Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the First Wielkopolska Economic Congress, which took place in Poznań and Piła from 17 to 18 September 2018. The organizer of the Congress was the Wielkopolska Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Office of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region. On the first day of the congress took place in the Marshal Office premises in Poznań, and on the second day at the headquarters of the company DPS Gabionen in Piła. Prof. Cellary gave an ivited lecture in Poznan and Piła, entitled "Wielkopolska 4.0", as a part of panel discussion "Economic development of Wielkopolska - challenges".

epartment of Information Technology hosted prof. Joseph E. Urban, emeritus professor at Technical Tex University, Lubbock, Texas (USA). During a visit prof. Urban visited teaching laboratories at the CEUE building, and VR/AR scientific laboratory InnoUEP. He also gave individual consultations with young researchers: Jakub Flotyński, Tomasz Chojnacki, Michał Brzoski, Dominik Strugała. Prof. also met with students taking internships at DIT. Each student had the opportunity to present and discuss their project.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The 6th The International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering HSSE 2018, held as a part of AHFE Multiconference, which took place in Orlando (USA). Prof. Wojciech Cellary served as a General Co-Chair of the HSSE Conference.

Jakub Flotyński, PhD, and two WIGE students Mikołaj Maik and Adrian Nowak participated in The 5th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (SALENTO AVR 2018), which took place in Otranto (Lecce, Italy) from 24 to June 27, 2018. On the second day of the conference, Jakub Flotyński chaired the Human-Computer Interaction session, during which the student Adrian Nowak presented an article entitled Explorable Representation of Interaction in VR / AR Environments (authors: Flotyński, J., A. Nowak, K. Walczak). During the session - "Augmented and Mixed Reality", student Mikołaj Maik presented an article entitled "Mixed Reality Stock Trading Visualization System" (authors: Rumiński, D., M. Maik, K. Walczak).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 5th National Seminar of Secretaries of Local Governments, which took place in Warsaw in the Palace of Culture and Science. The conference was organized by MUNICIPIUM SA, the publisher of, among others the COMMUNITY magazine, well-known in territorial self-government, as well as professional book publications. Prof. Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled "Electronic administration - current and future technological and organizational challenges".