Dr. Zarina Zakaria is an Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Business & Economics, University of Malaya. She received her PhD of Business & Management from the Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom, in 2011. She obtained her Masters of Business Administration (Accountancy) from the University of Malaya, and her Bachelor in Accountancy from Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom.  She is currently the Audit & Risk Management Committee of Pelaburan Mara Berhad and the Chairperson for the Board of Trustee of the Malaysian Accountancy Research and Education Foundation (MAREF) as well as a member of the Interpretations Committee for the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB). She is also a member of MICPA Education & Technical Committee since 2017. She is an associate member of MICPA, MIA and ACCA and during her tenure as the MIA Council, she sat in various Committees including MIA Disciplinary Committee, MIA Examination Committee and the MIA Audit & Risk Management Committee. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in her area of expertise including in the Accounting Forum and Management Decision. Her research interests include sustainability, accountability, and governance. Zarina has also acted as a reviewer for several journals, including Management Decision, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, and a variety of international conferences

Ir. Dr. Hwa-Jen YAP is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He obtained a tertiary academic qualification from the Universiti Malaya for a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering Science and PhD in Engineering.  Before joining UM, he worked in the Air-Conditioning R&D industry from 2000 to 2002. He has to date published more than 100 papers in respectable journals and conference proceedings both locally and internationally. He has supervised more than 40 PhD and Master's students. His area of interest in research includes Extended Reality (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality),  Virtual Manufacturing (VM), Product Design, Artificial Intelligence, Sports Engineering, Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0), Robotics (Industrial Robots & Collaborative Robots, Cobot) and Automation. He is also actively involved in consultancy projects, in which he has more than 15 research & technology projects related to the Aerospace Manufacturing industry.  Ir. Dr. Yap was the head of the Centre of Product Design & Manufacturing (CPDM) from 2013 to 2015. He was the Deputy Dean (Development) of the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya from 2017 to 2018. Currently, he is the Director of Universiti Malaya's Consultancy Centre (Pusat Perundingan Universiti Malaya, UMConsult), Director of the UPUM Resources Sdn Bhd and Managing Director of the UPUM Sdn Bhd. On professional qualifications, he is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) in the Mechanical Engineering discipline registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). He is also a member of The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) of the Engineering Council, UK.

Tutut Herawan is an academician and presently works an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. He was a visiting researcher at Parallel and Distributed Computing Research (PARADISE) Lab of Deakin University, Australia. He holds an adjunct professor position at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia (the biggest public university in the country). He has many high international research visibilities including in the Top 2% World Scientists Ranking by Stanford University and Elsevier BV, since 2020-present and his mathematics Erdos number is 4. He is also named as one of the most prolific DBLP-computer science authors and one of the best computer scientists from Malaysia according to https://research.com/ since 2021-present. He received a PhD degree in information technology from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in 2010. He has more than 19 years experiences as academic staff and has supervised many Master & PhD students. He has also examined many Master & PhD Theses from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and China. He presently holds many strategic administrative positions at the Universiti Malaya such as the coordinator of Universiti Malaya academic journal publications, approval manager for Springer Nature Transformative Agreement - a Program under Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) with 20 public universities  (as a representative from Universiti Malaya), approval Manager for Universiti Malaya with IEEE OA Affiliate Discount Program (in process), and a member research board at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, the University of Malaya. He has also demonstrated exceptional leadership in securing over RM 4.5 million in research fundings as PI and Co-PI from numerous prestigious grants from government and institutions partners. He has also served as a research consultant for many higher learning institutions in Indonesia. He is an active researcher and serves as the managing editor of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (ISI WoS), associate editor of Springer Nature Computer Science Journal (Scopus), editor of International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science, IGI Global (Scopus), and editor-advisory board member of the book series “Information Systems Engineering and Management / ISEM” of Springer Nature. He has a strong international research network with more than 465 authorship collaboration. He has authored and edited many Springer-series books and published more than 345 articles in various book chapters, international journals, and conference proceedings (with Scopus h-index 36 and ISI WoS h-index 29). He is a reviewer for international journals including top reputable journals e.g., Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, IEEE Access, and many more. He delivered more than 50 keynote addresses, invited workshop and seminars, and has been actively served as a chair, co-chair, publication chair, program committee member and co-organizer for numerous international conferences/workshops. He is the general co-chair of the WorldCEM - World Conference on Economics and Management as one of the premier events in business and economics, which will be held in Aveiro, Portugal in Nov 2025. His research area includes data science and big data, data engineering and information systems, soft computing and data mining, information technology for tourism and computer in education.