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THE 2021 ICTAS-IEEE ONLINE CONFERENCE WAS A
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Pictured: Some of the attendees at the nal day of the virtual conference.
DUT and ICTAS: ICT and Society hosted the 5th Annual Information Communication Technology and Society Virtual Conference (ICTAS2021) on 10-11 March 2021.
The ICTAS-IEEE conference,the longest running international conference in South Africa, featured three world-class keynote speakers: Costin Bádicá, a Professor and Director of the Doctoral School ‘Constantin Belea’ in the Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics at the University of Craiova. His research inclination is towards arti cial intelligence, software engineering and distributed multi-agent systems; Carlos E. Palau is a Professor in the ETSI Telecommunication at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia; Dr Maria Schuld is a researcher
for the Toronto-based quantum computing start-up Xanadu, Big Data, and Informatics Flagship of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban. On the nal day, DUT’s Professor Oludayo O. Olugbara delivered his lecture on: Readiness of African Universities for Transformative Education in Smart Society.
Prof Olugbara, Executive Dean: Faculty of Accounting and Informatics, a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher, is the founder of the ICT and Society (ICTAS), Niche Research Group and the Vice- Chair of the Space Science Research Group at DUT. He currently serves on numerous committees of the University. “Smart society is an empowered community that harnesses the mammoth potential of
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