Maurizio is Full Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Humanitas University and the Head of Department at the Humanitas Research Center in Milan. He previously worked as Reader and Clinical Director at the Adult Critical Care Department of St George's Hospital and University of London. He has been very active in clinical research in Intensive Care, Anesthesia, Perioperative and Emergency Medicine, focusing on hemodynamic monitoring and optimisation, physiology of the critically ill patient, and epidemiology of perioperative outcomes. He served as Chair of Scientific Affairs of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and has recently been appointed President-elect for 2020-2021.

Riccardo obtained his Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from La Sapienza University in 1992 and a PhD in Bioengineering from Boston University in 1998. He served as Research Affiliate at MIT, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant in Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2014 he became Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include: mathematical modeling of biological systems (especially cardiovascular and both central and autonomic nervous systems) and biomedical signal processing, with emphasis on cardiovascular control and variability, EEG, Evoked Potentials, and single cell neuronal recordings.

Leo has practiced medicine in three continents, giving him broad perspectives in healthcare delivery. He is one of the course directors for "Global health informatics to improve quality of care", and "Secondary analysis of electronic health records", both at MIT. As principal research scientist at the Laboratory of Computational Physiology, he brings together clinicians and data scientists to support research using data routinely collected in the ICU. Finally, Leo founded and co-directs Sana, a cross-disciplinary organization based at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science whose objective is to leverage information technology to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.

Armand is a Full Professor and Head of Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He also qualified as Clinical Pharmacologist and continues activities in this field. Armand has performed many organizational tasks, both on a national and international level and contributed to several guidelines on IC organization and treatment. He served as international advisor for the Irish Healthcare Authorities and as General Secretary of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. He is currently working on making it possible for intubated patients to actually speak.

Jan is a surgery-trained intensivist with a specific interest in infections in critically ill patients and works at the surgical ICU of the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. Hs clinical interests include infections and abdominal catastrophes such as the abdominal compartment syndrome. His research activity currently focuses on optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcome and combat resistance development. He is also active in several societies: he served as president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine and has recently been appointed as Chair of ESICM's Research Committee, after a mandate in the Infection Section.

Ari became an anaesthetist after completing a PhD in Physics. He currently works as Lecturer and Consultant Anaesthetist at the University of Cambridge, and divides his time between clinical work, teaching and research. His clinical interest is in resuscitation, management of major trauma, and prehospital care. He has a particular research focus on applications of systems biology in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia. He is particularly interested in measurement and modelling cerebral perfusion, oxygenation and metabolism after traumatic brain injury. He has recently been nominated Chair of the Technology Assessment and Health Informatics group of the European Society of ICM.

Geert is Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant Intensivist at the University of Leuven (KU). In 2010 he finished his PhD, entitled “Computerized data management in ICU: predictive modeling, time series analysis, and opportunities for support of care”. Neuro-intensive care is his main research field, with special interest in data mining and mathematical modeling for knowledge discovery, early warning systems and outcome prediction. Current projects include predictive modeling in neuro-intensive care and acute kidney injury, cerebrovascular autoregulation, ketamine in brain injured patients; nutrition and blood glucose control. He is president-elect of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ).

Matthieu is a practicing clinician, holding full board certification in Anaesthesia and Critical Care in both France and the UK. He is a PhD student in Medicine and Bioengineering at the Imperial College London, a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an affiliate of Harvard University, where he taught Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. His work on reinforcement learning applied to sepsis resuscitation was awarded the first prize of Research and Innovation by the British Royal Society of Medicine and was recently published in Nature Medicine.

Marine holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Her work on the application of artificial intelligence for glucose control in intensive care, in collaboration with the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, was awarded twice the prize of the best master’s thesis in (Biomedical) Engineering (AILg and AIM). In November 2018, Marine will defend her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Leuven, Belgium. In her PhD, she developed prediction models for acute kidney injury and traumatic brain injury in critical illness, and translated these models into bedside clinical applications.

Theodorus is consultant physician in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine in Cyprus and the UK. He serves as Associate Professor at St Georges' University of London and University of Nicosia, and has been the founding Head of the Department of Intensive Care at Nicosia General Hospital. He has long-standing interest in the applications of Informatics in ICM. He is a coordinator of the Applied Health Informatics & Telemedicine program at the Open University of Cyprus and served as Chair of the Technology Assessment & Health Informatics workgroup and of the e-Learning Committee at ESICM. He is currently member of the standing program committee of EU HORIZON 2020 based in Brussels.

