João Vidal de Carvalho is an Adjunct Professor at Porto Accounting and Business School/ Polytechnic University of Porto (Portugal). Post-Doctorate in Technologies and Information Systems at the University of Coimbra. PhD in Information Systems and Technology from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Master in Information Technology Management from the University of Minho and Degree in Informatics/Applied Mathematics from the Portucalense University. Integrated member of the Research Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto (CEOS.PP). He was (between 2020 and 2022) Vice-Director of the Research Center for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic of Porto (CEOS.PP). Effective member of the Committee for Recognition / Certification of Skills of ISCAP / Polytechnic University of Porto. Vice-President of IADITI ¿ International Association for Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation. General Chair of the International Conference on Tourism, Technologies and Systems (ICOTTS) and General Chair of the International Conference on Information Technologies and Education (ICITED). Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management (between 2021 and 2024) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information and Communication Technologies. He has published books in computer science and database management and is the author of seventeen publications in scientific journals with a JCR impact factor (Q1/Q2). Published 29 articles in specialized journals. It has 16 book chapter(s) and 11 book(s). He organized 8 event(s). He participates and/or participated as an Investigator in 2 project(s). He works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with an emphasis on Computer and Information Sciences. In your Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Hospital information systems; Maturity models; Stages of growth; Higher education institutions; Cybersecurity; Cybercrime; Cyber-attacks; Hospital information systems; Management; Computing; Computer applications; Data base; Organizations; Information systems; Education information systems; eHealth; eHealth Communication; Economic development; Digital transformation; Digital Entrepreneurship; Startup; Digital transformation; Virtual incubator; Business incubation; Information and communications technology.