11th International Scientific Conference ICAICTSEE 2021

Friday, 26 November 2021 15:45

The 11th International Conference on the Application of Information and Communication Technologies and Statistics in Economics and Education - ICAICTSEE 2021 was held on 25 and 26 November 2021 under the Chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Dimitar Velev from the Information Technology and Communications Department.

The Conference was opened with a greeting on behalf of the UNWE Rectors Managing Body. In his welcoming speech Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mihail Musov, Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs outlined the importance of information technologies /IT/ in the development of modern society and economy. Greetings to the participants in the Conference were also presented by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Venelin Boshnakov, Dean of the Applied Informatics and Statistics Faculty, Prof. Dr. Kamelia Stefanova, Head of Information Technology and Communications Department, Prof. Dr. S. Vidhya from the Vellore Institute of Technology /India/ and Prof. Dr. Alexandru Manole, Rector of Artifex University /Bucharest/.

During the opening of the Conference

The topic of the Conference directly corresponds to one of the "priority areas for the applied research development in Bulgaria" - Information and Communication Technologies in the National Scientific Research Strategy of Bulgaria 2017-2030 "Better Science for Better Bulgaria". The thematic areas of the Conference are related to the "current societal challenges" identified in the Strategy: increasing the competitiveness and productivity of the economy, social development, improving the quality of life, energy efficiency, national security, etc. In the frameworks of ICAICTSEE 2021 was als held a Conference on the Latest Trends in Biomedical Technologies.

The Programme Committee includes 66 members from 24 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The Conference is co-organized by 20 universities from 12 countries. The main partner for the third consecutive year is the Vellore Institute of Technology which is ranked at the 9th place among over 1000 universities in India.

During the Conference a total of 63 reports were presented, 42 of them were delivered by foreign participants /Belarus, India, Indonesia, China, Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Taiwan and Ukraine/ and 21 of them - by Bulgarian participants of which 10 were Ph.D. students.

 Moments from the Conference

The topics of the reports covered the application of the latest ITC achievements in areas such as medicine, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, virtual reality, smart cities, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, big data, Industry 4.0, insurance and finance, etc. The interesting topics provoked lively discussions and concrete proposals were made for future cooperation between the participating universities.

The official language for the Conference was English. Proceedings of the Conference are traditionally indexed in the global databases ProQuest, EBSCO and Google Scholar.


ICAICTSEE-2021 is an officially registered conference number # 4616 of the International Federation of Information Processing /IFIP/. IFIP  is a leading professional and socially responsible ICT organization worldwide and it is recognized by the United Nations and other global organizations. It represents IT companies from over 38 countries covering five continents with a total membership of over half a million. It connects more than 3,500 scientists from the academy and industry and over 100 working groups and 13 technical committees. In IFIP structure Prof. Velev is Deputy Chairman for New Activities and Interdisciplinary Cooperation at Working Group TC-5 "Application of Information Technologies".

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