The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers  and  practitioners  dedicated  to  advancing  the  state  of  the  art  of  research  and  practice  in  digital  forensics.    The  Seventeenth  Annual  IFIP  WG  11.9  International  Conference  on  Digital  Forensics  will  provide  a  forum  for  presenting  original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence.   Papers and panel proposals are solicited.  All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group.  Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9.  The conference will be limited  to  approximately  50  participants  to  facilitate  interactions  between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues.  Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume – the seventeenth volume in the well-known Research Advances in Digital Forensics book series (Springer, Cham, Switzerland) during the summer of 2021.  

Technical papers are solicited in all areas related to the theory and practice of digital forensics. Areas of special interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theories, techniques and tools for extracting, analyzing and preserving digital evidence
- Enterprise and cloud forensics
- Embedded device forensics
- Internet of Things forensics
- Digital forensic processes and workflow models
- Digital forensic case studies
- Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics