Not so long ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Lorna Uden, member of the Centre for Information, Intelligence and Security Systems (CIISS) from Staffordshire University. She visited the cities of Salamanca, Ávila and Zamora to select the future venue for the KMO and LTEC congresses.

They will be held in August at the University of Zilina in Slovakia. Held for the thirteenth time, the conference on Knowledge Management in Organisations (KMO) aims to bring together leading academics and researchers and enable them to share experiences and research on knowledge management in organisations and to discuss the challenges they face. Furthermore, it will be the 7th Learning Technology for Education Challenges (LTEC) international conference which provides a meeting point for teachers and researchers in new technologies and pedagogical advances.

Some of our members will participate in various research projects at both KMO and LTCE, as representatives of the BISITE Research Group.

There is no doubt that it will be a very fruitful week. We will learn a lot and gather great ideas which I’m going to share with you upon my return.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.