Spring Planning Meeting August 29, 2015 San Marcos,TX Consultants Network IEEE Central Texas Section Affinity Group Spring Planning Meeting August 29, 2015 San Marcos,TX

2015 CTCN Leadership Team Kai Wong – Chairman/Program Mgr. Sergio Liberman– Vice Chair Jody Everett – Treasurer Bill Martino – Secretary Karen Ulferts – Communication Mgr. Luis Basto – Web Master http://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn/index.htm Notes:

CTCN Affinity Group Update 8 regular meetings YTD Officers meetings regularly Sergio L will be moving to California for a new job. Luis Basto joined our team No Consultants Workshop this year Notes:

2015 CTCN Meetings Date Topic Speaker L31? Jan Breaking barriers in manufacturing with low cost 3D printing Matt Fiedler Y(T) Feb Internet of Everything Kwok Wu Mar Factom: Bitcoin Blockchain for IoT Brian Deery April High Resolution Audio Sergio L May Fracking and the Energy Market DR Word Jun IEEE Followship in DC Len Hause Y(P) July US Infrastructure - Esp. Bridges James Mercier Aug Call Center S/W Powered by Watson Ryan Lund Notes: 144 total attendees at Gary’s talk. 109 in auditorium. 42 attendees at workshop. 28 IEEE members. For yr: avg guests 10.5, ieee 14 ¼. * Joint with CAS/SSC, CEDA, TMC, COMSOC/SP, & WIE

2015 CTCN Remaining Meetings Date Topic Speaker L31? 23-Sep Five Keys to an Engaged and Innovative Culture Carrie Vanston Prof. 28-Oct Atlas Wearable Product Development Peter Li Tech 18-Nov FPGA Review Jody Everett ?-Dec Holiday Party   Notes: 144 total attendees at Gary’s talk. 109 in auditorium. 42 attendees at workshop. 28 IEEE members. For yr: avg guests 10.5, ieee 14 ¼.

SWOT Analysis Strength – Good team work & network to recruit speakers. Weakness – Not attracting enough new members. Opportunity – Host joint events with other groups. Threat – Staying relevant as local technical employment conditions improve and CTCN membership ages.

Chapter Plans / Issues Mix topics at monthly meetings to cover professional development, training, and technical topics. Co-host/support workshop with chapters sharing same interest. Attract younger members with current and relevant topics and speakers. Improve return rate for first time attendees. Notes:

QUESTIONS??? Thanks If you’d like to learn more about electronic services, you’ll want to attend the session on the Electronic Services being presented this afternoon by Christian Borgert (BORE-GERT) and Chip Dawson. If you miss this afternoon’s session, you can see it tomorrow morning. Now I’d like to answer your questions about newsletters and electronic services . . . (After Q&A) I’m sorry we don’t have time to answer all of your questions, but we have an abundance of expertise with us this weekend, and much of it is in the Computer Lab upstairs. Stop by and get more information anytime.

2015 IEEE CTS Conference & Workshop No. Date Name Chapter Location 1 3/27/2015 Texas WISE CAS, SSC Round Top 2 3/29-4/1/2015 2015 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC) Communication Blanton UT Austin 3 3/31-4/1/2015 2015 11th IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects (SELSE) Computer H. Garden Inn, Austin 4 5/17-20/2015 2015 10th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE) Rel., Sys.. Man & Cybernetics Hilton, SA 5 5/31-6/4/2015 2015 IEEE 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Hilton Austin 6 2015 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) 7 6/22-25/2015 Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Reliability JJP-UT, Austin 8 9/27-30/2015 2015 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) CEDA UT Austin 9 11/2-6/2015 2015 ICCAD ACM/SIGDA CEDA Austin 10 11/15-20/2015 IEEE HP CNSA ACC Austin 11 10/16/2015 Power Engrg. Training PIx2 TECO 12 9/23/2015 IEEE Rockstar of Wearables. Brazos Hall 13 8/3-5/2015 NI Week CTS  ACC