7th Higher Education Institution Conference will be held in Opatija, in September 23-24. The conference aims to be the ideal platform for making international connections for future collaborations in various academic fields. Also, it will allow the exchange of the best practices that concern emerging areas related to entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy, technology, management, and education. We invite everyone in the fields of higher education to submit papers that are in line with the conference topics. This conference will prove to be a valuable forum in which you can share your experience with other higher education professionals, as well as gain valuable insights from our esteemed speakers who will be speaking on the following topics this year:

1.     Transformational strategies for higher education
2.     New faculty models
3.     Innovative teaching methods
4.     Labor market challenges

Extended deadline for full papers – July, 31, 2019-07-17

 Conference web address

Sept 30 - Oct 2 2019

Mljet Island Croatia

The one of the objectives of the conference is to start dialog on the topic of Smart Island as a Lab for social and technological innovation for comprehensive & sustainable living and tourism development.

The topic is very relevant for Croatia, Mediterranean region and several Scandinavian- Baltic countries such Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Denmark.

The one of the central ideas of this strategy is to develop a multidisciplinary collaboration between key stakeholders and research community (nationally and internationally) to help solving complex problems and challenges of smart regions and islands. It includes regional development, economic growth, infrastructure and services, environment, social cohesion, immigration and the sustainable tourism.

We are putting forward the scientific systematic approach, extensive use of Smart ICT, socio-technological integration, the use of advanced innovation methods and tools such as Living Labs.

 https://www.smartislandregion.com/

The Electoral Assembly of MIPRO was held on July 2, 2019 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, where there were 103 members of the Association. According to the agenda, amendments to the Statute were accepted and voting for the leadership of the association was made for the next mandate until 2023.

Opening Ceremony of the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019

On Wednesday, May 22, starting at 10 AM, a traditional opening ceremony will take place as the central event of the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019 at the Congress Hall of the Grand Hotel Adriatic in Opatija.

After opening addresses followed by the Awards and Recognitions for outstanding achievement, a Plenary Round Table on the "Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Environments in Croatia" will begin (scheduled at 11:30 AM).

Dr. Zoltán Juhász will hold and chair a workshop on “GPU Programming and Applications” on Monday, 20 May 2019 in cooperation with the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb and the University of Rijeka. The workshop will focus on how to design and implement efficient, high-performance GPU algorithms, benefiting from the massive parallelism found in today’s GPU chips.

Participate if you are a student, researcher or IT professional wishing to keep up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in GPU computing.  Workshop participants will receive a BURA supercomputer account valid for 30 days. In addition, there is a possibility of extending the account on the basis of project proposal.

Invited lecture by Dr. Rebecca Christianson at the conference Engineering Education

Dr. Rebecca Christianson from Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA, will hold an invited lecture on "Transformation of Engineering Education at Olin College" at the conference Engineering Education /EE on Tuesday, May 21, within MIPRO 2019.

Workshop at MIPRO 2019

The workshop will present various possibilities of creative use of micro:bit in working with children as an ideal tool to stimulate the development of digital literacy and computer thinking.

How to Teach Math in (Engineering) Context

Dr. Rebecca Christianson from Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA, with 15 years of integrated project based learning experience will hold a practical workshop on „How to Teach Mathematics in the (Engineering) Context“ at the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance student motivation towards mathematics by integrating fundamental mathematics learning into a hands-on, project-based engineering context.

Invited lecturer Paolo Zenzerović at the conference Engineering Education /EE

Paolo Zenzerović from the Institute for Youth Development and Innovativity  (IRIM) will hold an invited  lecture entitled "How to Develop Critical and Computational Thinking Early?" within the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019 and the conference on Engineering Education /EE.

The world is changing so fast that it is clear that education has to change too - both the educational system and the way we educate. Those who enter this process are also changing: primary and high school and college students.

Round Table on Intelligent Production is a continuation of already traditional initiative of the CTS Symposia Organizers to talk about actualities having a “Production” as a key-word. This thematic field is addressed by inviting experts to present their projects and achievements in a form of Invited Keynotes. Invited Keynotes are also used to introduce topics and motivate the work of the Round Table which takes part of the timetable of the CTS Symposia, but it is also open for a broader audience. With this we invite all to join us on Thursday May 23rd at 10.30 in “Galija” hall of Remisens Hotel Admiral in Opatija.
 

