The stability and sustainability of economic systems are essential for ensuring long-term global prosperity. Beyond the need for stable financial institutions, true economic sustainability also relies on the strength and reliability of other foundational systems, such as healthcare, cybersecurity, transportation networks, and infrastructure. In our rapidly evolving technological landscape, science and technology are becoming indispensable tools for modeling and forecasting future economic and societal developments. Emerging methodologies from interdisciplinary research provide powerful analytical frameworks to understand economic growth and the complex interconnections underpinning the global economy.

As societal challenges become more intricate, the need for interdisciplinary research and sustainability exploration grows. Multidisciplinary studies have gained prominence across various sectors, including finance, computer science, cybersecurity, healthcare, transportation, and infrastructure. Increasingly, research reveals that modern societies operate as highly interconnected, interdependent networks. Significant links are emerging between conventional economic models and technological development trends within this framework. Generative AI has permeated most occupations, disciplines, fields, businesses, sciences, research, and teaching. Finding a way and offering a dialogue for future navigation between scientific inquiry and the real world is the utmost goal of the BEST interdisciplinary conference.

The conference is designed to bring together researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to explore a wide range of issues shaping local communities and global developments. Topics of interest include:

• Network Analysis and Complexity Science

• Modeling and Simulations of Financial Networks

• Health Informatics and Health Economics

• Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

• Cybersecurity and Cryptocurrencies

• Business Cycles and Economic Trends

• FinTech and Its Implications for Business

• Environmental Sustainability

• Social Responsibility

• Public Health Crises' Effects on Societies

• Cybercrime Investigation and Cybersecurity

• Generative AI and the Future of Everything

Past conferences:

2013 Kyoto, Japan (FNET)
2014 Maui, Hawaii, USA
2015 Ohrid, Macedonia
2016 Bali, Indonesia
2017 Phuket, Thailand
2018 Kassandra, Greece
2019 Buenos Aires, Argentine
2021 Belgrade, Serbia
2022 Maui, Hawaii
2023 Jeju, South Korea
2024 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Activities: Managing the B.E.S.T. Conferences
(and workshops/schools, publishing proccedings and books etc.)