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:

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.

Presentation – Opening session

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. You are welcome to join us here: https://lnkd.in/eTZVu8P

Dear authors, supporters and participants of Bled eConference,

34th Bled eConference proceedings are now published and openly available online.

e-Book is available on Press UM website: 34th Bled eConference Digital Support from Crisis to Progressive Change: June 27 – 30, 2021, Online Conference Proceedings

A panel entitled Data, Real World uses – Pandemics, Covid-19, and the impacts across the planet will be held during Bled eConference on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 11:30 – 13:00 (CET).

Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Swinburne University of Technology and Epworth HealthCare, Australia) and Juergen Seitz (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany) will be talking to panellists Laurie Hawkins (AITIA Global, Estonia and Australia), Doug Vogel (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and Živa Rant (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia).

Panel description:

Across the world, nations struggle with Covid-19 and the impacts upon our communities, be it health, social or economic.  Even global health organisations such as the WHO has not been able to utilise this data successfully. What if we could combine population health datasets from across the World with Covid-19 data to understand and prepare for the next pandemic, global warming, the UN sustainability goals, and make it accessible by anyone anywhere?
This panel will discuss an Advanced Visual Data Analytics platform used in Australia for several years for researchers, policy-makers, health planners and consumers to make evidence-based decisions based on data.

On Monday, June 28, 2021, a panel “EUROPEAN UNION DATA STRATEGY – DATA GOVERNANCE ACT A LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL TO BOOST THE DATA ECONOMY IN EUROPEAN UNION” 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 Innovation 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 (BMDW), Mariane ter Veen, INNOPAY, The Netherlands, Stefaan Verhulst, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, New York and a representative Gaia-X Hub Slovenia, 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!

Panel meeting (MS Teams)

Panel European Union data strategy – Data Governance Act a legislative proposal to boost the data economy in European Union will be held at the 34th Bled eConference on Monday, June 28, 2021.

The panel is organized in collaboration with the ICT innovation network / IKT horizontalna mreža and will be open to the public.

Panellists Yvo Volman (Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, Data (CNECT), European Commission), Martin Semberger (Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort (BMDW), Austria), Mariane ter Veen (INNOPAY, The Netherlands), Stefaan Verhulst (Co-Founder, The GovLab, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU, USA), Barbara Ubaldi (Deputy Head of Division and Head of Digital Government and Open Data Team, OECD) and Flavio Fuart (Project Manager, Consultant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, ICT Horizontal Network, Slovenian Gaia-X Hub) will discuss proposed Data Governance Act, challenges and new data services related to systemic regulation of the re-use of proprietary data.

Panel Description

On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 14:00 – 18:30 (CET) professor Christian Ringle will host a workshop on SmartPLS for the participants of the Bled eConference.

The workshop will be focusing on the practical use of SmartPLS. 2-months licenses will be provided free of charge by SmartPLS.

Registered participants of the conference still need to apply for the workshop. If you would like to apply or you have any questions regarding the workshop send an email to bledconference@um.si.

Panel: Democratising Learning: Re-imagined Through A New “Blend” in 3D and VR will take place at the 34th Bled eConference, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021.

Chair Jamie A Kelly and panellists Matt Glowatz, Victor McNair, Marco Gilardi, Nicola Herbertson and Ann Marie Whelan will discuss aims to bring together transdisciplinary practitioners and experts to deliver critical insights, analysis and futures states of learning and skills development made possible due to VR and 3D environments. Additionally, to demonstrate how through technology industry partnership, learning in VR and 3D can be genuinely democratic and support “Digital Wellness”. The panel profile brings different dimensions and knowledge, making the attendance highly compelling for Academic  Researchers and Blended learning practitioners, Industry professionals, Educationalist, EdTech practitioners, and Ambassadors for Social and Responsible Research and the emerging area of study being Digital Wellness.

For educationalists looking to be inspired to discover the affordances of next-generation 3D learning environments, a live multi-location/user demonstration will occur at the end of the Panel discussion.  Attendees will see at first hand a recently developed 3D Cloud-based learning platform that supports a new “Blend” of Learning that transcends a number of the educational challenges witnessed in 2020 due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

More information about the panel and panellists:

Panellists introductions: Democratising Learning

Panel description: Democratising Learning

Dear authors, participants and supporters of Bled eConference,

here is the preliminary version of the 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.

Here is the program: program Bled eConference for publication