Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous ENASE conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
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2025
Digital Technologies, Business Model Innovation & Innovation Ecosystem Management in Institutionalized Industries 
Wim Vanhaverbeke, FBE, University of Antwerp, Belgium Technological Adoption in the Era of Generative AI Loic Bachelart, Microsoft, France A Brief Journey Through History: From Distributed Objects Over SOA to Microservices Philipp Leitner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2024
AI Engineering: A Necessary Condition to Deploy Trustworthy AI in Industry Juliette Mattioli, Thales, France Semantic Models for Trustworthy Systems: A Hybrid Intelligence Augmentation Program Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, Netherlands Software Innovation, Concepts & AI Daniel Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
2023
Leveraging Digital Trace Data to Investigate and Support Human-Centered Work Processes Barbara Weber, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland On the Relation Between Gender and Software Engineering Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Enterprise-Level IS Research: Challenges and Potentials of Looking Beyond Enterprise Solutions Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2022
Software Engineering Challenges in Blockchain-based Decentralized Systems Davor Svetinovic, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Crowdsourcing Software Development: Silver Bullet or Lead Balloon Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland Resilient Engineers and Sustainable Software: Levelling Up to the Challenges Birgit Penzenstadler, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2021
What Can We Learn from Play? Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Myths and Misconceptions about Machine Learning and How They Are Related to Software Engineering Stefan Kramer, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz, Germany Impact of End User Human Aspects on Software Engineering John Grundy, Monash University, Australia
2020
Subjective Databases Alon Halevy, Facebook AI, United States Data-Driven Requirements Engineering: The Way Ahead Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Software Similarities and Clones: A Curse or Blessing? Stanislaw Jarzabek, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
2019
Taming Complexity with Self-managed Systems Danny Menasce, George Mason University, United States How Digital Twins Enable Model Driven Manufacturing Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
2018
Empirical Approach to Learning from Data (Streams) Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Engineering Software for Life in Cyber-Physical-Social Spaces Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, United Kingdom
2017
Technical Debt - From Financial Metaphor to Daily Practice? Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, Netherlands High-level Verification and Validation of Software Supporting Business Processes Hermann Kaindl, TU Wien, Univ. for Continuing Education Krems, Vienna Univ. of Economics and Business, Austria Model Me If You Can - Challenges and Benefits of Individual and Mass Data Analysis for Enterprises Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2016
Making Process Mining Green - Using Event Data in a Responsible Way Wil Van Der Aalst, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands The Sensing Enterprise - Enterprise Information Systems in the Internet of Things Sergio Gusmeroli, Independent Researcher, Italy Towards Model-Driven Big-Data-as-a-Service Ernesto Damiani, Information Security Research center,, United Arab Emirates
2015
Empowering the Knowledge Worker - End-User Software Engineering in Knowledge Management Witold Staniszkis, Intelligent Document Engineering, Poland Money-over-IP - From Bitcoin to Smart Contracts and M2M Money George Giaglis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Complexity in the Digital Age - How can IT Help, not HurtMartin Mocker, MIT, USA and Reutlingen University, Germany Towards Data-driven Models of Human Behavior Nuria Oliver, Independent Researcher, Spain
2014
Why ERP Systems Will Keep Failing Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Semiotics in Visualisation Kecheng Liu, The University of Reading, United Kingdom Conceptual Modeling in Agile Information Systems Development Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain An Engineering Approach to Natural Enterprise Dynamics - From Top-down Purposeful Systemic Steering to Bottom-up Adaptive Guidance ControlJosé Tribolet, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Data Fraud Detection Hans-J. Lenz, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
2013
Agile Model Driven Development Stephen Mellor, Freeter, United Kingdom Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modelling as a Foundation of Method Engineering and Self-Referential Enterprise Systems Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Architecture-based Services Innovation Henderik Alex Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
2012
Design by Units - A Novel Approach for Building Elastic Systems Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Managing Online Business Communities Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Requirements Engineering: Panacea or Predicament? Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, United Kingdom Trends in Blog Preservation Yannis Manolopoulos, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2011
RAILWAY LOGISTICS VALUE EXTENSION THEORYXuewei Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China ON COMPLEXITY OF EVENT-DRIVEN SERVICE SYSTEMSLeszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland INCREASING YOUR RATE OF RETURN WITH CLOSED LOOP SUPPLY CHAINS Harold Krikke, Tilburg University, Netherlands INFORMATION MAKES SPACES FOR WORKING AND LIVING INTELLIGENT - A Semiotic PerspectiveKecheng Liu, The University of Reading, United Kingdom Into the Cloud EnterprisesYulin Zheng, UFIDA Software Co., Ltd, China MANAGEMENT: A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE FOR HUMANITYShoubo Xu, Chinese Academy of Engineering / Beijing Jiaotong University, China A SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF SUSTAINABILITYYannis A. Phillis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
2010
THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMSPericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, United Kingdom FILLING THE VOIDS - From Requirements to Deployment with OPEN/MetisCesar Gonzalez-Perez, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain DETECTING, RECOGNIZING AND ASSOCIATING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS FOR EMOTIONAL BEHAVIORNikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, United States MODELS. MODELS. MODELS. SO WHAT?Stephen Mellor, Freeter, United Kingdom MENTAL DISTANCE - And Its Implications for Software and Data Design for e-BusinessDavid Marca, Independent Researcher, United States
2009
Risk-aware Collaborative ProcessesErnesto Damiani, Information Security Research center,, United Arab Emirates Foresight & Research Priorities for ServiceMichael Papazoglou, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
2008
Building Quality into Web Information SystemsLeszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia and Wroclaw Univ. of Economics and Business, Poland SOA in PracticeTony C. Shan, Independent Researcher, United States Serving Ontologies Across the Web - Challenges and ApproachesClaudia Medeiros, Unicamp, Brazil Agent-based Virtual OrganizationMarcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (Multi-)Agent Systems Technology and e-CommerceRainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany S-Cube: Enabling the Next Generation of Software ServicesKlaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2007
Enterprise Ontology and the Identification of Business ComponentsJan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Document-Driven Software Design: A Novel Approach That Should Not Be NovelDavid Parnas, University of Limerick, Ireland A new look at an old problem: requirements determination and its challengesKalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, United States Creativity, Automation and TechnologyStephen Mellor, Freeter, United Kingdom Service Science for Market ServicesBart Nieuwenhuis, K4B Innovation / University of Twente, Netherlands Practical SOATony C. Shan, Independent Researcher, United States Open Source Software Adoption in Beaumont Hospital: Anatomy of Success and FailureBrian Fitzgerald, , Ireland