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An excellent showcase of students’ work in areas of wide interest, such as digital health, data science and blockchain, among many others – and an equally rich panel of speakers. This is what this year’s Faculty of ICT Exhibition, carrying the theme of ‘Nurturing a Community of Digital Leaders’ is promising to be.

Expect a weekend of lively discussions on how our future is going to get more digital than it already is, led by experts and industry practitioners.

Moderated by Mr Keith Demicoli, journalist and news presenter

• , Senior Lecturer at the Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Department; an electrical engineer who is known for his research on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

• Mr Damian Debono, Graduate of Software Development Degree Programmes, who intends to further his studies with a Masters in Telecommunications Engineering.

• , PhD student in Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, who, after completing his Bachelors' Degree in Computer Engineering, joined the Faculty as a Research Officer. He is currently working on an EU project called ESAIRQ as part of his PhD studies. 

• , Director of the Knowledge Transfer Office at UM, and founder of the same office which he founded in 2009 to commercialise research from UM, as well as to promote research collaboration between UM and the industry.

Moderated by Dr Ramona Depares, Culture editor

• , Senior Lecturer at the Computer Science Department, who, over the past years, he has focused his research on runtime verification, an area dealing with checking software correctness during its execution, particularly in the case of financial transaction systems.

• Mr Brian Joseph Pace, graduate in Artificial Intelligence, and a software developer for a local bank. He is also enrolled in the Masters in AI course at UM.

Moderated by Mr Ian Busuttil Naudi, Presenter of TV show Gadgets

• , Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence, and a full professor there. He also heads the Agent Technology Research Group at departmental level, and coordinates a number of interest groups within the same faculty. 

• Dr. Ing. Mario Cordina, Head of Radio Networks at Vodafone, started his engineering training with Methode Electronics Malta where he worked on the design of embedded systems for the automotive industry.  He then joined Vodafone and progressed to Head of Radio Networks leading the design and optimisation of Vodafone radio networks.  He is also the technical lead for IoT products/services and spearheaded the design and deployment of Vodafone NB-IoT service in Malta in 2018.

Moderated by Mr Alexander Borg, Accelerator Manager at MITA

• , Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer ¸£ÀûÔÚÏßÃâ·Ñ Systems, and Chair of the Board of Studies for the Software Development degree programme. His main areas of interest are fintech, blockchain, Business Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science & SEO.

• , PhD graduate from the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) researcher at the same department. Over the past seven years, he has been involved in several European projects related to the design and characterisation of a number of MEMS devices. 

• Mr Julian Demicoli, graduate of Computing and Business; has previously worked at MFSA within the fintech and innovation team. His focus has recently shifted more towards data analysis and business intelligence.