Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Israel;Prof. Avital Bechar is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and an adjunct Professor at Ben Gurion University. He was appointed adjunct professor in the school of IE at Purdue University, USA, in the years 2011-2012. Prof. Bechar is the founder and head of the Agricultural Robotics Lab at IAE, where he is conducting fundamental and applied research in robotics in agriculture, human-robot collaborative systems, proximal sensing technologies, technologies to reduce labor and developing new concepts and approaches for the operation and development of agricultural robots and proximal sensing. Prof. Bechar served as the director of the Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Enineering (2019 – 2024) is the former chairman of the Israeli Society of Agricultural Engineering (ISAE), a co-founder of the Israeli Robotics Association (IROB), an IEEE senior member, a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation and IEEE SMC Societies, a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Agricultural Robotics, a member of the CIGR Section V committee (Systems management) and a council member of the EurAgEng society. As Vice Director for Research and Development, Prof. Avital Bechar is responsible for the research affairs and the development of research collaborations. He is responsible for overseeing the Research Programs Unit, the Research Service Units, the Interdisciplinary Research Centers and the Genetic Resources Unit.

University of Turin, Italy;Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy;Dr. Remigio Berruto is an academic specialized in agricultural systems engineering, supply chain logistics, and digital transformation in agriculture. He is a Professor within the Department of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Turin and Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), at Politechnical of Turin. His focus and research expertise approach Precision Agriculture & Digitalization: Focuses on IoT application in farming, satellite remote sensing, AI and machine learning for yield prediction, and automated machinery navigation. Agri-Food Logistics & Energy Optimization: Studies biomass supply chains, optimized route planning for field machinery, post-harvest operations, and carbon farming strategies. He presents International Leadership in leadership roles across international engineering networks, including the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) and the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng)

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil;Agronomist, M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2003) in Agronomy at University of Sao Paulo. He held postdoctoral positions in the United States, at the University of Florida (2010-2011) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2018), and completed an MBA in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at USP. Since 2013 he has been a faculty member of the Department of Biosystems Engineering at Esalq/USP. He has held a Research Productivity Fellowship from CNPq, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, since 2010, and has an extensive scientific output, with more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles, six books and sixteen book chapters. Internationally active, he has taken part in scientific missions in 23 countries and led global initiatives such as the Brazilian Yield Gap Atlas and AgMIP-Sugarcane. In Brazil, he coordinates the Tempocampo System, a leading platform in agrometeorology and crop modeling for supporting growers' decision-making, and serves as Principal Investigator at the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON), a FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centre hosted at Esalq/USP. He served two consecutive terms as President of the Brazilian Society of Agrometeorology (2021-2023 and 2023-2025) and coordinated Esalq's Brazil-China Agricultural Innovation Centre (2019-2021). He is currently Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Systems Engineering at Esalq/USP (2023-present).