Álvaro Rocha is a Full Professor at Lusófona University, Portugal, and holds a Habilitation in Information Science, a Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, an M.Sc. in Information Management, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He is Honorary Professor at Amity University and Visiting Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Rushford Business School, Brawijaya University, and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, as well as Invited Professor at the University of Calabria and Israel Technological University. He is a Core Researcher at ISEG, University of Lisbon, and a Collaborating Researcher at RISE-Health. His research focuses on maturity models, management and intelligent information systems, information systems quality, cybersecurity, e-government, e-health, and educational technologies. He chairs AMARITS Consulting and ITMA, and is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Information Systems and RISTI. He also serves as Scientific Manager of Springer Nature’s Information Systems Engineering and Management series. He has acted as Vice-Chair and Expert for the European Commission and several international research funding agencies. Recognized among the world’s top 1% scientists by Stanford University, Elsevier, ScholarGPS, and ResearchGate, he has published nearly 150 journal papers and more than 400 Scopus-indexed documents. He is General Chair of WorldCIST and CISTI.