Asst. Prof. Flavio Bertini
University of Parma, Italy

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 Flavio Bertini received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2015. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematical, Physical, and Computer Sciences at the University of Parma. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. His research interests focus on machine learning and deep learning for large-scale healthcare data analytics, as well as advanced techniques for online fingerprinting and watermarking. He has carried out several international research visits, including Inria Bordeaux (2013), Stanford University as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2018), and the University of Tartu (2024), and has been involved in multiple European, national, and regional research projects.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Artur Krawczyk
AGH University of Krakow, Poland

Speech information: From Spatial SQL to GeoPackage: A Silent Structural Revolution in Desktop Geospatial Data Management (Read more)

Artur Krawczyk is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Geo-Data Science, Geodesy and Environmental Engineering at the AGH University of Krakow, Poland. His academic work combines geoinformatics, spatial database engineering and mining geomatics, with a focus on the structured management of geospatial data in environmental, geological and mining contexts. A central aspect of his research concerns the engineering perspective on spatial data: designing durable database schemas, ensuring interoperability of geospatial services, maintaining data consistency across institutional environments, and developing system-level approaches to geoinformation management. He is particularly interested in how open standards and transparent data structures support the stability and analytical reliability of spatial information systems.
He has participated in European research projects focused on the development and evaluation of geospatial information infrastructures and interoperability frameworks. His work included the design of metadata models, WebGIS architectures and distributed spatial data integration workflows in projects such as INVISP – Information Visualisation for Site Planning (EU Framework Programme, Information Society Technologies) and eSDI-NET+ – European Network on Geographic Information Enrichment and Reuse (EC eContentplus programme), contributing to the evaluation of geospatial services and the implementation of metadata catalogues and experimental spatial data infrastructure systems.
His current interests include the role of open technologies and transparent data models in building reliable geospatial infrastructures, as well as issues related to the digital sovereignty of geospatial data used in science, public administration and industry.