Building scientific and innovation potential to utilize HPC and AI for S3 Smart Specialisation in Montenegro
Young researches from UDG and HPC4S3ME submitted their papers to the 16th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON’23) on topic of application of Artificial Intelligence in medicine. Conference is going to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from September 14th to September 16th.
University of Donja Gorica presented HPC4S3ME project at our stand at EDCON2023 conference fair. Our researchers had an opportunity to talk to visitors and conference attendees. There was between 1500 and 2000 attendees today at VOCO complex in Podgorica Montenegro.
EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference ) is a non-profit annual global Ethereum conference that happens once a year in different countries (EDCON 2017 in Paris, 2018 in Toronto, 2019 in Sydney, 2020-2021 Online, 2022 in San Francisco at Chase Center). It is mainly committed to serving the Ethereum ecosystem in boosting the communication and interaction of Ethereum communities worldwide. Link: https://www.edcon.io/
On World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, prof. Dr. Tomo Popović was invited to participate in the morning TV program on national television RTCG hosted by Ms. Andrea Sekularac. The discussion was about the current state of ICT in Montenegro, digital divide in Montenegro and throughout the world. The very important issue of education and capacity building necessary to address the challenges of digitization was also discussed. During the discussion, important issues of digital transformation, IT megatrends, and especially challenges related to artificial intelligence were touched upon.
Two young researches from HPC4S3ME, Dejan Babić and Ivan Jovović, who are also students of master program Artificial Intelligence on Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies on University of Donja Gorica, submitted their master theses on application of AI in medicine and IoT.
University of Donja Gorica participated in the Enterprise Europe Network workshop called WB++ Networking Event. The topic of the event was “Digitalization in Agri-Food. The main participants were teams and SMEs active in the field of IT from the region as presenters, and the target audience was interest groups including public entities, companies, research groups, individuals, etc.
The WB++ event is a joint initiative of partners from the countries of the Western Balkans (+Slovenia +Croatia) with the aim of connecting companies and strengthening partnerships and connections in the region. There was over 40 attendees at the networking event and UDG presented several projects related to digitalization in agri-food sector. HPC4S3ME was also featured in the presentation.
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