Call for SUBMISSIONS

Submissions closed on 15 January 2026 at 11:59pm AEDT

Notifications to Authors will be released on 5 February 2026




SESA, ITEA & Simulation Australasia are now accepting Abstracts, Papers and Tutorial submissions for the Systems Engineering | Test & Evaluation Conference (SETE) 2026 to be held at the Hilton Sydney from 27 - 30 April 2026..

SETE provides a transdisciplinary forum for participants to expand professional networks, ex-change best practices, and learn from leading practitioners and academics in engineering systems and the delivery of complex capabilities across diverse sectors.

We invite you to participate in this conference by submitting a presentation application.





Submission Portal

If this is your first time submitting an abstract for the Conference, you must click on the blue ‘Create New Account’ button before being able to create your submission.

This will prompt you to enter your email address and create a password for your account. Once complete click on the ‘create’ button. You will then need to create a profile which is completed on the Contact Information tab. After creating a contact, additional tabs will appear that will enable you to submit, edit and withdraw any of your submission(s).

Note. If you have already created a profile, you will only need to enter your email address and password and click ‘Sign in’

Please remember that submitting an abstract does not automatically register you as a delegate. Presenters who fail to register by the due date risk having their presentation removed from the program.

Guidelines and submission instructions

Please read the following instructions on how to prepare and submit for the SETE Conference.

PLEASE NOTE:

* Abstracts and papers submitted in hard copy will not be accepted. Only abstracts submitted via the online portal will be accepted and reviewed.

* All abstracts and papers must be prepared in English

* All authors who accept to deliver a session must register for the Conference

* The submitting author (if different to the presenting author) will be the one linked to the abstract and will receive all relevant information via email. It is the submitting author’s exclusive responsibility to ensure that all relevant emails are passed onto the presenting author and any other relevant parties.

All accepted abstracts will be:
* Published exactly as they are submitted
*Appear in the Conference app
* Made available to conference delegates

All accepted abstracts will be:
* Published exactly as they are submitted
*Selected authors will receive an invitation to submit an extended version of their paper to the Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering (AJMDE)
*Appear in the Conference app
* Made available to conference delegates

Please remember to proof read the abstract submission before pressing submit.

Presenter Deadlines

Call for Abstracts/Papers/Tutorials Open 26 October 2025
Call for Abstracts/Papers/Tutorials Close 15 January 2026
Notification to Authors (all submissions) 5 February 2026
Deadline to register or cancel speaking 30 January 2026
Final Conference Program Launched 1 April 2026
SETE 2026 Conference 27 - 30 April 2026

Submitting to SETE 2026

* There are no restrictions on the number of submissions you may submit or on the number of submissions you may present.

*The deadline for electronic submissions for abstracts is 15 January 2026 at 11:59 PM, AEDT.

The online portal offers a text-based submission form where you will be required to enter the information regarding your abstract, such as title, authors, biography, etc. 

Submitting an abstract is a multi-step process, and you should have a copy of your abstract file on hand so that you can copy/paste the information easily into the text-based submission form fields.


STEP 1: Abstract/Paper title (max. 15 words) - The title should be as brief as possible but long enough to clearly indicate the nature of the abstract. If you wish to include a subtitle, it must be included in this field and included in the 15 word limit.

Presentation - Select your preferred type of presentation in the dropdown field.
Please note: that in the event your submission is accepted for a presentation, you may be allocated a different presentation format than the one you have selected during the submission process.

Presentation format: Please select one presentation format:

  • Full Paper
  • Paperless Presentations
  • Panels and Workshops
  • Tutorials

See a description of each paper and requirements here

STEP 2: Themes - Choose a theme that best describes your submission:

