The 23rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2016) will be held in Kyoto, Japan, from October 16 to 21, 2016 (tentative). The venue of ICONIP 2016 is Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, located in the northeastern area in Kyoto city.

Kyoto is located in the central part of the Honshu, the main island of Japan. Kyoto formerly flourished as the imperial capital of Japan as long as 1,000 years after 794 A.D., and known as "The City of Ten Thousand Shrines." There are 17 sites (13 temples, 3 shrines, and 1 castle) in Kyoto that form the UNESCO World Heritage Listing named as the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)." In addition, there are three popular, major festivals (Matsuri) in Kyoto, one of which, called "Jidai Matsuri (The Festival of Ages)," will be held in October 22nd, just after ICONIP 2016.

ICONIP 2016 will provide a high-level international forum for scientists, researchers, industrial professionals, and students worldwide to present state of art research results, address new challenges, and discuss trends in neural information processing and applications. This conference will feature invited plenary talks by world-renowned scholars in the areas of neural network theory and applications, computational neuroscience, machine learning and others. In addition to regular technical sessions with oral and poster presentations, the conference program will include special sessions and tutorials on topics of current interest.

ICONIP 2016 is also the first international conference hosted by The Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS), which is to be established in November 2015. The APNNS will open new doors in research, education and industry cooperation with both global and local approaches from multidisciplinary viewpoints of physiology, psychology, modeling, mathematical engineering, electrical, mechanical and information engineering as well as industrial applications to pursue human welfare extensively. Let’s get together to celebrate this memorial event of our new society in Kyoto!