INTEC launches the 2024th edition of its technology fair “Intecnologia XNUMX”
The fair will take place from November 6 to 8 on the university campus. Vice President Raquel Peña will cut the ribbon at the inaugural exhibition stands for projects on Thursday, November 7.
SANTO DOMINGO. – With the central theme “Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability” the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) is holding the twelfth edition of its INTECNOLOGÍA 2024 technology fair on November 6, 7 and 8 at its university campus located on Los Próceres Avenue.
“At INTEC we believe in promoting talent, culture and innovation, and that our society needs new models to move towards progress and development. Showing the ingenuity of our youth, who work on solutions to real problems in the country, is for us the best way to contribute to this objective. In addition, we promote the careers that the productive sectors need the most to increase national competitiveness, which are precisely those in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM),” says rector Julio Sánchez Maríñez, referring to the importance of the university celebrating INTECnología every two years.
Vice President Raquel Peña will inaugurate the exhibition stands of the fair during a ceremony that will take place on the morning of November 7, 2024, with the presence of INTEC authorities. This year, together with INTECNOLOGÍA, Science Week, the Annual Congress of Economics & Business Students (CANE), which reaches its tenth edition, and the first Annual Congress of Psychology -CAPSI 2024, will be held, which demonstrates how science, technology and innovation converge at INTEC, generating comprehensive knowledge.
“INTECNOLOGÍA 2024” will be the stage where innovation and talent meet, and where professors, students, graduates and other allies will showcase their technological advances, in a space of connection with companies and experts in the sector.
The projects
In this edition of INTECNOLOGIA, Industrial Design students are presenting several projects, including a device to accompany the elderly, a portable cooling device, furniture made from reused packing tape, reusable markers, and a device that generates light through wind. In a hybrid meeting, both in person and virtually, the seminar “Franco-Dominican academic and scientific cooperation” will be held, in which the results of this synergy between INTEC and the universities of the Francophone Caribbean will be presented with the support of the French Embassy in the Dominican Republic to find sustainable solutions to manage and take advantage of the sargassum that reaches this region.
Meanwhile, the Health Sciences Area will present a dengue outbreak prediction software developed by Rainier Mallol, a Dominican computer engineer, entrepreneur and researcher who has gained international recognition for his contributions to the prediction of influenza, dengue, zika and chikungunya outbreaks. Likewise, Dr. Ignacio Morgado will give the keynote lecture “Neuroscience of Virtual and Augmented Reality”, as part of the Annual Congress of Psychology -CAPSI 2024.
As part of the fair's recreational activities, INTEC and the Dominican Astronomical Society will hold a stargazing night on November 6.
The agenda of all INTECNOLOGIA activities is available on the web portal intecnologia.intec.edu.do/#intecnologia
About CANE
The Annual Congress of Economics & Business Students (CANE) is an event that has become a fundamental pillar for academic updating and the dissemination of knowledge in key areas for business and economic development, delving into the most current and impactful topics in the business world. In its tenth anniversary, its central theme is “Leading Innovation in the Digital Age”, offering students, graduates, and the business community a unique platform to explore how technology and innovation are transforming leadership and business strategy in an increasingly digitalized global environment.
About CAPSI 2024
The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, through the Psychology program, will hold the first Annual Psychology Congress -CAPSI 2024, with the aim of being a space for meeting, learning and exchange where teachers, graduates and students of our institution, together with national and international experts, share the results of their research and advances in the field of psychology and its various professional areas. This first edition will feature the participation of international doctors Ignacio Morgado, professor of Psychobiology at the Institute of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Fabián Román, Director of the Ibero-American Network of Cognitive Neuroscience.