WELCOME SPEECH FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR OF 3rd ICOIACT 2020

Welcome to the third International Conference of Information Communication and Technology (ICOIACT) 2020.

I am glad to welcome the honorable speaker and excellent participant from all around the world at this conference. ICOIACT started three years ago to enable a meeting point between academia, industry, and government to share their research achievement in information and communication technology for better human life.

This year, in an unprecedented situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the committee migrate the conference into a fully online forum under the strict regulation of IEEE. We bring forward the topic "Exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence for creative industry 4.0.". Considering that this year the world is experiencing a historical moment of an unplanned digital revolution, the role of information and communication technology has to take their role and responsibility to keep the world running more than ever in human history. We cannot imagine most of the schools and universities in the world adopt online learning in a matter of months. Healthcare now desperately needs technology to deliver a service with minimum contact to avoid the virus's spread. Supermarket, convenience store, and even the traditional market has to migrate their business into online commerce. The facts have emerged in less than a year since the COVID-19 was detected in China in late 2019.

Today, scientists have to take their roles and responsibilities to share their expertise to solve the problem in the new world order. The world still lacks an understanding of how human can change their social relationship, healthy behavior, and many more unprecedented transformation of human life. Researchers have to take their responsibility to find out an explanation, methods, and tools to enable people to adapt to the new way of life. In the field of artificial intelligence, for example, we need to improve our online learning with extra information on participant's engagement, their learning attitude to enhance the online learning experience. In supporting public health, computer scientists have to improve and invent online health assessment and monitoring. The demand for such technology right now remains high, and everyone is waiting for our contribution to humanity.

Finally, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation for all of the hard work and dedication provided by the technical program committee, reviewers, and keynote speakers.

I would like to express my gratitude to the steering committee members, the conference chairman, the organizing committee, the IEEE Indonesian Section, IEEE Student Branch of Universitas Amikom Yogyakarta, and the financial support from the conference sponsors that conducted the success of The 3rd ICOIACT 2020.

The General Chair of 3rd ICOIACT 2020

Dr. Arief Setyanto, S.Si.,MT