Vaughn College Hosts ICDTA With Researchers From 30+ Countries
Queens, New York – October 13, 2026 -- Vaughn College hosted the sixth annual International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications (ICDTA) on October 9 and 10, drawing researchers from more than 30 countries to a hybrid event on digital technologies, soft computing and intelligent systems.
Plenary speakers from Predictum and IBM open the in-person program on October 9
The morning plenary featured Wayne J. Levin, president and CEO of Predictum Inc., and Dr. Philip Ramsey, the company's vice president of data science and training. They argued that bad research costs the US economy several billion dollars every year and outlined steps to reverse the trend.
Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, principal research scientist at IBM, closed the session with a talk on efficient large language model (LLM) inference. Inference is the process of generating text, code or data from a prompt without changing the model's learned weights.