Services Conference Federation (SCF 2025)
International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2025)
https://www.servicessociety.org/icbc , September 27 - 30, 2025, Hong Kong, China
Theme: Services Agent for Blockchain
Introduction of ICBC
Since the invention of blockchain (BC) concepts in 2008, with the development of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm, and so on, blockchain technology has been paid more and more attention by all countries. At present, the application of blockchain has been extended from the financial field to the Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, and many other fields. The blockchain is creating new technological innovation and industrial change on a global scale. We indeed need creative thinking, long-term visions, and innovative methodologies to respond to such a change. The first International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018) was created in 2018 to promote research and application innovations around the world in the field of blockchain.
Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, ICBC 2018 was successfully held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, in Seattle, USA. ICBC 2019 was successfully held on June 25 - 30, 2019, in San Diego, USA. ICBC 2020 and ICBC 2021 were successfully held virtually on the Internet. ICBC 2022 and ICBC 2023 were successfully held on December 10 - 14, 2022, and September 23 - 26, 2023 in Hawaii, USA. ICBC 2024 was successfully held on November 16 - 19, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2025, we will celebrate our 2025 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on blockchain services.
ICBC 2025 is a member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2025 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: 2025 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2025), 2025 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2025), 2025 International Conference on AI & Multimodal Services (AIMS 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2025), 2025 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2025).
As the founding member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), the first International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was held in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe 2003) was held in Germany in October 2003. ICWS-Europe'03 is an extended event of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003) in Europe. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), which was held in Erfurt, Germany.
To celebrate its 22-year-old birthday, SCF 2025 will be held on September 27 - 30, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.
Conference Proceedings
The Proceedings of ICBC 2025 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. For all 10 collocated conferences of SCF 2025, the content of this proceedings volume will be made freely accessible to anyone in Springer’s digital library after four years upon publication.
Currently, the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.
The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Services Society and Springer, which is a leading global scientific, technical, and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions, and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products, and services.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in the Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT), Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC), Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC), International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). IJBPIM is indexed by Scopus and IJWSR is indexed by SCI and EI [Link].
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in Blockchain (https://www.elspub.com/journals/blockchain/home).
Extended versions of selected papers about security, privacy, and trust will be invited for special issues in Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Sustainability (SCI, SSCI, IF=3.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=5.0), ISPRS (SCI, IF=2.8), Cryptography (SCI, IF=1.8), Blockchains, etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/ELY82W061L
Extended versions of selected papers about artificial intelligence will be invited for special issues in AI (SCI, IF=3.1), Applied Sciences (SCI, IF=2.5), Designs, Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=4.2), Sensors (SCI, IF=3.4), etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/FZ0U795IB1
Topics
The technical program of ICBC 2025 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The ICBC 2025 tracks seek original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of blockchain technologies and applications. Research Track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of blockchain technologies, applications, and solutions. All papers MUST properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, BigData, METAVERSE, EDGE, ICIOT, ICCC, AIMS, ICBC, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including IJWSR and IJBPIM (see Literature Recommendations page).
ICBC 2025 covers state-of-the-art technologies and best practices of blockchain, as well as emerging standards and research topics which would define the future of blockchain. Topics of interest to include, but are not limited to, the following:
Blockchain Development Platforms and Standards: Tools, frameworks, and standardization efforts to support blockchain development and ensure interoperability.
Scalability and Interoperability: Addressing challenges in enhancing blockchain throughput and seamless communication between networks.
Blockchain and Emerging Technologies: Integration with cloud computing, big data, IoT, and next-generation internet for innovative applications.
Security and Encryption: Advances in cryptographic methods and protocols to strengthen blockchain security.
Regulatory Frameworks and Compliance: Updates on global regulatory approaches for blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and tokenized assets.
Digital Assets and Web3: Exploring the growth of digital assets, NFTs, and decentralized internet applications focusing on identity management and user-centric services.
Blockchain for Sustainability: Leveraging blockchain for climate action, renewable energy credits, and sustainable business practices.
Application Frameworks and Architectures: Designing reference architectures and platforms for enterprise and industry-specific blockchain use cases.
Blockchain Business Models and Innovations: New approaches to creating value, from decentralized finance (DeFi) to blockchain-driven supply chains.
Industry Applications: Blockchain in financial services (digital currency, smart securities), social management (digital identity, public welfare), supply chain management (traceability, smart contracts), and personal services (copyright protection, legal services).
Paper Submissions
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers from all ICBC tracks will appear in the conference proceedings.
