This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 56th International Conference on

Asia Pacific Advanced Network, APANConf 2023, held in, Colombo, Sri Lanka,

during August 24–25, 2023.

The 10 full papers and 1 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and

selected from 37 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: artificial intelligence and machine learning, accelerated computing and distributed systems and communications and networking.