The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will hold the 9th IAEA Technical Meeting (IAEA-TM) on “Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participationfor Fusion Researchin Hefei, China from 06- 10 May 2013. The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previous meetings were held in Garching, Germany (1997), Lisbon, Portugal (1999), Padova, Italy (2001), San Diego, California, USA (2003), Budapest, Hungary (2005),Inuyama, Japan,(2007), Aix-en-Provence, France (2009) and San Francisco, USA (2011).