Iliad Hackathon 2024

Karima Khalil

Mrs Karima Khalil is professor at Cadi Ayyad University, School of Technology in Essaouira, Morocco. She is vice director of research laboratory Applied Sciences on Environment and Sustainable Development. She obtained a PhD in Environmental sciences from the Paris 6 University in France. Her research interests are Modeling of biogeochemical processes in coastal and marine environments, Marine Protected Area and fisheries. She is author of several papers and communications. She is coordinator in an international virtual exchange as member of Global Partner in Education. She is Thematic Expert Group member of Global Marine Spatial Planning (UNESCO-IOC), Secretary of African chapter of International Society of Ecological Modelling, editorial group member in Encyclopedia of Ecology with Elsevier.

Vivian Kiousi

Accomplished Innovation Manager and Strategist with 20+ years of polyvalent experience in EU ICT projects management and Communication services provision.

Strong strategic management capabilities, with highly developed analytical and problem solving skills. Expert in European Commission practices.

John Rysst

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Bente Lilja Bye

Bente Lilja Bye has been a member of the GEO community since 2004 then as Research Director of the Norwegian Mapping Authority. She has been engaged both as representative in the GEO plenary, in committees and contributing to the GEO Work Programme. She has served on the GEO Program Board representing Norway bringing her expertise on the polar regions. Today, Bente runs a small research and consultancy company, BLB, focusing on transforming Earth observation data to information and knowledge for societal benefit. Bente supports the NextGEOSS data hub and platform operations particularly through capacity development and resource mobilization. Bente serves as Innovation Manager in ILIAD bringing her expertise on operational systems such as European Sea Level Service, development on tsunami early warning systems and more. Bente characterizes herself as a nature loving gadget geek and is frequently seen on various expeditions on land or ocean.

Arne-Jørgen Berre

Arne J. Berre is Innovation Director at NorwAI.ai and chief scientist at SINTEF Digital. He is the lead of GEMINI Big Data iSpace and involved in the Norwegian Nemonoor AI EDIH. He is the leader of the BDVA/DAIRO TF6 Technical priorities. He is the technical coordinator of the COGNITWIN project on Cognitive Digital Twins for the process industry and involved in Circular TwAIn and COGNIMAN for Manufacturing. He was responsible for the national IDS-based Norwegian Data Space project – MDS - Maritime Data Space. He is the scientific coordinator of the European Green Deal, ILIAD, Digital Twin of the Ocean project, and the AquaINFRA EOSC project and involved in the new Mission Ocean projects CLIMAREST and DTO-BioFlow. He is the lead of the Norwegian ISO SC42 AI group and involved in ISO SC41 IoT and Digital Twin, ISO/TC211 and OGC. He is co-chair of WG5 DTO Framework and architecture (Turtle) in DITTO (Digital Twins of the Ocean) - a Global Program of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).

Tom Redd

Tom Redd is the Ocean Governance Lead at HUB Ocean, a foundation with a mission to unlock the power of ocean data. Tom leads activities related to ocean restoration and governance. He is responsible for involvement in European activities and HUB Oceans role in the Iliad Digital Twin project. Previously, Tom has worked developing marine science funding programmes at a European level at the intergovernmental organisation JPI Oceans. His education is in marine science, policy, and law.

Sofia Parsadanyan

Sofia is Program Lead at the American University of Armenia, EPIC - Entrepreneurship and Product Innovation Center. Sofia has experience from Technology transfer and commercialization of the research done by scientists in Armenia, design and implementation of the process of market opportunities evaluation of researches in math and physics.

She has designed & launched an automatized service for getting information about more than 150 available resources for business development of SME’s that has been used by more than 2000 entities.

Henry Boeree

Henry is involved in multiple European projects and research initiatives focusing on satellite applications for disaster risk management, climate resilience & civil protection, as well as maritime topics:

• GEO-Academy, bringing innovative geospatial tools (EO, RS, GIS, etc.) to primary to upper seconday pre- and in-service teachers.
• ILIAD, creating digital twins of the ocean using a federated system-of-systems approach.
• Collaborating with EUSPA on a series of national workshops on satellite applications for disaster risk management.

Dori Edelist

Over the past two decades had provided decision-makers with tools to understand the state of aquatic ecosystems and equipped them with expert advice on sustainable development and management of marine resources. Dori’s experience and expertise (>Aquacosm - Engagement Overview ( April 24th - September 9th ) AAll Users40 peer review publications) include Marine Spatial Planning, Infrastructure Risk Assessment, Fish and Fisheries (FAO, GFCM), Offshore Aquaculture, Offshore Energy, Marine Bio-invasion, Ecosystem Services, Citizen Science, Jellyfish ecology, and infrastructure risk assessment.

Alex Alcocer

Alex Alcocer, is professor in robotics and control at Oslo Metropolitan University, and academic leader at OsloMet Oceanlab. He has experience with marine robotics, autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater gliders, unmanned surface vessels, and different ocean observing sensors and systems.

Muhammad Zarar

I like challenging tasks of Geophysical Exploration through application of Cloud Computing technologies, GIS & Remote Sensing for Coal Seam Gas, Shale Gas & Tight Gas. Furthermore IoT applications such as remote monitoring & NDT in petroleum Extraction, Production & Refining processes to make it cost effective Environment Friendly and more productive is also a field of interests.

Sediments study is another field of interest which has applications in Environment, Hydraulic Projects, Agriculture, Minerals and Aquatic Habitats. Each of these applications are well supported by IoT and Geophysical equipment. As regards the earthquake safe buildings & houses, I have specialty of advising the clients about the use of "Earthquake Impact Retardant Aggregates (EIRA)".

Benedicte Hoofd Dommergues

Bénédicte holds a MSc in Maritime Engineering form Ecole Centrale Marseille. She specialises in hydrodynamics and data science, with a particular interest in design optimisation methods using genetic algorithms, Bayesian optimisation and machine learning. In addition, she is recognised for her management skills and has led multiple consortia of more than 10 partners each, including key research institutes. Her hands-on offshore experience is particularly appreciated to manage complex large-scale offshore related projects. Currently, she leads the Digital Twin team of blueOASIS, with an emphasis on real-time monitoring and classification underwater species using either images or underwater recordings.

Gerald Lyons

Gerald is a Data Services Engineer, working for the Marine Institute (MI).

The MI is the National Oceanographic Data Centre for Ireland, providing reliable data services and infrastructure to the public, governmental bodies and other clients.

Gerald's role at the MI focus on enhancing the delivery of these data services and infrastructure.

A key strategic priority for the MI is the development of a Digital Twin of the Ocean for Ireland.

Eva Linehan

Eva is a Project Data Coordinator working for the Marine Institute (MI).

The MI is the National Oceanographic Data Centre for Ireland, providing reliable data services and infrastructure to the public, governmental bodies and other clients.

Eva’s roles at the MI focuses on enhancing the delivery of these data services and infrastructure.

A key strategic priority for the MI is the development of a Digital Twin of the Ocean for Ireland.

Francisco José Nicolás Yepes

Our team is formed by eight people, four working on the 3D application and the other four on data acquisition and creation of predictive models.