Keynote Speakers

May 11, 2027

10:00 – 10:30: Welcome Address and Opening Keynote

Vice Chancelor of the University of Ghana

10:30 – 11:00: Keynote 2

11:00 – 11:30: Keynote 3

Dr. Dela Adadevoh
President
International Leadership Foundation (ILF)
Orlando, Florida, USA

Professor Dela Adadevoh has a strong passion to see Africa and the world transformed with the unique distinctive of a compelling moral vision based on biblical and ethical values. To this end, he founded the International Leadership Foundation (ILF) in 2002 and currently serves as its President. ILF has the objective of building leaders of integrity for societal transformation.

In addition, Prof. Adadevoh serves as a Vice President of an international NGO and is responsible for overseeing Team Leadership globally. In this capacity he helped to establish the Africa Leadership and Management Academy (ALMA), in Harare, Zimbabwe. ALMA offers graduate degrees in Leadership and Management and is now part of the International Leadership University (ILU). He also serves as Chairman of the Global Board for the African Forum on Religion and Government (AFReG). For nearly 40 years, he has shared insights and experiences regarding leadership development with tens of thousands of students, professionals, church leaders, executives, diplomats and heads of state.

Prof. Adadevoh earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, a M.A. in Social Science with emphasis on Leadership at Azusa Pacific University in California, and a Ph.D. in Interpretation Theories at Leeds University, England.

A citizen of Ghana, West Africa, he has also lived in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have a son and two daughters and currently live in Orlando, Florida. He has written several books including Leading Transformation in Africa, Moral Vision National Transformation, Empowering Leadership and Strategic Planning Made Simple.

11:30 – 12:00: Keynote 4

12:00 – 12:30: Keynote 5

May 12, 2027

Dr. Luis Rabelo
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA

Topics: New Ways to do Humanitarian Logistics Using Space Exploration Technologies

Dr. Luis Rabelo received the BS in Electro-Mechanical Engineer from the Technological University of Panama in 1983, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1987 Master’s and Doctorate in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri. He was a Postdoc at the University of Missouri in Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Rabelo received a dual MS in Systems and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked for the Advanced Technology Group (Goodrich) and Honeywell Laboratories. Dr. Rabelo was a NASA Fellow from 2002 to 2005, and a Project Manager at NASA from 2009 to 2011. He is currently Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at UCF. He is also the Undergraduate Coordinator. He has written more than 300 articles and a book in Artificial Intelligence. He has been the principal advisor for 39 Master’s students and 29 PhDs. He received the award for the Best Scientific Article of the Year 2004 from the Society of Automotive Engineers, received the distinction “ONE NASA” in 2006. He was the recipient of the Fulbright Distinction in 2008. In November 2008, he received the honor of the Technological University of Panama (UTP) of being the 2008 Distinguished Alumni. In 2011, he was the Henaac Award Winner in Education. In 2013 and 2018, he received the Forest R. McFarland Award from the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE). Lately, he received the SAE Russell S. Springer Award for his article on the modeling of space operations systems in 2017.