The project will mainly host the IEEE flagship conference IEEE SmartGridComm 2024 in Oslo, Norway. The support from RCN is very important for the success of the event. The cost in organizing conferences in Norway is normally very high and Norwegian kroner is weak in recent years. With such reason, we have been declined few times before by IEEE when we applied to host conferences in Oslo, Norway.
The RCN’s support will be mainly used to cover the conference venue and the keynote speakers’ travel cost. The conference venue in Oslo city center has high cost. We have received an offer from a conference hotel and the renting cost is quite high. It is very challenging to only use conference registration fee to cover the cost.