(Topics include but are not limited to)
Topic 1: Network Engineering
Network coding
Collaboration Network
Cross layer optimization and control
Cyber Physical Systems
Optical Network
Router and Switch Design
Routing and Multicast
Scaling rules and basic limitations
Scheduling and buffer management
Network based on smart antenna
Smart grid
Smartphones and mobile applications
Network Economics and Pricing
Network Management
Network Measurement and Analysis
Cognitive, cellular, and mobile networks
Communication Network and Its Management
Computer Networks and Communication
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) communication technology
Network Protocol and Congestion Control
Network Privacy Management
Next Generation Network and Internet
Network Engineering and Security
Topic 2: Internet of Things
Software architecture and middleware
Performance evaluation and modeling
Network and Communication Protocol
Machine to machine communication
IoT and IoT software engineering
Machine learning and deep learning methods for data analysis
Technical focus of intelligent environment
Secure and Interactive IoT Architecture
Supporting 6G Internet of Things
Internet of Things Big Data
IoT Open Platform
IoT wearable devices
Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence
Smart City Solution Based on Internet of Things
Smart Home Based on Internet of Things
Intelligent Education System Based on Internet of Things
Robots based on the Internet of Things
Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things
IoT standards and application scenarios
Enterprise Management Based on the Internet of Things
Business process management based on the Internet of Things
Autonomous driving based on the Internet of Things
Intelligent Manufacturing Based on the Internet of Things
Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Internet of Things Applications
IoT Data Mining Platform
Agricultural Internet of Things Applications
Open Service Platform
environmental monitoring
Internet of Things Semantic Services
Internet of Things Education
IoT Business System
Intelligent Transportation 
IoT application support
The Open Theme of Future Internet of Things
IoT testing platform and deployment
Topic Three: Digital Media
fuzzy logic
knowledge representation 
pattern recognition
machine learning
Auto-Control
Mechatronics integration
image processing
video coding 
Audio processing
information encoding
image processing
image processing
natural language processing
Computational Learning Theory
Hybrid intelligent system
Intelligent System Architecture
Automatic programming
Digital Media Technology
Signal and image processing
Information Retrieval and Fusion
Knowledge-based system
Software and hardware architecture
Soft Computing Theory and Applications
Speech and Natural Language Processing
Multimedia and Cognitive Informatics
General computing and environmental intelligence
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Parallel Processing of Artificial Neural Networks
Data mining and machine learning tools
Signal transmission voice
Communication signal processing
Speech signal processing
information processing technology 
Digital Communication Technology
Multimedia Content Analysis
Multimedia Communication Technology
Adaptive signal processing