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A keynote lecture will be given on 29th June by Francesco Asdrubali, PhD (Roma Tre University), on "Environmental labels in the building sector".

Francesco Asdrubali is full professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems at the University of Roma Tre since 2015. Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1990, he obtained a PhD in Thermophysical properties of materials in 1995 and served as Director of CIRIAF, an Inter-University Research Center in the field of environment and pollution, based at the University of Perugia, from 2004 till 2013. His teaching activities include the courses of Environmental and Room Acoustics, Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Energy systems and Environment in the Universities of Perugia and Roma Tre. The areas of scientific research cover a wide range of topics, such as acoustical properties of materials, environmental noise and soundscape, sustainable mobility, renewable and alternative energies, heat transfer, energy and buildings, Life Cycle Assessment. Author of more than 400 scientific papers, most of them with international diffusion. He is member of the Editorial Board of various international Journals and Editor in Chief of two Journals in the field of acoustics: Building Acoustics and Noise Mapping. Has coordinated various national and EU-funded Projects (LIFE, Intelligent Energy Europe, VII FP; Horizon 2020) and participated in a COST Action on acoustic innovative materials. Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees and Session Organizer of several international conferences.

A keynote lecture will be given on 28th June by José C. Príncipe, PhD (University of Florida), on "Artificial Intelligence and the Digitalization of Society".

Dr. José C. Príncipe is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida where he teaches advanced signal processing, machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs) modeling. He is the Eckis Professor of ECE and the Founder and Director of the University of Florida Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory (CNEL). Dr. José C. Príncipe is an IEEE, AAAS, and NAI Fellow. He was Past-President of the International Neural Network Society, and Past-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He directed 109 Ph.D. dissertations and 65 Master theses. He wrote in 2000 an interactive electronic book entitled “Neural and Adaptive Systems” published by John Wiley and Sons and more recently co-authored several books on “Brain Machine Interface Engineering” Morgan and Claypool, “Information Theoretic Learning”, Springer, and “Kernel Adaptive Filtering”, Wiley. He has launched 4 high tech startup companies, and he is very interested in technology transfer. He was the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at INESCTEC, and past member of the advisory council of ANI, Portugal.

A keynote lecture will be given on 27th June by Umberto Berardi, PhD (Toronto Metropolitan University), on "Innovative materials to address building challenges in the face of climate change".

Dr. Umberto Berardi is Canada Research Chair in Building Science, Full Professor, and Director of the BeTOP center at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. He alsoteaches  at the Politecnico di Bari in Italy. He has a visiting appointment at four other universities, where he regularly lectures and teaches remotely. His main research interests are the study of innovative solutions and new materials for improving performance within the built environment. Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 150 peer-reviewed journals, 130 international conference papers, and five books having over 15,000 citations in total. Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over $2.5M in government and private-sector sponsored research. He has been awarded a CFI-JELF; NSERC Discovery Grant; Early Research Award from the MRI - Ontario; Building Excellence Research and Education Grants from the BC Housing - Homeowner Protection Office; OCE-VIP projects; Ryerson Research Fund for Tools and for Undergraduate Research Experience and several NSERC Engages.