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ICDE 2003:Status Update

Krithi Ramamritham

krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in

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Executive Summary

Committees in placeConference Venue negotiations complete

Conservative times suggest conservative plans

On track for a wonderful event

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Down-market suggests conservative plans

Slashed conference registration rates.

Conservative budget of sponsorship

– US$ 15,000.

Budget with lower number of registrations

– 240

(115 early, 115 on-site, 10 complimentary).

This is a VERY CONSERVATIVE estimate.

At these rates, we expect 400 participants.

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India is best value for money…

less than $250 per participant• including 3 lunches, banquet, etc

• not planning to charge separately for the five advanced technology sessions.

Budget of US$ 15,000 for sponsorship. $10,000 already pledged

VLDB 1996 received over $100,000 in sponsorships

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Large Indian Software Community

India has a very large software development base

second largest after the United States.

exponential financial growth

All major software development Companies have centers in India or work with Indian Companies.

Large number of Software Developers work on Databases.

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Many Active IT Organizations

IEEE India Council (18K members)

Computer Society of India (20K members) sponsors COMAD

The National Association of Software Companies

Association of Indian Hardware Manufacturers

Confederation of Indian Industry

India’s Ministry of Information Technology

All can be counted for their support

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Large Indian Database Community

Indian Universities have excellent Computer Science Departments.

Track Record of hosting COMAD10th International Conference on Management of Data held in December 2000.

Typical participation – 250 participants.

Workshops for Database Researchers http://web-plus.pspl.co.in/dbworkshop/ --attended by 60-80- researchers.

Excellent publication record from India and from Indians.

Large number of Indians working in Databases abroad.

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Bangalore

Silicon valley of India

Pleasant climate

Direct flights and good connections

Most multinational IT companies

All major Indian software houses

Indian Institute of Sc. plus many top academic institutions

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Attractive Prices

Fares US$ 1000 – 1500 from US, less from Europe .

Direct flights to Bangalore possible

March is not peak tourist season

Wide range of choices for accommodation and travel to suit all budget needs.

With some planning a lecture tour with visits to Universities and Companies across the country can be arranged.

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Attractive Conference Venue

The Taj Residency

A 5 star hotel

Has hosted several international conferences

Many similar to ICDE.

Recently, International High Performance Computing Conference, 350 participants

Rates: $120/$135 plus taxes

Meeting rooms gratis for meals – lunch, breakfast etc.

8 Km from airport

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Important Dates

Submissions Due June 14, 2002

Papers for review June 21, 2002

Program Committee Meeting Aug 3rd week,VLDB Hong Kong

Decision notification Sept. 10, 2002

Camera-ready versions due Oct. 10, 2002

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Program highlights

2-3 keynote addresses

a plenary panel

14 research paper sessions

3 poster sessions

3 panels

5 industrial sessions

5 half-day advanced technology seminars

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Industry Program

Given the major part played by Indian IT industry in the country’s modernization….

a strong industrial program is a key to the success of ICDE 2003

Two potential themes Information Technology for e-services

Database Issues in Internet Applications

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Advanced Technology Seminars

will get special attention, due to the training that it has the potential to impart to Indian and Asian participants.

will also facilitate obtaining sponsorship for ICDE 2003.

no special fees for tutorials

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Proposal for RIDE 2003

In Hyderabad, also in South India

Theme: Multilingual Information Management

Timely topic with obvious import for India and Asia

International Institute of IT, Hyderabad

has agreed to host RIDE 2003

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Office Bearers

General chairs: Deepak Phatak (IIT Bombay) Marek Rusinkiewicz (Telcordia)

PC chairs: Umesh Dayal (HP Labs) Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay and Umass Amherst)

Steering Committee LiaisonErich Neuhold, (GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt)Betty Salzberg (Northeastern University, Boston)

Organizations Chair: Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems Private Limited, Pune

Local arrangements: Jayant Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) V. R. Govindarajan (Aztec Software, Bangalore)

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Office Bearers

Industrial ProgramC. Mohan IBM Almaden Research CenterS. Ramani HP Labs India

PanelsSham Navathe, Georgia Tech UniversityHongjun Lu, HKUST, Hong KongGerhard Weikum, University of Saarbruecken

Advanced Technology SeminarsAlex Buchmann, Tech University DarmstadtS. Sudarshan, IIT BombayVijay Kumar, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Publicity ChairsFabio Casati, HP LaboratoriesKamal Karlapalem, IIT HyderabadKam Yiu Lam, City University of Hong Kong

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RIDE 2003

Multi-Lingual Information Management

Program Chairs-- Rajeev Sangal (Intl Institute of IT,

Hyderabad)

-- Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

General Chair-- Kamal Karlapalem (Intl Institute of IT,

Hyderabad)

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Area Vice-Chairs in placeTopic Vice-Chair

Indexing, Access Methods, Data Structures

David Lomet, Microsoft

Query / Transaction Processing & Optimization

Don Kossmann, Tech. Univ. Munich

Data Warehousing & OLAP Mining

(Data, Text, & Web)

Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay

Semi-structured Data, Metadata & XML

Jerome Simeon, Bell Labs

WWW & Databases Anindya Datta, Chutney Tech.

Middleware, Workflow & Security Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich

Database Engines K.Y.Whang, KAIST, Korea

Database Applications & Experiences

Laura Haas, IBM

Distributed, Parallel, Mobile Dbs Tamer Ozsu, Univ. Waterloo

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Attractive Registration Rates

Advance On-site

Members US$ 220 US$ 270

Non-members US$ 270 US$ 320

Student-members US$ 100 US$ 125

Full-time Students US$ 125 US$ 150

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Registration Income

Early On-site

Expected Amount Expected Amount

Members 30 $ 6,600 30 $ 8,100

Non-Members 60 $ 16,200 60 $ 9,200

Students 10 $ 1,000 10 $ 1,250

Full-time Students

15 $ 1,875 15 $ 2,250

115 115

Total (10 Complimentary)

240 $54,600

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Conservative Income Statement

Total Registration Income: $ 54,600

Total Sponsorships: $ 15,000US$ 10,000 already pledged

Total Income: $ 69,600

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Highlights of ExpensesConference Advanced

Technology Seminars

Advertisements etc. $ 1,000

Committee Expenses $ 5,800

Operating Expenses $ 18,350 $5,200

Contingency $ 2,515 $788

Computer Society $ 3,521 $735

Total Social Expenses $ 23,840

Total Meeting Expenses

$ 55,026 $ 6,773

Total Expenses $ 61,799

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Explanation for high social expenses and low meeting expenses

Hotels in India charge for the food that they serve (lunch and tea) on a per person basis.

If the number of attendees exceed 150, they do not charge any amount for conference facilities.

This is beneficial to the conference as expenses beyond the threshold become variable expenses – related to the registration count rather than a fixed expense.

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Budget Summary

Budgeted Amounts

Total Income $ 69,600

Total Expenses $ 61,799

Surplus $ 7,801

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ICDE 2003 will be successful

the vibrancy of Indian IT industry

the guaranteed participation of the different professional organizations

active database research community

a great place to visit

a highly successful ICDE 2003 in India

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Bangalore & India

look forward to ICDE 2003

Thank you