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TENCON Singapore The conference for IEEE Region 10 members By region 10, for Region , November 2016
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2. Technologies for Better
Conference Theme
Technologies for Better
Human care

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Objective of TENCON 2016
to provide a forum for the presentation of new advances in the areas of
- Power and Energy
Signal Processing
Networks and Communications
Circuits and Systems
Computing Architectures and Systems
ranging from novel devices to systems and broadband field trials in the Asia Pacific region.
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4. TENCON 2016 Singapore Past TENCON events in Asia Pacific Region
TENCON 2011 Bali, Indonesia
TENCON 2012 Cebu, Phillipines
TENCON 2013 Xian, China
TENCON 2014 Bangkok, Thailand
TENCON 2015 Macao
TENCON Singapore

5. Singapore Fact Sheet…

6. Strategic Location of Singapore
Gateway to Asia
Bridge between East & West
Easy & convenient to reach
Excellent Service Support
Safety Haven

7. A dynamic country & a garden city
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8. Superbly Delicious…
Singapore is the Food Capital of Asia. Embark on a gastronomic journey of local fare that uniquely distinguishes Singapore as a Food Lover’s Paradise!

9. Images Courtesy of STB (Singapore Tourism Board)
Social Activities…
Great shopping paradise
November is a season with decorated Light-up festival
Images Courtesy of STB (Singapore Tourism Board)

10. Singapore Bay View

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Location
Very compact town – all hotels and restaurants and meeting venues are within easy accessible distance of one another
Good public transport links between the hotels (even to the airport, just S$2)
Wide range of hotel accommodation is available to suit all budgets (see the later slide)
Good availability of meeting rooms for a meeting ranging from 200 up to 1000 people or even more
With many attractions available to host welcome reception/banquet and to support accompanying persons’ program
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Hotel & Host
Hotel
The hotels have conference Ball rooms to hold grand events like keynote Address, plenary sessions and for technical sessions, besides poster session halls. These hotels also have excellent accommodation facilities.
Host
The conference will be hosted by IEEE Singapore Section
We have demonstrated running conferences like IEEE Photonics Global, TENCON 2009 and ICOCN in the last few years with attendance of more than 200 and APMC 2009, IEEE SSCI 2013 with more than 900 attendees. Every year our local chapters organize many IEEE conferences including flagship conferences from the societies.
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13. Potential Venues Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (under negotiation, 5*)
SunTec Convention Centre (under negotiation, 5*)
Resort World Sentosa, Singapore (5*)
Grand Copthorne Hotel, Singapore (4*)
Furama Hotel, Singapore (4*)

14. Hotel Rates (tentative 2016 rates)
Single
Twin
Marina Bay Sands (IEEE member rate)
$250
$300
Bay View Hotel
$140nett
$160 nett
Allson Hotel
$130 nett
$150nett
Summer view Hotel
$140 nett
$160nett
YMCA Fort Canning Lodge
$120 nett
Nanyang Execucetive Centre
$120nett
[Rates quoted are in US Dolars]
All the hotels are accessible by MRT and are very close, more will be listed
in the conference website
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Technical Plans
All papers will be published in electronic format proceedings and CD-ROM/thumb drive comply with IEEExplore.
Working language in conference and publications will be in English.
The technical areas or topics of the conference have wide scope of electrical, electronics and information domain leading to human care.
Also, Welcome reception, banquet, and social tours will be planned during the conference period. Technical tours also planned on last day evening.
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What time lines?
Feb 2015:
Confirmation of committee membership with kickoff meeting
: Mar 2015
Confirmation of venue with contract finalization
Selection of Professional Conference Organiser
April 2015:
IEEE Region 10 MoU Confirmation
Opening of conference account procedures
Oct 2015:
Preparation of first call for papers to be available at TENCON 2015
Detailed Plan will be presented to Steering Committees at TENCON 2015
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Arrangements
First Call- for Papers: Nov 2015 (Macao)
Final Call-for-Papers: March 2016
reminders: April 2016
Dates
Tentative Schedule
10 May 2016
Proposals for special sessions & Proposals for workshops and tutorials
30 May 2016
Preliminary paper submissions (4 pages in PDF format comply with IEEExplore)
1 August 2016
Notification of acceptance
10 Sept 2016
Final paper submissions
15-18 Nov 2016
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18. Preliminary Schedule/program
Sept – Tutorial I (morning) and Tutorial II (afternoon)
- Welcome reception
Sept 16, morning– Opening ceremony followed by Keynote talks (2)
afternoon – Oral sessions of 6 parallel tracks
after the tea break – poster session I
Sept 17, 2016 morning – oral sessions of 6 parallel tracks
Afternoon – Oral sessions of 6 parallel tracks
After the tea break – poster session II
Evening – Banquet dinner
Sept 18, 2016 morning and afternoon – Oral sessions of 6 parallel tracks

