1. East Asian School of Information Theory (EASIT) 2020 and Beyond
Youngchul Sung
KAIST
Presenter: Changho

2. Outline Why EASIT? Organizing committee Program outline (tentative)
Budget (tentative)

3. Why East Asian School of IT?
52.9%
26.3%
27.7%

4. A new initiative in the last year (2018)
Successfully launched the first EASIT in Taiwan
Organizing committee at the time
Taiwan: Stefano Rini, I-Hsiang Wang, Yu-Chih (Jerry) Huang, Shih-Chun Lin
Hong Kong: Sidharth Jaggi
South Korea: Youngchul Sung

5. Wish to make it regular Plan for the upcoming three years
2020: Seoul, South Korea
2021: Hong Kong
2022: Shenzhen, China

6. Organizing Committee South Korea Hong Kong Singapore
General Organizers
Financial
Hong Kong
Sidharth Jaggi
@CUHK
Youngchul Sung @KAIST
Changho Suh @KAIST
Byonghyo Shim @SNU
Singapore
Industry funding
Vincent Tan
@NUS
Kwang Soon Kim @Yonsei

7. Program outline (tentative)
Basic & trending topics
1 local + 1 international speakers
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9:00-12:00
Tutorial A1
Tutorial B2
Lecture A
Lecture C
12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-16:30
Tutorial A2
Lecture B
Student
Posters
16:30-18:00
Social Event
Advanced topics
3 international speakers

8. Cost estimates Venue rental: $3900 (capacity of 200 people)
Meals: $10/meal (4 days people  $4800) $200/day for refreshments (4 days  $800)
Lodging & travel support for international students: $10,000
From Asia (e.g. Singapore/HongKong/Japan): $ From EU & NA: Germany: $1.5k$; London: $1.3k$; SFO: $1.2k …
Travel cost for international speakers: $12,400
$3100/speaker (flight & hotel)*4
Others

9. Budget (tentative)
Item
Description
Budget
Venue rental
SNU (or Yonsei University)
USD 3,900
Lunch and coffee
Offer lunch boxes or meal coupons
Lunch: $10 * 120 * 4 days = $4800;
Coffee: $200*4days=$800
USD 5,600
International (NA/EU) speakers
Travel cost for 4 international speakers
USD 12,400
Local (EA) speaker
Travel cost for 1 speaker from East Asia
USD 1,000
Student activities
Pizza night or BBQ
Local arrangement
Secretary, website etc.
USD 2,600
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Invitation letters & pamphlets
USD 650
General expenses
USD 3,500
Lodging & travel support for international students
Reimburse some portion of travel and lodging to encourage attendance
USD 10,000
Total
USD 40,650
Request the BoG to authorize $20K USD in 2020 new initiative funds to be allocated to EASIT 2020.
Plan to apply for additional funding from other sources like NRF-Korea, industries/universities

10. Venue (tentative)
Seoul National University (Institute of New Media and Communication)
Convenient transportation from airport
Dormitory with enough capacity
Another candidate: Yonsei University