{"id":8370,"date":"2022-07-29T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:43:03","slug":"difcon2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/difcon2022\/","title":{"rendered":"DIFCON 2022 Gathers Scholars and Researchers to Innovate for Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]MMU hosted the Digital Futures International Congress (DIFCON 2022) via the virtual platform from 25th\u00a0July until 27th\u00a0July 2022. With its theme, Innovating for Sustainability, the international conference gathered scholars from different backgrounds including engineering,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/programmes-by-faculty-all\/programmes-by-faculty-fci\/bachelor-of-information-technology-hons-information-systems\/\">information technology<\/a>, social science, law, and multimedia.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Emerita Datuk Dr. Asma Ismail, President of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) officiated the opening ceremony of the programme on 25th\u00a0July 2022. The virtual ceremony was also graced by the presence of Prof. Dato\u2019 Dr. Mazliham Mohd Su\u2019ud, President of MMU welcomed the participants. The three-day conference received 430 paper submissions from more than 15 countries, where only 290 papers were accepted and presented during the event. The event also featured 20 keynote speakers to provide deeper insights and knowledge on the topics.<\/p>\n<p>It also had 6 co-located conferences namely Multimedia University Engineering Conference (MECON), International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS), International Conference on Computer, Information Technology, and Intelligent Computing (CITIC), International Conference on Law and Digitalisation (ICLD), International Conference on Technology and Innovation Management (ICTIM) and International Conference on Creative Multimedia (ICCM). The programme was concluded successfully with the announcement of Best Paper Awards and other awards.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8371&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]MMU hosted the Digital Futures International Congress (DIFCON 2022) via the virtual platform from 25th\u00a0July until 27th\u00a0July 2022. With its theme, Innovating for Sustainability, the international conference gathered scholars from different backgrounds including engineering,\u00a0information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8372,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions\/8372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}