International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications (ICBTA)

The International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Applications, ICBTA for short, spreads across three days in Seoul, Republic of Korea from December 11-13, 2026, organized by the International Academy of Computing Technology. The structure is genuinely hybrid: an in-person core on the Saturday, online concurrent sessions reserved for Sunday, and Friday given over almost entirely to logistics.

Friday runs pre-conference registration and testing of online sessions from 10:00 to 17:00. Saturday opens with walk-in registration and an information booth, moves through keynote speeches and the group photograph, then rolls into poster sessions, concurrent sessions and dinner stretching to 20:00. Sunday splits between an optional day trip carrying an extra fee and online concurrent sessions ending at 17:00.

That rhythm rewards people who arrive Thursday night and treat Sunday morning as a remote-work day rather than a travel scramble. Pack a power adapter and a hotspot plan; venue bandwidth on demo days can be optimistic.

Publication terms anchor the event's appeal. All accepted and presented papers enter the ICBTA 2026 Conference Proceedings, published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems by Springer, a series abstracted and indexed by EI Compendex, SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH and SCImago, with books in the series submitted for consideration in Web of Science.

Authors choose between a full paper, covering publication and presentation, or an abstract for presentation only. Full papers upload through the Zmeeting system while abstracts go by email, and the final submission deadline sits at October 25, 2026, leaving a manageable gap between acceptance and travel arrangements. Keep the acceptance email handy; proceedings workflows occasionally ask for verification at check-in.

For doctoral candidates assembling a CV, a Springer volume citation carries more weight than most conference attendance certificates ever will.

The CFP leans technical and refreshingly specific. Core theory covers smart contracts, chaincode and distributed ledgers, distributed consensus, fault tolerance mechanisms and blockchain schemes for decentralization. Security receives sustained treatment: security issues and attacks on blockchain-based systems, privacy and trust engineering, performance analysis, simulation and performance-evaluation techniques, protocols and algorithms based on blockchain, and blockchain-related data structures.

Application tracks push outward toward infrastructure: blockchain for IoT, cyber-physical systems, edge and cloud computing, future internet architectures, social media, supply chain management, crowdsourcing and crowdsensing, and 5G/6G networks. New applications with blockchain techniques close out the list for anything the categories miss.

Reading the CFP closely before writing saves reviewers and authors mutual disappointment; this committee clearly wants systems work, not whitepapers.

Seoul in mid-December runs cold, dry and bright, so pack layers rather than rain gear. The city's subway network and food economy make moving between sessions painless, and Korea's homegrown interest in blockchain infrastructure, from exchanges to enterprise and public-sector projects, gives hallway conversation plenty of local texture. Korean winter light makes late-afternoon walks worthwhile between the last session and dinner.

For authors who need an indexed proceedings citation, and for remote participants who cannot fly, the split format solves two problems at once, which explains why hybrid formats persist at computing conferences even after necessity faded.

Watch the program page as October closes; keynote assignments and session schedules typically finalize only after the submission deadline passes. Booking refundable accommodation until then is the pragmatic move.