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1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference(APBJC2024)〜JSBi, GIW, InCoB, APBC and ISCB-Asia〜

Sponsorship Prospectus

Dates

22 October 2024 (Tue) - 25 October 2024 (Fri)

Venue

Okinawa, Japan (NAHA CULTURAL ARTS THEATER NAHArt)

Conference Chairs
Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University)1ver. 2024.5.13

Dear Prospective 2024 Sponsor,
We invite you to the 1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024), which willtake place at the Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHArt, Okinawa, Japan, from October 22-24, 2024.
Bioinformatics, the interdisciplinary field of life and information sciences, is now attracting unprecedentedattention. Big biological data on living organisms, from genome data to sensor data, are now available.
The advancement of computational science, including artificial intelligence, is remarkable. Under thiscontext, we need to understand the mechanisms of disease, keep healthy lives, improve agriculture,protect the global environment, and efficiently produce valuable substances. The impact ofbioinformatics must be growing in the future.
In the Asia-Pacific region, further development of bioinformatics is highly demanded. In 2024, this goal
will finally become a reality in Okinawa, Japan. This conference will be jointly held by the JapaneseSociety for Bioinformatics (JSBi), Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET), International Society
for Computational Biology (ISCB), Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW), and the Asia-Pacific
Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), which are the main organizations involved in bioinformatics researchand education in the Asia-Pacific region. This first conference will be a memorable event that will
accelerate the development of bioinformatics in the Asia-Pacific region.
We sincerely look forward to your support and participation in APBJC2024.

Conference Chairs:
Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University)

Keywords: bioinformatics, health, medicine, drug discovery, agriculture, environment, biotechnology, AI,
big data
Language: English

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Overview of the event
1. Title
1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024)〜JSBi, GIW, InCoB, APBC, and ISCB-Asia〜
2. Organizers, co-sponsor, supporters
Organizers
Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi)
The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Co-sponsor
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
Naha CitySupporters
Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi)
Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET)
BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists (BioClues)
Masyarakat Bioinformatika Dan Biodiversitas Indonesia (MABBI)
Korean Society for Bioinformatics (KSBi)
Taiwan Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Society (TBSB)
Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS)
Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction and Networking Society (APBians, India)
Japan Association for Omics-based Medicine
Japanese Association for Medical Artificial Intelligence
The Chem-Bio Informatics Society
3. Theme
Creating bioinformatics synergy across the Asia & Pacific regions
4. Date22 October 2024 (Tue) - 25 October 2024 (Fri)
5. Conference typeOn-site
6. Venue
Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHArt (Naha, Okinawa, Japan)!"#$"#%&'()*+,-&'./0/'1-23&'45-6/7/'899"99:;&'</=/6' '>?@Ahttps://www.nahart.jp/
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7. Steering Committee
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University)
Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Annette McGrath (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
Diane Kovats (International Society for Computational Biology)
Harpreet Singh (Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar, India)
Kengo Kinoshita (Tohoku University)
Kenta Nakai (The University of Tokyo)
Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore)
Mohammad Asif Khan (University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar)
Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Australia)
Prash Suravajhala (Bioclues)
Shandar Ahmad (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Shinn Ying Ho (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Shinya Ikematsu (National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College)
Shoba Ranganathan (Macquarie University)
Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Tae-Min Kim (The Catholic University of Korea)
Yoshihiro Yamanishi (Nagoya University)
8. Expected participants
Researchers from universities, research institutes, companies, medical institutions
9. Session themes
Bioinformatics, information science, life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, environmental
studies, chemistry, mathematics, environmental studies, AI
10. Expected number of participants
580 participants4ver. 2024.5.13
11. Participation fee
Participation fee (~2024/7/31)

Corporate

Academic

Student

$700

$600

$475

$600

$500

$375

$500

$400

$325

$400

$300

$225

$350

$250

$175

$300

$200

$125

Corporate

Academic

Student

$800

$700

$575

$700

$600

$475

$600

$500

$425

$500

$400

$325

$450

$350

$275

$400

$300

$225

Corporate

Academic

Students

$70

$55

$30

■ High Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
■ Upper-Middle Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
■ Middle-Low & Low Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
B/C2-D-=/2-+6'EFFG#9#HIJI:〜:9I#;K■ High Income CountriesNon-member fees
' Member fees
■ Upper-Middle Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
■ Middle-Low & Low Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
Banquet fee' Member / Non-member5

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Participation fee for Virtual Atendee

Corporate/
AcademicStudent

$380

$280

$280

$180

$280

$180

$180

$80

$180

$80

$155

$55

■ High Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
■ Upper-Middle Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
■ Middle-Low & Low Income Countries
Non-member fees
' Member fees
What is the “Virtual Atendee”?
APBJC will offer virtual conference access. All sessions will be streamed live from Okinawa andcaptured for on-demand viewing. You will also have access to the poster theater.
The virtual participants can put questions into the portal for the session moderator to ask the speaker.
We typically have a tech moderator in the room to help with that.

