Fees / Costs

Fees / Costs

 SIA  Conference 2027 -  Conference Fees (TBA)

Registration Fees (inclusive of GST)

Full Price

Discount
(Defence, Academic &
Small
Business)

SIA 
Members
*

Submariners/
Retired/

Students

ImarEST 
Members

 Two Day Conference Fee (2 days)

         
Single Day Conference (Day 1 or Day 2)          
Opening Reception           
Dinner           
Full Conference          

Please note: Normal Discounts apply to conference registration fees only. Social events do not attract a discount registration cost and therefore need to be booked seperately.

* To qualify for the SIA Member rate, you must have joined the SIA before  Friday 1 March 2026 and have subscriptions valid to 30 June 2027 ( or later) by 1800 on 05 April 2026. 
Members who bring their subscriptions up to date before 31 July 2026 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 2026 will not provide access to the SIA Member rate.

Discount Rate
The SIA offers discounted registration as follows:

SIA members who were members before 1 March 2026 and whose subscriptions were paid up to 30/6/2027 before 06 April 2026 6 digit SIA membership number (SIA-XXXXXX)
Existing SIA members who bring their subscriptions up to date between 06 April and 31 July 2026

SIA-XXXXXX

People with a defence.gov.au email address AND a PMKeyS number DEFENCE
Employees of Australian-owned Small-Medium Enterprises (turnover <$A50m, 1-200 employees) SMALLBUSINESS
Academic Staff with an active educational (.edu) email address ACADEMIC
Members of IMarEST;

ImarEST

Please note: Discounts apply to conference registration fees only. Social events are available at the standard rate.
To apply the relevant discount to your conference tickets, please select social event as separate tickets during registration. Both conference and social event tickets can be purchased in the same transaction.
A 10% Early Bird discount will apply to Conference Fees until 10 July 2026. 

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

Serving Australian submariners;

SUBMARINES  

Defence members and contractors employed in Australian Government submarine organisations (e.g. Australian Submarine Agency)

 

SUBMARINES    

Full-time students who are not otherwise employed with an active educational (.Edu) email address and provide an active student identification number.

STUDENT

Retired people

RETIRED

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 and pay the full non-discounted registration fee, are entitled to complimentary membership of the SIA until 30 June 2028(standard membership fees apply to renewals after 30 June 2028).  Application for membership under this offer needs to be made before 31 December 2027.

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

Media registrations: The SIA welcomes media attendance at the Conference, however we require that all media are registered. Media regstrations are free using the access codes provided by the SIA. Please contact the Secretariat. 

 

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