In recent years, I have had a great experience participating in international conferences as speaker (including the role of a keynote speaker, panelist), as part of a technical committee, organizing committee, session chair, workshop chair, publicity chair, and even a general chair.
Here is a brief summary on them over the years years, starting with conferences that I attended (mostly as a speaker), following those in which I have been part of their organization. Slides for most of my talks can be found -> 
2025
Keynotes and invited talks
Keynote for International Conference on Innovative Approaches and Applications for Sustainable Development, “Responsible AI Adoption for a Sustainable Future: Balancing Opportunities and Risks“, April 17-19, 2025, ENS Meknès, Morocco
Invited speaker EU Open Data Days 2025 (The Publications Office of the European Union-organized), “Data for AI or AI for data: artificial intelligence as a catalyst for open government data ecosystems“, 19-20 March, Luxembourg
Panel chair for Data for Policy 2025, AI and Data Science Revolutions: Implications for Public Benefit Research and Policy Making”, The Hague, the Netherlands
Panel speaker for Data for Policy 2025, “National Data Strategies in Europe: Learning from and for the Dutch Data Strategy”, The Hague, the Netherlands
Invited speaker for International Summer School on Digital Government – OpenGov2025 (Cambridge University), “Mapping the Roadblocks: Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Public Sector“, Samos, Greece
Invited expert speaker for Data for Policy Fireside Chat (Cambridge University), “Open Data: Looking Back to the Future“, 26 March, online
Invited speaker for Fourth Wave Seminar (organized by the The Governance Lab & Microsoft Open Data Policy Lab), “Why the Fourth Wave of Open Data Matters?”, February 12, onlineConference papers
CAiSE 2025 Forum, “Towards a Data Satellite Architecture for Federated Digital Government Ecosystems: Combating Data Pollution and Enhancing Trustworthiness” (authors: Gill, A, Nikiforova, A.)
HICSS2025, Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyzer for Open Government Data Ecosystems: A Typological Theory Approach (authors: Simonofski, A., Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M. and Bono Rossello, N.)
DGO2025, Triple Transition Ecosystem As Catalyst of Public Value Generation (authors: Symeonidis, D., & Nikiforova, A.)
HCII 2025, LLM-Augmented Curriculum Design: A Framework for Curriculum Innovation in Digital Public Infrastructure Education (authors: Lusi, J., Nikiforova, A., Pappel, I.)
Data for Policy 2025, “Proactive-by-Design: The Future of Governance Beyond Bureaucracy?” (authors: Nikiforova, A., Rodriguez Müller, P.A., Tangi, L.)
Data for Policy 2025, “The Data Agency Awakens: A New Era for Official Statistics” (authors: Di Gennaro Splendore, L. & Nikiforova A.)2024
ICIS2024 – International Conference on Information Systems, Pre-ICIS SIG Services Workshop on Synergizing Service Ecosystems with AI, “Integrating Generative AI with Public Data Ecosystems: Enhancing Decision-Making and Efficiency in the Service Industry of the Private Sector” (authors: Symeonidis, D, Nikiforova, A), 14-18 December, Bangkok, Thailand
ICIS2024 – Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium, “Generative AI Adoption in Higher Education: Exploring Educator Resistance in Estonian Universities” (authors: Kalmus, J., Nikiforova, A), 14-18 December, Bangkok, Thailand
ICIS2024 – pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government, “Reimagining Digital Government: a step towards Blockchain-Enabled Public Data Ecosystems” (authors: Symeonidis, D., Nikiforova, A), 14-18 December, Bangkok, Thailand
ICIS2024 – pre-ICIS Workshop on e-Government, “Towards a Data Satellite Architecture for Digital Government Ecosystems, “, (authors: Gill, A. and Nikiforova, A.), 14-18 December, Bangkok, Thailand
ECAI2024: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Workshop on AI in Education and Educational Research (AIEER), “To accept or not to accept? An IRT-TOE Framework to Understand Educators’ Resistance to Generative AI in Higher Education” (authors: J.E.Kalmus & A. Nikiforova) 19-24 October 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Invited speaker for SGH Doctoral School (Szkoła Doktorska SGH, SGH Warsaw School of Economics) seminars, Openness and Diversity as a Key to Success, 5 October, 2024, Warsaw, Poland
Panel speaker for Digital Life Norway Conference Panel Discussion “How can we trust in biotech data from AI’s black box?“, 14-15 October 2024, Hurdal, Norway
Invited Speaker for the MKM (Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeerium / Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia) Open Data Forum (Avaandmete foorum), “Unlocking the Power of Open Data: The Role of Academia and the Private Sector in Building Inclusive and Sustainable Open Data Ecosystems,” 16 October, Tallinn, Estonia
IDSTA2024 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications, “TAGIFY: LLM-powered Tagging Interface for Improved Data Findability on OGD portals” (K.Kliimask and A. NIkiforova), 24-27 September, Dubrovnik, Croatia
EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024, “From the evolution of public data ecosystems to the evolving horizons of the forward-looking intelligent public data ecosystem empowered by emerging technologies” (authors: Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M., Milić, P., Luterek, M. and Rodríguez Bolívar, M.P.), 3-5 September in Leuven, Belgium
DGO2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Towards a Privacy and Security-Aware Framework for Ethical AI (Daria Korobenko, Anastasija NIkiforova, Rajesh Sharma), 10-14 June 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
DGO2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Exploring Estonia’s Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision (Katrin Rajamae-Soosaar and Anastasija Nikiforova), 10-14 June 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
DGO2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries (Fillip Molodtsov and Anastasija Nikiforova), 10-14 June 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
DGO2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Unlocking the Potential of Open Government Data: Exploring the Strategic, Technical, and Application Perspectives of High-Value Datasets Opening in Taiwan (Hsien-Lee Tseng and Anastasija Nikiforova), 10-14 June 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
Panel for DGO2024: 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, “Sociotechnical Transformation in the Decade of Healthy Ageing to Empower the Silver Economy: Bridging the Silver Divide through Social and Digital Inclusion,” 10-14 June 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
Expert speaker for an Online International Training and Capacity Building Program-2024 (ITCBP-2024) on “Data Management for AI Cities”, March 15, New Delhi, India
2023
Keynote for the 3rd International Workshop on Democracy & AI (DemocrAI) held in conjunction with 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), – “Unlocking the symbiotic relationship of Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, and Collaborative Intelligence for Innovative Decision Making and Problem Solving“, November 16, Jakarta, Indonesia
EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, “Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a systematic literature review” (authors: Nikiforova, Rizun, Ciesielska, Alexopoulos, Miletić), September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary
Keynote for the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA2023) “Internet and Big Data in Economics and Social Sciences” – “Public data ecosystems in and for smart cities: how to make open / Big / smart / geo data ecosystems value-adding for SDG-compliant Smart Living and Society 5.0?”, June 28-30, Seville, Spain
EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, organizer and chair of “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Nitesh Bharosa, Dirk Draheim, Kuldar Taveter) , September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary
CyberCommando’s meetup 2023 “What do Internet of Things Search Engines know about you? or IoTSE as a vulnerable open data sources detection too“, October 26, Riga, Latvia
24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2023), Together in the unstable world: Digital government and solidarity, – “Identification of high value dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet for efficient sustainability-oriented data-driven development?” workshop, 11-14 July 2023, Gdańsk, Poland
ICCNS2023 – International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services – “Overlooked aspects of data governance: workflow framework for enterprise data deduplication“, June 19-22, Valencia, Spain
24th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies CompSysTech’23 – “Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework and testing it through sentiment analysis on Twitter data“, June 16-17, Ruse, Bulgaria
MEDES-2023 – 15th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems – May 5-7, 2023 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
HackCodeX Forum – keynote with the talk “Data Quality as a prerequisite for you business success: when should I start taking care of it?“ June 5, Riga, Latvia
QWorld Quantum Science Days 2023 (QSD 2023) – “Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases from a multidisciplinary perspective and future research directions”, May 29-31, Online
Research and Innovation Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society”(RiiForum2023): “Advances in ICT & the Society: threading the thin line between progress, development and mental health“, April 11-14, 2023, Krakow, Poland – plenary debates
2022
ICEGOV2022 – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity” – “Barriers to openly sharing government data: towards an open data-adapted innovation resistance theory“, October 4-7, Guimaraes, Portugal – Best Paper Awards nominee
