Korça ICT Festival 2021, the largest technology and innovation event in Albania, brought together on Saturday in the library "Thimi Mitko" the most famous experts in the field of innovation and technology.
This festival of knowledge and skills in the field of technology and innovation was held at "Korça Innovation and Technology Hub", the largest center in this field in Albania, managed by UBT.
The President of UBT, prof. dr. Edmond Hajrizi said that "Korça Innovation and Technology Hub", has successfully managed to be a reference point in the field of technology in Albania.
"Korça has potential and should be a good inspiration for the field of technology and innovation. Therefore, this technology festival is proof of this potential, which in addition to training young people in the field of technology and innovation, will also create opportunities for them to work for the global market without leaving Korça. This Hub belongs to everyone and we want to work with everyone to achieve common results and values ", said Rector Hajrizi.
"Korça will be a reference point, an important destination when it comes to technology, innovation and everything related to a small scale ecosystem", said further Rector Hajrizi.
"We have found a magic key. This magic key is innovation ", said the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Albania, Niko Peleshi.
On the other hand, the Mayor of Korça, Sotiraq Filo, said that through this festival, Korça became the center of the digital world in Albania.
"One Saturday HITECH in Korça, brought together the most prominent names in the field of technology and innovation in Albania and the world, in a fantastic event like Korça ICT Festival", said President Filo.
"The program of the municipality to turn Korça into the center of innovation, technology, and communication, aims in addition to training, to offer the youth of the city employment opportunities in the global market", said further mayor Filo.
Within the many activities organized by this conference, there was also a discussion panel on the topic, "The importance of Korça as an ICT center in southern Albania", with experts Florensa Haxhi, Charalampos Papadopoulos, Kushtrim Shala, and Shqipe Berisha.
On the other hand, experts in the field of innovation and technology discussed the importance of training in the field of ICT in the era of digitalization.
Meanwhile, the importance of ICT and how it affects business and the community, was another substantive discussion at this festival. Stavri Pici, Ervin Konstandini, Ervis Smakaj, Gjergji Guri, Dritan Mezini and Diana Xhumari talked about the importance of ICT and how it makes a business more efficient, effective, and faster to respond to customer needs by helping business activities as well as including the design, manufacture, research, development, and distribution of products.
The world of startups was one of the important panels of Korça ICT Festival, where the expert from Israel, Tal Catran stressed the extraordinary importance of the support and development of startups, as a necessity of the local development of Korça.
Whereas, Cyber Security with panelists Hergis Jica, Edlira Martiri, and Ganiela Egro and moderated by UBT professor, prof. dr. Blerton Abazi, had a special focus on the importance of cyber security today.
Another panel was "Tech Time" which focused on the use of technology as an imperative of today.
Meanwhile, within the organized workshops, "Start-up Marketing" under the moderation of Rrita Reka from UBT presented ideas for start-ups, where the best team would receive free training for media marketing courses social and business idea financing.
On the other hand, "Gaming Arena", respectively the realization of a game was one of the most interesting workshops, where the winner will be funded to realize his idea.
The next workshop, "Virtual Reality", aroused great interest in this festival, paying attention to Virtual Reality (VR) as a simulated experience that may be similar or completely different from the real world. Within this workshop, participants were able to experience the artificial world and become part of it.
Also, within the Korça festival was held a workshop with the participation of professionals in various fields, such as "Agrichallenge" where importance was paid to agriculture and technology in this field.
Korça ICT Festival 2021, was successfully concluded through the success stories of students and young people of the city of Korça, who testified to the importance and support that such a center of innovation and technology has in the professional and personal development of young people and the development of their business and technology ideas.
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