It is with great pleasure to announce The International Conference on Ummah: Digital Innovation, Humanities and Economy 2020 or known as ICU: DIHEc 2020. ICU: DIHEc 2020 is organized by Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Surabaya and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. The main theme of the conference is “Realizing Society 5.0 for a Better Life.” The conference is held on 18-19 August 2020. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the conference is held virtually. Nevertheless, the substance of this conference is still the same, namely to give a great opportunity for academics from all over the world to share and discuss the research ideas and results on the fields of economics & business, engineering & Information and Communication Technology (ICT), education, and humanities.

We are so pleased to see many respected colleagues in this event. We have a total of 98 accepted papers. Moreover, we have the representative affiliations from 5 countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Philippines, and Poland. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and to come up with great ideas during parallel session. We have four keynote speakers to share their knowledge and experience as well as numerous of papers to be presented.

Let us express our gratitude to all participants who have supported and made the ICU: DIHEc 2020 possible. I send a great acknowledge to all hardworking committee members. Special thanks are delivered to authors from both local and international with the great research topics to be discussed in ICU: DIHEc 2020. We wish you enjoy and have a great experience with this event.

Warm Regards,

General Chair and All ICU: DIHEc 2020 Committees