The 8th ICICT 2019 concludes at the IBA Karachi

November 17, 2019: The second day of the flagship conference, the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2019), organized by the Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi started off with a keynote session by Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering at LUMS, Dr. Momin Ayub Uppal. He presented the findings from his experiments which he conducted with the students of LUMS. His talk revolved around environmental sensing using WiFi signals.

It was followed by a talk by Director, National Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation Lab (NCSAEL), MCS-NUST Dr. Haider Abbas. He delivered a talk about Cyber Security Auditing and Evaluation: A Challenge for Every Organization.

The keynote speakers including Assistant Professor at Information Technology University, Lahore Dr. Agha Ali Raza, and Professor at Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad Dr. Amir Qayyum delivered their keynote sessions after the refreshments. The students were engaged in Q&A session with both the speakers.

The technical papers sessions on different topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Social Computing and Information, and Networks were held across different locations at the Aman Tower, City Campus which were headed by Session Chair and Session Secretary. The last tutorial of the ICICT conference was held at the Aman Tower, by Dean, University of Glasgow UESTC Dr. Muhammad Imran on the topic of Research Areas in 5G and Telecom.

The ICICT 2019 came to an end with a closing ceremony that featured closing remarks and presentation of souvenirs to the keynote speakers. The ceremony concluded with a vote of thanks by the conference chair.