The main program and Youth School of the XI International Conference "Information Technology and Nanotechnology" (ITNT-2025) were held from October 7 to 9, 2025, for the first time in an offsite format at Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidovin in Samarkand, Republic of Uzbekistan. The ITNT-2025 Youth School events for Russian participants were held at the Conference's traditional venue, Samara University in Samara, Russian Federation.

The event was co-organized by Samarkand State University and Samara University. At the opening ceremony, international delegations were welcomed on behalf of the Conference organizers by the co-chairs of the ITNT-2025 Program Committee, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor M.Kh. Ashurov and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Samara University, Professor V.A. Soyfer; the co-chairs of the ITNT-2025 Organizing Committee, Rector of Samarkand State University, Professor R.I. Khalmuradov and Rector of Samara University, Professor V.D. Bogatyrev.

A representative delegation from Samara University, led by Professor V.A. Soyfer, Co-Chair of the ITNT-2025 Program Committee and Professor V.D. Bogatyrev, Co-Chair of the ITNT-2025 Organizing Committee, participated in organizing and hosting the Conference events in Samarkand. The delegation included 24 leading specialists in the fields of information technology and nanotechnology, including doctors and candidates of science, postgraduate students, and young scientists.

Over 170 scientific papers were presented at the ITNT-2025 conference by scientists from Russia, Uzbekistan, Israel, the Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, South Korea, the USA, Pakistan, and Singapore. More than 60 papers were also presented at the Youth School in Samara.

The conference was held with the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, grant no. 075-15-2025-610. Sponsorship and assistance in organizing ITNT-2025 was provided by renowned Uzbek companies Souvenir LLC and SAM ANTEP GILAM, LLC.

Leading scientific journals included in Russian and international citation rankings served as media partners for the Conference: Computer Optics; Optical Memory and Neural Networks; Photonics; Nanobiotechnology Reports; Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics; Physics of Wave Phenomena; Journal of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering; Physics of Wave Processes and Radio Systems; Current Problems In Remote Sensing Of The Earth From Space; Information Processes; Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing.

The keynote speakers included renowned foreign and Russian scientists:

• Prof. Cees Dekker, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;
• Academician of RAS, Prof. Vitaly I. Konov, Natural Sciences Center of General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia;
• Prof. Yang Ren, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
• Prof. Hiroyuki Nojiri, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan;
• Prof. Artem Nikonorov, AI Institute, Samara University, Russia;
• Prof. Zhongyi Guo, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China;
• Prof. Nataliia A. Obukhova, St.-Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, St.-Petersburg, Russia;
• Prof. Hyoung Joon Choi, Yonsei University, Seoul ,South Korea;
• Prof. Saifollah Rasouli, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran;
• Prof. Suklyun Hong, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea;
• Prof. Roman V. Meshcheryakov, V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of RAS;
• Prof. Nikolai F. Bunkin, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia;
• Prof. Vladimir Yu.Venediktov, St.-Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", St.-Petersburg, Russia;
• Prof. Alexey O. Kucherik, Vladimir State University named after Alexander and Nikolay Stoletovs, Vladimir, Russia;
• Prof. Kirill I. Zaytsev, Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia;
• Prof. Irina N. Dolganova, Osipyan Institute of Solid State Physics of RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia;
• Prof. Fatima T. Adilova, V.I. Romanovsky Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
• Prof. Slaven Garaj, National University of Singapore, Singapore;
• Prof. Viatcheslav Freger, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel;
• Prof. Amit Meller, Technion – IIT, Haifa, Israel;
• Prof. Aleksei Aksimentiev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign , USA;
• Prof. Utkur Mirsaidov, National University of Singapore, Singapore;
• Prof. Marija Drndić, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA;
• Prof. Christian Nijhuis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

The meetings were held in six sections:

1. Computer Optics And Nanophotonics;
2. Information Technologies In Earth Remote Sensing;
3. Artificial Intelligence;
4. Data Science;
5. Information Technologies In Biomedicine;
6. Condensed Matter Physics And Nanomaterials.

Sections 1-5 also featured poster presentations at the ITNT-2025 Youth School at Samara University. Section 6 proved to be one of the most representative at the Conference and included three parallel tracks: Condensed Matter; Nanomaterials; and Nanopores and Membranes.

Abstracts of the Conference participants' papers will be published in the ITNT-2025 Proceedings, indexed by the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), and extended articles will be published in the Conference's media partner journals, indexed in Scopus and WoS.