ICAIT 2026, the 18th International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology, runs 23-27 November 2026 at SO/ Auckland, hosted by Auckland University of Technology and sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society. The official site confirms the Auckland edition, venue, programme and organiser.
The 18th International Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT 2026) runs in Auckland, New Zealand, from 23 to 27 November 2026, according to the conference's official website. The event brings the long-running ICAIT series to New Zealand, hosted on home ground by Auckland University of Technology.
According to icait.org, ICAIT 2026 is sponsored by the IEEE Photonics Society and Auckland University of Technology (AUT), and is hosted by AUT. The organiser lists the Hangzhou International Innovation Institute and Beihang University, China, as co-hosts, with a broad set of supporting institutions that includes KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a number of Chinese universities.
The conference states that accepted papers within IEEE's technical scope will appear in IEEE Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, with the proceedings submitted for indexing in Ei Compendex and Scopus after the event.
ICAIT is an academic and technical conference aimed at researchers and engineers working in advanced information and communications technology. For 2026 the organiser lists seven workshops spanning 6G positioning, localization and sensing; advanced array signal processing for space-air-ground-ocean integrated networks; flexible antenna systems; AI-driven edge intelligence for 6G; digital twin-augmented large language model agents; generative AI for education and learning accessibility; and optical wireless communication, sensing and lighting for future 6G networks.
The website also publishes a submission timeline, with full papers due 30 September 2026, notification on 15 October, registration due 25 October and camera-ready papers on 30 October 2026.
The official venue page names SO/ Auckland at 67 Customs Street East, 1010 Auckland, as the conference venue. The hotel sits on the edge of the central city near Customs Street, within reach of the waterfront. The organiser's venue page points delegates to nearby Auckland attractions including the Sky Tower, Viaduct Harbour and Wynyard Quarter, Maungawhau / Mount Eden, the Auckland Domain, and the Rangitoto and Waiheke island ferries, the latter a short trip from the downtown ferry terminal. The organiser does not publish airport-transfer or public-transport directions on the venue page.
An international IEEE-sponsored academic conference of this kind is classic inbound business-events activity: a multi-day programme drawing overseas academics and engineers to a central Auckland hotel over five days in late November. Delegates arriving from China, Europe and elsewhere generate accommodation, dining and transport demand, and events anchored to a university host such as AUT help position Auckland and New Zealand within the global academic-conference circuit.
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