The 5th International Conference on Digitalization and Management Innovation (DMI2026)

Abstract: E-business has been established as the dominant form of economic activity in the global digital economy. Originally emerging as an electronic form of trade and automation of business processes, it has gradually transformed into a complex socio-technical system integrating data, digital platforms, intelligent algorithms and global networks of participants. This transformation is linked to the accelerated development of Artificial Intelligence and the growing discussions around the “technological singularity” concept. Technological singularity is used to denote a new stage in the intelligent system development, in which its ability to learn, adapt and make autonomous decisions exceeds human cognitive capabilities. This is not just a technological phenomenon, but a systemic change which influences the way value is created, markets function and strategic decisions are made. The invited speech will discuss the future of the development of e-business in the era of the singularity by analyzing the business model transformation, management and decision-making, cybersecurity and sustainability, and competitiveness in global markets. The main conclusion will be that the sustainable development of e-business in the era of the singularity requires a new balance between algorithmic autonomy and human control, between technological efficiency and social responsibility.

Biography: Prof. Dr. Dimiter Velev is with the Department of Informatics at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria (https://www.unwe.bg/en/). Dimiter Velev is the Director of the Science Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction at UNWE. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Electro-Engineering from the Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Systems, Complexes, Systems and Networks from the Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Prof. Velev is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) (http://ifip.org/), in which he is the Chair of Technical Committee #5 – Information Technology Applications (https://www.ifip.org/bulletin/bulltcs/memtc05.htm). Prof. Velev is also the Chair of the IFIP Domain Committee on Quantum Computing.
Prof. Velev’s main areas of academic and R&D interest are Information Technology, Integrated Information Systems for Disaster Management, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Virtual Reality, Quantum Computing.
He is a regular chair and a keynote speaker of conferences in Asia and Europe and a reviewer of many scientific publications in journals and conferences.