KMIS2022 – 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems – “Putting FAIR principles in the context of research information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness“(24.10.2022-26.10.2022), Valletta, Malta – best paper award
EGOV2022 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2022 in conjunction with 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – “Gen Z open data hackathon – civic innovation with digital natives: to hack or not to hack“, September 6-8, Linkoping, Sweden
ICOD2022 – International Conference on Open Data: open data challenges in times of crises and growth – “Identification of High Value Dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet for efficient sustainability-oriented data-driven development?” (workshop), (28.11.2022-2.12.2022), Zagreb, Croatia
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2022) – “Digital health shopping assistant with React Native: a simple technological solution to a complex health problem“, September 5-7, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference (EGETC2022) – “Open Data Hackathon as a Tool for Increased Engagement of Generation Z: To Hack or Not to Hack?“, September 12-14 (web-based)
International Innovation and Smart Government Conference (ISGOV2022) – keynote with the talk “Data as an asset for Sustainable Development of data-driven Smart Cities and Smart Society” – September 12-14 (web-based)
AIRSI2022 Technologies 4.0 in Tourism, Services & Marketing (AIRSI – Artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital transformation & Immersive technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, metaverse & Robots, chatbots, intelligent assistants & Sentiment analysis, big data, influencers, social media & Internet of things, collaborative platforms, omnichannel strategies etc.) – “Integrating AI into Customer Service: Improving the Actionability of Customer Feedback Analysis Using Machine Learning“, July 11-13 (web-based)
“Integration of open data and artificial intelligence in the development of smart cities in Africa” workshop organized as part of the African Cities Lab Project, keynote speaker with the talk on “Open data and crowdsourced data as enablers and drivers for smart African cities” – July 5 (web-based)
The 12th Samos 2022 Summit on ICT-Enabled Governance in conjunction with the 9th International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance, July 4-8 2022, Samos, Greece
DeepLearn 2022 Summer School (organized by Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili), July 25-29 2022, Spain
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration (EBTC) joint workshop for setting the scene on the creation of a standard for data exchange in support of automation of Systematic Review – speaker / expert – July 7 (web-based)
ONE Conference 2022 (Health, Environment, Society) – panelist of the “ONE society” thematic track, panel discussion “Turning open science into practice: causality as a showcase”, June 21-24, Brussels, Belgium
Invited Talk (2022) “Data Security as a top priority or what Internet of Things (IoT) Search engines know about you“, monthly “Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Talks” intended for the Information Technologies, Manufacturing, and Engineering Employees in Companies associated with Index Manufacturing Association (Mexico, web-based), June 16
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS2022) – Linking Research Information across data spaces: “Combining Data Lake and Data Wrangling for Ensuring Data Quality in CRIS“, May 11-14, Croatia
Research and Innovation Forum 2022 (RiiForum2022): “Data security as a top priority in the digital world: preserve data value by being proactive and thinking security first“, April 20-22, 2022, Athens, Greece (hybrid mode)
2021
The International conference on Internet of Things, Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS2021) – “IoTSE-based Open Database Vulnerability inspection in three Baltic Countries: ShoBEVODSDT sees you“, December 6-9, 2021, Valencia, Spain (web-based)
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021) – “ShoBeVODSDT: Shodan and Binary Edge based vulnerable open data sources detection tool or what Internet of Things Search Engines know about you“, November 15-16, 2021. Tartu, Estonia (web-based)
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021) – “Stakeholder-centred Identification of Data Quality Issues: Knowledge that Can Save Your Business“, November 15-16, 2021. Tartu, Estonia (web-based)
Europe Biobank Week 2021, Section “Novel IT solutions, effective data storage, processing and analysis” – “Towards efficient data management of biobank, health register and research data: the use-case of BBMRI-ERIC Latvian National Node” (authors: Anastasija Nikiforova, Vita Rovīte, Laura Ansone)
Europe Biobank Week 2021 – “Development of a dynamic informed consent system for Latvian national biobank and citizen science data management, quality control and integration” (authors: Kante N., Nikiforova A., Kalēja J., Svandere A., Mezinska S., Rovīte V.)
