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Dr. Bartel Van de Walle is the Founder and CEO of CASi Labs, a Netherlands-based company pioneering AI-driven platforms for collaborative intelligence, crisis leadership, and strategic foresight. He previously served as Director of UNU-MERIT and Chair in Policy Analysis for Global Challenges at Maastricht University, following earlier roles as Full Professor and Head of Department Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft and Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
With a career bridging academia, innovation, and policy, Dr. Van de Walle has advised governments, UN agencies, and international organizations on crisis response, data-driven decision-making, and system resilience. He is a co-founder of the global ISCRAM community, has delivered keynotes worldwide, and has published extensively on humanitarian information management, cognitive bias in crises, and socio-technical systems.
At CASi Labs, he now focuses on democratizing expertise through AI, designing tools that help leaders and teams navigate complex challenges with clarity and foresight.

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Professor of “Applied Informatics”, He served as head of the Department of Civil Engineering (September 2020 – August 2025), and Head of the Lab of Mathematics & Informatics of the School of Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is Coordinator and Consultant-Educational staff of the Program of Studies “Informatics” in the Hellenic Open University for 23 years in the row. He holds a BSc in Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, an MSc in Computer Science, University of Wales, Swansea (school of Mathematics and Informatics), United Kingdom and a PhD in Expert Systems, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been included in the Stanford list of the 2% most cited authors globally, for the last 4 years in the row and in the 0.5% of all scholars in ANN worldwide based on the Scholar GPS List. Prof. Lazaros Iliadis has authored co-authored (till 2025) 103 scientific research papers, in international scientific Journals with IF, 133 in Proceedings of International scientific Conferences and two academic scientific books. He is the General chair/Program Chair of 27 International Conferences in AI-ML, Guest Editor in 24 Volumes of more than 18 International scientific journals and Editor of 50 Volumes of International Conference Proceedings. Finally, Prof. Lazaros Iliadis is scientifically responsible of: i) Several competitive research projects, ii) The AkiDA, a major Private cybersecurity project for the Brainchip USA (California) & Australia (Cambera) company iii) personally served as a Researcher in the HORIZON Intereuropean MORPHEMIC, 2021-2022 project, with a budget of 15 million Euros (involving 13 European countries). Moreover, he was scientifically responsible for several ESPA (National Strategic Framework of Development) competitive research projects namely: the AID (Air Intelligence Defense) in cooperation with the Karteco private company, that won the 5th prize in the research innovation competition of the NBG – National Bank of Greece. The project Real-t-SO “Real Time Operational Control Tool of Combined Sewer Overflows at Coastal Cities” in cooperation the Water Company of Thessaloniki Greece (EYATH) and others. For more details see: https://dblp.org/pid/22/582.html

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