We accept your bank transfer for registration fee until April 15.
To accept your bank transfer, please complete your payment process by April 13.
If you want to pay your registration fee any other payment method other than credit card,
Please email oceans18kobe-registration@convention.co.jp
If you need to apply VISA, we suggest you to finish your registration, payment and fill in the VISA document completely by April 27th.
Please note that ALL information asked in the format is mandatory. Travel information may be tentative but please fill all of them.
If we can not recieve all information the document will not be issued.
Full registration includes access to technical sessions, exhibits, and all social events (Ice Breaker Reception, OES Awards Luncheon, Exhibitors Reception, MTS Awards Luncheon, and Gala Dinner). Prices for various registration categories are provided via the link at the bottom of this page.
There are three options for registering for the main OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018 conference:
For those who need VISAs to attend OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018, the link to the document for VISA application will be returned to you upon completion of your registration for OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018.
Please read below to see which method you should use.
Both of these events are free of charge; however, you must register either online (select “Exhibits Only” registration) or at the Registration Desk to obtain a Name Badge which is required for admission.
Tutorials held on Monday, May 28, are considered “add-ons” to the main OCEANS ’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe conference and you may register for Tutorials without registering for the full conference.
Click here for a Tutorial schedule.
If you are registering as a full conference attendee, you will be able to add individual tutorials to your registration.
If you are the presenting author of a conference paper or of a student poster and have been notified that your abstract has been accepted, please follow the Author Dashboard login instructions contained in your acceptance email and on the Author’s Instructions page http://kobe18.oceansconference.org/author-instructions/
These instructions will take you through the paper upload process, including copyright, PDF eXpress, and Paper Registration. You will be registering for the conference as part of the Paper Registration process, so please do not use the Attendee registration page linked in the next section. Student Poster Contest authors will receive a free full registration, but still need to go through the regular author registration process.
Conference attendees who are not submitting papers or student posters register here. Registration is required even if you plan to attend only the Exhibition or the Plenary Session of OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018.
Registration is also required for Tutorials and Workshops and other conference events.
For Exhibitor Registration, please register here.
Please note you will need the Password forwarded to you by Secretariat of Exhibition in order to register.
If you need to apply VISA, we suggest you to finish your registration, payment and fill in the VISA document completely by April 27th.
Please note that ALL information asked in the format is mandatory. Travel information may be tentative but please fill all of them.
If we can not recieve all information the document will not be issued.
If you need a VISA, you will be given a link for the document to send to the application window during the registration process. Please fill-in the document and send to the registration window. Once your paid registration has been confirmed, you will receive the VISA application documents by post.
For official invitation letter, please download from the TOP page. (http://kobe18.oceansconference.org/)
For questions regarding registration, please email oceans18kobe-registration@convention.co.jp
or call:
• Japan: + 81 (0) 3 3508 1249
To add additional optional events and purchase extra tickets for social events after you have already registered, email oceans18kobe-registration@convention.co.jp
Cancellations or requests for refunds must be received in writing on or before April 27, 2018. A processing fee of JPY 15,000 will be deducted from each registration cancelled by April 27, 2018. No refunds will be issued for any cancellations of the conference including, but not limited to only social events, received after April 27, 2018; however, transfer of registration to another person in your organization may be possible. Send all requests to oceans18kobe-registration@convention.co.jp and include “Conference Cancellation” in the subject line.