Isaías Scalabrin Bianchi holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Systems Information from the University of Minho, Portugal. He also served as a visiting researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is a civil servant at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he has held various management roles since 2010. Additionally, he teaches in the Master’s Program in Management at the same university. His research interests include IT governance, Information Technology Business Process Management, Business and Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Transformation and Innovation, with a particular focus on public organizations and higher education institutions. His research has been published in prestigious IS conferences and international journals. Since 2020, Isaías has been working as a visiting professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he teaches and supervises Ph.D. students in the areas of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and supply chain management. He also serves as a research leader on projects funded by the Minister of Education of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he co-supervises master’s students at the University of Minho and the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in Portugal. Isaías has earned the Moodle Educator Competence through the Moodle Educator Certification Program. Furthermore, he contributes as one of the editors for books published by Springer and serves as a guest editor for several indexed journals. Guillermo Antonio Dávila holds a Ph.D. in Knowledge Engineering and Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering and a researcher at the Scientific Research Institute, both at the University of Lima, Peru. His research focuses on knowledge management, innovation management, and technology management, with a special focus on emerging contexts. Additionally, he has served as a visiting professor at the Private Technical University of Loja—UTPL and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina—UFSC, where he supervises postgraduate students. Outside academia, he has accumulated over a decade of experience in industries including insurance, banking, FDI, and IT. His scholarly contributions have been published in leading journals, and two of his papers have been awarded at the IFKAD conference in 2017 and 2019.

• 1. Research Opportunities on Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence.- 2. Knowledge absorptive capacity as a factor for Brazilian companies to advance to the international market.- 3. Knowledge Management in the Context of the Global South: The Case of Chile.- 4. Success of fintech in the knowledge era- an empirical study.- 5. Intellectual Capital Profiles and Innovation Performance: Navigating Through Argentina's Technology-Based SMEs Landscape.- 6. Towards Sustainable Knowledge: Digital Preservation in the Era of Open Science.- 7. Open Innovation Practices for Artificial Intelligence: a Context-Aware Emotion Application.- 8. Real State price estimation in Brazil using machine learning.- 9. Verification of peruvian identity document fraud through OCR, hash algorithm, and simulated Blockchain database.- 10. Integration of Optical Character Recognition with a blockchain simulator to verify the authenticity of identity documents in Peru.- 11. Regulation of artificial intelligence: Challenges and perspectives in the Andean Community.

Isaías Scalabrin Bianchi holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Systems Information from the University of Minho, Portugal. He also served as a visiting researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is a civil servant at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he has held various management roles since 2010. Additionally, he teaches in the Master’s Program in Management at the same university. His research interests include IT governance, Information Technology Business Process Management, Business and Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Transformation and Innovation, with a particular focus on public organizations and higher education institutions. His research has been published in prestigious IS conferences and international journals. Since 2020, Isaías has been working as a visiting professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he teaches and supervises Ph.D. students in the areas of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and supply chain management. He also serves as a research leader on projects funded by the Minister of Education of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he co-supervises master’s students at the University of Minho and the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in Portugal. Isaías has earned the Moodle Educator Competence through the Moodle Educator Certification Program. Furthermore, he contributes as one of the editors for books published by Springer and serves as a guest editor for several indexed journals. Guillermo Antonio Dávila holds a Ph.D. in Knowledge Engineering and Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering and a researcher at the Scientific Research Institute, both at the University of Lima, Peru. His research focuses on knowledge management, innovation management, and technology management, with a special focus on emerging contexts. Additionally, he has served as a visiting professor at the Private Technical University of Loja—UTPL and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina—UFSC, where he supervises postgraduate students. Outside academia, he has accumulated over a decade of experience in industries including insurance, banking, FDI, and IT. His scholarly contributions have been published in leading journals, and two of his papers have been awarded at the IFKAD conference in 2017 and 2019.

• 1. Research Opportunities on Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence.- 2. Knowledge absorptive capacity as a factor for Brazilian companies to advance to the international market.- 3. Knowledge Management in the Context of the Global South: The Case of Chile.- 4. Success of fintech in the knowledge era- an empirical study.- 5. Intellectual Capital Profiles and Innovation Performance: Navigating Through Argentina's Technology-Based SMEs Landscape.- 6. Towards Sustainable Knowledge: Digital Preservation in the Era of Open Science.- 7. Open Innovation Practices for Artificial Intelligence: a Context-Aware Emotion Application.- 8. Real State price estimation in Brazil using machine learning.- 9. Verification of peruvian identity document fraud through OCR, hash algorithm, and simulated Blockchain database.- 10. Integration of Optical Character Recognition with a blockchain simulator to verify the authenticity of identity documents in Peru.- 11. Regulation of artificial intelligence: Challenges and perspectives in the Andean Community.

Isaías Scalabrin Bianchi holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Systems Information from the University of Minho, Portugal. He also served as a visiting researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is a civil servant at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he has held various management roles since 2010. Additionally, he teaches in the Master’s Program in Management at the same university. His research interests include IT governance, Information Technology Business Process Management, Business and Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Transformation and Innovation, with a particular focus on public organizations and higher education institutions. His research has been published in prestigious IS conferences and international journals. Since 2020, Isaías has been working as a visiting professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, where he teaches and supervises Ph.D. students in the areas of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and supply chain management. He also serves as a research leader on projects funded by the Minister of Education of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he co-supervises master’s students at the University of Minho and the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in Portugal. Isaías has earned the Moodle Educator Competence through the Moodle Educator Certification Program. Furthermore, he contributes as one of the editors for books published by Springer and serves as a guest editor for several indexed journals. Guillermo Antonio Dávila holds a Ph.D. in Knowledge Engineering and Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering and a researcher at the Scientific Research Institute, both at the University of Lima, Peru. His research focuses on knowledge management, innovation management, and technology management, with a special focus on emerging contexts. Additionally, he has served as a visiting professor at the Private Technical University of Loja—UTPL and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina—UFSC, where he supervises postgraduate students. Outside academia, he has accumulated over a decade of experience in industries including insurance, banking, FDI, and IT. His scholarly contributions have been published in leading journals, and two of his papers have been awarded at the IFKAD conference in 2017 and 2019.

• 1. Research Opportunities on Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence.- 2. Knowledge absorptive capacity as a factor for Brazilian companies to advance to the international market.- 3. Knowledge Management in the Context of the Global South: The Case of Chile.- 4. Success of fintech in the knowledge era- an empirical study.- 5. Intellectual Capital Profiles and Innovation Performance: Navigating Through Argentina's Technology-Based SMEs Landscape.- 6. Towards Sustainable Knowledge: Digital Preservation in the Era of Open Science.- 7. Open Innovation Practices for Artificial Intelligence: a Context-Aware Emotion Application.- 8. Real State price estimation in Brazil using machine learning.- 9. Verification of peruvian identity document fraud through OCR, hash algorithm, and simulated Blockchain database.- 10. Integration of Optical Character Recognition with a blockchain simulator to verify the authenticity of identity documents in Peru.- 11. Regulation of artificial intelligence: Challenges and perspectives in the Andean Community.