(University of Maryland, USA – chairman)
Mirosław J. Skibniewski is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His current research interests focus on information and automation technologies for the improvement of construction and related processes, and on the analysis of supply chains for sustainable construction. A past president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier, and as North American Editor of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management published by Taylor & Francis.