Starting from the year 2002, the IBCAST is being held 
consecutively for over a decade in the vicinity of 
Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Until the year 2005, 
four technological areas namely; Advanced Materials, 
Control Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics and 
Wireless Communication & Radar were covered. Later, four 
more research areas - Biomedical Sciences, Cyber 
Security, Medical Sciences and Underwater Technologies 
were included. In 2015, another research area 
Aerostructures was also included in the conference. So 
far more than 9000 scientists and engineers have 
participated from Pakistani and foreign universities as 
well as scientific organizations with around 2200 
research papers having been presented. The proceedings of 
the conference are published and catalogued in renowned 
international journals on yearly basis. Until now 13 
conferences have been successfully organized by the 
CESAT, Islamabad, which is a setup of Centers of 
Excellence in Science and Applied Technologies of the 
country with the research activities being in-line with 
the conference theme.