Submitted Research Track and Application Track manuscripts will be limited to 15 pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the LNCS Proceedings template ( WORD, Latex ). Submitted Short Paper track manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages (LNCS Proceedings style). The authors can extend a maximum of 2 pages for each paper but will have to pay extra fees for each extra page. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the maximum page limit may not be reviewed.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at the conference site.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICBC 2025. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.
Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on applications or solutions may be recommended to the Application Track or other tracks for further consideration if the session slots are available.
ICBC 2025 Submission
ICBC 2025 Application and Industry Track
ICBC 2025 Research Track
ICBC 2025 Short Paper Track
For other co-located conferences, you can find detailed submission instructions and links on the Submission page.
Important Dates
Research Track/Application Track/Short Paper Track:
Early-birds paper submission due: March 20, 2025
Review comments to Early-birds paper submission: April 20, 2025
Regular paper submission due: June 21, 2025
Review comments to Regular paper submission: July 20, 2025
Camera-ready manuscripts due: July 27, 2025
Conference dates: September 27 - 30, 2025
Organizing Committee
ICBC 2025 Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Prof. Kai Lei, Peking University
Dr. Kai Lei is a Research Professor of the SECE of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Director of the Shenzhen Key Lab for Information Centric Networking and Blockchain Technologies (ICNLab), and Chief Scientist of National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFB2702300) and Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong (2020B0101090003): He has published over 220 papers including journals: IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Transaction of Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Neural Computing and Applications, IEEE ACCESS, Artificial Intelligence In Medicine, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and conference papers such as INFOCOM, AAAI, ICDCS, SIGIR, COLING, ICPP, SIGCOM WKSP, VTC, GlOBECOM, ICC, WWW, etc.
His recent research interests including Future Internet Architecture, Blockchain, Federal Learning and Knowledge Graph. He also authored two books titled “Information Centric networking and Named Data networking” in Chinese with PKU press in 2015 and "Introduction to Blockchain" in 2023 respectively.
Before joining PKUSZ in 2005, Dr. Kai Lei had extensive IT industry working experience in USA: Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA; Project Lead, Oracle, CA; System Engineer, Citigroup, New York and Summer Intern, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center, New York from 1999 to 2005.
Program Chairs
Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
R K Shyamasundar is a Life Fellow of IEEE a Fellow of ACM, Distinguished ACM Speaker, a Distinguished Alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, served as IEEE Distinguished Speaker, and was the founding Dean of School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has been JC Bose National Fellow at TIFR and IIT Bombay and he is an INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering) Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay. He is an Adjunct Professor, NITIE, Mumbai.
He directs Information Security Research and Development Centre (ISRDC) sponsored from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) from the Govt. of India and the Centre of Excellence in Blockchains sponsored by Ripple, at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the 2014 SN Mitra award for excellence in research by the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Since 2015, he holds the distinguished position of Scholar-in-Residence at IIT Jodhpur and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Development and Research for Banking Technology (IDRBT). He has more than 300 peer reviewed publications in Journals and proceedings, 8 patents, 8 books and guided more than 40 PhD students. He has been a visiting faculty at UIUC, UCSD at LaJolla, IBM Research, Max Planck Inst, JAIST, University of Linkoping. He had also been an Adjunct Faculty at School of Computing at NUS, Singapore, had been invited faculty at Technological University of St Petersburg, Russia, and Distinguished Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering at the Computer Group, University of Cambridge as well as City University of London. He has also been recently honoured with a Fellowship from British Blockchain Association (BBS).
Program Chairs
Prof. Huawei Huang, Sun Yat-sen University
Huawei Huang is now an Associate Professor at the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, China.
Huawei Huang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu (Japan) in 2016. His research interests include Distributed Computing/Systems, Communication, and Information Systems, particularly Blockchain, Web3, and DeFi protocols. He has served as a JSPS research fellow, a visiting scholar at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a program-specific Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Japan.
Program Chairs
Prof. Songlin He, Southwest Jiaotong University
Songlin He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University, China.
Songlin He received his Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) in 2022. His main research interests include blockchain, security, privacy, and decentralized applications involving various application scenarios such as IoT, cyber security and CDN. He has published papers on decent venues including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TII, ESORICS, and granted multiple international invention patents. He has won the 2024 IEEE IPCCC Best Paper Award and the 2023 Special Prize of Mechanical Industry Science and Technology Award. His research is supported in part by National Key R&D program and NSFC. He is also an IBM-certified Blockchain practitioner and instructor.
