[ICIC 2021 Front matter]

Abstract

ISIC 2021 has attracted 4 top-shot researchers as advisory The conference committee has taken due care in finalizing the three keynote speakers and the eight invited speakers for the conference They are diversified across the whole world and are eminent experts in their field The conference has also tied up with 14 special sessions with overall 34 chairs There are 21 members as chairs in the main conference organization and approximately 200 technical program committee members from various countries all around the world ISIC 2021 showcases one workshop three tutorials The conference depicts a high geographic diversity with members from around 40 different countries and high gender diversity with more than 35% women in its organization ISIC 2021 is Hybrid (Face-to-face and Online) in mode Though the COVID-19 pandemic hits this initiative to some extent, we have brought out a quality proceeding The review and selection process has ensured that only high quality manuscripts in the area of the conference are accepted for final publication We are glad to share that we received a total number of 110 submissions in the main conference There were 15 desk rejections by the editors Rest 95 were passed to reviewers We invited reviewers to bid for submissions We have managed to get three to six reviews for each submission;with each reviewer getting a maximum of four submissions to review All reviews are from internationally renowned experts Fifty five papers were accepted and finally forty seven papers are published in the proceedings The accepted submissions are spread across 17 different countries with not more than 2-3 papers from any same organization © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors