CASCON is a premier industrial and academic conference in computer science and software engineering. Hosted by IBM Advanced Studies and IBM Canada Laboratory, CASCON attracts developers, researchers, innovators, technologists and decision makers from a variety of sectors including academia, industry, and government. We all come together to discover and discuss technology trends, share knowledge, form collaborations, write proposals, present papers, exhibit prototypes and showcase products.


The theme of CASCON 2017 is the cognitive era: data, systems, and society. This year we aim to explore the economic and societal impacts of cognitive systems. Join us for CASCON 2017 and be exposed to thought-provoking keynotes, original researchers and emerging topics papers, stimulating workshops, and our famous CASCON Expo.

We are currently accepting research and position papers, as well as workshops and expo proposals in the following areas:

Computer Science Cloud Computing
Software Engineering Database technologies
Software Applications and data science Compiler Technologies
Cognitive and Smart Systems Data and Analytics
Cyber and Physical Systems Machine Learning
Internet of Things (IoT) Mobile Application Frameworks and platforms
Security Blockchain
DevOps Business Intelligence
Software-as-a-service Adaptive Systems
Service Systems

We also encourage papers, workshop, and expo proposals that describe applications of computing in the following areas:

Healthcare Design
Finance Wearable and social computing
Smart cities Innovation
Supply chain Commerce
Smart grid and energy Connected and driverless cars

Innovative use of products, platforms and solutions including (but not limited to):

Bluemix Cloud Foundry Analytics Watson
Cognos PureApplication IRIS Weather
IoT Platform RFID DB2 Rational
Websphere Worklight Jazz Lotus