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<h2>ITNAC 2024 June Newsletter</h2>
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="color:#32A6A8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Welcome to our first newsletter for 2024</span><br><br><span style="color:#52AB90;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:18.0pt;">ITNAC 2024 UNSW Sydney Australia 27-29 November</span><br><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:18.0pt;">Hybrid Conference - online and face-to-face</span><br><span style="color:red;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Technically co-sponsored</span><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"> by the <strong>IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society</strong>.</span></p><p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><img src="https://itnac.org.au/sites/default/files/images/ieee_mb_blue_2.jpg" data-entity-uuid="5bf87d9c-1b0c-4994-8bd4-867957b9e387" data-entity-type="file" alt width="200" height="58" loading="lazy"> <img src="https://itnac.org.au/sites/default/files/images/IEEE-CS_LogoTM-orange_jpeg.jpg" data-entity-uuid="83e61bd5-f3e6-4d55-8d24-4eae8b390599" data-entity-type="file" alt width="200" height="61" loading="lazy"> <img src="https://itnac.org.au/sites/default/files/images/ieee-comsoc.png" data-entity-uuid="a0d88027-52e7-405e-af80-e8aa79380839" data-entity-type="file" alt width="200" height="77" loading="lazy"></p><p><span style="color:#52AB90;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:15.0pt;">Keynote announcement</span><br>Professor Elaine Wong from Melbourne University</p><p><span style="color:#52AB90;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:15.0pt;">Keynote suggestions welcome</span><br><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">The ITNAC committee welcomes suggestions from our community for Keynote speakers. Please email suggestions to the committee and we'll see if the speaker is available. There are so many amazing improvements to technologies and systems, we don't want to miss exciting work being carried out by academics and researchers within industry.</span><br><br><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitnac.org.au%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fitnac2024cfp.pdf&data=05%7C02%7C%7C580d8250fd264f397a9508dc88fd5313%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638535868920133336%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yStR2eZ50FSC0qEZkRIxHpSYN%2FsO5USeyyEg1s2Bi6I%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://itnac.org.au/sites/default/files/itnac2024cfp.pdf" shash="fNp4Rk/u87qovbRYHB1RrVv5hFwsVp2dzHAm/yrbB4U00/9RyZyVzIRE/Opo6XDWDDgYYU7KlQ0ZfoceF+PzrBm4ZLdDFhjx04+vyp+XSTKVj6wlnbncoWX8fFaPsyelYCxj4MWo/A3uXZnnoYYX4fU+qBsWy/PGHM4ODldlHAk=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;">Call for Papers</span></a><span style="color:red;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;"> - eight weeks until the deadline</span><br><br><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fedas.info%2FN32136&data=05%7C02%7C%7C580d8250fd264f397a9508dc88fd5313%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638535868920289571%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HeM2SrZuHS8MzOn74r2MLYf%2B8U61ZUPlWlX5z8u7v8g%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://edas.info/N32136" shash="KTfFStwftCYtGf/X90taPQ1XuOi7WMt5Bk/WVBPWXufPrFl52fA+eLn2bkRemccDtjLHZ+OLaC2zUOOI0WtfIdI1kH5tBFleyrG0RkdnRYnp0AcMqUobJ8x8WCbib2PShMjT9wpUpD6ehwQwEGQMeY/+5oP7+3YGND58qVQnTGc=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#52AB90;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;">Submit your paper now</span></a><br><br><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Sydney, Australia's most welcoming city! Well, if you stretch it a bit. ITNAC 2024 will be held at University of New South Wales in Australia's beach capital at a wonderful time of the year to enjoy the sites. There are many things to do, and you can take a holiday before or after the conference.</span><br><a href="mailto:committee@itnac.org.au?subject=ITNAC%20Workshop" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Contact the committee</span></a><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"> if you're interested in offering a workshop or helping to arrange one. We're keen to have a couple of workshops this year, so please get involved.</span><br><br><span style="color:red;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><strong>We need your support.</strong></span><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"> If you have a PhD </span><a href="mailto:committee@itnac.org.au?subject=Join%20the%20ITNAC%20TPC&body=Dear%20Committee%2C%0A%0AI%20would%20like%20to%20join%20the%20ITNAC%20TPC.%0A%0A" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">email the committee</span></a><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"> to join the Technical Program Committee. ITNAC continues to be a successful conference with your support. If you wish to join the committee and help with the conference, contact the committee.</span><br><br><span style="color:maroon;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><strong>Technical Program Committee members that have one papers accepted as first author will receive a free second paper registration.</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:darkorange;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><strong>Students can apply for one of the ten free registrations offered this year for accepted papers with a student first author.