University of Information Technology and Communications organized its conference (New Trends in Information Technology and Communications applications) and inventions and innovations exhibition in information technology and software applications.

The conference was held in cooperation with IEEE which included an exhibition in information technology and software applications in association with Iraqi Inventors Forum.
The University of Information Technology and Communications president Prof. Abbass Muhsin Albakry said in his speech :” Our conference opened prospects for new trends in investing information technology and communications in information technology, computer networks, data mining vision, and parallel distributed computing.”

Albakry pointed out that:” The number of researches presented to the conference was 141 researches distributed according to EDAS report to: Information Technology (35), Computer Networks (24), Computers Vision (22), Data Mining (17), Parallel Distributed Computing (35). The number of researchers participated was 256 researchers from Iraq and different Arab and international countries distributed as the following: Iraq (209), UK (10), Russia (8), Malaysia (8), US ( 6), Romania(5), Iran ( 4), and one research from Canada, Italy, India , Bahrain, and Holland. ”