Prof. Alain April received his MSc in Management Information Systems from the University of Quebec in Montréal in 1986 and a PhD in Software Engineering from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in 2005. He has been a professor of software engineering and IT at École Polytechnique de Montréal since 2003. He also worked as a part-time consultant for the City of Montreal (2019-2020) and a domain expert at several companies, including Desjardins (2019-2020) and Groupe ProFin (2021-2022). He received the ISO Award for Higher Education in Standardization in 2011. Dr. April’s research topics include software maintenance, SQA, BPM, and the cloud/Big Data.