</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:navy;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Support ITNAC 2024 by forwarding this email to your colleagues and students.</span><br><span style="color:#4CAAD8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">The ITNAC committee is committed to running the conference and to providing an opportunity for our community to publish papers. We welcome volunteers and have several committee positions open. If you need assistance or advice on how to get involved contact the committee.</span><br><br><span style="color:maroon;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;"><strong>ITNAC 2024 Sponsors</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:darkgreen;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">ITNAC 2024 welcomes sponsors for the event. If you're in contact with a potential sponsor let the committee know so that we can follow up. ITNAC is a successful conference with the support of sponsors, we need our community to help identify potential sponsors and to link the committee with them. </span><a href="mailto:committee@itnac.org.au?subject=Sponsorship" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Contact the committee.</span></a><br><br><span style="color:#32A6A8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><strong>Spread the word</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:#202020;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">Are you an academic or student? Spread the word to your colleagues that ITNAC 2024 will be a great opportunity to meet colleagues and friends whilst presenting a paper.</span><br><br><span style="color:#202020;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">ITNAC 2024 will again have a wonderful ambience and be a great experience for everyone that participates.</span><br><br><span style="color:#202020;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;">We need your support at this time, to ensure that ITNAC is a success and continues to be the leading international telecommunications and networking conference in Australia and New Zealand.</span></p><p style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="color:#32A6A8;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt;">How you can contribute to the ITNAC community today and in coming months</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">The Association is working to get a new Journal included in Scopus. To achieve this outcome we could do with your help. If you can spare a day, write a 4 page single column paper and submit the paper to the </span><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fijicta.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7C580d8250fd264f397a9508dc88fd5313%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638535868920289571%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C40000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=I%2BJcbYwFQH88ZFYIiOlDG4ax%2BDfGxuwgob3uKbjtagE%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://ijicta.org/" shash="xyiD2Vu4uZ2dq7JDJYkRNzmcmxwwT58cJHxEs5BOJCPwnc7n9LbnEviNnNFTuaTLG2cvhwOcHZln2NzHmTpjaejt2FqJNNv8FUJ4ItWJCv9GqLo9NqY3Ab8PPN55qy4kPc4f39XeSkfQ3aPAUG4U6gebZRwgn5EbFz3nonbti8s=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">International Journal of Information, Communication Technology and Applications</span></a><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">. We'll process your paper quickly and publish the paper. All papers are indexed with ORCID. The Journal is open access, so you can immediately submit the paper to ResearchGate to attract citations.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">We would like to get IJICTA included in Scopus asap, so that we have a Journal to compliment ITNAC and to provide a location for extended papers to be published.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">If you would like to become an editor of the Journal and to help attract papers, contact the committee today.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">We're committed to providing a high quality peer reviewed Journal that will enhance the Association's offering to our community.</span> <br><br><span style="color:#202020;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><strong>Call for Papers</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;">As is our practice the Call for Papers will be available at the ITNAC website, which is currently undergoing the annual update and you can submit your paper through EDAS.info.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><strong>Volunteers</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">On behalf of the committee and our volunteer marketing chairs Dr Nazmus Nafi and Dr Kashinath Basu we will look forward to providing you with information throughout the year, and to respond to your feedback. If you would like to get involved and volunteer for one of the committee roles, email the committee.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:9.0pt;"><strong>Stay safe</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">We anticipate a great conference in 2024 at UNSW in Sydney, Australia. We wish our community a safe year and we look forward to seeing as many of our community as possible at the conference this year.</span><br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">On behalf of the committee, we would like to wish you all well at this difficult time.</span> <br><br><span style="color:#656565;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;">General Chair Mark A Gregory</span></p></div>
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