Dr. Martin Serrano is a research scientist and has long been at the forefront of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research into smart, connected systems for societal good. A pioneer in Smart Cities and industry 4.0 Manufacturing research, he has been awarded for the Best Smart City Solution and is recognised as an expert in applying ML and AI to Manufacturing applied research in Europe. His expertise in Data Science now extends to climate and weather anaysis, including the EU Horizon projects Geo4Water, SENSE and StopFlood4.ie Irish-based project, together aimed at demonstrating the capacities of AI and ML for water management and climate resilience scenarios. Dr. Serrano is a recognized expert on semantic interoperability and distributed systems due to his scientific contribution(s) using liked data and semantic formalisms like ontology web language for the Internet of Things and federated data mechanisms to store and manage the collected sensor’s data in the Cloud. He has also contributed to define the data interplay in edge computing using the linked data paradigm; in those works he has received awards recognizing his scientific contributions and publications.