Bio: Professor Nikola (Nik) Kirilov Kassabov (also spelled legally as Kassabov) is a Life Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a Fellow of RSNZ (Royal Society of New Zealand), a Fellow of the College of Fellows of INNS (International Neural Network Society), a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK, a Fellow of the NZ IITP (Institute for IT Professionals), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is the Founding Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) and Professor Emeritus of Knowledge Engineering in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at AUT. His main interests are in the areas of: computational intelligence; neuro-computing; bioinformatics; neuroinformatics; speech and image processing; data mining; knowledge representation and knowledge discovery. Professor Kassabov is the Founding Director of Knowledgeengineering.ai. He has been appointed as an Advisory Board member of Conscium.com, which is the world's first applied AI consciousness research organisation with the aim to deepen our understanding of consciousness to pioneer efficient, intelligent, and safe AI that builds a better future for humanity.