Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 Explorations in the Transition from a Techno-economic to a Socio-technical Future

Susu Nousala  is a Project Researcher with the IN4ACT project at Kauno Technologijos Universitetas (KTU) School of Economics and Business.  She is Founder and Director of the Creative Systemic Research Platform (CSRP) Institute centered in Ticino, Switzerland.  Recent appointments have included:  Professor of Design and Innovation at Tongji University (Shanghai; and China Scholar Professor at Wuhan University of Technology; and Senior Research Fellow at Aalto University (Helsinki,).  Her time is segmented across offices in Espoo, Finland; Móra d'Ebre, Spain; and Melbourne, Australia.

  Gary S. Metcalf  is President of InterConnections LLC, coaching executive leaders and consulting on human resources.  He is a past-president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and is a Fellow and past-president of the International Federation for Systems Research.  Book series that he has edited include Translational System Sciences (Springer Japan), and IFSR Systems Sciences and Systems Engineering (Springer USA).  Appointments have included Professor of Leadership and Management at Saybrook University, and Distinguished Lecturer at Sullivan University.  He works in Ashland, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia.

David Ing  is a Research Fellow with Creative Systemic Research Platform (CSRP) Institute, as well as a Research Fellow with Code for Canada.  He serves as a Trustee for the International Society for the Systems Sciences, with a prior role as past-president.  A previous 28-year career at IBM Canada included assignments in management consulting, headquarters planning and executive education.  Previous book projects include  Open Innovation Learning , and  The Marketing Information Revolution .  He resides in Toronto, Canada.