New2an Conference 2025 – Day 1 Program
Date: 10 November 2025 (Monday)
Venue: Abu Dhabi University, UAE
08:30 – 09:00 | Registrations
Participants arrive and complete registration at the conference desk.
09:00 – 09:30 | Inaugural Ceremony
Welcome Address: Prof. Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Conference Chair)
Guest Remarks:
Hon’ble Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor, Abu Dhabi University
Chief Guest / Senior Dignitary: TBD
Vote of Thanks: Prof. Neeraj Kumar
09:30 – 10:00 | Keynote Address I
Speaker: Prof. Andrey Koucheryavy,
Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia
10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Address II
Speaker: Prof. Mohsen Guizani
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
10:30 – 10:45 | Tea & Networking Break
10:45 – 12:15 | Keynote Address III
Speaker: Prof. Valentina Emilia Balas,
Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
12:15 – 12:45 | Keynote Address IV
Speaker: Prof. Abir Hussain
University of Sharjah, UAE
12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
Parallel Sessions (14:00 – 15:30)
Workshop 1 (14:00 – 15:30): GARMCC – Green AI and Responsible Machine Communication in Cities
Session Chair: Dr. Heba Ismail
Accepted Papers:
Beyond Green Nudging: A Behavioral Ethics Framework for AI-Driven Sustainability in Smart Cities
Fraud Detection in the Open Metaverse: Machine Learning Approaches for Secure Connected Communities
AI for Sustainable Health in Smart Cities: An Empirical Study
Tracking News Discourse Around Ireland's Data Centres
Smart Energy Management in Cellular Networks through Traffic Prediction
The Role of AI-Powered Honeypots in Ethical Hacking
AI-Enhanced Smart Construction Helmet: IoT Safety System with Edge Computing
Workshop 2 (14:00 – 15:30): SIEN – Secure and Intelligent Edge Networking
Session Chair(s): Dr. M. Mahesh Kumar, Dr. Sriramulu Bojjagani
Accepted Papers:
RAGBOT: An AI-Enhanced Web Scraping and Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering System
RB²D-Net: A Novel Residual Bottleneck Dilation Deep Architecture for IoMT-enabled Medical Imaging Analysis
Blockchain-Enabled Secure Federated Learning for IoMT
Multi-class Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery using Enhanced U-Net Model
Enhancing Medical Diagnostics with Federated Learning
Quantum-Safe Blockchain Authentication: A Decentralized Approach for Secure Mobility and Roaming Networks
A Secure and Dynamic PQC Key Update Algorithm for Blockchain Wallets
FedAvgM-based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation
15:30 – 15:45 | Tea & Refreshments Break
15:45 – 16:45 | Workshop 3: WECHAT – Wireless Edge Computing and Health-AI Technologies
Session Chair: Dr. Taimur Hassan
Accepted Papers:
Smart Prosthetics: Vision, Depth Estimation, and Haptics
Cardiovascular Disease Detection Using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques
Earlier Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease Using Machine Learning Models
15:45 – 16:45 | Workshop 4: INTRA-ML – Intelligent Networked Training and Resource Allocation in Machine Learning
Session Chair: TBD
Accepted Papers:
Enhancing Fog Computing Performance through ML-Based Resource Prediction (Paper ID 1571210360)
A Performance-Enhanced Framework for Mobile Edge Computing in an integrated 6G network
(Paper ID 1571214802)
16:45 – 17:15 | Poster Competition Session
Presentation of shortlisted posters followed by Q&A with the evaluation committee.
17:45 – 18:00 | Closing Remarks (Day 1)
Summary: Workshop Chairs & Organizing Committee
Announcements: Next day’s sessions and social events
18:00 onwards | Informal Networking Session