CFP: IDFC26 - International Conference on Intelligent Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity (University of Trento, Italy, 1-4 Sept 2026)

[Addi Ait-Mlouk]

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your valuable research to the International Conference on Intelligent Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity (IDFC 2026) (https://idfc-conference.org), which will be held in University of Trento, Italy, from September 1-4, 2026.

Please find the Call for Papers below for full details. We look forward to receiving your submission and hope to welcome you to Trento, Italy.

Best regards,
Addi Ait-Mlouk
On behalf of the IDFC 2026 Organizing Committee

CFP: The International Conference on Intelligent Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity (IDFC 2026)

IOS Press Proceedings   https://www.iospress.com/catalog/book-series/frontiers-in-artificial-intelligence-and-applications

All accepted papers will be published in IOS Press (Open Access) and indexed in Scopus, Compendex, Google Scholar, dblp, Clarivate Web of Science, and Book Citation Index (Web of Science).

Venue: University of Trento, Italy   Dates: September 1-4, 2026   Format: Hybrid Event   https://idfc-conference.org

Scope

IDFC 2026 aims to unite leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share advances in forensic science, cybersecurity defense, and intelligence analytics. The conference emphasizes the convergence of cybersecurity and forensics through AI, IoT, blockchain, and cloud technologies.

We welcome original contributions spanning digital forensics, cybersecurity defense, AI/ML for security, generative AI and synthetic media forensics, privacy-preserving and trustworthy systems, and blockchain and Web3 financial crime.

Organizing Committee

General Chairs

• Prof. Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA
• Prof. Victor R. Kebande, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Program Chairs

• Dr. Kayode Sakariyah Adewole, Malmö University, Sweden
• Dr. Sherif Saad, University of Windsor, Canada
• Dr. Addi Ait-Mlouk, University of Skövde, Sweden

Full committee: idfc-conference.org/committee.php

Topics of Interest

Advanced Digital Forensics Memory and firmware forensics Live and real-time evidence acquisition Cross-device forensic correlation Timeline reconstruction at scale Encrypted and ephemeral data Automated triage of digital evidence Multimedia and sensor forensics Cyber-physical system forensics	Next-Gen Cybersecurity & Cyber Defense AI-driven autonomous defense Adversarial attacks on AI models Post-quantum cryptography Cyber deception and honeypots Supply-chain attack detection Insider threat mitigation 5G/6G and edge security Cyber resilience modeling
AI / ML for Security & Forensics Foundation models for analytics Multimodal forensic AI Continual and adaptive learning Robust ML against attacks Human-in-the-loop AI Causal AI for attribution Fairness and bias in forensic AI Benchmarks and evaluation metrics	Generative AI & Synthetic Media Forensics Detection of AI-generated content Deepfake forensics Watermarking and authenticity GenAI for red teaming Evidence reconstruction with GenAI Prompt forensics and LLM misuse Adversarial generative models Forensics of AI agents
Privacy-Preserving & Trustworthy Forensics Federated forensic learning Secure multi-party computation Homomorphic encryption Confidential computing and TEEs Cross-org evidence sharing Law enforcement collaboration Auditability and reproducibility	Blockchain, Web3 & Financial Crime Smart contract vulnerability forensics Cryptocurrency tracing DeFi fraud and NFT crime Decentralized identity forensics Tokenomics manipulation Cross-chain forensic analysis

Submission Types

• Research Papers — up to 10 pages
• Short Papers — up to 6 pages
• Poster & Demo Papers — up to 4 pages

Format: IOS Press template (PDF only)   Submission: idfc-conference.org/submission.php

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026
• Conference: September 1-4, 2026

Contact

For questions about submissions, please contact the Program Chair: addi.ai...@his.se

We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you at IDFC 2026!

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