The 1st International Online Conference on Technologies
The 1st International Online Conference on Technologies
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
13 July 2026
11 August 2026
5 November 2026
Advanced technologies, Artificial Intelligence-based Technologies, Advanced Materials Science, Healthcare Technologies, Electrical Technologies, Environmental Technology, Manufacturing Technology
The IOCTe2026 is Now OPEN for Abstract Submission and Registration.
Instructions for authors are available online.
Submit your abstracts HERE.
For any inquiries, please contact us at iocte2026@mdpi.com.
Welcome from the Chair
S1. Information and Communication Technologies.
S2. Assistive Technologies.
S3. Innovations in Materials Technologies.
S4. Manufacturing Technologies.
S5. Environmental Technologies.
S6. Electrical Technologies.
Prof. Dr. Manoj Gupta
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chair of IOCTe 2026
Event Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Provost Chair Professor Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He did his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada (1992). He has worked for about 40 years in the area of metallic materials with particular focus on metallic composites of different types. He has taken multiple consultancy work related to failure of materials besides teaching many people in corporate sectors on the same topic. He is currently among top 1% researchers as per Stanford’ List, The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and ResearchGate and ranked 1219 in the whole world. He has published over 730 peer-reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents and two Trade Secrets. His h-index is 89 (GS), citations over 30200+ (GS) and Reads 178,809 (Research Gate). He has also co-authored eight books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF - USA. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, Poland, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India as a visiting researcher, professor and chair professor.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Sotirios K. Goudos
ELEDIA@AUTH, School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Sotirios K. Goudos is a professor at the Department of Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include antenna and microwave structure design, evolutionary algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. Prof. Goudos is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom open access journal (MDPI). Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE ACCESS, and the IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society. He is Section Editor-in-Chief of the Information and Communication Technologies Section of the Technologies open access journal.
Prof. Dr. Manoj Gupta
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Prof. Dr. Eugene Wong
Engineering Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, 1 Punggol Coast Road, Singapore
Associate Professor Eugene Wong is the Director of Programmes for Engineering Cluster and is responsible for overseeing the engineering programmes offered by Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He obtained his PhD and BEng in Mechanical Engineering with Specialisation in Materials Engineering in Design from National University of Singapore (NUS). Eugene is also the Deputy Head for the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) Hub@SIT. His research interests are in the area of additive manufacturing, lightweight composite materials, microwave processing of materials and competency-based education.
Prof. Dr. Miklas Scholz
Department of Civil Engineering Science, School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
DProf. Miklas Scholz, cand. ing., BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, DSc, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, Fellow of IETI is a distinguished professor of civil engineering science at Johannesburg University, South Africa. He has published 11 books and 356 journal articles. DProf. Dr. Scholz has 19,700 citations, resulting in an h-index of 68 and an i10-index of 256. He belongs to the top 2% academics regarding the i10-index. Prof. Scholz also figures in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He was awarded EURO 7M for the EU H2020 REA project WATERAGRI.
Prof. Dr. Valeri Mladenov
Department Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Valeri Mladenov graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1993. In 2019, he defended a "Doctor of Sciences" thesis. Currently, he is Professor and a Head of department Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering at the same institution. In 2014, he became a Deputy Minister of Education and Science in Bulgaria. Prof. Mladenov's research interests are in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, artificial intelligence and neural networks. He has more than 300 scientific papers in professional journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and many others.
Dr. Haipeng Liu
Assistant Professor, Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
Haipeng Liu received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in medical sciences from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. He worked as a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor with Anglia Ruskin University and Coventry University, UK. He is a Visiting Professor of Rushford Business School (Switzerland) and a mentor of the National Medical Research Association (NMRA, UK). He is the author of more than 120 journal articles, 31 book chapters, and 12 conference papers, with over 2700 citations and a H-index of 28. His research interests include computational simulation of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, AI-enhanced diagnostics, and wearable sensor development.
Event Committee
Panamerican University, School of Engineering, Álvaro del Portillo 49, Jalisco, Mexico
power electronics, dc-dc converters, PWM converters, switching ripple cancellation
Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Spark plasma sintering, Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis, Combustion Synthesis
Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria
mathematics, electrokinetics, cracks, fuel cells
Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Queretaro, San Juan del Rio Campus, San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico
Condition monitoring, electrical machines, intelligent algorithms, power quality
Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Surface treatments, Electrodeposition, Additive manufacturing, Inkjet printing
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (FORTH/ICE-HT), Laboratory of Cold Plasma and Advanced Techniques for Improving Environmental Systems, Patras, Greece
non-thermal plasma processes; environmental engineering; soil remediation; wastewater treatment
Full professor of Metallurgy; President of the School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Dept of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Microwave processing of materials; powder metallurgy; high entropy alloys; modeling of electroheat processes; metal matrix composites; recycling of metals; mechanical alloying; metal additive manufacturing; heat treatments
Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA
3D printing, advanced manufacturing, lightweight structure, and high-performance material
Assistant Professor, Coventry University, Coventry UK
Visiting Professor, Rushford Business School, Lucerne, Switzerland
Mentor, National Medical Research Association, UK
assistive devices; assistive solutions; intelligent healthcare; human activity assistive technology; inclusive design; intellectual disability; independence; caregivers
Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, Punjab, India
2D Materials and Graphene-Based Devices, Nanostructured Semiconductor Materials (ZnO, Nanowires), Advanced Photodetector Materials and Architectures, Hybrid Heterojunction Materials for Optoelectronics, Materials–AI Integration for Performance Optimizati
Laboratory for Applied Biomechanics & MSD/DScD programs, Department of Restorative Sciences and Biomaterials, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, USA
Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Biomedical Modelling
biomimetics, nanotechnology, tribology, biobased materials, biodegradable materials, functional nanostructures
Assistant Professor (Research-Focused) in Health Economics, Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Assistive Technologies, Availability and Accessibility to the Assistive Technologies, Evidence synthesis on Assistive Technologies effectiveness, Assistive Technologies and Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
solid mechanics, structural mechanics, modeling, interfaces, contact, bonding, asymptotic methods
Registration
The registration for IOCTe2026 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming.
The deadline for registration is 5 November 2026.
Instructions for Authors
IOCTe 2026 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadline
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 13 July 2026.
2. Abstract acceptance notification: 11 August 2026.
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Detailed Requirements:
3. The institutional emails of all authors are requested.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
The poster template can be downloaded HERE. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. Technologies Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Technologies (ISSN: 2227-7080, Impact Factor: 3.6), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
Authors of accepted abstracts are highly encouraged to submit an extended proceedings paper (ideally 4–8 pages in length) for the conference's dedicated proceedings volume in the Proceedings (ISSN: 2504-3900) for free, please submit it after the conference.
Proceedings submission deadline: 8 January 2027. (45 days after the conference)
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Proceedings, and be sure to disclose the conference information in your cover letter or mention the conference name in your submission.
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Publication Notice: Proceedings papers will undergo peer-review procedure. Acceptance at the conference does not ensure final publication.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
2. Best Poster Awards
Winner Announcement: The award winners will be evaluated and selected by the scientific committee after the conference. Results will be announced on the website, and all winners will be individually contacted via email.
Sponsors and Partners
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