Asian Student Council Symposium (22nd Oct) *the registration fee includes the lunch meals■Attend both conference and ASCS /Virtually atteding

Students

High Income Countries

50USD

Upper-Middle Income Countries

35USD' Middle-Low & Low Income Countries20USD■Attend only ASCS
' Students

Member fees

Non-member fees

125USD

150USD6

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12. Schedule (tentative)!

morning

October22(Tue),2024

lunch

afternoon

evening
Cocktail party!"#"$!%&'($")*+,()$#-*(.&/$"012-%&*1$3$4-),/$#-//,.)&5,

October

Keynote speech

LuncheonWorkshops, regular sessions,23(Wed),2024

regular session

Seminarssponsored sessions, coffee(smallbanquet)
Banquetbreaks and poster
presentations
October

Keynote speech,

LuncheonWorkshops, regular sessions,24(Thu),2024

regular sessionSeminars

sponsored sessions, JSBi
General Assembly, APBioNet
General Assembly, ISCB
Special Session, coffee breaks
and poster presentations

October

Keynote speech,

Closing ceremony, Award-25(Fri),2024

regular session

winning speech, publicsession, excursions

13. History
The Japanese Society for Bioinformatics is the representative society in the field of bioinformatics inJapan and holds an annual meeting every year. The other organizers include international conferencessuch as the International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW), the International Conference on
Bioinformatics (InCoB), the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) and the International Societyfor Computational Biology-Asia (ISCB-Asia). ISCB is the world's largest international society in the fieldof bioinformatics, and ISCB-Asia is its conference in the Asian region.
1) Annual Meetings of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics
1990 Tokyo, 1991 Tokyo, 1992 Yokohama, 1993 Yokohama, 1994 Yokohama, 1995 Yokohama, 1996
Tokyo, 1997 Tokyo, 1998 Tokyo, 1999 Tokyo, 2000 Tokyo, 2001 Tokyo, 2002 Tokyo, 2003 Yokohama,2004 Yokohama, 2005 Yokohama, 2006 Yokohama, 2007 Tokyo, 2008 Osaka, 2009 Yokohama, 2010
Fukuoka, 2011 Kobe, 2012 Tokyo, 2013 Tokyo, 2014 Sendai, 2015 Uji, 2016 Tokyo, 2017 Sapporo,2018 Tsuruoka, 2019 Tokyo, 2020 online, 2021 online, 2022 Osaka, 2023 Kashiwa
2) GIW7

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1990 Tokyo, 1991 Tokyo, 1992 Yokohama, 1993 Yokohama, 1994 Yokohama, 1995 Yokohama, 1996
Tokyo, 1997 Tokyo, 1998 Tokyo, 1999 Tokyo, 2000 Tokyo, 2001 Tokyo, 2002 Tokyo, 2003 Yokohama,2004 Yokohama, 2005 Yokohama, 2006 Yokohama, 2007 Singapore, 2008 Australia, 2009 Yokohama,2010 China, 2011 Korea, 2012 Taiwan, 2013 Singapore, 2014 Tokyo, 2015 Tokyo, 2016 China, 2017
Korea, 2018 China, 2019 Australia, 2022 Taiwan, 2023 Singapore
3) InCoB
2005 Korea, 2006 India, 2007 China, 2008 Taiwan, 2009 Singapore, 2010 Tokyo, 2011 Malaysia, 2012
Thailand, 2013 China, 2014 Australia, 2015 Tokyo, 2016 Singapore, 2017 China, 2018 India, 2019Indonesia, 2020 online, 2021 China, 2022 online, 2023 Australia4) APBC
2003 Australia, 2004 New Zealand, 2005 Singapore, 2006 Taiwan, 2007 China, 2008 Kyoto, 2009
China, 2010 India, 2011 Korea, 2012 Australia, 2013 Canada, 2014 China, 2015 Taiwan, 2016 USA,2017 China, 2018 Yokohama, 2019 China, 2020 Korea, 2021 Taiwan, 2022 online, 2023 China
5) ISCB-Asia
2011 Malaysia, 2012 China, 2014 Tokyo, 2022 Taiwan, 2023 Singapore

