Dr. Georgi Petkov, head of the application domain “Digital Health” at the GATE Institute, was among the participants in the 11th edition of Pharma Forum, organized by “Manager” magazine. Together with the Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Ilko Getov, he took part in the discussion “The role of business in the transformation”, which was moderated by the macroeconomist and expert in health economics, Arkadi Sharkov.

The Director of GATE, Prof. Silvia Ilieva, was among the speakers at the 10th edition of Innovation Explorer. She participated in a panel that discussed the conditions necessary to create a favourable environment for the development of innovative start-up companies.

The Director of GATE, Prof. Silvia Ilieva, was among the speakers at the 10th edition of Innovation Explorer. She participated in a panel that discussed the conditions necessary to create a favourable environment for the development of innovative start-up companies.

Further development of the cooperation between Sofia Municipality and GATE was discussed at a working meeting of the Deputy Mayor for Digitization and Innovation, Ivan Goychev, and a team of the Institute.

The GATE Institute, in its capacity of a NATO test center in big data and AI, was among the participants in the High Level Conference and Industry Day “Growing Defence Industry Support Needs and Innovation Opportunities”, held on 6 February 2024, in the “John Atanasov” hall of Sofia Tech Park.

GATE Institute will unveil its new high-tech building with a special event that will take place on December 5 and 6, 2023 under the title “Up to Gate: Technology, Big Data & Beyond. Open Up for Innovation”.

GATE Institute is co-hosting the GATE-AEC Hackathon Sofia with the renowned AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) Hackathon organizers, marking the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. Anticipating participants from around the world, the event takes place from December 8th to 10th, 2023. 

The “Big Data for Smart Society” Institute became part of the initiative “Ambassador for a day” of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel.

The director of GATE Prof. Silvia Ilieva welcomed and introduced H.E. Andrea Ikic-Böhm to  the activities of the prestigious scientific organization and its developments in the field of big data and artificial intelligence.

The first Energy Atlas of Sofia, created by the GATE Institute with lead researcher Dr. Eng. Lidiya Vitanova, combines approaches from geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical methods for assessing energy consumption in buildings with different purposes.

Keith Peter Kiely,  Experienced researcher at GATE, was elected as a Member of the European Digital Media Observatory Executive Board from the quota of the hub representatives. Keith was elected in his capacity of a Scientific Coordinator of BRODhub (led by GATE Institute) for creation of a multinational, multi-stakeholder, and multidisciplinary regional hub for detecting, analysing and combating disinformation circulating in Bulgaria and Romania.