Application and Industry Track Chairs
Mr. Murugan Lakshmanan, Financial Services
Murugan Lakshmanan is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in cloud-native data streaming, real-time analytics, and fintech innovation, backed by more than 18 years of experience designing event-driven architectures, microservices, and cloud computing solutions. His strategic leadership has boosted operational efficiency, elevated customer engagement, and accelerated business agility at top-tier financial institutions, while his passion for emerging technology continues to shape high-impact engineering initiatives.
As an official Forbes Technology Council member and a Gartner Ambassador, Murugan mentors aspiring technologists, evaluates cutting-edge platforms, and provides guidance to enterprises modernizing their data pipelines. He has earned multiple international accolades, frequently serves as a judge for leading technology competitions, and is known for his peer-reviewed publications on real-time data pipelines and cloud-native analytics. By aligning advanced data solutions with core business goals, he empowers organizations to deliver transformative digital experiences, adopt data-driven strategies, and build future-ready platforms in a rapidly evolving market.
Committed to advancing the fintech ecosystem, Murugan channels his expertise across prominent industry forums, shaping the future of financial services and real-time data processing. His thought leadership and hands-on approach continue to influence global trends, inspiring organizations to leverage innovative technologies for sustainable growth and competitive advantage.
Application and Industry Track Chairs
Prof. Jianxin Huang, Ceprei lianrui Information Technology Co., Ltd
Huang Jianxin, professor of engineering, Ceprei lianrui Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Deputy Director & Secretary-General of Blockchain Technology Application Committee of Guangdong Computer Society. Domestic Expert of IEC Systems Committee on Bio-Digital Convergence(IEC SyC Bio-Digital Convergence). Member of ISO/IEC Standardization 38505-1 Data Governance Working Group.Member of IEEE Standardization P3158 Trusted Data Matrix Working Group, etc.
He has led or participated in over 1,000 IT projects, authored or co-authored 10 textbooks and monographs on computer technology, blockchain, smart manufacturing, and the digital economy, and published 20 academic papers. He has undertaken 10 national, Guangdong Provincial, and Guangzhou Municipal key R&D projects, and holds 6 invention patents, He has chaired or contributed to the development of 40+ international, national, and industry standards in data governance, IT governance, IT auditing, IT consulting and design, "City Brain" systems, smart campuses, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
Currently, his research focuses on 3D virtual/augmented reality, 3S technologies (GIS, GPS, remote sensing), big data, blockchain,digital government, and enterprise digital transformation consulting.
Operations Committee
Dr. Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co., Ltd.
Dr. Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University
Dr. Sheng He, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd.
Dr. Zhuolin Mei, Jiujiang University
ICBC 2025 Program Committee
Dr. Muhammad Abdullah Adnan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Noor Ahmed, Air Force Research Laboratory-RIS
Dr. Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Dr. Costas Busch, Augusta University
Dr. Zhixiong Chen, Mercy College
Dr. Adel ElMessiry, WebDBTech
Dr. Xinxin Fan, IoTeX
Dr. Mohammad Jalalzai, University of British Columbia
Dr. Yichen Liu, University of California San Diego
Dr. Catalin Meirosu, Ericsson
Dr. Alexander Semenov, University of Florida
Dr. Teik Guan Tan, pQCee
Dr. Dirk Trossen, Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH
Dr. Gang Wang, University of Connecticut
Dr. Lei Xu, Kent State University
Dr. Rui Zhang, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mr. André AugustoI, NESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Mr. Artem Barger, Idea Blockchain Research Lab
Mr. Venkata Suman Doma, Deloitte
Mr. Xiangyu Li, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Mr. Ji Liu, The University of Sydney
Mr. Mike McBride, Futurewei Technologies
Mr. Ram Chandra Sachan, Wipro
Ms. Naghmeh Ivaki, University Of Coimbra
Ms. Jo-Ann Magsumbol, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Ms. Jeyakumar Samantha Tharani, University of Jaffna
Prof. Roberto Di Pietro, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Prof. Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Prof. Nuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra
Prof. Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Louisiana State University
Prof. Jun Shen, University of Wollongong
Prof. Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto
As part of the Services Conference Federation (SCF 2025), we are still looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to join the organizing committees.
Contact Information
For any inquiries regarding the ICBC conference, please feel free to reach out to us: icbc AT ServicesSociety DOT org
For other questions about the SCF conferences: confs AT ServicesSociety DOT org
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