19. Local Organising Committee Members
Prof. A. Alphones, Nanyang Technological University
Prof. So Ping Lam, Nanyang Technological University
Dr.Michael Ong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Dr Rajnish Gupta, Singapore Polytechnic
Dr SK Sahoo, National University of Singapore
Prof P N Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University
Prof Shum Ping, Nanyang Technological University
Dr Li Wei – A*STAR Singapore
All the above members have experience as General chairs/ committee members of IEEE conferences organized in Singapore by various societies in recent years, and successfully organized all events and active in IEEE.

20. General Chair  - A. Alphones, IEEE Singapore section chair 2015
General Co-Chair – R. Gupta, past Singapore section chair
Technical Program Chairs – Michael Ong and PN Suganthan, section executive committee members
Finance Chair – So Ping Lam, past chair and TENCON 2009 committee
Secretary – SK Sahoo, vice chair of Singapore section 2015
Publicity & Sponsorship Chair - Shum Ping, TENCON 2015 TPC chair
Local Arrangement Chair – Li Wei, section committee member
International Steering Committee – All region 10 section chairs of 2015/2016 headed by R10 Director

21. Tentative Budget (Based on 200 delegates, all in US$) Worst case
Income Type
Delegates
Unit Price
Total (US$)
Early Bird (Members)
150
$550
$82,500
Early Bird (Non-members) 30
$700
$21,000
Student 20
$350
$ 7,000
Onsite reg 10
$750
$ 7,500
Seed money
(IEEE Singapore Section)
$15,000
Seed money (R10)
$ 5,000
Sponsorships
$10,000
Sale of additional banquets
$100
$ 2,000
Total income
$150,000
Registration fee includes welcome reception,
lunches and Banquet dinner

22. Expense Type
Delegates
Unit Price
Total cost (US$)
Venue (includes lunches)
$60,000
Reception gathering
$ 5,000
Banquet Dinner
220
$100
$ 22,000
Proceedings(Burning)
250 $8
$ 2,000
PCO charges
$ 10,000
Stationery, Printing Charges
$ 2,000
Marketing and Promotion
$ 1,000
Entertainment
Meeting Charges
Conference banners
Miscellaneous Charges
$ 5,000
Total Expenses
$111,000
Seed Money return
$20,000
Net Surplus (30% R10 and 70% Singapore section)
$ 19,000

23. Tentative Budget (Based on 400 delegates, all in US$) Best case
Income Type
Delegates
Unit Price
Total (US$)
Early Bird (Members)
350
$550
$192,500
Early Bird (Non-members) 30
$700
$21,000
Student 20
$350
$ 7,000
Onsite reg 10
$750
$ 7,500
Seed money
(IEEE Singapore Section)
$15,000
Seed money (R10)
$ 5,000
Sponsorships
$10,000
Sale of additional banquets
$100
$ 2,000
Total income
$260,000
Registration fee includes welcome reception,
lunches and Banquet dinner

24. Expense Type
Delegates
Unit Price
Total cost (US$)
Venue (includes lunches)
$100,000
Reception gathering
$ 10,000
Banquet Dinner
420
$100
$ 42,000
Proceedings(Burning)
450 $8
$ 3,600
PCO charges
$ 12,000
Stationery, Printing Charges
$ 2,000
Marketing and Promotion
$ 1,000
Entertainment
Meeting Charges
Conference banners
Miscellaneous Charges
$ 5,000
Total Expenses
$179,600
Seed Money return
$20,000
Net Surplus (30% R10 and 70% Singapore section)
$ 60,400

25. Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will support the conference based on number of overseas delegates’ nights at Singapore. Also it would commit the travel support for one keynote speaker (under discussion).
Chapters under Singapore section would give support as track chairs and volunteer for review process in various topics. We have 29 active chapters.
Singapore has been an excellent conference hub with high quality not only of IEEE events, but also from various other technical societies.

26. See you at TENCON 2016 in Singapore
Organization committee welcomes everyone for stronger participation and continued support
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