Over 3,5 days of program we hosted 130 participants from 19 countries.

Participants presented 69 research papers, attended 3 workshops, 3 panels, students bazaar and various other sessions and events. We hosted a full day Doctoral Consortium, where 9 students presented their research.

On this occasion we would like to thank all of You for your contributions to Bled eConference!

For impressions from the conference, please visit the gallery.

Please, save the dates: June 28 – July 1, 2020.

We had a great time are looking forward to seeing you all again next year!

Bled eConference team

Here you can access presentations that Carol Saunders and Anand Sheombar used at the Doctoral Consortium.

»How to get published?«
Carol Saunders, Professor Emerita, University of Central Florida, Florida

How to Get Published

Workshop: Research Design Canvas
Anand Sheombar, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands

Research Design Canvas

Additional materials used at the workshop are available here

We would like to thank Carol and Anand for insightful presentations and for providing us the materials available on this website.
We had a great day with all of you yesterday.

Please join us for the Dean’s reception on Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 19:00.
The conference opening will start on Monday, June 17, 2019 at 9:00.

Those of you who will be joining us for the Doctoral Consortium, we start on Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 9:00.

PC meeting will be followed by  Dean’s reception and dinner at 19:00.

We are looking forward to meeting you soon.

In collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, we are announcing a four-hour hands-on workshop on data science.

The workshop will provide an overview of basic concepts in data science with the focus on data preparation, visual analysis of data and methods of supervised machine learning. Participants will get to know basic algorithms of machine learning (classification trees, logistic regression, random forests), how to build predictive models and how to properly evaluate them. At the end, students will get a practical assignment where they will test their new skills in data science.

Attendees will get hands-on experience in using the open source software Orange that has been developed at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, and it’s been ranked among top 10 open source data mining tools. Orange is designed as a visual programming platform with interactive exploratory analysis, that requires no coding and is appropriate for both beginners and advanced users. It offers machine learning and data mining tools as well as many other specialized add-ons (e.g. for text mining, network analysis, time series, image analytics and so on).

The workshop is especially appropriate for (but not limited to!) junior researchers and PhD students with basic knowledge on statistics and databases. Participants will receive printed material and instructions for Orange installation. Participants are expected to bring their own computers. The workshop can accommodate 20 participants, therefore the registration is on the first come, first serve basis. You are cordially invited to register to the workshop by sending an email to: doroteja.vidmar@um.si

The workshop will take place on Tuesday, June 18^th from 14:00 till 18:00, the exact location will be announced in the programme of the conference.

About the lecturer

Ajda Pretnar is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and a researcher at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. Her research focuses on computational methods in anthropology, analysis of sensor data and teaching CS topics.

program for 32nd Bled eConference is now available.

You can access the .pdf file here.

Industry 4.0 and the human being
Günter Riedhofer, Corporate Vice President, Information Technology, Siltronic AG, Germany
short biography of Günter Riedhofer and description of his presentation

Resource Management and Digitalisation: Recent Developments and Prospects
Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair of UN International Resource Panel and Partner SYSTEMIQ
short biography of  Janez Potočnik and description of his presentation

Digitalisation and Resource Efficiency
Martin Vogt, Managing Director, VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency
short biography of Martin Vogt and description of his presentation

Peter Wostner, Secretary, Smart Specialisation Unit, Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy, Slovenia
More information will be available soon.

Doctoral Consortium sessions will be accompanied by dedicated presentation from Carol Saunders, Professor Emerita from University of Central Florida and a Workshop on Research Design Canvas led by Anand Sheombar,  from HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.

The whole program is available below:

Doctoral Consortium 2019

We would like to inform you, that all the notifications of acceptance and rejections were sent out to the authors today.

We are proud to announce that this year we received significantly more submissions and thus the competition was very high. We tried to give an opportunity to as many as possible.  Congratulations to the authors of accepted papers! Please note that the deadline for final submission is May 6, 2019.

We regret, that some of the papers were also rejected. However, we hope that the authors will find reviewers’ comments useful for their future research work.

We would like to thank all of the authors who submitted their papers to the Bled eConference!

We would also like to express our thanks to all the reviewers, who contributed to the review process and quality assurance of the conference program.