Professor Ron Kenett, Chairman of the KPA Group, Senior Research Fellow, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion and chairman of the Data Science Society, Israel. Ron authored and co-authored over 250 papers and 18 books on topics ranging from industrial statistics, biostatistics, data science, surveys and statistical methods in healthcare. He was awarded the 2015 Greenfield Medal by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the 2018 Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) and the life achievement award from the Israel Society for Quality (2022). He is editor in chief of Wiley’s StatsRef electronic Encyclopedia, on the advisory board of Data Centric Engineering published by Cambridge University Press and the book series Statistics for Industry, Technology and Engineering, published by Springer. Ron is Member of the Universita vita salute San Rafaele (UniSR) University Centre for Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences (Cussb) International Board.