Scientific Committee

Jamal BENHAMOU has worked for 30 years in the field of restructuring and operational development of business projects, particularly within the IT sector, with a strong predilection for the implementation of incubation and innovation support systems.

His strong sensitivity to disruptive innovation, in multicultural and cross-border project contexts, led him to manage the Soft Center (R&D and software innovation center). And this for 15 years now, during which time he has managed numerous Open Innovation programs combining different practices such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Design Sprint and Growth Hacking.

Omar Souissi is an engineer of Supmeca PARIS and Polytechnic of Montréal in applied mathematics and Ph.D. doctorate in Operations research of University Polytechnic Haut de France. He is currently a qualified professor at the National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (INPT) Rabat and member of 'DATA' research team. His research field extend to the following areas: optimisation and machine learning applied for Industry, Healthcare and sharing economy. He is also engaged on scientific event organisation and he is the founder of 'IWSIF' the International Workshop of Services and Industry of the Future.