Schedule

Day 1 — Wednesday, 15.7.

• 19:00 - 19:30 Registration — Welcome desk
• 20:00 - 21:30 Cocktail & Ice-Breaking Event — Refreshments and networking

Day 2 — Thursday, 16.7.

• 10:00 - 10:15 Official Welcome
• 10:30 - 11:10 Round Table Discussion: Industry and Academia in Joint Opportunities in Higher Education 
  Moderator: Irena Jurjević, panelists: Hagen Helge Hochrinner, Gordana Nikolić, Biljana Martinčić,
  Hasan Sözen, Ivan Vlainić, Jelena Čulić-Viskota and Ninoslav Marina
• 11:10               Coffee Break — Refreshments
• 11:20 - 11:35 Presentation: Journal of Business PARadigms published by PAR University of Applied Sciences; 
                        Dragana Manestar Vuksan, prof., univ. spec. philol.
                        Head of Publishing at PAR and the Journal’s Managing Editor
• 11:35 - 11:50 Presentation: Who stands behind research?
                          dr.sc. Ivona Peternel,  Research management as a profession within European Research Area. Horizon Europe, key funding                                       programme for research and innovation!
• Industrial and Partners' Presentations
• 12:40 - 13:30 Lunch Break
• 14:00 - 17:00 Free time sessions

Day 3 — Friday, 17.7.

• 10:00 - 10:35 Opening Ceremony — Official welcome
• 10:35 - 10:55 Invited Lecture: Maja Dragan, FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria
• 11:00 - 11:10 Coffee Break — Refreshments
• 11:10 - 11:35 Invited Lecture: Assoc. Prof. Hasan Sözen, University of Ordu, Turkey
• 11:35 - 12:00 Invited Lecture: Assoc. Prof. Žiga Emeršič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 12:40 - 13:30 Lunch Break

On-Site Presentations

13:30 - 17h Coworking Pula, Marka Marulica 5, Pula. Google Maps Location

Virtual Reality, 3D, & User Interfaces

• Diana Vîrlescu — Immersive Virtual Reality Laboratories: An Interactive 3D Selection and Learning Tool for Industrial Machining Equipment

• Jani Štefanek, Martina Holenko Dlab and Sven Maričić — Enhancing the Usability of a Low-Cost Photogrammetric 3D Scanner through a Web-Based Graphical User Interface

• Alexandra Ratković — Night out - mode on

Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, & Ergonomics

• Tom Galeta — A Novel Approach to Fiber Glass Additive Manufacturing for Photonics and Advanced Applications

• Marko Kršulja, Lovro Liverić, Damir Karabaić and Anton Mikelić — Experimental Calibration of Bend Deduction for DC03 Sheet Metal: Statistical Analysis and Comparison with Classical Theory

• Dario Bologno, Lovro Liverić, Marko Kršulja and Marin Manestar — Plasma Transferred Arc Welding Repair of Pelton Turbine Runner Buckets: Damage Analysis, NDT Inspection and Welding Procedure Evaluation

• Marko Čeredar, Andrej Razumić, Daniel Pugar and Mateja Napravnik — Exploring Upper-Body IMUs for Rapid Ergonomic Screening in Industrial Environments

Parallel Session — Online (starts from 13:30h)

• 13:30 - 17h Online Presentations — Hybrid mode via: Join Link

Machine Learning & AI Applications

• Jannatul Nayem, Mohammad Nyme Uddin, Halima Khatun Meem and Mahabuba Porosh Moni — Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Relative Humidity and Its Effects on Thermal Comfort Among Non-Academic University Workers in a Tropical Institutional Environment

• Tuhin Sikder, Md. Tafhimul Hasan and Mohammad Nyme Uddin — Explainable Machine Learning (ML) Models for Temperature Prediction in Climate-Vulnerable Rural Island Communities.

• Giorgi Kakashvili — Bridging the Gap: A Hybrid AI Approach to Multi-Parameter Anomaly Detection in Clinical Laboratories

Networking & Telecommunications

• Siddhartha Goutam — Decision Algorithm for Handoff in WLAN scenarios

• Sakshi Bhatia — PID Controller using buck boost converter for solar street light