PROGRAM

19/07/2026

08:30 - 09:15

Opening Ceremony

Event Hall 1 Room

08:30 - 08:35

Statement of purpose - Introduction of delegates

08:35 - 08:45

CITA 15-Years Journey Video

08:45 - 08:50

Opening remarks

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huynh Cong Phap

Rector of VKU – General Chair of CITA2026

08:50 - 08:55

Welcoming address

Representative of the Leadership of Phenkiaa University – Co-organizer

08:55 - 09:05

Appreciation and Recognition of Key Contributors to CITA’s 15-Year Journey

09:05 - 09:15

Future Trends and Recommendation for Research in AI
Prof. Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence; Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

09:15 - 09:20

Ceremonial handover of the rotating flag

09:20 - 09:25

Group photo session

09:25 – 10:25

Keynote Speech 1: Sensor fusion based ambient understanding for wider and unstructured environment
Prof. Kang-Hyun Jo, University of Ulsan, South Korea

Chair: Dr. Tran The Son

10:25 – 10:30

Tea-Break

10:30 – 12:00

Five Parallel Oral Sessions (30 papers)

Oral Session 1.1: Event Hall 1 Room

Oral Session 2.1: Event Hall 2 Room

Oral Session 3.1: Meeting 2 Room

Oral Session 4.1: Meeting 3 Room

Oral Session 5.1: Meeting 4 Room

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Keynote Speech 2: Big Data Analytics for Multi-Cloud Data Centers

Prof. Joshua Zhexue Huang,
College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China

Chair: Prof. Vu Van Truong

14:00 – 15:15

+ Five Parallel Oral Sessions (25 papers)

Oral Session 1.1: Event Hall 1 Room

Oral Session 2.1: Event Hall 2 Room

Oral Session 3.1: Meeting 2 Room

Oral Session 4.1: Meeting 3 Room

Oral Session 5.1: Meeting 4 Room

+ Poster Sessions 1 (15 Posters)

15:15 – 15:30

Tea-Break

15:30 – 17:15

+ Five Parallel Oral Sessions (25 papers)

Oral Session 1.1: Event Hall 1 Room

Oral Session 2.1: Event Hall 2 Room

Oral Session 3.1: Meeting 2 Room

Oral Session 4.1: Meeting 3 Room

Oral Session 5.1: Meeting 4 Room

+ Poster Sessions 2 (15 Posters)

18:00 – 21:00

Gala Dinner (including CITA 15-Years Outstanding Achievement Awards Ceremony)

20/07/2026

08:30 – 09:00

Invited Talk 1: Cortical Computing: Hierarchical Sequence Prediction for Explainable Natural Language Processing
Prof. Herwig Unger, University of Hagen, Germany

Event Hall 1 Room

Poster Sessions 3
(15 Posters)

09:00 – 09:30

Invited Talk 2:  Evolutionary Multitasking: Recent Advances, Applications, and Open Challenges
Prof. Huynh Thi Thanh Binh, Vice Dean of the School of Information and Communication Technology (SoICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Event Hall 2 Room

09:00 – 09:45

Tea-Break

09:45 – 10:45

 Five Parallel Oral Sessions (20 papers)

Oral Session 1.1: Event Hall 1 Room

Oral Session 2.1: Event Hall 2 Room

Oral Session 3.1: Meeting 2 Room

Oral Session 4.1: Meeting 3 Room

Oral Session 5.1: Meeting 4 Room

Poster Sessions 4 (15 Posters)

10:45 – 11:25

Closing Ceremony

Event Hall 1 Room

10:45 – 10:50

Closing remarks

10:50 – 11:05

Best paper and session awards

11:05 – 11:15

Final words and Call for Paper for CITA 2027

11:15 – 11:25

Group photo session