18th May, 2022 11:00 – 12:45 – HAC/SIGHT’22 – Workshop on Local Community Interventions

The workshop focuses on:

• Raising awareness – HAC provides programs that engage members from various IEEE Regions
• Providing training for participants in HAC/SIGHT courses captured on the IEEE Learning Network
• Supporting humanitarian technology and sustainable development activities
• Creating sustainable development community through collaborations within and outside IEEE. Participants will learn about HAC/SIGHT Pilots in progress and completed projects.

18th May, 2022 14:45 – 16:30 – MANUFACTURING 4.0

Participants will learn the CAD/CAM skills, design concepts, and open tools needed achieve 4IR. The workshop objectives are:

• To enhance industry project skills for early and mid-career academics/professionals in Nigeria.
• To expose participants to CNC Machines built from locally available Low-Cost Raw Materials
• CAD/CAM prototyping and manufacturing
• Learn workflow from concept to finished products using CNCs.
• Use case prototypes and Demos- CNC machines with PCBs, and Robot prototyping.

On behalf of the entire membership of IEEE worldwide, numbering over 450,000, making us the largest professional body worldwide, I welcome you to IEEE Nigeria section’s 4^th International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development, where we bring together researchers and industry players to come and interact with innovative ideas to bring development to the world.

NIGERCON is the flagship conference of IEEE Nigeria section and over the years it has developed an outstanding international reputation of high-quality content. In this edition, we have even moved further to ensure only world-class papers suitable for IEEE explore gets into our proceedings. In this light, we give commendation to the very top class and eagle-eyed members of our TPC for compliance with my directive that only the best must be accepted for publication.

I implore you to use the opportunity of your attendance of the conference to network widely and make new life-long friendship for the betterment of humanity. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I thank you all for honoring our invitation.

Engr. Tunde Y. Salihu (GCC – 2022 IEEE NIGERCON)

Antonio Luque (Director, IEEE Region 8)

John Funso-Adebayo (Chair, IEEE Nigeria Section)

Isa Ali Ibrahim (Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Federal Republic of Nigeria)

Tasiu Saad Gidari –Wudil (Chair, Nigeria Society of Engineers)

Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan (Chair, 2022 IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee)

Paul M Cunningham (Director, IEEE Division VI)

Robin Podmore (Co-Founder, IEEE Smart Village)

Ezendu Ariwa (Chair, IEEE Consumer Technology & Broadcast Technology Chapter, UK and Ireland)

Wole Soboyejo (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA 01609, USA)