Conference Theme: “Digital and Societal Transformations"

2022 is the 50th Foundation Day of IEEE's Commitment on Social Implications of Technology.

Please join us at the iSTAS2022 conference to celebrate this occasion.

IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2022 is the flagship conference of the IEEE’s Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).

ISTAS is a multi/inter/trans‐disciplinary forum for government, academia, industry, engineers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, philosophers, researchers, social scientists, technologists, and related technical fields to collaborate, exchange experiences, and discuss the social implications of technology.

ISTAS 2022 Participants Include:

Policy Makers
Business Industry(particularly in the Asia Pacific Region)
NGOs
Engineers
Researchers
Scientists
Academicians
Technocrats
Students

CO-LOCATED

Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place: A Call to Transdisciplinarity

The Fifteenth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security (SINS22)

Human Factors Series

Friday, 11 November 2022

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

We invite the following types of submissions:

Full papers for peer-review and publication in IEEE Xplore (2500-3500 words)

Proposals for workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, or other innovative sessions related to the conference theme (please explain relevance to theme; 250-500 words)

Authors preparing full papers should consult IEEE conference templates for guidelines on composing and formatting conference papers. Please ensure that all template text is removed prior to submission.

IEEE conference templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istas2022

Important Dates

31 January 2022 [Extended to 28 February 2022]: Regular call for peer-reviewed abstract-only submissions

31 March 2022 [Extended to 30 April 2022]: Regular call for peer - reviewed full paper submissions

31 May 2022: Notification Due

List of Topics

5G and lite touch on 6G technologies (ie. IoTs etc)
Biosciences
Integrated Digital Healthcare
Sustainable Development (including ICT4D) and Humanitarian Technology,
Ethics / Human Values
Universal Access
Universal Acceptance
Societal Impacts (including traditionally disadvantaged communities)
Protecting the Planet
Internet and Geopolitics
Indigenous People’s Data
Technologies for the End-Users
Integrated Services
Technology Social Factors
Bioengineering Communication
Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Robotics and Control Systems

Organizing committee

Advisory Committee

Prof. Greg Adamson, Chair, Advisory Committee
Dr. Jay Pearlman, Conference Chair, IEEE SSIT
Dr. Clinton Andrews, President, IEEE SSIT
Dr. Luis Kun, President – Elect, IEEE SSIT
Mr. Deepak Mathur, Director, IEEE R10
Dr. Lewis Terman, Past President, IEEE
Dr. Robert Dent, IEEE Foundation

Program Committee

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Organizing Committee

Dr.Laurie Lau, Chair, Conference Committee
Dr. T V Gopal, Chair, Technical Programme Committee
Dr. Lennon Chang, Chair, Finance Committee

Publication

ISTAS 2022 proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore

"Select papers may be considered as part of future special issues in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine or IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society or Journal of Social Computing (JSC), Tsinghua University Press, China, subject to the approval of the respective Editors-in-Chief / Guest Editors."

Venue

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Hong Kong

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

istas22@momentousasia.com, gopal@annauniv.edu, gopal.tadepalli@gmail.com

Sponsor

IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT)