The Scientific Committee of the USQC Conference 2023 welcomes conceptual and empirical papers offering innovative insights into but are not limited to, the following themes:

1. Digital Transformation: Emerging technologies, digital innovation, EU Data Space, data governance, AI and Machine Learning along its implementations and implications (NLP-ChatGPT. XAI, Federated Learning, etc), Cyber Security in Networking-Computing-Data and AI, digital ethics, the future of work, and digital inclusion.
2. Environmental Transformation: Climate change, sustainability strategies, green technologies, biodiversity, circular economy, renewable energy, and environmental policies.
3. Social Transformation: Social innovation, human rights in the digital era, equitable access to resources, societal impacts of digital and ecological transformation, and inclusivity and  diversity.

All authors are invited to submit abstracts of 250-500 words of their proposed papers to usqc2023@unime.it. 

The board of reviewers will review all submissions and provide constructive feedback to the authors. This guidance is aimed at facilitating the preparation of high-quality extended abstracts for submission to the conference. After the extended abstracts have been reviewed, all authors will be notified whether their abstracts have been invited for full paper submission and the amendments that should be made as the authors develop their full, peer-review-ready papers.