Scientific Conference ’Blockchain Technology and Cybersecurity: Applications and Techniques Advancements’

The scientific conference titled ’Blockchain Technology and Cybersecurity: Applications and Techniques Advancements’ opens at the SASA Grand Hall, on Tuesday, 11 October, at 10 a.m.

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and cyberspace are inextricably linked to our physical three-dimensional space. They constantly expand, allowing us new advantages. Blockchain technology and cybersecurity are rather important components, both to the ICT and digital space, as support to a great number of activities. The mechanisms of cybersecurity should prevent all advantages that digital space provides us with, from becoming fertile ground for malicious activities with potentially catastrophic consequences. Cybersecurity appears to be the first line of protection for our privacy in cyberspace.

Blockchain technology was first noted for its widespread applications, Bitcoin cryptocurrency, however, this technology has an infinitely much larger significance than its first widely known applications. It has opened a door to possibilities of new paradigms in cyberspace, including distributed verification without an approved verifier, and the so-called smart contracts, which have broken new ground in the digital economy.  Cyberspace expands every day, intertwining with our real three-dimensional space while creating what we nowadays came to know as Metaverse – in this context, the importance and contents of cybersecurity and blockchain technology also expand tremendously.

The Conference aims to showcase, both in expert and general audience-appropriate terms, remarkable advances in applications and techniques for blockchain technology and cybersecurity. The first part of the conference is predominantly oriented towards some domains of blockchain technology applications, whereas the second part discusses some developments in techniques of blockchain technology and cybersecurity. Applications in medicine, power systems, telecommunications service providers, and digital art are examined. Also, some telecommunication aspects, mutual applicability of blockchain and artificial intelligence, energy-efficient blockchain consensus protocol and robust abuse-resistant alliance verification of blockchain transactions will be investigated within advanced techniques.

A co-director of research and professor at Cardiff University, the president of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), the rector of the University of Montenegro, and the president of the Supervisory Board of the Telekom Serbia are among the authors/co-authors of papers.

The mission of the Conference is the promotion of regional and international cooperation.