Potential topics include, but are not limited to: 
Digital Data and Evidence Collection

• Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidence

• Extraction and management of forensic artifacts

• Identification and redaction of personally identifying/sensitive information

• Evidence and digital memory preservation, curation and storage

• Compliance of architectures and processes (including network processes) with forensic requirements

• Data, digital knowledge, and web mining systems for identification and authentication of data

• Honeynets and other deception technologies that collect data for forensic analysis

• Innovative forensic techniques for new technologies

• Digital Evidence Management, Integrity and Analytics:

• Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence

• Cybercrime analysis, modeling and reconstruction technologies

• Tools and techniques for combining digital and non-digital evidence

• Supporting both qualitative and quantitative evidence

• Handling of evidence and the preservation of data integrity and admissibility

• Digital evidence in the face of encryption

• Forensic-support technologies: forensic-enabled and proactive monitoring/response

Scientific Principle-Based Digital Forensic Processes

• Examination environments for digital data

• Legal/technical aspects of admissibility and evidence tests

• Forensic tool validation: legal implications and issues

• Handling increasing volumes of digital discovery

• Computational Forensics and Validation Issues in Forensic Authentication and Validation.

• Forensic Readiness by Design

• Forensics tool validation

• Computational systems and computational forensic analysis

Legal, Ethical and Technical Challenges

• Forensics, policy and ethical implications new and evolving technologies

• Legal and privacy implications for digital and computational forensic analysis

• New Evidence Decisions

• Legal case construction and digital evidence support

• Transnational Investigations/Case Integration

• Managing geographically, politically and/or jurisdictionally dispersed data artifacts

• Case studies illustrating privacy, legal and legislative issues

• Courtroom expert witness and case presentation

The Impacts of the following on any of the above

• Technological challenges

• Legal and ethical challenges

• Economic challenges

• Political challenges

• Cultural and professional challenges

• New Trends (Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Smart City, Big Data, etc.)