14th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2021) “Smart Digital Governance for Global Sustainability“: “Towards enrichment of the open government data: a stakeholder-centered determination of high-value data sets for Latvia“, Athens (hybrid mode)
International Conference and Expo on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials 2021: “Open Data as a driver of Society 5.0: how you and your scientific outputs can contribute to the development of the Super Smart Society and transformation into Smart Living?“, Invited Speaker, (web-based);
The Fifteenth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS2021): “Digitalization in Sports to Connect Child’s Sport Clubs, Parents and Kids: Simple Solution for Tackling Social and Psychological Issues“, Cyprus (web-based)
The 79th International Conference of the University of Latvia: “User-centered analysis of the usability of Open Government Data (OGD) portals”
The 14th conference of Latvian Association of Open Technologies “How to Stay Open in the New Era”: Timeliness of open pandemic related data in national open data portals: a long way from the data publisher to the data user
The 79th International Conference of the University of Latvia: “DQMBT or data quality model-based testing of information systems”
2020
The 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2020): “Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems: the Use-case of E-scooters” (web-based)
The 4th International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2020) in conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2020): “Towards a Concurrence Analysis in Business Processes” (web-based)
The Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA2020): “Timeliness of open data in open government data portals through pandemic-related data: a long data way from the publisher to the user” (web-based)
14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction in conjunction with 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems: “Assessment of the usability of Latvia’s open data portal or how close are we to gaining benefits from open data” (web-based);
13th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings in conjunction with 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems: “Comparative analysis of national open data portals or whether your portal is ready to bring benefits from open data” (web-based)
The 13th annual conference of Latvian Open Technologies association “Data-driven nation” (2020): “Open data quality”
22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2020): “Towards a Business Process Model-based Testing of Information Systems Functionality” (web-based)
2019
The Third International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2019) in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2019): “A step towards a Data Quality Theory”, Spain
11th International Conference on e-Health in conjunction with 13th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems: “Analysis Of Open Health Data Quality Using Data Object-Driven Approach To Data Quality Evaluation: Insights From A Latvian Context”, Portugal
21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2019): “An Extended Data Object-driven Approach to Data Quality Evaluation: Contextual Data Quality Analysis”, Crete
The 77th International Conference of the University of Latvia: “Spatial Working Memory”
Digitalization and Innovation forum DIG-IN (Digitalizācijas un inovāciju forums DIG-IN (POP-UP Demo centrs)), organised by Ministry of Economy: “Data quality management by executable business process models
2018
The Second International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2018) in conjunction with The Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2018): “An approach to Data Quality Evaluation“, Spain
The 76th International Conference of the University of Latvia: “Visual metaphors in the context of visual perception”, Latvia
13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2018): “Open Data Quality”, Lithuania.
