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Keynote presentations

Dear Participants of Bled eConference,

We would like to thank both keynote speakers Zoran Stančič and Gregor Strojin for opening 34th Bled eConference and sharing their timely and interesting speeches.

Both Zoran and Gregor provided their keynote presentations to be published publicly on the Bled eConference website. You will find them on the links below:

34th Bled eConference opening presentation

Dear participants,

here is the presentation from the 2nd opening session at the 34th Bled eConference.

The slides contain information on this year’s submissions, outstanding paper and reviewer awards as well as information on associated journals, their editors and special issues related to Bled eConference.

Invitation to the opening of the 34th Bled eConference

The opening of the 34th Bled eConference will be held on Monday, June 28, 2021, at 9:00 (CET).
We will be joined by two keynote speakers Zoran Stančič, Special Adviser, Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), European Commission; and Gregor Strojin, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence at the Council of Europe (CAHAI).
Zoran Stančič will open the conference with a speech “2030 Digital Compass – The European Way for the Digital Decade”.
His speech will be followed by Gregor Strojin, who will speak about “AI Regulation: Emerging binding legal instruments”
The opening of the 34th Bled eConference is open to the public.

Invitation to Panel: European Union data strategy – Data Governance Act a legislative proposal to boost the data economy in European Union

On Monday, June 28, 2021, a panel on the topic of the European Union Data Strategy and Data Governance Act will be held as part of the Bled eConference from 11:30 to 13:00 (CET). The panel is organized in cooperation with the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce with SRIP PMIS, ICT Horizontal Network.

This currently a very important topic of the proposed Data Governance Act will be highlighted by the Acting Director of the European Commission’s Directorate-General DG CNECT, Yvo Volman, OECD Representative Barbara Ubaldi, Martin Semberger from Austrian Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMWD), Mariane ter Veen, INNOPAY, The Netherlands, Stefaan Verhulst, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York and a representative GAIA-X Slovenia hub, Flavio Fuart.

The panel will take place in the MS Teams environment and will be freely available at the URL address below. You are cordially invited!
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Preliminary program for 34th Bled eConference

Dear authors, participants and supporters of Bled eConference,

here is the preliminary version of 34th Bled eConference program.
Please keep in mind that we will add the missing information and some details might still change in the next week.

Even though the conference will again be held online, we are happy and excited to meet with all of you soon.