1. Venue: COEX, Seoul, Korea Date: June 28(Sun.) – July 3 (Fri.), 2009 Some Key Organizers: – –General Co-Chairs: Jong-Seon No & H. Vincent Poor – –Program Co-Chairs: Rob Calderbank, Habong Chung, & Alon Orlitsky – –Finance Co-Chairs: Mung Chiang & Jun Heo Temporary Contract with COEX for Session Rooms for ISIT 2009, July 24, 2006. ISIT09:BoG Update 09/26/07 1

2. Meeting Room Assignments One Room for Plenary Talks : 1058 seats (Third floor) One Room for Tutorial : 300 seats (First floor) Two Rooms for Sessions : 300 seats (First floor) Four Rooms for Sessions : 100 seats (Second floor) Two Rooms for Sessions : 50 seats (Second floor). Rooms for Reception, Luncheon, and Banquet Several Functional Rooms (Internet lounge, Preview room, Secretary, OC members, Storage) 2

3. TPC Related Finalize TPC members and the paper submission schedule by November 10, 2007. Finalize “Call for Paper” by November 15, 2007. Distribute CFP at GlobeCom, VTC, ISIT2008, ICC, ITW, AAECC, etc. Completion of the website for ISIT 2009 by the end of 2007. Papers will be handled by EDAS. 3

4. Domain Name for ISIT2009 Domain name company in UK already registered the domain name www.isit2009.org and requested US$ 7,000 for it.www.isit2009.org We registered www.isit2009.info and will use it.www.isit2009.info For the future ISITs, it may be worth considering domain names of the form www.itsoc.org/isit20xx.www.itsoc.org/isit20xx 4

5. Loan from ITSOC We request a loan of $40K from the ITSOC for for the following urgent expenses –$10K for the contract with COEX for conference site –$10K for the contract with PCO –$20K for miscellanies in the next two years Printing call for announcement, call for papers, etc. Design and maintenance of web site Meetings, EDAS contract, etc. 5

6. Registration Fee (USD) * US dollar (Canadian dollar), ISIT2008 registration fee has not been fixed 6

7. Projected Number of Registrations 7

8. Budget Plan of ISIT2009 8 Revenue (USD) Expense (USD) 394,100Total Registration Fee75,000 Convention Center 20,000 Audio-Video equipment 15,000 Reception (500 people, $30) 46,000 Banquet (460 people, $100) 30,000 Awards Luncheons (500 people, $60) 36,000 Coffee Breaks (600 people,x $60) 14,200 Gift (710 people, $20)

9. Budget Plan of ISIT2009 9 20,250 Proceedings 10,000 Travel expense for Invited Speakers 51229 Conference Admin (Credit card fee, PCO etc.) 9,000 Committee Total Revenue (USD) Total Expense (USE) 394,100 347,329 Surplus: 394,100 (USD) – 347,329 (USD) = 46,771 (USD)