  • Artificial Intelligence for Systems Engineering (AI4SE)
  • Systems Engineering for Artificial Intelligence (SE4AI)
  • Data Science and Digital Transformation in Systems Engineering
  • Systems Leadership
  • Mission Engineering
  • Systems Engineering for Complex Transport and Infrastructure
  • Defence Case Studies
  • Test & Evaluation: Advancing Strategy
  • Modelling and Simulation in Support of Test & Evaluation
  • Systems Security Risk Management
  • Systems Engineering in Support of Integrated Logistics Support (ILS)
  • Agile Systems Engineering• System Architecting and Design
  • Systems Thinking & Complex Systems
  • Systems Engineering for a Successful Energy Transition
  • Healthcare & Biomedical Systems
  • Space Systems Engineering
  • Education for Systems Engineers
  • Pathways to INCOSE Systems Engineering Vision 2035
  • Engineering Management
See a description of each theme here

Keywords - 

STEP 3: Authors & affiliations – Your details as the main contact will automatically appear as an affiliation and author. You will need to begin by checking that your details are correct and ticking if you are a presenter. Once it has been completed, you can add any additional authors and affiliations. 

Please enter all authors in the order they should appear in the heading of the abstract. If you (the Contact Author) are not the Presenter on a submission, you will need to provide contact information on the Presenter.

PLEASE NOTE:

* Please enter the affiliation number in the corresponding box for the abstract author.
* Please ensure the spelling of their names and affiliations (if applicable) is correct
* Please consult with your co-authors on how they would like their names to appear. 

Biography of Presenting Author (max 100. words) - Provide a biography exactly the way you would like it published on the website and conference app. Your biography is limited to 100 words and preferably written in the third person.

STEP 4: Submission (max. 300 words, excluding references)

  • Enter the abstract text, by either copying/pasting from your Word file or typing in the information.
  • Please use the format indicated below during abstract submission. Structured Abstracts must be entered into the submission system in this form and included as the first page of papers. Structured Abstracts must not exceed a total of 300 words, excluding the references.
    • Overview
      2-3 sentences providing an outline of the work, problem investigated, or motivation for the paper. Why should we attend your presentation?
    • Context
      2-3 sentences on the background of the topic, problem, issue or phenomenon being investigated. What is already known?
    • Purpose
      2-3 sentences describing the research or practice question, your hypothesis or the rationale for the investigation. What were/are you trying to understand?
    • Approach
      2-3 sentences summarising the approach, what data or evidence was/could be collected or triangulated, and how it was analysed. Why should we believe you?
    • Insights
      2-3 sentences outlining the key insights from the investigation. What can we learn?
  • References - If you wish to include them, they must be included in the body of your abstract and included in the 300 word count.
  • Once your submission is complete, please read your abstract in full to ensure all details are correct.
  • Do not use tables or figures.
  • Ensure your abstract is print ready i.e. If successful, the session information will appear in conference collateral as it has been submitted in the abstract. Please note that SETE reserve the right to edit the copy provided.
Upload your Full Paper
  • If you are submitting a full paper, you will still be required to enter abstract text above that will be used in conference collateral. Please see below for more details.
  • Please download your full paper template here and then upload your complete paper below your abstract text

 STEP 5: Confirm the following items for your abstract submission

Confirm the following items for your authors:

  • Conflict – If any of the author(s) have any commercial interests or associations that might pose a conflict of interest regarding this submission, please enter them.
  • Author approval - You are required to confirm that the submission has been approved by all authors.
  • Permission to publish - You are required to provide permission on behalf of all authors and affiliations associated with the abstract submission, for the abstract to appear on the conference website, app and in printed material if it is accepted for presentation.

STEP 7: Once complete you will be taken to a summary page to review all the details you have entered. If you are happy with the information, you may then click on the submit button. The next screen will confirm your submission has been received. You will be sent a confirmation email.



Submitting more than one abstract/paper

If you are submitting more than one abstract, complete the first submission then click on ‘Abstract submission’ at the top of the screen to submit a new abstract. Please follow the same steps as above to complete the submission.

Presentations

Full Papers

  • Submit a high-quality academic and practice-based paper aligned to SETE domains and streams. A paper should be fully formed, including, as appropriate, a clear articulation of the scope of the problem, assumptions, relevant literature, methodology or justification of theory development, results, analysis, implications and/or conclusions. Students are encouraged to submit a full paper and may submit a work-in-progress.
  • Full papers should be submitted together with the abstract. The paper will undergo double blind reviews. If accepted, authors will have to work on their papers to rectify the suggestions in the review comments and submit a final version.
  • Full papers must use the SETE template, and the manuscript must not exceed 5000 words. Substantive use of generative AI is discouraged, but any use must be declared in an acknowledgement section in the manuscript body.

