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The ever-changing scope and rapid development of future technologies creates new problems and questions, resulting in the real need for sharing brilliant ideas and stimulating good awareness of this important research field. <BR /> The two days conference comprised of 5 keynote talks by esteemed speakers, 167 paper presentations and 6 poster presentations. The breaks in between these sessions gave networking opportunity to the delegates coming from over 50 countries. </p> <h5>Conference Dates: 13-14 November 2018</h5> <h5>Conference Venue: Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel Vancouver , BC, Canada</h5> <p><a target="_blank" href="../../Downloads/FTC2018/Agenda.pdf" class="btn btn-primary">Download Conference Agenda</a></p> <p><a target="_blank" href="/FTC2019" class="btn btn-primary">View FTC 2019 Website</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="gap-small"></div> <h3 class ="center">Post Conference Publications</h3> <div class="gap-small"></div> <div class="span12"> <p>All FTC 2018 papers were published by Springer. Proceedings have been published in two volumes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-02686-8">Volume 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-02683-7">Volume 2</a></li> </ul> <p>The proceedings have been submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink</p> </div> </div> <div class="row row-wrap"> <div class="gap-small"></div> <h3 class="center">Keynotes and Interviews</h3> <div class="gap-small"></div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="JavB0UmWI-o"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Richard New - Western Digital</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="t0pf5XSRhQE"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Richard Vaughan - SFU</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="pcLoDDKIXpg"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Perry Lea - Microsoft</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="yB6tnJdttjw"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Murry Thom - D-Wave</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="UZhWtw3f49w"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Michael Filimowicz - SFU</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="v4doNRrAGg0"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Louis Rosenberg - Unanimous AI</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="1qX8WBtWfn8"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Milan Toma - NYIT</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="W59VLxiJJOI"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Judy Zaichkowsky - SFU</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="EVnIyYALa-c"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Derek Jacoby - University of Victoria</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="DWhwqFN6HTI"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Nico Preston - University of Victoria, British Columbia</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="g7Tx29NfvLk"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Michael Bernico - State Farm Insurance</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="span4"> <div class="thumb center"> <div class="thumb-header"> <div class="youtube-player" data-id="lnPYDea66Mk"></div> </div> <div class="thumb-caption"> <h4 class="thumb-title">Houwei Cao - New York Institute of Technology</h4> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h3 class="center">Photos</h3> <div class='embedsocial-album' data-ref="2bc337809d27f37c4c6f4adedad403dbe4e7d681"></div><script>(function(d, s, id){var js; 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