Bob Hopkins is a philanthropist, educator, social entrepreneur and Change-Maker presently serving as a Professor at University of Texas. Mr. Hopkins has worked his entire life helping others. He is an educator who teaches students how to develop a passion and how to be their own “change-maker”. Bob was the founder and publisher of Philanthropy in Texas magazine and later, Philanthropy World. He has authored a famous, entitled- Philanthropy Misunderstood. It is a compilation of 108 stories from people, world-wide, who have “changed the world”. It is a 256 page coffee table book with some of the World’s most GIVING people.

Prof. Biplab Loha choudhury is currently Professor In-Charge, Centre for Journalism & Mass Communication in Visva-bharati , Santiniketan. An ex-journalist and small-time state civil servant, he has been a Professor for last ten years. Currently he is editor-in-chief, International Journal of Peace Education and Development, and in the Editorial Board of Springar Singapore's Communication, Culture and Change in Asia.
His books include Indian Paradigms of Development Man Standard and Communication, Media Organization Management and Nabomadhyamer Ruprekha (Bengali) among others.

Professor Dr. FakrulAlam is currently UGC Professor, Department of English at the University of Dhaka. He is also an award-winning writer, translator and veteran researcher. To mention few of his research and translation works: Rabindranath Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh: Essays and Reviews (2013); Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English (2007); Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems (1999). Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Unfinished Memoirs (2012); Bishad Sindhu by Mir Mosharraf Hussain (2016); He received the SAARC Literature Award 2012. He was also awarded the Bangla Academy Puroshkar (Literature Award) in the Translation category for 2013.

Dr Kaykobad was born on 1 May, 1954 at village Jabra, District Manikganj. He received M.S.(Hons.) in Engineering from OMEI, now Odessa State Maritime University, in 1979. In 1982 he received an M.Eng. Degree from AIT, Thailand, and Ph.D from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1988. He is a Fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences(BAS), and was an Associate Secretary of its Executive Council.
Dr Kaykobad is a Professor at CSE Department, BUET since 1997, and served as its Head during 1996-1999, and for a second short term. He served as Dean of the Faculty of EEE, BUET for two years. He also served as a professor at CSE Department, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, and at NSU, Bangladesh. He was also a visiting professor at KAIST in 2007, Monash University Gippsland Campus in 2008 and at Australian National University in 2008 and Amritapuri University in 2011.
Dr Kaykobad has been playing active role in the computerization of both public and private enterprises. He has played a pioneering role in Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited developing their core banking software by local experts. He worked as a Director of Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges for many years. He was an independent director of Dhaka Stock Exchange for the last two terms. He is a member of Academic Council and Syndicate of several universities. Dr Kaykobad was also a member of Investigation Team of multimillion dollar cyber heist from Bangladesh Bank formed by the Government, and was the convener of Administrative team constituted by the Government to investigate into Question leaking of public examinations.
In addition to numerous papers in national and international conferences he has published over 50 research papers in Physical Review, International Journals of Computer Mathematics, Computers & Operations Research, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Linear Algebra & Its Applications, Information Processing Letters, Information Processing and Management, Applied Mathematics E-Notes, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Swarm and evolutionary computation, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of computing and information technology, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Journal of International Olympiad in Informatics and Computers & Graphics. He was a guest co-editor of the proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2009) published by Academy Publisher. He is also a coeditor of the book on "Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bengali Language Processing”. Along with Professor Md Zafar Iqbal he was entrusted with, and successfully shouldered the responsibility of editing/rewriting 6 text books of SSC level by the Ministry of Education. He has also written two text books for CSE courses in coauthorship along with some 15 more books inspiring analytical skill, patriotism and logical development in young generation.
Dr Kaykobad was the Organizing Chair of the first ever international computer conference ICCIT held in the soil of Bangladesh. He is also the Chair of the Steering Committee for Workshop on Algorithms (WALCOM) proceedings of which are published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. He has guided more than a dozen undergraduate students whose research works were published in journals of international repute. He participated as a Resource Person in Workshop on Science Communication sponsored by COSTED and UNESCO held at Goa during 18-23 November, 2001. He is a frequent column writer in National Dailies authoring over 400 articles, most of which are related to education of the country. He has been one of the pioneers in introducing Mathematics Olympiad, Olympiad in Informatics and Science Olympiad in Bangladesh. He has been leading Bangladesh IOI team since 2008 from which Bangladesh received two silver medals and 11 Bronze medals. He has been acting as the Chief Judge of regional programming contests in India since 2011. He was the Chief Judge of IIT Kanpur Asia Region Site of ICPC in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2018. He was adjudged as the outstanding coach of ICPC in 2002 at Honolulu, Hawaii, only Senior Coach award recipient at the World Finals of ICPC held at St. Petersburg, Russia in 2013, and ICPC Foundation Life time coach award in 2019 at Porto, Portugal (https://www.searchnewworld.com/search/search2.html?partid=snschbng&p=ICPC+HISTORY&subid=446 ). He was also awarded a gold medal by Bangladesh Physics Olympiad for his contributions to Olympiad movement. Dr Kaykobad was recognized as Distinguished alumni in 2008 by his alma mater The Flinders University of South Australia. He is a frequent speaker at schools, colleges and universities of the capital and outside. He visited over 70 countries and conducted seminars in over 50 foreign universities.
Dr Kaykobad was a Visiting Professor at the CSE Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, at Kyung Hee University, Korea, ANU and Monash University, Australia and Amritapuri University, India. In year 2005 the President of the country presented him with a Gold Medal on July 26 awarded by Bangladesh Computer Society for his contribution to computer programming culture in the country. In year 2006 he won BAS Gold Medal for physical sciences in the senior group which was awarded by the Prime Minister of the country on 26 July, 2006. He was also recognized by Bangladesh Physical Society with a gold medal for his contributions to Olympiad movement in Bangladesh. Dr Kaykobad is a member of the Executive Council of Bangla Academy.
Dr Kaykobad has supervised Bachelors thesis of over 100 students, Masters thesis of over 30 students and a PhD thesis successfully, and has served as external examiner of several PhD theses of IIT Kanpur and other Indian universities. Dr Kaykobad is married to Saleha Sultana Kaykobad and has two sons Mohammad Kayes Kaykobad, now working at Milwaukee, WI, USA and Tanvir Kaykobad, now working at Ottawa, Canada.

