SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce

organises

International Conference

on

Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies – 2022

(ICETDT-2022)

22^nd February 2022

At

Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce

Vile Parle, Mumbai – 400 056

Website: http://upgcm.ac.in

Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal (SVKM) is a public charitable trust registered under the Societies Registration Act and Bombay Public Trust Act. SVKM has always been committed to the cause of providing high quality education at various levels. After beginning its journey in the early 1930’s, SVKM has blossomed into an educational colossus that has attained national recognition in multiple streams of higher education.

SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce also well known as UPG College, was established in 2003. In its journey during the past 18 years it has grown in strength from 150 students from its inception to a total strength of 1680 students today. Under the affiliation of University of Mumbai College offers undergraduate and post-graduates programs like Mass Media, Management and Information technology. The college is listed in first top ten for the graduation course in mass media. College has very active and excellent placement cell that provides 100% placement (for the IT department). College is popular for its cultural, sports and drama activities, infrastructural facilities, and social media presence.

IT Department of UPG College provides undergraduate and post graduate courses. In past decade department had organized many events such as ‘Techvanza’ to groom the students in all directions.  One day national conference on ‘Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies-2020 (ETDT – 2020)” organized in year 2020, was a huge success. To groom the research culture in youngsters, we organized first International conference on Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies - 2021 (ICETDT – 2021) in January 2021. This year we are organizing our second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies- 2022 (ICETDT – 2022) on 22^nd February 2022.

The Organizing Chairs of the conference, feel honored to invite you for the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Digital Technologies (ICETDT 2022) scheduled on 22^nd February 2022. ICETDT-2022 is a flagship event of Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandal’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce to create a collaborative platform for bringing together technical experts across Industry, Academia and Professional Bodies to promote Innovation in digital and Information Technologies. Motive of the conference is to provide the overseas experts’ knowledge and inspire the young researcher. This conference is one of the platforms for exchanging the knowledge, ideas and technical skills.

The primary objective of the International Conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computational Engineering, and Communication. It is an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in Information, Telecommunication, Computing Techniques and related areas. The main objectives of this conference are:

• To find the technological applications and solutions for the current problems in order to maintain the health, wealth of a nation. 
• To provide the latest knowledge on the conference aligned themes.

• Dr. Anju Kapoor, Principal, SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Vile Parle, Maharashtra, India
• Dr. Pallavi Jamsandekar, Director, Bharati Vidhyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Sangli.
• Dr. Sukhada, Assistant Professor, IIT BHU, Varanasi
• Dr. Snehalata Shirude, Assistant Professor, NMU, Jalgaon
• Dr. Sangeeta Chakrabarty, Associate Professor, Goa University
• Dr. Neel Mani, Associate Professor, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP
• Ms. Sangeeta Nimkar, Technical Specialist, United Postal Services, New Jersey, USA

Ms. Smruti Nanavaty, Course Coordinator (M.Sc.IT), Department of Information Technology

Dr. Neelam Naik, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology

Dr. Manisha Divate, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology

• Ms. Swapnali Lotlikar
• Mr. Prashant Chaudhary
• Ms. Sunita Gupta
• Mr. Rajesh Maurya
• Ms. Neha Vora

The organizing committee of the conference invites researchers to send the paper on the below mentioned Conference topics but not limited to:

Track 1: AI and Intelligent Systems

• Soft Computing
• Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy System
• Evolutionary computations
• Swarm Intelligence
• Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Semantic Analysis
• Robotics and its Automation

Track 2: Data Analytics

• Data science techniques for handling epidemic and pandemic cases
• Information Retrieval
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Big Data Analytics and Data Science
• Rough Set Theory
• IoT and its applications
• Embedded Systems

Track 3: Image Processing

• Image and Video Processing
• Speech Processing
• Multimedia Signal Processing
• Computer Vision
• Medical Image Processing

 Track 4: Networks, Cloud Computing and Security

• Cloud Computing
• Mobile Computing
• Information Security System
• Embedded Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Remote Sensing
• Web Services and Web Technologies
• Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks
• Data, Computer and Network Security
• Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency Technologies
• Biometric Security
• Internet frauds and Cyber Crime
• Mobile/Wireless/5G Security

The full-length papers will be limited to maximum six A-4 pages (IEEE format) which will be considered for the publication in the conference proceedings after the thorough review. Please upload a soft copy of your original and unpublished manuscript in prescribed (.docx) format at this link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icetdt22. All papers submitted to the conference will be reviewed by the experts in relevant areas and reviews will be forwarded to the authors. ICETDT-2022 does not allow any form of plagiarism. The submitted papers are checked for the plagiarism. Research Papers with plagiarism 10% or less will only be considered for the review process. It is suggested to check your paper for plagiarism before the submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with ISSN. Selected papers will be sent for the further publication in Scopus indexed and  UGC CARE listed Innternational Journal after fulfillment of the terms and conditions of the respective journal. The extra cost of such publication shall be borne by the authors of the research paper separately. 

The participants will present their papers in online mode only. The maximum time given for the presentation is 10 minutes.

The online paper presentation will be arranged on MS-Teams virtual platform. Please submit your presentation slides and video recording of your presentation on easy chair login. In case of run-time network issues, participant’s video presentation will be used.

For online presentation participant must arrange:

• Laptop with headset/ Desktop with Webcam and Microphone/headset
• Updated Chrome Browser

Some important steps for attending the online paper presentation

1. You can either download MS-Teams or use web-based MS-Teams platform for the online presentation.
2. You will receive a meeting invite from the organizing committee few days prior to the conference.
3. Verify your camera and audio input and network connectivity set up before joining the conference call and to share your screen.
4. You can leave the meeting at the end of the conference.

Participant will receive the certificate only after attending 75% of the total duration of the time of the conference. Participants will receive a soft copy of the Conference Certificate (mentioning Presenter/Listener), and Proceedings on their registered email address after the conference.

The official language of the Conference: English

For any further queries regarding the conference please fill free to write us icetdt2022@gmail.com

Dr. Neelam Naik – 99204 69660

Dr. Manisha Divate – 98673 24332