The next International Color Consortium Developers Conference "ICC DevCon 2018" will be held in Munich on February 27.
There will be a panel of expert speakers on advanced colour management topics, and an iccMAX hands-on workshop.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Urban ( Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD ) will give an (invited) talk and will propose the Scan4Reco project`s definition of the alpha channel to be included into the ICC standard.

Here are the details: http://www.color.org/DevCon/devcon2018/program.xalter