In the sense of sustainable development, Int’l Conference on STI 4.0 has been held at GUB in 2020

 Courtesy: Md. Rashedul Islam Rashed, Batch-201, Dept. of EEE, Green University of Bangladesh.

With sustainable development sense in mind, last year 2^nd global conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI) has been taken place at Green University of Bangladesh (GUB) on 19 and 20 December 2020, organized by the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at the permanent campus of GUB, Purbachal American City, Rupgonj in order to become equipped for encountering challenges of fourth industrial revolution. Keeping in mind the safety measures and avoiding health risks, both the speakers and the hosts got connected online through the virtue of internet and technology.

In the first event of STI held in 2019, there was a nice gathering of a lot of renowned speakers, writers, scholars, industrialists from more than a dozen countries of the whole globe. Some 500 researchers and faculty members from various local and global tertiary institutions took part in the event online to expand and disseminate their works to thousands of local and international students and teachers through this platform hoping for STI to become one of the high-ranked international conferences in the imminent years.

Various fields were included in STI-2020. Among them, Intelligent Computing, Network and Security Systems, Energy, Robotics, Electronics, Sensors and Communications and Textiles are most remarkable.

Pro Vice Chancellor of GUB, Prof. Dr. Abdur Razzaque mentioned that the industry 4.0 meant the Fourth Industrial Revolution that surrounds smart industries, smart grids, intelligent transportation, real-time health care, etc. strengthened by automation and cyber-physical methods. He further said that the goal of the STI conference is to set up a network of researchers and practitioners in the various fields of the industry 4.0. It visualized to uplift a platform for erudite discussions and exchange of creative ideas in the concerned fields. It unveiled a horizon for discussing over the research outcomes and sharing concerning the plans and execution issues. This conference also came up with ways how to deal with the challenges of sustainable technologies that will be put into effect as driving forces in the fourth industrial revolution.

 

World famous speakers delivered their speech addressing the issues we are facing and also came up alternate solutions. Prof. Joseph A. (IEEE University of Canada) gave his speech focusing on smart grid systems. Prof. Rajkumar Bhuyya (IEEE Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia) discussed about the challenges and opportunities of Cloud and Edge Computing on 5G Internet architecture and arising application services. Apart from the intellectuals stated above, some other speakers and intellectuals enlightened the conference with their valued participation.

Hundreds of pupils specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence from various private and public universities took part in the conference.

Also, a tutorial on education was held describing the ways to go forward accompanied with modern technology. The Covid-19 has disclosed how we can be benefitted by modern technology pursuing both our education and business as well as other daily activities. The Covid-19 insists the university graduates to take the challenges, enhancing the demand of tech-based education system. A tutorial on such a topic addressing the current issue we are facing was truly a new dimension of STI 2020.