Technical and organizational committee
2025
Organizing committee
ECAI2025 – European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) Green-Aware Artificial Intelligence (Green-Aware AI) workshop
IJCAI2025 – International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Democracy and AI workshop
PRICAI2025 – The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) Democracy and AI workshop
CBI-EDOC2025 – The Conference on Business Informatics & International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (CBI-EDOC) Enterprise Architecture for Augmented Intelligence workshop
ICA2025 – International Conference on Agentic AI (ICA) Democracy and AI workshop
HICSS2026 (Sustainable and trustworthy digital and data ecosystems for societal transformation)
EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024, “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track (chairs: Francesco Mureddu, Paula Rodriguez Muller, Anastasija Nikiforova)
DGO2025 – 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o) “Sustainable Public and Open Data Ecosystems for Inclusive and Innovative Digital Government” track ((chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova , Anthony Simonofski, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar)
Data for Policy CIC Regional Conference Committee (Sarah Giest, Bram Klievnik Iryna Susha, Florin Coman Kund, Leid Zejnilovic Laura)2024
Organizing committee
EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024, co-chair of “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Marijn Janssen and Francesco Mureddu)
25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024)“Internet of Beings: Transforming Public Governance“, chair of “Sustainable public and open data ecosystems” track (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova , Anthony Simonofski, Anneke Zuiderwijk, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
ICCNS2024 – the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (technical program chair; steering committee)Technical committee
HICCS2024 – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – program committee
ICIS2024 – 2024 International Conference on Information Systems – program committee
eBled2024 – 37th Bled eConference “Resilience through digital innovation: enabling the twin transition” – program committee
Data for Policy 2024 “Decoding the Future: Trustworthy Governance with AI?” (Imperial College London and Cambridge University Press) – Area 1: Digital & Data-Driven Transformation in Governance track committee
EGOV2024 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2024 – program committee
DGO2024 – 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research – program committee
EMCIS2024 – 21st European Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems – program committee
BIR 2024 – 23rd International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research – program committee
RiiForum2024 – Research and Innovation Forum 2024 “The twin transition: leveraging breakthrough technologies and sustainability for innovation, quality education, and policy making” – academic committee
IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications – technical program committee
e-Society 2024 – 22nd International Conference on e-Society (ES 2024) – program committee
DTIM 2024 – the International Conference on Digital Transformation and Innovation 2024 – program committee
iLRN2024 – 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network – Tech4Good – program committee
2023
Organizing committee
The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications (iMeta) in conjunction with the The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) – publicity chair
EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, co-chair of “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track (chairs: Marijn Janssen, Anastasija Nikiforova, Csaba Csaki and Francesco Mureddu), September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary
EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, organizer and chair of “PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government” workshop (chairs: Anastasija Nikiforova, Nitesh Bharosa, Dirk Draheim, Kuldar Taveter) , September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary
ICCNS2023 – The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023) – Steering Committee, Technical Program Chair, publicity chair
The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData) – MegaData: where the Edge meets the Cloud in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID2023), Bangalore, India – publicity chair
FMEC2023 – The Eighth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2023) – publicity chair
EGETC2023 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference, Poland – program chairCBDCom 2023 – IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing – publicity chair
ICSC2023 – The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, USA – publicity chair
Technical committee
iLRN2023 – 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2023) – Learning Across the Metaverse: Building an Evidence-based Framework through Science, Community, Vision, & Adventure!, California, USA
22nd IFIP Conference – e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E), Curitiba, Brazil
ICT2023 – International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (ICT) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2023), Portugal
IHCI2023 – International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction” (IHCI) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2023), Portugal
AMCIS2023, 29th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). organized by Association for Information Systems (AIS), Panama
RiiForum2023 – Research and Innovation Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0.: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology – Business – Society” – academic committee
ACC2023 – African Cities Conference (ACC) – Digital Cities, Cotonou, Benin
The Third International Workshop on Advanced Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics (MegaData) – MegaData: where the Edge meets the Cloud in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID2023), Bangalore, India
EGETC2023 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference, Poznan, Poland
BUTECH2023 – The Thirteenth International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology, France
i-ETC2023 – Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference – Innovations & Solutions for Today’s Challenges, USA
Kuwait Fintech and Blockchain Summit 2023
ICSC2023 – The Third Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference, USA
Session chair
Session chair for EGOV2023 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2023, co-chair of “Emerging Issues and Innovations” track (chairs: Marijn Janssen, Anastasija Nikiforova, Csaba Csaki and Francesco Mureddu), September 5-7, Budapest, Hungary
Session chair for ICCNS2023 – The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS2023)
Research and Innovation Forum 2023 “Innovation 5.0: Navigating shocks and crises in uncertain times Technology-Business-Society”(RiiForum2023), April 11-14, 2023, Krakow, Poland – plenary debates
The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications) in conjunction with the The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC)
2022
Organizing committee
Data for Policy 2022: ecosystem of innovation and virtual-physical interaction
ICEGOV2022 – 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance: “Digital Governance for Social, Economic, and Environmental Prosperity” – workshop organizer and chair
ICOD2022 – International Conference on Open Data: open data challenges in times of crises and growth – workshop organizer and chair
EGETC – International Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference
IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (publicity chair)
RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 2022, organizer of the panel “Security of data storage facilities: is your database sufficiently protected?”
