ICICI-BME: A Platform for Sharing Technology Developments

The increasingly advanced development of technology and research has encouraged ITB to hold another International Conference on Instrumentation, Communication, Information Technology and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME) 2013 for the third time. The biennial conference organized by the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (STEI), Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA), School of Life Sciences and Technology (SITH), School of Pharmacy (SF), Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (FTMD), and Faculty of Industrial Technology (FTI) ITB took place on Thursday-Friday (7-8/11/13) in the West Hall and Achmad Bakrie Building (Labtek VIII) ITB.

This time ICICI-BME invited several keynote speaker from within and outside the country, including Prof. Dr. Ir. Soegijardjo Seogijoko and Dr. Taufiq Hidayat from ITB, Prof. Yusaku Fujii and Prof. Kazuhito Shimada from Gunma University Japan, Prof. Eric Y. Chuang from National Taiwan University, and Heather Grain from La Trobe University, Australia. This conference raised the theme Science and Technology for Implementation of Health, Safety, and Environment.

Participants in this event were not limited to academics, but were also open to the general public and corporate institutions interested in health, safety, and the environment. A total of 136 participants participated. paper submitted by participants from various countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, China, and Korea which were then selected to become 124 paper by the team reviewer, who are ITB lecturers, to be presented at this conference.

There are two focus events in this conference, namely keynote address And parallel session. Keynote address is a session when the keynote speaker review the research they have conducted. Participants presented their research results in parallel sessions held separately in the West Hall and the Achmad Bakrie building. Other participants were given the freedom to choose parallel session which one to follow.

“ICICI-BME aims to accommodate researchers from various countries as a means of sharing information and knowledge regarding technological advances and research from their respective countries through paper "What they proposed," explained Nedya Utami, Chair of ICICI-BME 2013.

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