Manuel Mazzara is a professor of computer science and Director of the Institute of Technologies and Software Development at Innopolis University (Russia). He has a research background in software engineering, service-oriented architectures, concurrency theory, formal methods and software verification. Always at the interface between science and software production he has cooperated with European and US industry, as well as governmental and inter-governmental organizations such as the United Nations.
Bertrand Meyer, formerly from ETH Zurich, is a professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Innopolis University (Russia), and Chief Architect at Eiffel Software (based in California). He is also active as a consultant (object-oriented system design, architectural reviews, technology assessment, patents and software litigation), trainer in object technology and other software topics, and conference speaker. He has received numerous awards, including the ACM Software System Award, and fellow of the ACM, the Dahl-Nygaard Prize, and the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Prize.
