José Luis Encarnação
President of the Advisory Committee
Prof.
Prof. José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist and an international leading expert in Interactive Computer Graphics, who is living in Germany since 1959. He is now a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany, and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, multinational companies, research institutions and organizations, and foundations. He is involved in the development of research agendas and innovation strategies for socio-economic development, including those with a focus on emerging economies. He is a member of the Topical Network Information and Communication Technology ( TN ICT) for the ICT-related activities of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and of the German Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) He is also an elected member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy (USA).