Fees / Costs

Fees / Costs

 SIA Conference 2025 -  Conference Fees

* To qualify for the SIA Member rate, you must have joined the SIA before  Friday 1 March 2025 and have subscriptions valid to 30 June 2026 ( or later) by 1800 on 13 April 2025. 
Members who bring their subscriptions up to date before 12 July 2025 will be eligible for registration at the Defence/Small Business rate.
Thereafter, member subscriptions are treated as lapsed and SIA member discounts will not be available, even if subscription status is restored.
Please note that joining the SIA after 1 March 2025 will not provide access to the SIA Member rate.

Discount Rate
The SIA offers discounted registration as follows:

1. (60%) SIA members who were members on 1 March 2025 and whose subscriptions were paid up to 30/6/2026 before 13 April 2025; 6 digit SIA membership number (SIA-XXXXXX)
2. (40%) People with a defence.gov.au email address AND a PMKeyS number; DEFENCE
3. (40%) Employees of Australian-owned Small-Medium Enterprises (turnover <$A50m, 1-200 employees); SMALLBUSINESS
4. (40%) Existing SIA members who bring their subscriptions up to date between 1 May and 12 July 2025; SIA-XXXXXX
5. (40%) People with an active educational (.edu) email address; ACADEMIC
6. (25%) Members of IMarEST; ImarEST
7. (75%) Full-time students who are not otherwise employed with an active educational email address. STUDENT
8. Discounts apply only to Conference Fees, social events are available only at the normal rate. Accordingly,  to achieve the discounts on conference fees and also attend social events, please purchase these as individual tickets (can be purchased in one transaction). 
9. A 10% Early Bird discount will apply to Conference Fees until 4 July 2025. 

Cost-Recovery Rate
A special cost-recovery registration rate is offered to:

1. Serving Australian submariners; SUBMARINES
2. Defence members and contractors employed in Australian Government submarine organisations (e.g. Australian Submarine Agency);
3. Retired people; RETIRED
4. Full-time students.

Speakers: Presenters of Papers accepted following the Call for Presentations are entitled to complimentary registration. Attendance at social events will be charged at the normal rate.

SIA Membership: Delegates who register for two days of the Conference are entitled to complimentary joining fees for membership of the SIA (standard subscriptions apply after 30 June 2026).  Application needs to be made before 31 December 2025.

To join the SIA click here and then click 'Applications'.