From October 20 to 22, the IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology was held in Wuxi, hosted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), organized by NJUPT and co-hosted by China (Wuxi) Institute of Internet of Things, China Institute of Electronics on Communication Society(CIE.CS）, Internet of Things Committee of China Communications Society, and Southeast University.

The picture shows a glimpse of the conference venue.

　　As the first globalized international academic conference with the theme of Internet of Things, 11 domestic and foreign academicians and experts, including Cui Tiejun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Khaled Ben Letaief, professor of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Abbas Jamalipour, professor of the University of Sydney, Australia; Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Member of the Japanese Academy of Engineering and Professor of Keio University, Japan;Fumiyuki Adachi, Professor of the University of Tokyo, Japan; Fang Yuguang, Professor of the City University of Hong Kong; Wang Chengxiang, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Professor of Southeast University, China;Liang Yingchang, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Professor of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, China;Hikmet Sari, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Professor of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China;Zhuang Weihua, Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Engineering Research and the Royal Academy of Sciences, professor of University of Waterloo;Li Ye, professor of Imperial College London who have made outstanding contributions to the development of wireless communications, mobile computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), were invited to deliver keynote speeches at the conference.

11 academicians and experts from home and abroad made keynote speeches at the conference.

　　Nearly 700 papers have been solicited in the early stage of the conference through the domestic and overseas call for papers and publicity. The conference was centered on 15 thematic directions, with nearly 50 paper seminars and 40 poster presentations, covering communication theory, communication signal processing, communication perception integration, cloud and edge computing, and air-air-heaven integration communication, etc., which brings a feast of cutting-edge knowledge and ideas.

（Written by：Shao Cheng  Initial Reviewed by：Zhao Haitao Edited by：Wang Cunhong Reviewed by: Zhang Feng）