. Professor Zhou also holds the positions of visiting professor/scholar at Oxford University, visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, visiting professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and visiting professor at the Institute of Intelligent Information at Shenzhen University.

Prof. Georgios Theodoropoulos

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Georgios Theodoropoulos is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen. He moved to Shenzhen from Durham University in the UK where he was Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Research Computing and held a Chair in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Scientist with IBM Research where he played a strategic role in the establishment of IBM’s Exascale Systems research roadmap for Europe at the company’s Smart City Technology Centre in Ireland. He has held an honorary Chair at the Trinity College Dublin and senior appointments at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the University of Birmingham, UK where he was Director of one of the UK’s e-Science Centres of Excellence.   His research contributions are in the areas of Info-Symbiotic Systems, Distributed Simulation and Distributed Virtual Environments, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Complex and Multi-agent systems and workload optimised systems for data-driven analytics. 

He is an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Academician of the World Academy of Art and Science, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, Board Member and the Chief Operating Officer of the Info-Symbiotics Systems Society, an Accredited Board Director by the Singapore Institute of Directors, a Chartered Engineer, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK.

Title: Digital Twins for Sustainable Blockchain Systems

Abstract: Global sustainability challenges are becoming increasingly complex and multifaceted, exacerbated by the rapid pace of environmental degradation, climate change, resource depletion and geopolitical and economic instability. At this era of significant uncertainty there is a need to put at the disposal of industry, policy and decision makers novel technological and force multipliers. AI-driven Digital Twins and Blockchain are key technologies in this endeavour. Digital Twins provide a powerful paradigm for linking together systems, computational models, simulations, data, and stakeholders, enabling the development of trustworthy, explainable, holistic, contextual, and cognitive analytics and decision-support ecosystems.  While Blockchain and tokenization provide decentralized solutions for traceability and accountability. Their combined power accelerates innovation in a wide range of sectors and applications including manufacturing, smart cities, healthcare, energy, infrastructure systems and climate finance. The talk will explore these two technologies proposing the use of Digital Twins as a viable approach for the dynamic management of Blockchain systems to enhance efficiency and governance. A Digital Twin framework specifically designed for this purpose will be introduced, with a discussion on the technical challenges involved, including simulation and optimization, state reflection, and decentralized system reconfiguration.