The First International Symposium on Future Information, Communication  and Blockchain Technology (Future ICBT 2023), Asia University, Taichung City, Taiwan, https://sites.google.com/view/future-icbt-2023 also https://easychair.org/cfp/FutureICBT-2023 December 13-16, 2023, in conjunction with the SMA2023(12th International Conference on Smart Media and Applications) https://kism.or.kr/sma/sma2023/ , December 13-16, 2023. The Future ICBT 2023 and SMA 2023 Joint International Conference successfully published a total of 74 conference papers. Among them, the Future ICBT 2023 conference featured 30 papers, with no registration fees charged to any authors or participants. Meanwhile, the SMA 2023 conference published 44 papers. This joint conference attracted approximately 114 participants from seven countries, including Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Spain, Indonesia, Poland, and Rwanda.

Co-Organized by

IEEE Taipei Blockchain Group/ Taipei Section

Asia University, Taiwan (www.asia.edu.tw)

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (https://www.nycu.edu.tw/nycu/en/index)

The Opening Session    Host: Prof. Hsing-Chung Chen

Academic Activity
Hosts: Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe and Prof. Hsing-Chung Chen, Two of the Founders of the IEEE TBG Group

The opening ceremony of Future ICBT 2023 featured a group photo with Vice President Hsing-Chung Tseng of Asia University, the Chair of ACM SIGAPP for the Asia-Pacific region, the two founders of IEEE TBG, Dr. Hiroshi Watanabe, and the project host.

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Jiman Hong, Chair of ACM SIGAPP Asia-Pacific Region and President of KIISE (Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers), Republic of Korea.

Keynote Title: Unleashing the Power of Blockchain in Distributed Systems

Keynote Speaker II

Prof.  Chang Choi, Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Republic of Korea

Keynote Title: Analysis of Multimodal AI for Efficient Deepfake Detection

Moderator: Prof. Hsing-Chung Chen

Keynote Speaker III
Dr. David Camacho, Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems (SCI-indexed journal), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

Keynote Title: Tackling Disinformation and Fake News with AI Technology: Strategies for Combatting Information Disorders

Moderator: Prof. Fang-Yie Leu