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, five 
more research areas - Biomedical Sciences, Cyber Security & 
Assurance Technologies, Medical Sciences, Underwater 
Technologies and Aerostructures were included. So far more 
than 10000 scientists and engineers have participated from 
Pakistani and foreign universities as well as scientific 
organizations with around 2400 research papers having been 
presented. The proceedings of the conference are published 
and cataloged in renowned international journals on yearly 
basis. Until now 14 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.