ICICT 2026-Honolulu, Hawaii

ICICT 2026 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Piet Kommers
University of Twente and Amsterdam University, the Netherlands

Speech Title: Conceptual Grammars for AI in Creative Design Tasks

Piet Kommers is one of the founders of hypertext for cognitive digression in conceptual design tasks. He was appointed as director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshops on Cognitive Support Tools. As a professor in AI for Conceptual Representations in Learning, he led the HyPress projects with Elsevier Publishers, Philips Electronics (ASML), and Project Partners across Europe, Japan, and the US. As a scientific leader under the UNESCO auspices, Piet Kommers coordinates worldwide projects on conceptual representations orthogonal to the current AI 'Large Language Models' for Industry and Education

Prof. Motofumi T. Suzuki
The Open University of Japan, Japan

Speech Title: The History and Future of 3D Shape Feature Extraction and Similarity Retrieval

Motofumi T. Suzuki is a professor at the Open University of Japan. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Utah State University (USA) in 1994, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked at the National Institute of Multimedia Education (Japan) from 2000 to 2008, and joined the Open University of Japan in 2009. His research interests include programming education, educational technology, and 3D image processing.

More speakers to be announced.

ICICT Previous Distinguished Speakers


Prof. Zhu Han University of Houston, USA IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor	Prof. Hao Ying Wayne State University, USA IEEE Fellow	Prof. Sule Yildirim Yayilgan Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway	Prof. Alaa Sheta Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Prof. Anu A. Gokhale St. Augustine’s University, USA	Prof. Mohsen Guizani Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE IEEE Fellow	Prof. Ping Wang Robert Morris University, USA	Prof. Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque University of California, Irvine, USA

Assoc. Prof. Travis Mandel University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

ICICT 2026 Keynote Speakers

Prof. Piet Kommers University of Twente and Amsterdam University, the Netherlands

Prof. Motofumi T. Suzuki The Open University of Japan, Japan

University of Houston, USA IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor

Wayne State University, USA IEEE Fellow

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Southern Connecticut State University, USA

St. Augustine’s University, USA

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE IEEE Fellow

Robert Morris University, USA

University of California, Irvine, USA

University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

Prof. Piet Kommers
University of Twente and Amsterdam University, the Netherlands

Prof. Motofumi T. Suzuki
The Open University of Japan, Japan

University of Houston, USA
IEEE & AAAS Fellow, Moores Professor

Wayne State University, USA
IEEE Fellow

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE
IEEE Fellow