César Toscano holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems and Computers option) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (1985). Since 1996, he has been a senior researcher, responsible for Research and Technological Development projects at the Center for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) of INESC TEC (Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering - Technology and Science), in Porto, where he is dedicated to the application of Information and Communication Technologies to Industrial Operations Management. In this context, he participates in national and European applied research and development projects, in close collaboration with other research organizations, technology centers, IT companies and industrial companies from various sectors, including fashion (textiles, clothing and footwear), automotive, aeronautics and cork industries, and the agrifood sector. He's main areas of activity are the development of information systems to support the formation and operation of collaborative networks between companies, supply chain management, operations planning and scheduling, and information management. In recent years, it has focused on the fields of cyber-physical production systems, Internet of things and services and vertical integration of industrial robotic manipulators. He actively participated in national and European projects, having been coordinator of work-packages. Among others, the following projects stand out: X-CITTIC "A Planning and Control System for Semiconductor Virtual Enterprises", CO-OPERATE "Co-operation in Dynamic Networked Organisations", AC/DC "Automotive Chassis Development for 5-Days-Cars", eBiz-TCF "Harmonising e-Business processes and data exchanges for SMEs in the textile/clothing and footwear sectors in the Single Market", BEinCPPS "Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems" and STAMINA "Sustainable and reliable robotics for part handling in manufacturing automation", Scalable 4.0 "Scalable automation for flexible production systems", ADIRA 4.0 "Development of technology and software solutions for Industry 4.0 applied to production equipment" and FASTEN "Flexible and Autonoumous Systems for Custom-Designed Products", a project between Europe and Brasil, that he coordinated. He currently participates in the following national and European projects: AI REGIO Regions and Digital Innovation Hubs alliance for AI-driven digital transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs, Better Factory Grow your manufacturing business, STVgoDIGITAL "Digitalização da cadeia de valor do STV" and EIT Manufacturing AI.Sovereignty. He has published several articles in trade journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters, including: A mobile robot based sensing approach for assessing spatial inconsistencies of a logistic system, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2017; A Vertical and Cyber-Physical Integration of Cognitive Robots in Manufacturing, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2016; and ICT-based solution approach for collaborative delivery of customised products, Production Planning & Control, 2016. At the same time, he is Invited Assistant Teacher at ISPGAYA (Gaya Polytechnic Institute), where he has been coordinating the course Computer Graphics and Multimedia since 2008, having obtained the title of Computer Science Specialist in March 2012.