January 9-11, 2026 | Hokkaido, Japan

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Welcome to APIT 2026!

The 2026 8th Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT 2026) will be held during January 9-11, 2026 in Hokkaido University, Japan. APIT 2026 is an international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and new advances and research results in the fields of Information Technology. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. The conference welcomes significant contributions in all major fields of the Information Technology in theoretical and practical aspects. It will put special emphasis on the participations of PhD students, Postdoctoral fellows and other young researchers from all over the world. It would be beneficial to bring together a group of experts from diverse fields to discuss recent progress and to share ideas on open questions. The conference will feature world-class keynote speakers in the main areas.

Humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since the  Sumerians  in  Mesopotamia  developed writing in about 3000 BC, but the term information technology in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT)." Their definition consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the application of statistical and mathematical methods to decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer programs. What is the future of IT, and which technology is going to the rule the IT industry?  Let us join in APIT 2026 to enjoy the discussion!

Publication

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Review Process:

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The submitted papers will be peer reviewed by at least 2-3 Technical Committees of APIT 2026. The revised papers should go through the second peer-reviewing and only the accepted papers and be published. .

Publication:

After the peer-review process, all accepted papers of APIT 2026 after proper registration and presentation will be published in one of the following conference proceedings or journal:

Option 1: APIT 2026 ACM Conference Proceedings, which will be indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus, and submitted to be reviewed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science).

 

Option 2: Journal of Advances in Information Technology (JAIT, ISSN: 1798-2340; CiteScore: 4.2, IF: 0.9): indexed by ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, EBSCO, Google Scholar, CNKI, Crossref, etc.

 

 

Important Note to Authors about ACM Open Access Publishing Model (For full paper authors)

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ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to ACM publishing house directly to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library, unless one of their co-authors' institutions is a member or they qualify for a waiver. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance  .

For 2025 ACM is providing a subsidy on APC pricing for ICPS , about the details, please see registration page (click).

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