Regional Hydrogen Energy Conference (RHEC) is the new conference that is going to be held within MIPRO Convention in May 2021, in Opatija, Croatia, under the patronage of Croatian Chamber of Commerce.

The aim of RHEC is to bring experts from industry (energy, ICT, transportation, and all other sectors), scientific institutions, decision-makers, and investors all together with aim of constructive discussion on sector's decarbonization and efficient regional energy transition.

Taking into account the threat from the COVID-19 pandemic MIPRO 2020 will be organized as a Hybrid Convention. This means that the implementation of all program elements is carried out physically and virtually (online), depending on the pandemic situation and the possibilities and requirements of the participants. MIPRO will ensure secure physical conditions and availability to virtual presence, through advanced communications, collaboration and interaction on hybrid conference platform that will ensure:

• obtaining sufficient information for participants regarding all relevant details of the event (access, programs and changes in static and dynamic form),
• the secure and quality transmission with interactive possibilities such as Q&A and voting,
• creating community in the form of augmented reality using modern ICT technological possibilities.

The final decision about program details of the MIPRO 2020 hybrid convention will be given depending on the pandemic situation, the standpoints of the conference chairs and the possibilities of the authors and other conference participants. A detailed program will be available here in the second half of September. It will include information about time slots and in what way will each event and presentation be held.