Badan Penerbit dan Publikasi (BPP) UGM held International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST) 2022 as the beginning of the UGM Annual Scientific Conference (UASC) 2022 Series on 7-8 September 2022.

Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. dr. Ova Emilia, M.Med.Ed., Sp.OG(K)., Ph.D., virtually welcomed the participants and speakers during the opening ceremony of ICST 2022.

This year, ICST 2022 invited eight experts from six countries:

1. Prof. Eryk Dutkiewicz (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
2. Prof. Lee Wah Lim (Gifu University, Japan)
3. Prof. Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University, Japan)
4. Prof. Taifo Mahmud (Oregon State University, USA)
5. Prof. Abraham Cardenas Tristan (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
6. Prof. Jackie Y. Ying (NanoBio Lab, IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore)
7. Prof. Nasir Bin Nayan (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia)
8. Dr. Vipin Kumar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

About 232 presenters attended the conference and presented 365 papers. One hundred twenty-nine non-presenters also joined the lectures from the speakers and presentations from the presenters. The participants are diverse since they are from 12 countries, the Netherlands, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, India, Tunisia, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Cambodia, Colombia, and Indonesia. ICST held six symposiums: Computer and Information Technology symposium; Electronics, Power, Communication, Control, and Instrumentation symposium; Life Sciences, Materials, and Applied Chemistry symposium; Mechanical and Industrial Engineering symposium; Remote Sensing and Geomatics symposium; and 3rd Geoscience and Environmental Management Symposium.
Similar to ICST in previous years, ICST 2022 partnered with AIP Conference Proceedings, [Scientific.Net](http://scientific.net/), IEEE XPlore Digital Library, and IOP Conference Series to publish the presented papers.