SEOUL, June 30 (AJP) - Kookmin University will host researchers and industry officials from 11 countries next week as the school stages the second International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.4 International Symposium, known as EBISION 2026, from July 8 to 10 in Seoul, the university said Tuesday.
The conference, held at Kookmin University's main administration building near central Seoul, is the official flagship event of IFIP Working Group 8.4, a research body under the International Federation for Information Processing that focuses on e-business information systems.
Delta Electronics, the Taiwan-based power and thermal management company whose annual revenue has climbed past $17 billion on the back of data-center and artificial intelligence demand, will send its chief technology officer, Tei-Wei Kuo, to deliver one of three keynote addresses. The company posted consolidated revenue of NT$554.9 billion ($17.4 billion) in 2025, a 32 percent increase from the previous year, as AI-related applications drove exports and investment.
Yoo Il-sun, a professor in Kookmin University's Department of Information Security, Cryptology and Mathematics and director of the school's Global ICT Convergence Security Innovation Research Center, serves as general chair of the symposium. The conference will draw participants from South Korea, Denmark, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Greece, Spain, Thailand, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Indonesia, with foreign researchers making up more than 50 percent of presenters, organizers said.
A total of 91 papers will be presented over the three days, including 50 oral presentations and 41 poster sessions, covering e-business, ICT convergence, information security and data-driven digital transformation.
Three keynote speakers will open the technical program. Tei-Wei Kuo, a former vice president of National Taiwan University who now serves as chief technology officer at Delta Electronics, will speak on the company's research priorities. Nicola Dragoni, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark who leads cybersecurity research across the Nordic region, will present on threats facing networked systems. Antonio F. Skarmeta, a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain who has led major European Union security projects, will round out the keynote sessions.
An invited session will feature Manos Varvarigos, vice president of the National Technical University of Athens, who will discuss next-generation network architecture and security for high-performance computing, the powerful clustered systems used for large-scale scientific and artificial intelligence workloads. Speakers in that session are expected to focus on artificial intelligence-driven digital transformation, cyber threat intelligence, data security and trust-based information sharing, themes organizers describe as central to how digital infrastructure will be defended in the coming years.
The conference will also include an industry track, where eight companies will present new technologies and demonstrations. KT, the telecommunications carrier that built much of South Korea's wired and wireless network infrastructure, will present its vision for what it calls a four-layer network security architecture designed for the artificial intelligence and quantum computing era. The session is intended to connect academic research with practical industry applications.
Other industry participants include ZenmuTech, a Japanese firm specializing in secret-sharing technology, a method of splitting sensitive data into fragments stored separately so that no single breach can expose the full information. Sangfor Technologies, a Chinese cybersecurity and cloud computing firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Shenzhen, will also take part. Sangfor operates in cybersecurity, cloud computing and enterprise IT infrastructure and is publicly listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company has built a global footprint of more than 70 branch offices and over 100,000 customers while committing at least 20 percent of its annual revenue to research and development. AI Data Brushing, a Taiwanese security technology firm, will also present.
Yoo, the general chair, said the symposium brings together people working at the intersection of business and security research.
"EBISION 2026 is a venue where researchers and industry experts in e-business information systems and ICT convergence security gather together to discuss the core issues of the future digital environment," Yoo said. "We hope this conference will serve as an opportunity to showcase South Korea's and Kookmin University's global ICT convergence security research capabilities and expand international industry-academic cooperation networks," he added.
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