MIPRO 2019 - workshop by Veljko Milutinović

This workshop sheds light on the essence of the dataflow paradigm and teaches the related programming model, so after attending it, the participants would be able to generate production level code for their applications that need acceleration and/or lower power consumption, using the current Maxeler DataFlow Engines, as well as the future Intel's ones. For general purpose code, this paradigm provides acceleration that could reach 20x or even 200x, while the power consumption gets 20x smaller; at the same time, physical size of the equipment gets considerably smaller, and conditions get generated for computing of a considerably higher precision.
 

Based on the Cooperation Agreement between MIPRO and EAI, the EAI has announced MIPRO 2019 convention among other conferences at their website https://eai.eu/#!/publish/conferences.

Future of Technologies and AI in Management and Marketing


With the pace of innovation accelerating, several questions arise... How to innovate? How to embrace AI in the favour of mankind and of our businesses? What's next? ...

Future of Technologies and AI in Management and Marketing – an interactive workshop focused on exploring AI's influences through the multidisciplinary lenses of businesses i societal relations...

*hot topics *deep dive into the possibilities of AI and other trends *for all interested from diverse disciplines!

Dr. Zoltán Juhász’s workshop at MIPRO 2019

Dr. Zoltán Juhász will hold and chair a workshop on “GPU Programming and Applications” on Monday, 20 May 2019 within MIPRO 2019 in cooperation with the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb and the University of Rijeka. The workshop is intended for students and computing professionals who want to understand the architectural reasons behind the vast computational power of current GPUs and want to see how this new hardware-software ecosystem can provide new opportunities in research and commercial applications.

Workshop participants will receive a BURA supercomputer account for 30 days after MIPRO 2019 ends. In addition, there is a possibility of extending the account on the basis of project proposal.

A new workshop at MIPRO 2019

Institute for Youth Development and Innovativity organizes a workshop “Micro:bit as a Tool for Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking” in cooperation with MIPRO at this year's MIPRO. It will take place on Wednesday afternoon (22 May) and is intended for parents, engineers and all others who would like to share their interest or encourage others’ interest in STEM fields.

The final Interreg CE conference of the project URBAN INNO - Utilizing Innovation Potential of Urban Ecosystems will be held from 23 to 24 May within the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019.

Dr. Maksym Myronov’s invited lecture at the conference Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic Technology /MEET

Dr. Maksym Myronov will give an invited talk entitled “Overcoming Limitations of Silicon Carbide Heteroepitaxy on Silicon Wafers” within the Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic Technology Conference at MIPRO 2019. 

Professor Myronov will give invited talk on the novel low-temperature epitaxy technology, leading to the invention of state of the art wafer scale heteroepitaxy of  3C-SiC on standard silicon substrates.

Invited lecturers Željka Car and Ivo Majerski at MIPRO 2019

Professor Željka Car and Ivo Majerski will give an invited talk on “The Challenges of Digital Accessibility” within the Telecommunications and Information Conference at MIPRO 2019.

MIPRO 2019 – Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem’s invited lecture

Dr. Abdel-Badeeh, professor of Computer Science and a head of Ain Shams University AI and Knowledge Engineering Research Lab Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt will give the invited talk on Knowledge Engineering Paradigms for Smart Education and Learning Systems within the COnference on COmposability, COmprehensibility and COrrectness of Working Software at MIPRO 2019. Knowledge engineering (KE) is a subarea of artificial intelligence. KE paradigms deal with the development of intelligent systems in which reasoning and knowledge play pivotal role.

The new workshop at MIPRO 2019

As part of the 42nd International ICT convention MIPRO 2019, several workshops will take place. One of them is the workshop „Future of Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Marketing“ which will be held and chaired by prof. Luiz Moutinho.

This workshop deals with faster and faster advances in technologies - especially with the developments in the field of artificial intelligence - which bring numerous of changes in global innovation economy and benefits for society, but sometimes may cause new risks. The increasing complexity of technology may present challenges in understanding its impact in people's everyday life and relevant industries, e.g. in marketing.