Steering Committee

Contacts

For steering committee correspondence, reach the conference team at icit2017@icit2017.net.

The steering committee of the conference represents a coordinated effort among senior academic figures who help shape the direction of the event. Drawing on experience from institutions across regions, the leadership group provides continuity across editions and ensures that the program aligns with contemporary research priorities. This kind of long-term stewardship is a hallmark of established international conferences in the information technology field, where volunteer leaders guide topics, review frameworks, and community engagement from one year to the next. Their involvement signals a commitment to academic quality and to fostering dialogue between researchers, developers, and practitioners who contribute to the programme each year.

At the head of the committee, the chair and vice-chair roles are typically filled by scholars with broad visibility across the discipline. Together they set the strategic tone for the conference, coordinate with the organizing team, and liaise with partner societies and host institutions. Such division of responsibilities helps balance editorial oversight with operational planning, from soliciting contributions across the various technical tracks to confirming keynote and invited speakers. By bringing together complementary expertise, the leadership supports a programme that reflects the breadth of contemporary information technology research while preserving the focused identity of a long-running international forum.

The broader steering body often includes members drawn from collaborating universities and professional groups, lending the conference a wider network of advisors. These members commonly assist with theme development, special session proposals, and connections to industry and standards communities. Their participation helps maintain continuity in recurring topics such as data sciences, networking, security, parallel and distributed computing, multimedia and signal processing, embedded systems, and smart grid applications. By keeping these threads active across editions, the committee contributes to a stable intellectual platform on which new findings, tutorials, and industrial perspectives can be presented alongside peer-reviewed papers in a coherent technical schedule.

For a conference hosted in a regional academic setting, the steering committee also plays a quiet diplomatic role, linking local institutions with international collaborators and sponsoring societies. This involves coordinating sponsorship outreach, supporting publication arrangements with established indexing partners, and ensuring that the event reflects both global standards and the priorities of the host region. Through sustained attention to programme quality, reviewer selection, and participant experience, the committee helps the conference function as a premier forum where academia, industry, and emerging researchers can meet to exchange ideas, share results, and plan future collaboration across the many sub-fields of information technology.