SITA'18

director of research emeritus at the National Centre for Scientific Research
Laboratory of the University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 (LIP6)

Talk Title : Fuzzy approaches to information quality

Bernadette BOUCHON-MEUNIER is a director of research emeritus at the National Centre for Scientific Research, the former head of the department of Databases and Machine Learning in the Computer Science Laboratory of the University Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 (LIP6). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, the (co)-editor of 27 books, and the (co)-author of five. She has (co)-authored more than 400 papers on approximate and similarity-based reasoning, as well as the application of fuzzy logic and machine learning techniques to decision-making, data mining, risk forecasting, information retrieval, user modelling, sensorial and emotional information processing. Co-executive director of the IPMU International Conference held every other year since 1986, she also served as the FUZZ-IEEE 2010 and FUZZ-IEEE 2013 Program Chair, the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011) General Chair and the FUZZ-IEEE 2012 Conference Chair, as well as the Honorary chair of IEEE SSCI 2013, IEEE CIVEMSA 2013 and IEEE CIVEMSA 2017. She is currently the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Vice-President for Conferences, the IEEE France Section Vice-President for Chapters and the IEEE France Section Computational Intelligence chapter vice-chair. She is an IEEE Life Fellow and an International Fuzzy Systems Association Fellow. She received the 2012 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2017 EUSFLAT Scientific Excellence Award and the 2018 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award.

technology leader
Administrator and Expert Advisor at the National Agency for Digital Development
Advisory Board Member at the First International Summit for Smart Cities in North Africa

Talk Title : Applications of blockchain and machine learning for gov services

Tarik Fadli is an experienced technology leader with more than 20 years of experience, verifiable performance and a proven track record of achievements. He is living his passion by contributing to projects where he can add value with innovative and highly effective experience, improve operations, add to profitability and align Information Technology with core business objectives. His work allows him to thrive towards his dream of digitizing most government services in emerging countries to democratize access to services and information while reducing the digital divide and building socially responsible communities in Africa and the Middle East.
With several lighthouse projects as well as two patent pending inventions, he is a proud Administrator and Expert Advisor at the National Agency for Digital Development, Advisory Board Member at the First International Summit for Smart Cities in North Africa where he also speak. He is also a speaker at many Entrepreneurship, IT and sustainable development events and university conferences as well as TEDx Talks.