Getting Together for Computing Cross-fertilization and Broader Participation

This paper briefly presents the diversity and quality of the work presented by distinguished speakers, from academia and industry, at the 2021 Inaugural OkIP Academia & Industry Convention. Speakers’ short biography is also presented. For maximum cross-fertilization and broader participation, they talked in various areas of computing, including (1) threat modeling and machine learning, (2) sustainable energy harvesting and wireless power transfer systems, (3) blockchain technology and its implications in business applications and healthcare IT, (4) biosensors in a green economy, and (5) software engineering body of knowledge guide.