Technical committee
EGOV2022 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2022 in conjunction with 23rd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research”, Sweden
Data for Policy 2022: Ecosystems of innovation and virtual-physical interactions, Belgium, Hong Kong, USA
ADBIS 2022 – 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, 2nd Workshop on Advances Data Systems Management, Engineering, and Analytics, Italy
EGETC2022 – Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies Conference, Mexico
ICT2022 – International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (ICT) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2022), Portugal
IHCI2022 – International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction” (IHCI) part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS2022), Portugal
IDSTA2022 – The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2022), Texas, USA
iLRN2022 – The International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), USA
RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 2022, Greece
FedCSIS2022 / ISM2022 – Conference on Information Systems Management (ISM), part of the Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS), Bulgaria
ESWC2022 – International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG) co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference
KGSWC2022 – Iberoamerican Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web
Session chair
“Big Data and Analytics” session chair for “14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems” (KMIS2022)
“Knowledge management Strategies and Implementations”session chair for “14th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems” (KMIS2022)
Session chair for the “International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications” (IDSTA2022)
Moderator of the panel for RiiForum2022 – Research and Innovation Forum 20222021
Technical committee
EGOV2021 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2021 in conjunction with 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research”, Spain
14th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings” (ICT2021) in conjunction with 15th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Croatia
The International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), USA
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)
Third Iberoamerican Conference and Second Indo-American Conference, KGSWC 2021, Kingsville, Texas, USA
The 2021 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing (ISAIC2021), China
The Eleventh International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2021), Spain
The International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS), Czech
IEEE International Conference on Communications, WS-17: Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE CCN-CPS 2021), Canada
Publicity chair / Organizing committee
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)
The FourthInternational Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL2021)
The Second International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2021)
Session chair
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)
2020
Technical committee
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020), Spain
The Third International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL2020), Spain
The 2020 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing (ISAIC 2020), China
The Tenth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2020) in conjunction with SoftNet 2020 Congress, Portugal
iLRN 2020: 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2020), USA
EGOV2020 – IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-EPART 2020 in conjunction with 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research”, Sweden
Publicity chair / Organizing committee
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020), Spain
The Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA2020), Spain
The Second International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020), Spain
The Third International Workshop on Deep and Transfer Learning (DTL2020), Spain
Session chair
The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021), 2021. Tartu, Estonia (web-based) – 2 sessions
14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI2020) – session: “User studies and fieldwork”, Croatia
13th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings” (ICT2020), Session: “Globalization and ICT” and “Desirable goals and ICT// Life role and ICT”, Croatia – 2 sessions
2019
Technical committee
The Third International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2019) in conjunction with The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2019), Spain
Organizational committee
The 31st edition of ESSLLI (European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information)
Anastasija Nikiforova, PhD 