Invited Speaker
Dr. Dimiter Velev, Professor

Dr. Dimiter Velev, Professor

Department of Informatics, University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria
Speech Title: Challenges of Mataverse in Education Digitalization

Abstract: Education digitalization is the integration of modern information technology into education for enhancing teaching and learning experiences. It involves the use of digital tools, resources and platforms to support communication, teaching, learning and assessment. One of the latest technology for education digitalization, which gains a fast growing popularity, is the Metaverse - virtual world where users can interact with each other in a shared space. The aim of the invited talks is to explain the basics of the Metaverse and to point out its benefits and challenges in the education digitalization from a technical, economic and pedagogical points of view in order to highlight its full potential for transforming the way of modern teaching and learning.


Biography: Professor Dr. Dimiter Velev is with the Department of Informatics at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria (https://www.unwe.bg/en/). Dimiter Velev is the Director of the Science Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction at UNWE. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Electro-Engineering from the Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria and a Ph.D. degree in Computer systems, Complexes, Systems and Networks from the Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Prof. Velev is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) (http://ifip.org/), in which he is the Vice-chair of New Activities and Interdisciplinary Research of IFIP Technical Committee TC5 – Information Technology Applications. Since January 2022 Prof. Velev is the chair of the IFIP Domain Committee on Quantum Computing.
Prof. Velev’s main areas of academic and R&D interest are Information Technology, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Online Social Networks, Integrated Information Systems for Disaster Management, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Virtual Reality, Quantum Computing.
He is a regular chair and a keynote speaker of conferences in Asia and Europe and a reviewer of many scientific publications in journals and conferences. He has published more than 200 ICT-related papers.