Dr. Wolfgang Hinck is Vice President, Academic Affairs, at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). He earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in International Business from the University of Texas in Edinburg, as well as undergraduate marketing degrees from Ireland and Germany. He also spent eight months at the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. From 2014-2019, he was Dean of the College of Business Administration at Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University. Prior to that, he was Dean of the Luing School of Business at Berkeley College, New York. Until 2009, he was a tenured marketing professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, holding the AA/Vincent Marsala Professorship in Teaching Excellence and the BlueCross BlueShield Professorship in Business.
His practitioner background consists of full-time and/or consulting assignments with English, French, German, Irish, Mexican, Norwegian, and U.S. organizations, including a tenure as regional sales director for a French multinational company; he also served in the German military. His research has been published in outlets such as Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Euromarketing, and Journal of Global Business Research, and is cited in textbooks. He served as President of the Federation of Business Disciplines and of the Academy of International Business U.S. Southwest, and is Managing Director of the Academy for Global Business Advancement. He is the recipient of various teaching awards, including 2006 and 2009 Professor of the Year at LSUS, 2011 Business Faculty of the Year at Berkeley College, and 2015 Graduate Faculty of the Year at PMU.

Dr. Md. Golam Rahman served as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Bangladesh and retired in 2018. Dr. Rahman is now the Editor of Ajker Patrika, a national daily of Bangladesh. He also works as an Advisor and Adjunct Professor in Daffodil International University. The government appointed him the Chairman of the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the national news agency of the country. He was the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2014-2015). He was a Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ) at the University of Dhaka. He worked at Papua New Guinea University of Technology as Professor and Head of the Department of Language and Communication Studies from 2008-2010.
Prof. Rahman did his postdoctoral research as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oklahoma, U.S.A. He obtained his Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Mysore University, India in 1986. More than 70 of his research articles have been published in various international and national journals. He has edited and published 15 books and manuals at both home and abroad. He was the Chairman of the Committee for Drafting Laws of National Broadcasting Commission in Bangladesh. He is a member of Bangladesh Censor Board Appeal Committee. He served as one of the Provosts of the University of Dhaka. He is the Editor of DIU Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Rahman visited 35 countries on different academic and professional programmes. He is the Bangladesh Country Representative of Asian Media, Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Asia. He has served the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) as National Media Specialist. He was the Vice President of Commonwealth Association for Educators in Journalism and Communication (CAEJAC), Canada. He is also a member of Advisory Group for UNESCO. He is Life-member of Bangla Academy. He has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by the Department of Journalism and Media Studies of Jahangirnagar University recently. He participates in television talk shows frequently in various channels.

Dr. Khurshed Alam, a professional social scientist, is a leading sociologist of south Asia. He is the pioneer Sociologist of applied social research in the country apart from the academia. Currently he is the Chairman of Bangladesh Institute of Social Research (BISR) which is one of the leading research organizations in the country in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Along with BISR, he pursued many applied social studies through renowned global and local organizations like World Bank, ADB, JICA, NORAD, CARE, and BIDS and so on. His research areas of interest include poverty reduction, social change, people’s participation in development, gender-inclusive development, climate change and disaster, institutional development, political system, and good governance. In 2008 he was recruited by the Planning Commission, Government of Bangladesh for preparing national plan called PRSP-II. He also attempted to develop several theories and concepts in the field of social sciences in general and Bangladesh context in particular. Dr. Alam also developed several new ideas and models while addressing different socioeconomic problems of the country. He has authored many scientific peer reviewed articles, book chapters and 9 books. His 3 articles were regarded as the best articles of those journals. Currently he is also Associate Editor/editorial board member of BMC Women’s Health Journal published by Springer nature. He works as referee for many world reputed journals including World Development.