The 2024 International Multi-Disciplinary Conference (IMDC2024) on “Fostering Knowledge Sharing and Innovation Competitiveness for Production-Enabled Development” will be held from 18th to 20th December, 2024, at Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The IMDC2024 will bring together researchers, scholars, innovators, and entrepreneurs from international and local universities and industry to showcase research and innovations. The IMDC2024 will include plenary sessions, keynote speakers, invited experts, and exhibitions on different topics.

This is an exceptional platform for researchers/academics/innovators/scientists/practitioners to discuss contemporary phenomena shaping human development from multiple vantage points. Many topics of the multi-disciplinary nature as a response to everyday challenges faced in both developing and developed world contexts will be discussed.

Innovation and knowledge are two entities steadily positioning themselves as the engine of any meaningful socio-economic and cultural endeavor that leads to production. Innovation is brought about by pursuing blue oceans with a goal of improving human life or in pursuit of solutions to known human problems, coming up with new products or new ways of doing things. The end result of innovation is a contribution to the body of knowledge in any given field of inquiry.

Therefore, it can arguably be posited that innovation sharing is one of the key ingredients to a contemporary knowledge citizenship. Putting innovation in the public domain enables other experts to add their perspective to the innovation so that eventually the innovation logically and coherently dovetails to the universal and contextual setting of societal needs. Further, radical innovation brilliance is a cornerstone for any production-driven development of a state.

Perfecting on the lessons learnt on the IMDC2017 and IMDC2018, IMDC2024 aims to accord chance and international platform to everyone intending to showcase their innovations (artifact development, product development or knowledge innovation) in different fields for the advancement of humanity. The conference provides an excellent opportunity for your work to receive that global expert touch given the multi-dimensionality in the different fields of enquiry.

Themes to be covered include any aspects of the major themes presented below. Please note that this list is collectively exhaustive in terms of field of enquiry – therefore you may literally submit any type of scientific research papers:

This conference offers an exceptional platform and opportunity for practitioners, industry experts, technocrats, academics, information scientists, innovators, postgraduate students, and research scholars to share their experiences for the advancement of knowledge and obtain critical feedback on their work. The 2024 conference will have two streams:

1) Academic papers – research papers from mainly institutions of higher learning, research centers and private innovators; and

2) Industry track – short papers showcasing industry innovations or simply innovations that can be showcased at the conference.

Papers submitted to this conference will go through a rigorous double-blinded review process. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and selected papers will be published in special issues of Scorpus-rated journals. Short papers in the industry track will not be subjected to academic review rigor but will be commented upon by industry specialists for enhancement.

This conference will have 8 international invited speakers who are going to guide the discussion projectiles in different streams. The overall keynote speaker will define the tone for this conference by talking to the main theme of the conference.

To be considered, authors/researchers/innovators are initially invited to submit 1-page abstracts submitted with the following: