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Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to the program committee of the international scientific conference The 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2025), which will take place on April 15–18, 2025, in Vienna and Graz, Austria.

The online conference "3rd International Conference - Challenges and Reality of the IT-space: Software Engineering and Cybersecurity" was held on October 24th-25th. The conference is co-organized by the Department of Information Technology. Dr. hab. Adam Wójtowicz delivered the keynote speech "Should We Deploy Electronic Remote Voting Systems Now?" and chaired the afternoon sessions on the first day of the conference. Dr. Daniel Wilusz chaired "Software security and engineering" discussion panel on the second day of the conference.

Dr. Daniel Wilusz has been invited to the Program Committee of the "7th International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (HCI-CPT)", which will be held on 22 - 27 June 2024 in Göteborg, Sweden.

On June 7-8, the GameDev Student Research Group of the Department of Information Technologies organized a two-day game development hackathon. The event gathered 30 participants (mainly first-year students), who formed 9 teams and created games based on the theme "The Mystery of the Elevator in Altum." Senior students acted as mentors, supporting their younger peers. All teams completed their projects—thank you for participating, and congratulations on the results!

On June 4-7, 2024, the staff of the Department of Information Technology, together with students from the SKN GameDev, presented the results of scientific projects conducted at UEP in the Science and Startups Zone during the ITM Industry Europe fairs held at the MTP.

Demonstrations were held at the VR/AR Laboratory and the Internet of Things Laboratory of the Department of Information Technology for participants of the International Staff Week 2024 conference, which took place at UEP from May 13 to 17, 2024. The event was attended by administrative staff from foreign universities.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has become an Editorial Board member of the Journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), published by John Wiley.

MSc. Dominik Strugała has been invited to join the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) of the 21st EuroXR International Conference 2024, to be held from November 27 to Nov 29, 2024, in Athens, Greece.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to join the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) of the 21st EuroXR International Conference 2024, to be held from November 27 to Nov 29, 2024, in Athens, Greece.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the meeting of the Advisory Team for Research Infrastructure of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

On April 23-25, 2024, the staff of the Department of Information Technology, together with students from the SKN GameDev, presented the results of scientific projects conducted at UEP in the Science and Startups Zone during the EXPOPOWER, GREENPOWER, Installations, and Securex fairs held at the MTP.

At the UEP Victorie Gala 2024, Prof. Krzysztof Walczak received the award in the category 'Instructor for the Instructor'.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been invited to participate in the project 'Index of Economic Credibility of the State' conducted by the European Financial Congress (EFC) and Open Eyes Economy Summit (OEES) as an expert in the field of Public Service Quality and Public Infrastructure.

Employees of the Department of Information Technology participated in the organization of the XXVII Poznan Festival of Science and Art. Four sessions of the “Virtual Worlds” series were held in the VR/AR Laboratory.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has become an Associated Editor of the World Wide Web journal, published by Springer Nature.