You are invited to join one of the free webinars organized by Island Innovation. It will be the second webinar in the series, Islands Responses to COVID-19 and is taking place this Wednesday, May 13th at 6pm.

MIPRO asks you to enrich the situation and further development with additional paper in the context of the extended Call for MIPRO 2020 which moves to a new term 28^th of September 2020, especially ICT in its ubiquity contributes against COVID 19.

The 31^st Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS 2020 will be held from October 7^th to October 9^th, 2020 at FOI in Varaždin. The special emphasis of this year Conference is on "Intelligent Systems - Trends, Future, Society". This year's conference is organized by The Faculty of Organization and Informatics and EDEN – European Distance and e-Learning Network.

Ericsson and British Telecommunication PLC (BT) have signed a deal to deploy Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core (Evolved Packet Core and 5G Core), a fully container-based, cloud native Mobile Packet Core for 4G, 5G Non-standalone and 5G Standalone services as a single fully integrated core.

The solution, delivered on BT’s Network Cloud, will form a key component in BT’s move to a single converged IP network. It will incorporate network orchestration and automation, including continuous delivery and integration processes (CI/CD), and be integrated into BT’s existing customer experience management platforms using Ericsson Expert Analytics together with Ericsson’s built-in software probes.

Igor Vukasović took over the position of the Director of the Corporate Communications Department of Hrvatski Telekom on April 1. He will be responsible for the internal and external communication of the leading telecommunications company in Croatia.
He has taken on a new position from the position of the manager of Corporate Communications at Addiko Bank, where he has been managing corporate communications over the past nine years. During his career, he served as the Corporate Communications Director of the Addiko Group and handled the communications aspect of the Group's privatization and rebranding.

On the 31^st of March Nokia has announced the launch of a complete AI as a service offering: Nokia AVA 5G Cognitive Operations. The framework and its underlying AI-based solutions enable CSPs to transform their network, service and business operations through the application of AI, automation and cloud scalability. The solution will provide CSPs with insights to assist with slice creation and assurance to meet committed SLAs.

ABB has secured the first place among Swiss companies in the European Patent Office’s (EPO) list of patent applicants in 2019. ABB is listed with 689 patent applications for 2019, an increase of 21 percent compared to the previous year. The last time ABB was number one was in 2014.

Hrvatski Telekom launches the Campus Network project in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb
The project aims to offer students, the scientific community, startups, and industry the opportunity to work on the latest communication technologies such as Industry 4.0, 5G network, and IoT
 

 
Ericsson 5G RAN products and solutions from the Ericsson Radio System portfolio will be deployed in the Orange network in the North-East, South-West and Ile de France/Paris regions of France.
The five-year deal will make Ericsson the major RAN provider to Orange France.
The partnership also includes maintenance and deployment services.

MIPRO 2019 Invited Lecturer, Paul Timmers, has published CHALLENGED BY "DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY", Journal of Internet Law, vol 23, (6), pp. 1-20, 2019. It concludes that 'digital sovereignty' poses acute challenges for law- and policy-makers to deal with the interplay of 'code' and 'law', the cost of sovereignty, and the non-neutrality of technology.

TIM and Ericsson, alongside Qualcomm, have successfully completed Europe’s first connection overcoming the 2 Gbps speed barrier on a 5G live commercial network.
The connection was completed on a 26 Gigahertz (GHz) millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency that was acquired by TIM as part of the Italian government’s 5G bid.The achievement represents yet another milestone in mmWave, following the first 5G connection in Italy and the first 5G videocall in Europe.
 

EAI (European Alliance for Innovation), MIPRO's technical co-sponsor, has announced call for papers for the 10^th EAI International Conference on BDTA 2020 (Big Data Technologies and Applications).

KONČAR – Generators and Motors Inc. (GIM) have successfully completed a contract concluded with a Spanish customer and delivered another set of machines, including three synchronous generators and three asynchronous motors, for a new-generation multipurpose vessel, currently under construction at a Polish shipyard.

Early technology adopter consumers expect an Internet of Senses by 2030, enabling a new service economy based on digital sensory experiences
With the human brain as the user interface, consumers expect devices to respond to thoughts, creating a new interaction paradigm.

At the meeting held in Malta, the main topics were related to the adoption of important documents such as BEREC and IRG 2020 Annual Work Programme, IRG Management methods in the future period, reports on coordinated data collection  by OTT service provider, report on the impact of 5G on regulation as well as the role of regulation on enabling the 5G ecosystems.

 

Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 2.6 billion within the next six years, driven by sustained momentum and a rapidly developing 5G ecosystem. The forecast is included in the November 2019 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, alongside a range of other forecasts with an end-of-2025 timeline and communications service provider insights.

Average monthly data-traffic-per-smartphone is forecast to increase from the current figure of 7.2 GB to 24 GB by the end of 2025, in part driven by new consumer behavior, such as Virtual Reality (VR) streaming. With 7.2 GB per month, one can stream 21 minutes of HD video (1280 x 720) daily, while 24 GB would allow streaming 30 minutes of HD video with an additional six minutes of VR each day.

The MIPRO  General Program Chair  and the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Advisor, Karolj Skala, was elected on the 191. Election Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by a regular member from abroad in the Class  of Technical Sciences.

 The Hungarian Academy of Science has 11 Classes  and among its 13 Nobel Prize winners. In the Technical Sciences Class there are 14 regular members from abroad, 6 from the USA and 8 from the EU.

 Prof Skala is a longtime associate of the Academy in the field of optoelectronics, laser communication and distributed systems.

MIPRO2019 Convention and the WS5 Workshop on “GPU Programming and Applications”, organise visits with the expert guidance to the supercomputer BURA located at the University of Rijeka. During the visit, the visitors will get acquainted with the architecture of one of the fastest computers in this part of Europe, and its application in numerous fields of science, technology and pharmacology, and the ways and the possibilities of its use.

Invitation

We would like to invite you to the 43rd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2020 taking place in the Adriatic Hotel Congress Centre, second half of May 2020 in Opatija at the Adriatic Coast, Croatia.

The aim of MIPRO 2020 is to bring together scientists, researchers and practicing engineers of the international ICT community to present papers and disseminate knowledge, technologies and skills.

Organize your conference or workshop at the MIPRO Convention

It is our pleasure to invite you to organize a Symposium, Workshop or Seminar fitting into the scope of the MIPRO Conference.

We point out that for the time of MIPRO 2020, Croatia is the EU Presidency and additionally the City of Rijeka is the European Capital of Culture. Therefore the MIPRO 2020 slogan is:

         ICT in Society, Culture, Tourism and Smart Environments

On Tuesday, January 8 2019, Prof. Karolj Skala PhD (MIPRO General Program Chair), Prof. Mladen Mauher PhD (the first chair of DE/DS - Digital Economy/Digital Society conference), Davor Salamon PhD (DE/DS Steering Committee member) as MIPRO representatives and Đuro Njavro PhD (Dean of the Zagreb School of Economics and Management) with his associates Zoran Barac PhD (Director), M.Sc. Karmela Aleksić-Maslać (Postgraduate student), Kristina Šorić PhD (Member of the Department for Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation also the representative of the Doctoral Study of Business Administration, which is performed in cooperation with Sheffield Hallam University) and Philip Vranešić MBA as ZSEM representatives had a meeting at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM - https://www.zsem.hr).