Notes for conference delegates and presenters follow in relation to the conference site, travel to the conference, accommodation, conference fees (and meals), copies of the conference proceedings, and guidelines for the session presentations. Some early indications of the Saturday 29 September 2012 meeting of IFIP's Technical Committee 9 (TC9) can be found at the end of this document.

1. Conference site

The Human Choice and Computers 10 (HCC10) conference site is confirmed as the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (afterwards called VU University Amsterdam) (http://www.vu.nl/en/).
The university address is:
Main building VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Two conference rooms will be used for HCC10 at the VU University Amsterdam. The majority of conference sessions will be held as plenary sessions in the room called The Aurora (De Aurora). More information will follow during the summer.
Please note that the HCC10 conference site is not the same site as the World Computer Congress. (Instead, the World Computer Congress takes place at the RAI International exhibition and congress centre: http://www.wcc-2012.org/conferencevenue.php.) This may influence any decision you want to take about hotel accommodation.

2. Travel to the conference site

The VU University Amsterdam website offers details of how to travel to the main building of the university (which is where the HCC10 conference will take place). These directions to the university main building from different locations around Amsterdam (including the airport): http://www.vu.nl/en/about-vu-amsterdam/contact-info-and-route/route-description/

3. Accommodation near to the HCC10 conference site

The VU University Amsterdam suggests a number of hotels at different prices and qualities in the area near to the university: http://www.vu.nl/en/about-vu-amsterdam/hotels-in-amsterdam/. You should book your hotel yourself. Other than these hotels, there are plenty of others in downtown Amsterdam although accommodation in the city does tend to book up early.
Several conference delegates have already booked at the QBIC Hotel (which appears to be cheapish, nearby, and "quirky"):  http://www.vu.nl/en/about-vu-amsterdam/hotels-in-amsterdam/qbic-hotel-amsterdam-wtc/index.asp

4. Conference fees

Delegates can still sign on for the conference on the following website at a cost of 450 EUR: http://secure.caos.nl/noq/register2.asp?id=162
While the conference fees cover attendance at the conference, morning and afternoon breaks, and a copy of the conference proceedings, they do not cover the cost of lunches or evening dinners.
Lunches: Provisionally, lunches will be taken in the university canteen. More information will follow during the summer.
Dinners: One informal dinner is planned. On registration at the conference on Thursday 27 September 2012, delegates will be asked to signal whether they would like to attend this dinner and whether they will also be coming to dinner on Friday 28 September 2012.
Wednesday 26 September 2012: No organised dinner is planned for this evening.
Thursday 27 September 2012: Many Dutch people were among the founders of the early IFIP TC9 working groups in the 1970s. On Thursday 27 September 2012 dinner, we are hoping that we shall be joined by a number of these 'veterans'.
Friday 28 September 2012: Dinner will be taken with those people planning to attend the TC9 meeting on Saturday 29 September 2012.

5. Copies of conference proceedings

All registered conference delegates will receive a free copy of the conference proceedings. The proceedings are provisionally known as Hercheui, M.D. et al. (eds.) ICT, Critical Infrastructure and Society. HCC10 2012. IFIP AICT 386, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (2012). ISI proceedings and EI Compendex index these Springer IFIP AICT publications.

6. Guidelines for Session Presentations

This conference aims to promote discussion, debate and dialogue. For this reason, it is holding a mix of panel sessions and discussion sessions. The discussion session will either be held as plenaries or in two parallel smaller sessions. Here are some brief guidelines for discussion session participants and for panel session participants.

6.1 Guidelines for Discussion Session Presentations

Each presenter of a paper will have a maximum of ten minutes to present his or her paper. This will be followed by a five minutes clarificatory question-and-answer session. This therefore means that it is more important to present and select a number of key PowerPoints rather than a large volume of slides. Chairs and co-Chairs will keep you tightly to your time limit, and of course you are also expected to manage your own presentation length appropriately. Greater attention will be paid to overall discussion and debate at the end of the session.
Each speaker should introduce him/herself with a brief two-phrase synopsis of career and interests.
All PowerPoint sets should be submitted to the conference Chairs by Monday September 10, 2012. In turn, the conference Chairs will distribute these PowerPoints to the Panel Chairs or co-Chairs as soon as possible following this date. Chairs/co-Chairs may in turn ask you (if necessary) to manage the volume of your PowerPoint slides.

6.2 Guidelines for Panel Session Chairs

Panelists will be asked to focus on the content and outcomes of their presentations for action on ICT critical infrastructures and society. Panel chairs will facilitate the panels in such a way that either the common elements or the contrasting characteristics of the participants’ thinking and writing are clear.
Panelists will be encouraged to interact, and input, feedback, and further dialogue from the floor will be welcome.
The conference Chairs will provide Chairs of each panel session with the content of the papers on which panel presentations are based in advance of the session, so that they can prepare general introductions to the sessions. We will distribute those sets of PowerPoints that have been made available to us as soon as possible after September 10, 2012.

7. Technical Committee 9 meeting on Saturday 29 September 2012

The Technical Committee 9 meeting will take place in the VU University Amsterdam. Expected to attend are: national computing association representatives to TC9, and working group or special interest group chairs (or their proxies). More information on the IFIP Technical Committee 9 meeting, such as more precise timing and an agenda, will follow during the summer.