María Jesús Jerez-Jerez is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in International Business at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests focus on disruptive innovation in international business.

Lidia Aguiar-Castillo is a senior researcher at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) with a PhD in Enterprise, Internet, and ICT (Cum Laude, with international mention). Her research focuses on ICT applications in tourism and enterprise, supported by her professional experience in computing and project management, including a postdoctoral fellowship at CVUT (Prague Technical University).

Rafael Pérez Jiménez is a Full Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), where he has taught since 1991. Holding doctorates in both Engineering and History, he has led major national and international research projects exceeding EUR10M in funding. His areas of research interest focus on AI-based wireless optical communication systems, Joint Communication and Sensing solutions, and smart/cognitive cities applied to tourism. As the author of over 300 scientific publications, including indexed journal and conference papers, he has supervised 15 PhD theses and received several academic and innovation awards.