Prof. Nancy Alonistioti (female) has a B.Sc. degree and a PhD degree in Informatics and Telecommunications (Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA). She has over 20 years of experience in research and innovation development in new generation networks and services, IoT, AI/ML, SDN/NFV. She has worked in numerous (more than 30) national and European projects undertaking roles in project/technical management. She is currently leading the SCAN group activities in the Dept. Informatics in Univ. of Athens. She has served as Vice Chair of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, as member of the Future Internet Assembly Steering Committee and she is currently Chair of one6G Board and member of the Board of the Greek Open University. She is member of the ETSI Experts group and the Greek standardization group ELOT (5G, smart city, autonomic communications). She has over 150 publications in the area of Federated AI, new generation networks, Internet of Things and vertical applications, SDN/NFV, Future Internet/NGI, cognitive management, autonomic communications and systems (drones, vehicles, robotic devices etc.). She is co-author of 4 WO Patents and has more than 3500 citations in her work.