14. Secretariat
1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024)
c/o Okinawa Congrès Inc., Nihon Seimei Naha Bldg., 3-1-1 Kumoji, 900-0015 Naha, Okinawa
TEL +81-98-869-4220 E-mail apbjc2024@okicongre.jp
URL : https://www.apbjc.asia/20248

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APBJC2024 Call for sponsorship and support
The 1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024) held on 22-25 October 2024
cordially invites sponsors to support.

<Sponsor Package>1.

Diamond sponsor (1,500,000 JPY)
●Either a sponsored session in the large heatre (22 minutes) or a luncheon seminar in the smalltheatre (60 minutes, lunch not included)2.

●

Two exhibition spaces●

Logo display on the screen on the lobby wall●

Logo printing on lanyards (nameplate strings)●

Invitation slots to the conference (3 people, with banquet)

Platinum sponsor (1,000,000 JPY)●

Either a sponsored session in the large theatre (22 minutes) or a luncheon seminar in the smalltheatre (60 minutes, lunch not included)3.

●

Two exhibition spaces●

Invitation slots to the conference (3 people)

Gold sponsor (750,000 JPY)●

Either a sponsored session in the small theatre (22 minutes) or a luncheon seminar in the small
studio (60 minutes, lunch not included)4.

●

One exhibition space (ground floor, lobby)●Invitation slots to the conference (2 people)

Academic sponsor (150,000 JPY, academic only)*required registration●

One exhibition space

The package above includes Logo display on screens between sessions and Logo printing on theconference website, program booklet.

<Sponsored Session/Luncheon Session/Exhibit Booth Sponsor>
Sponsored Session
Session in the large

theatre (22 minutes) 550,000JPY

Session in the small theatre (22 minutes)400,000JPY

Luncheon Sponsor
Luncheon Session in the small theatre (60 minutes)

550,000JPY

Luncheon Session in the small studio (60 minutes)

350,000JPY

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Exhibit Booth Sponsor
2 Spaces

450,000JPY

1 Space

300,000JPY

Each Sponsor above includes Logo display on screens between sessions and Logo printing on theconference website, program booklet.

<Other Sponsors>
Logo printing on the conference website and program booklet

150,000JPY

Logo display on screens between sessions

100,000JPY

Logo display on the screen on the lobby wall

200,000JPY

Logo printing on lanyards (nameplate strings)

300,000JPY

How to apply
Please apply via the dedicated application website.
Applications will be accepted from January 2024. The final decision will be at the discretion of theconference committee. Applicants cannot transfer or lend their slots to third parties without permission
from the conference committee. If many applications are made, calls for applications may be closedearly.
Cancellation of applications
Once the application is submitted, no cancellations or changes can be accepted unless the conference
committee deems it inevitable. The sponsorship fee is non-refundable.
CostsThe costs of the venue and conference equipment are included. If the number of invitation tickets is notenough, additional conference registration is required.
Contact (Secretary)
1st Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference (APBJC2024)
c/o Okinawa Congrès Inc., Nihon Seimei Naha Bldg., 3-1-1 Kumoji, 900-0015 Naha, Okinawa
TEL +81-98-869-4220 E-mail apbjc2024@okicongre.jp
URL : https://www.apbjc.asia/202410

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Venue map and floor plans

Allocation of spaceA

Room

Capacity

Remarks(persons)Keynote room

Large Theatre (1-2F)

1,183

Theatre format

Poster room

Large Studio (3rd floor)'!

Reception and1st floor lobby

cloakroom'!

Room 1

Large Theatre (1-2F)

1,183

Theatre format

Room 2

Small Theatre (1F)

204

Theatre format

Room 3

Small Studio (1st floor)

126

Theatre format

Coffee break space

1st floor lobby, 2nd floor Grand''''''

Theatre foyer
Company exhibition

1st floor lobby, 2nd and 3rd floors

Secretariat

Small Theatre waiting room (1stfloor)

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Floor plan of the venue

Large theatre 3F

Large theatre 2F

Large studioLarge theatre 1F

Small theatre

Large theatre 1F

Small theatre

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