International Scientific Conference Held

The Department of Informatics of the Armed Forces Academy and the chapter organized the 7th International Scientific Conference Communication and Information Technologies - KIT 2013 in Tatranske Zruby, Slovakia, in October. The conference is held biennially and brings forth the most topical scientific findings. Approximately 130 experts from the Czech Republic, Poland, Rumania, Germany, Greece and Slovakia took part in this year's event. During the conference presentation blocks, 40 scientific and professional papers were read, focusing on communication technologies and systems, information systems, computer networks, signal processing, information processing, information and communication technologies in the armed forces, cybersecurity and network operations. Maj. Gen. Klaus-Peter Treche, GEAF (Ret.), general manager, AFCEA Europe, and Petr Jirasek, regional vice president for the Central Eastern European (CEE) and Baltic regions, represented AFCEA International, and Jirasek opened the conference with a speech focused on cybersecurity. The event showed wide cooperation between central European countries, as two chapter presidents and five CEE chapters attended the event. The next conference will held in the same place in 2015.

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