The President of the Office of Electronic Communications, Mr. Marcin Cichy, was a guest of the Department of Information Technology. The President of UKE familiarized himself with the current research topics of the Chair, visited didactic laboratories in the CEUE building and InnoUEP scientific laboratories. He also met with the Rector of the PUE, prof. Maciej Żukowski.

Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, participated as a reviewer in defense of the doctoral dissertation of Daniel Krzywicki form AGH, Kraków, entitled "Concurrent Execution Models for Agent-Based Computing Systems". The defence took place at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, participated as a reviewer in the defense of Mr. Maciej Karaszewski's doctoral dissertation entitled "Automated System for High Resolution 3D Shape Digitization", which took place at the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology.

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in The 15th Annual EuroVR Conference, which took place in London from October 22 to October 23, 2018. Prof. Krzysztof Walczak served as the co-chairman of the Poster & Demo Committee and chaired the "Poster, Demo, Exhibition fast-forward" session. He was also the Chairman of the Best Poster and Best Demo of EuroVR 2018 Jury. The conference was accompanied by the General Assembly of the members of the international association EuroVR Association. There was also a meeting of members of the Executive Committee, in which prof. Walczak has been a member for three terms.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an open lecture entitled "Future cyber-world for today's high school students" inaugurating the Patronage Class program 2018/2019, designed for high school students from Poznań.