Automating Operations – automated decision making and the mechanism of substituting jobs through automation

Speaker: Professor Stanislav Ivanov

Profile of Speaker: Stanislav Ivanov is a Professor and Vice-Rector (Research) at Varna University of Management, in Bulgaria. He is also a Director of Zangador Research Institute. He is the founder and the Editor-in-chief of two academic journals: European Journal of Tourism Research (indexed in Scopus and Web of Science) and ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy. Additionally, he serves on the editorial and review boards of over 30 other journals. He authored over 160 publications (books, book chapters, articles, conference reports, book reviews, and industry reports) in the field of robonomics, robotics, artificial intelligence and service automation, hotel marketing, hotel chains, pricing and revenue management, destination marketing and management, tourism’s impact on economic growth, political issues in tourism.