Susana received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. She was Invited Teacher at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in 2009, and Visiting Scholar at MIT in 2014. She is Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon and Senior Researcher at the Center of Intelligent Systems since 2012. Her main research area is Soft Computing: feature selection, fuzzy modeling, fuzzy optimization and metaheuristics. Her research focuses on computational intelligence methods for knowledge data discovery, to identify factors or features that lead to unfavorable clinical conditions of ICU patients, and design specific decision models that support clinicians’ decisions.

Diego is a certified lawyer enrolled in the Bar of Milan since 1997 and is partner of Net for Legal. He works as consultant for large societies including multinational corporations. He provides legal advice as expert of technology and communication right, personal data protection, pharmaceutical right, insurance right and administrative business resposponsibility (231), outsourcing and computer contracts, and protection of industrial and intellectual property in the digital field. He is professor of Diritto per l'impresa e la comunicazione digitale at the IULM University in Milan. He is the Scientific Director of the Istituto Italiano Privacy, and member of the Scientific Committee of ANORC Professioni.

Hidde is one of the founders of Pacmed, a start-up that builds decision support software based on machine learning and medical expertise. Pacmed works together with several hospitals in the Netherlands in building algorithms for improving the intensive care, oncology and treatment of chronic diseases. Hidde has worked as a data science consultant, he is responsible for the algorithm development at Pacmed and leads the intensive care team.

Manuela received her PhD degree in Bioengineering in 2007 and is currently Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano. She collaborated with the Renal Research Institute in New York, San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza, Università Tor Vergata in Rome and San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Her research interests include mathematical modeling of physiological systems, signal processing, non linear and variability analysis of cardiovascular signals, data mining and prediction models. Her current work involves metabolomics and integration of multilevel data for septic shock patients and animal models of circulatory shock. She is on the boards of Physiological Measurement and Scientific Reports.

Chris is a board-certified Anaesthesiologist with years of cardio- and neurosurgical ICU experience and a Master's degree in Biomedical Informatics from MIT. He is an attending physician and Head of the Perioperative Medical Informatics group at the Department of Anesthesiology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital in Munich. His research interests span from bioinformatics models to explore the role of intragenic miRNAs to medical data modeling to improve perioperative patient care. He is involved in the organization of an ICU datathon in Munich in 2019 (www.datathon-munich.de).

Giuseppe got his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1983, cum laude. Since 2001 he is professor in Bioengineering at the same university. He previously served as director of the Biomedical Engineering program, of the Department of Bioengineering, and as coordinator of the Bioengineering Section of the new Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering. He is an EAMBES Fellow. He teaches a course on Bioengineering for Physiological Control Systems and one on Methods for Biomedical Images. His research interests are in the field of biomedical signal processing and its link with linear and non-linear modeling of cardiovascular regulation, image reconstruction in oncology and neuro-imaging including functional and anatomical connectivity and vascular regulation.

Stefano is the Head of the Unit of Medical Statistics and Mathematical Physiology at Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research - IRCCS, Milan. He graduated in Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2007 and obtained a PhD in Astrophysics in 2011 and a PhD in Life and Biomolecular Sciences in 2018. His current research interests include: mathematical modeling of pathophysiological mechanisms in critically ill patients, evaluation of the quality of care, and data management of large databases from electronic health records.

Patrick is a Consultant Intensivist at Amsterdam UMC where he is responsible for the implementation of EHRs in the ICU. He has worked in close collaboration with the Hospital Pharmacy of Amsterdam UMC, the department of Computational Intelligence of Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and private data science companies to develop and implement multiple models including optimal dosing of antibiotics and anti-coagulants and prediction of core ICU outcome measures including ICU readmission, mortality, reintubation rates and kidney injury. His recent project with the start-up Pacmed “machine learning to prevent ICU readmission” was awarded the Dutch Digital Impact Award 2018.

Adrian is a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust having completed a fellowship in critical care ultrasound. Graduating in 2003 from Guys and St Thomas Hospital School of Medicine, he gained MRCP before completion of Intensive Care and Anaesthetic training in 2014 in the Wessex Deanery. He is a member of the Intensive Care Society CUSIC Committee and an examiner for the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine. He also serves as a member of the ESICM Clinical Training Committee. His current areas of interest include clinical governance, critical care ultrasound and the use of social media in medical education.

Dr. Mark is Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Technology of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He trained in internal medicine at Harvard Medical Unit, Boston City Hospital and spent two years in the US Air Force Medical Corps studying the biological effects of laser radiation. He has taught quantitative physiology to undergraduate and graduate engineering students at MIT. He is a fellow of the IEEE, of the American College of Cardiology, and a founder of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He remains active in the practice of primary care, internal medicine and geriatrics for 20% of his time, and is Senior Physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.