Digital transformation – V4 Conference

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On June 6 2019, the conference ‘Digital Transformation in the New Era: Current Status and Future Challenges’ was held in Brussels. The event was organized by the representatives of the V4 Group: Slovak Liaison Office for Research and Development (SLORD), The Polish Science Contact Agency of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Czech Liaison Office For Research, Development and Innovation (CZELO) and Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU. The goal of the event was to gather experts, specialists, researchers and practitioners from various fields who are directly or indirectly involved in the issues of digital transformation.

The conference was divided into two parts. The first part included a panel discussion to which representatives of the European Commission and the OECD were invited. During this session, they discussed how to combine various political initiatives related to digital transformation and enter them into the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MMF) for 2021-2027. In addition, speakers underlined that in the era of digital changes it is important to emphasize the role of education, and more precisely – the development of advanced digital skills, which are particularly useful in terms of using new technologies. Responsibility for this kind of education should be taken by academia (universities, research institutes) as well as by business environment – enterprises have to pay attention to ways of finding and maintaining good employees.

The second part of the conference was an opportunity to present concrete examples from the Visegrad countries, both from the perspective of practitioners and government representatives who want to actively participate in the digital processes at the EU level. As it turned out, the objectives of the Visegrad Group countries remain similar, nevertheless the strategies and ways of their implementation are slightly different. A detailed conference program can be found here.

Among the invited speakers were Polish representatives as well. Justyna Romanowska, an expert on digitization in the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels, spoke about the Polish strategy for sustainable development, Digital Poland project and issues related open data, digitizing industry or artificial intelligence (AI). At the invitation of the PolSCA Office, the conference was also attended by prof. Stefan Dziembowski from the University of Warsaw, laureate of ERC grants, specializing in cryptography. Professor Dziembowski talked about cryptographic documents, blockchain and peer-to-peer networks. He also mentioned that the most important task facing us in the era of digitization is to ensure an effective and safe data transmission.




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