Please be cautious and do not attend the conferences organized by either IBAC or IAI. These two organizers charge the fees of up to international level of more than $400 each person, but do not really hold academic conferences (i.e., fake ones). We just attended the conference organized by IAI in Waseda University in Japan this summer, but most things happened in this conference are ridiculous. For example, in the welcome party of the 1st day, there is a very limited hospitality, such as a very small ton of coffee and tea for 300 participants, sitting on very narrow wooden long beaches in a small and crowded room of an old building #1 in Waseda University in Japan.The scheduled time of keynote speaker (i.e., Professor Hajime Tozaki, Business school, Waseda University) is one hour, but is finished less than 30 minutes without any particular reasons. The organizer seems to have a goal of minimizing their costs as low possible like a profit-searching company, and simply cares for taking as many pictures as possible, than for attendees’ needs. The welcome party is finally finished within 30 mins with a horrible ending of taking a group picture. In the 2nd and 3rd days, only a cheap lunch box and a bottled tea – something bought from convenient stores, are offered for each person, along with a very small ton of coffee and tea in each conference room. No dinners are offered throughout conference. The organizer seems to accept all papers to generate maximum revenues – some papers even surprisingly do not have research methodologies, and simply show pictures by introducing tour destinations of their own countries; few people ask questions to raise academic discussions. The participants sometimes are asked to switch to other classrooms without any reasons – something like it is time for student class. The attendees are thus actually treated as punished students without paying tuitions, but most of them are already university teachers, paying more than $400 and spending time preparing papers and scheduling trips with particular expectations for this conference. Therefore, please do not attend the conferences organized by both IBAC and IAI(國際商學策進會)
http://ibac-conference.org/ibac/BoardOfDirectors.html.
As stated, these two orgaizers often use free emails, box address, a doubtable office location, highly questionable business tax numbers, registered in Taiwan, and claim their questionable supported journals from a mysterious publisher. The main organizer, such as the conference chairman, mostly do not appear in the conference but only the working staffs of IBAC(國際商學策進會) and IAI, claiming that they do not know anything. Therefore, please do not attend conferences organized by both IBAC ad IAS.
