39th Workshop on Telecommunications

INVITATION


The Slovenian Electronic Communications Society is organizing the 39th Workshop on Telecommunications VITEL, which will take place on May 16 and 17, 2024 in the Bled Congress Centre (Festivalna dvorana Bled). The theme of this year’s workshop is Data Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Theme of the workshop

The transmission, processing and storage of data have been at the core of electronic communications since its beginnings. The role of data has changed dramatically in recent decades. The fastest growing companies in the last decade are platforms that have practically no physical infrastructure and the basis of their work is data. Apart from the business concept, the data about their users is their greatest asset. The opinion of their users, real or biased, spreads quickly and easily through social networks and largely determines their business results. On the other hand, new data collection technologies have enriched this data and the development of artificial intelligence enables its effective use. The sensitivity of this data exceeded all expectations and set new legal and ethical requirements for its collection, transfer and storage. This same intelligence is also useful for data de-anonymization and targeted advertising. Linguistic models based on generative models such as ChatGPT have taken a big step towards the usability of data towards users by bridging the gap between classical machine learning results and users. A necessary consequence of this development is the fact that artificial intelligence on the data of social networks enables an extraordinary influence on social events.
The theme of the workshop Data Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is therefore at the core of technological, business and social developments. It touches all elements of communication technologies, from the collection and storage of data to their use in individual fields. Thus, the state of usability of data and technologies and future challenges in areas such as care for the elderly, healthcare, logistics, teaching and others is an important element of this year’s workshop. The usefulness of the information at the workshop remains among its important goals.
The introduction of software-defined solutions redefines data management, as access to sensitive data is expanded. On the other hand, the connection between technological development and the development of legal regulation and ethical guidelines is key to the successful use of technologies in practice. For projects involving end-user testing, the European Commission requires the appointment of ethical advisors, who are eligible project costs.
As always, the latest major technological changes have brought new demands and shaken up the development of all the technologies involved, from the development of autonomous vehicles to the development of 5G networks with sufficiently low latencies. As a result, all stakeholders face new challenges, which are largely related to the collection, storage and use of data, user privacy and user opinion. At the same time, the social responsibility of the carriers of technology development is at a high level.

At the workshop, we will address the following challenges in the field of data and artificial intelligence:

  • trends and the role of data in social development,
  • the role of data in the development of artificial intelligence,
  • data warehouses and advanced services,
  • data and situational awareness of smart systems,
  • data and security,
  • data and 5G networks,
  • energy aspects of data storage,
  • transmission and protection,
  • data and hardware development,
  • data and management of industrial systems,
  • data in health systems,
  • data in the field of teaching and learning,
  • data and smart home,
  • data and digital twins,
  • data and open science,
  • legal aspects of protecting sensitive data.

More information

For more information, please write us to vitel(at)drustvo-sikom.si.

Registration

You can register to the 39th Workshop on Telecommunications VITEL here.