ICBDSC > Home The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that 2026 the 9th International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (ICBDSC 2026) will take place in Yokohama, Japan on January 21-23, 2026 as the workshop of 2026 The 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM 2026). Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with unprecedented value for digital earth applications including business, sciences and engineering. Smart computing is also a hot topic which combines advanced computer technologies to create new systems, applications, and services in diverse application such as business, health-care, industrial systems, and so on. Big data and smart computing are emerging research fields that have drawn much attention from computer science, communication and control area, information technology as well as from social sciences and other disciplines. With the growing volume, speed and types of big data from the network systems, smart computing is imperative to guarantee critical functionalities in network systems, such as real-time wide-area situational awareness, dynamic data management, efficiency optimization and control, robust network performance, etc. The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest related to the conference topic. It brings together academics, researchers and professionals in the field of Big Data and Smart Computing making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging technologies across the globe.