ITPNZ (IT Professionals New Zealand) and ACS (Australian Computer Society) have both appointed new CEOs this year after rigorous search processes.
New Zealand – Victoria MacLennan took over the reins at ITPNZ in March this year. She was previously Managing Director of OptimalBI.com (data and information specialists) and OptimalPeople.co.nz (financial services) alongside an equity and inclusion […]
IFIP leaders travelled to Geneva last month to attend the WSIS Forum 2022 organised by ITU. It was wonderful to attend in person and participate after a gap of almost two years.
As part of IFIP’s contribution, its International Young ICT Group – InterYIT – organised a Thematic session on Intellectual Property Rights for Information and […]
On July 7, 2022, UNESCO and the International Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ai movement of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco signed a Strategic and Financial Partnership Agreement for a period of three years to develop a strategic cooperation for capacity building in AI in Africa.
Professor Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Director of […]
IFIP representatives from the ACS (Australian Computer Society), the Australian member society of IFIP, attended a workshop in Sydney on 30 June 2022.
The group discussed the Mission of #IFIP, created under the auspices of UNESCO: to achieve the worldwide professional and socially responsible development and application of information and communication technologies.
Sharon Singh, secretary for TC3 – Education, shared a […]
The Nigeria Computer Society will stage its 2022 International Conference from 2-4 August 2022 at Abeokuta in Ogun State.
With an average of 2000 delegates, the International Conference has become the largest gathering of IT Professionals in Africa and has been pivotal in enabling the NCS to champion and promote IT development in Nigeria.
The 2022 International […]
View ACM’s 75th Anniversary Panels and Talks On Demand
ACM’s 75th Anniversary Celebration was held June 10 in San Francisco. This memorable occasion was not only a remembrance of ACM’s past, but of its current and future endeavors with a full day of panels and speakers discussing some of the most significant topics in computer science […]
Australian tech job numbers continue to boom, with over 1.2 million people expected to be working in the sector by 2027, according to the new ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse 2022 report released in mid-July.
Digital Pulse 2022 reveals technology jobs are paying better than equivalent industries and proposes ways the nation can address the chronic IT worker shortage, […]
TC7 (System Modeling and Optimization) staged its biennial General Conference in Warsaw, Poland from 4-8 July 2022.
Hosted at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at Warsaw University of Technology, the conference was organised under the honorary patronage of the Ministry of Education and Science with the support of IBM and TD Synnex Company. The […]
CLEI, the Latin American Center for Informatics Studies, has announced its new line-up of national representatives to IFIP’s Technical Committees.
Headquartered in Chile, CLEI draws its membership from across South America and over the past 35 years has staged events in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico and Spain.
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SIGGRAPH ’22, August 8—11
The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques conference will again include both on-demand presentations and scheduled sessions, celebrating advancements in computer graphics, digital art, animation, visual effects, machine learning, artificial intelligence, immersive and mixed realities, scientific visualisation, and more. Featured speakers are 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award winner Pat […]