Paperless Presentations

  • To submit a paperless presentation you need to submit an abstract of your work
  • Share work in progress, novel approaches or challenge ideas without writing a formal paper
  • Must demonstrate potential to be highly engaging and relevant to the audience

 Panels and Workshops

  • Facilitated sessions may take the form of a traditional panel with experts and speakers, a roundtable discussion, a workshop, an open forum of ideas, a fireside chat or a debate. If appropriate, highly relevant and impactful topics may be considered for the plenary program.
  • The Proposal for facilitated sessions takes the form:
    • Catchy title – a short title that provides a taste for the facilitated session.
    • Format – 1 sentence description of the intended format
    • Overview – 2-3 sentences outlining the general motivation and narrative for the facilitated session. Why should we attend your panel/workshop?
    • Opportunity for interaction – 1-2 sentences describing how you plan to encourage interaction between presenters and participants. How can the audience participate in the session?
    • Line-up – a listing of confirmed presenters. Who is presenting?
    • Length – a facilitated session may run for 30, 60 or 90 minutes.
    • Room style – what kind of room set-up and AV is required?
    • Domain or Stream – which Domain/s or Stream/s is this facilitated session relevant to?
Tutorials
  • Tutorials are delivered on a tutorial day of the conference and typically take the form of classroom instruction.
  • Tutorials must advance a topic of relevance to SETE26, and may take the form of:
    • an introduction tutorial: a 101-style orientation to a relevant topic
    • a professional development tutorial: building the skills and capability of attendees;
    • a technology capability tutorial: demonstrating new tools, techniques and applications (note, this must not be a sales presentation)
    • a best practices methodology tutorial: concerned with advancing the art and science of practice
  • The proposal for a tutorial takes the form:
    • Catchy title – a short title that provides a taste for the tutorial.
    • Format – 1 sentence description of the intended format
    • Overview – 2-3 sentences outlining the general motivation and narrative for the tutorial. Why should we attend your tutorial?
    • Audience – 1-2 sentences describing who the intended audience is. Who should be in the room?
    • Line-up – a listing of confirmed presenters. Who is presenting?
    • Room style – what kind of room set-up and AV is required?
    • Domain or Stream – which Domain/s or Stream/s is this facilitated session relevant to?

Acceptance/rejection notifications

  • You will be notified electronically of the acceptance/rejection of your abstract week commencing 15 January 2026.
  • This notification will include the type of presentation if accepted.
  • Only the corresponding author will be notified. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to notify all co-authors.
  • If you do not receive your notification by Friday 30 January, you should contact sete@theassociationspecialists.com.au

 Responsibilities of the Corresponding Author

The first author listed for each abstract serves as the corresponding author and as the primary contact for all correspondence regarding the abstract. The corresponding author is responsible for the following:

  • Ensuring that all authors have read the abstract and agreed to be co-authors.
  • Notifying all co-authors of any additions, deletions, and changes to the program, as may be communicated by the SETE Organising Committee.
  • Obtaining all the conflict of interest disclosures.

 Revisions

  • Carefully check the proof of your paper/abstract. Make sure all special characters and formatting are displaying properly in your proof.
  • If you find errors, return to the appropriate page by clicking on the page name in the left-hand menu to make your corrections.
  • If you have not completed all required sections and details, you will not be able to submit.

 Committee Review

  • After the submission site closes, completed papers/abstracts will be reviewed by the Committee before inclusion in the relevant program stream.
  • All papers/abstracts will be blinded for review, meaning the abstracts will be reviewed without knowledge of the author/s, institution/s or disclosure information.
  • The Committee will make the final decision as to the format of your presentation
  • Abstracts will be accepted on any subject concerned with continence issues across the ages.

 

Need Help?

  • For technical assistance, regarding the abstract submission site, contact the SETE Conference Partners at +61 2 9431 8600 Monday through Friday, or by email sete@theassociationspecialists.com.au


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