

GEHES 2026 Invited Speakers


Bijay Kumar Kandel, University of South Pacific, Fiji
Dr. Bijay Kumar Kandel is the Head of the International Department. He serves as a Director of International Development and Professor of Strategy at the Navoiy Innovatsiyalar Universiteti, Navoiy, Uzbekistan. Additionally, he works as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business of the University of South Pacific, Fiji; the Swiss Institute of Management & Innovation, Switzerland; and UNICAF University, Cyprus. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from Sri-Sri University. He is also a Fellow member of the British Computing Society. With over 17 years of teaching and research experience, his teaching interests cover a range of topics, including Strategy, Business Computing, Management Information Systems, Introduction to Blockchain & Cryptography, and Business Entrepreneurship. His current teaching focuses on research tools and LaTeX. He is particularly interested in the discovery and impact of new technologies on rural business owners, aiming to determine whether they are included in or excluded from new technology trends. He has published widely on a broad range of subjects.


Mohd Nazri Ismail, National Defence University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Dr. Mohd Nazri became Lecturer at National Defence University of Malaysia. Prof. Dr. Mohd Nazri Ismail had a deep involvement in computer network research and was awarded the prestigious “Educator Award 2009 – R&D/Education category” by MARA (Malaysia Agency). He has supervised Ph.D. and Master Students and teaching at undergraduate and post graduate level. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Nazri Ismail has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals (indexed ISI, SCOPUS, IET) and IEEE conferences. He has attended many international conferences throughout the world and has chaired many technical sessions. He has appointed as Technical Program Committee and organized more than 60 national and international conferences. He has appointed as Editorial Board member more than 90 international journals and 40 international reviewer panels (journal/proceeding). Awards and laurels won by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Nazri Ismail run into volumes and he has received 28 awards in R&D/Education. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Nazri Ismail is an International Association of Engineers (IAENG), IEEE Cloud Computing Community, Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), International Association of Engineers and Scientists(IAEST), Universal Association of Computer & Electronics Engineers (UACEE).

Paulo Batista, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Paulo Baptista is an archivist at the Municipal Archive of Lisbon and a professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Postgraduate Programmes in Cultural and Educational Promotion and Dynamisation in Archives and Libraries, and in Architecture Archives. He holds a PhD in Documentation from the University of Alcalá. He is an Integrated Researcher at CIDEHUS – Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies of the University of Évora, where he coordinates the Research Group on Heritage(s) and Literacies. He is also a Corresponding Academician of the Portuguese Academy of History and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Architecture Archives Section of the International Council on Archives. He is the author of several books and around 90 articles published in national and international journals and conference proceedings.
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