2nd IEEE Tunisia section ExCom meeting Habib M. Kammoun 2015-2016 IEEE Tunisia Section chair Habib.kammoun@ieee.org 11/15/2019

Participants (1/3) Officers Habib M. Kammoun, chair Azza Ouled Zaid, vice chair Messaoud Amairi, Secretary Nizar Rokbani, Treasurer 11/15/2019

Participants (2/3) Elected Members (chapters/Affinity groups) Chafaa Hamrouni (AESS) Noureddine Boulejfen (MTTS) Absent (APS) Vacant (OES) Absent (CAS) Ilhem Slama (PES) Tarek Bejaoui (ComSoc) Nizar Rokbani (RAS) Nesrine Baklouti (CIS) Chokri Ben Amar (SPS) Raja Fdhila (Computer) Absent (SSCS) Vacant (CEDA) Yassine Aribi (SMCS) Adel M. Alimi (Education) Absent (VTS) Mounir Ben Ayed (EMBS) Wael Ouarda (YP) Hela Lajmi (IAS) Abir Chermiti (WIE) Mounir Ben Aissa (ITSS) 11/15/2019

Participants (3/3) Appointed Members Nominations and Appointments Committee Ilhem Kallel (Chapter Coordinator) Adel M. Alimi (Conference Coordinator) Membership Development Coordinator Student Activities Coordinator Student Representatives Professional Activities Coordinator Educational Activities Coordinator Rami Messaoud (Industry Ambassador) Tarek Bejaoui & Amine Zribi & Sana Khalfa (Awards & Recognition Committee) Khouloud Filali (Newsletter Editor) 11/15/2019

Agenda 11/15/2019

Saturday Morning Time Min Type Item Presenter 09:30 05 Procedural Call to order and Introduction of Participants H. Kammoun 09:35 Approval of the agenda and the past ExCom minutes M. Amairi 09:40 75 Discussion Tunisia section Overview Membership Development Past & Next Activities Awards N&A committee Legal Issues National Society Agreement 11/15/2019

Saturday Morning Time Min Type Item Presenter 10:55 15 Discussion Treasurers’ report N. Rokbani 11:10 80 Chapters Activities 15” Coordinator 5” per Chapter: AESS, ComSoc, CIS, Computer, Education, EMBS, IAS, ITSS, MTTS, PES, RAS, SMCS, SPS I. Kallel Chapters’ chairs/representatives 12:30 90 Lunch 11/15/2019

Saturday Afternoon Time Min Type Item Presenter 14:00 10 Discussion Young Professionals affinity group W. Ouarda 14:10 Women In Engineering affinity group A. Chermiti 14:20 30 vTools Training H. Kammoun 14:50 70 - Conferences Activities How to organize an IEEE Conference IEEE Sponsorships A. Alimi 11/15/2019

Saturday Afternoon Time Min Type Item Presenter 16:00 15 Discussion Award & Recognitions activities T. Bejaoui 16:15 Industry Activities R. Messaoud 16:30 Newsletter K. Filali 16:45 Remarks and Closing Session H. Kammoun 17:00 2 Group Photo 11/15/2019

IEEE Tunisia Section 11/15/2019

Vision Ensure that Tunisia section is an effectively organized, dynamic and influential entity, with IEEE benefits equally available to all members 11/15/2019

Mission To serve the needs of the members of the Institute, the profession and society at large, by enhancing and supporting the IEEE’s Organizational Units and their activities within Tunisia section 11/15/2019

GOALS Increase member engagement Improve relationships with and among members Increase operational efficient and effectiveness, within the section and its interfaces Enhance collaboration – serve as the local face of IEEE to community Increase membership and retention rate Enhance the membership-related information available to the member and the geographic units 11/15/2019

Getting closer to Industry; Region 8 Priorities Getting closer to Industry; Giving more values for IEEE Students and Young Professionals members; Ensuring Section Vitality. 11/15/2019

IEEE MGA Operational Manual http://www.ieee.org/socie ties_communities/geo_acti vities/operations_manual/i ndex.html 11/15/2019

IEEE Sub Units in Tunisia 11/15/2019

IEEE Sub-units in Tunisia (1/2) 19 Technical chapters 2 Affinity groups Young Professionals (YP) Women In Engineering (WIE) 17 Student branches ENIT, ENIS, ENSI, SupCom, ENISo, ENICar, INSAT, ENIG, FST, ENIB, ENSIT, ENIM, ISECS, ULT, ISSATSo, ENSTAB, ISET Djerba 7 WIE student affinity group ENIS, ENIT, ENIG, ISSATSo, ENIB, ENI Carthage, ENIM

IEEE Sub-units in Tunisia (2/2) 31 Technical student chapters ENIS (AESS, CS, SMCS, CEDA, PES, ES, SPS, RAS, IAS, CIS, EMB) ENIG (CSS, RAS, IAS) ENI Carthage (RAS, IAS, CS, PES, AESS) ENIM (IAS, PES) INSAT (RAS, IAS, CS) ISSAT Sousse (IAS, PES, SPS, RAS, CS) ULT (EMB, IA)

Communicate with your units members! enotice.vtools.ieee.org For successful meeting Communicate with your units members! enotice.vtools.ieee.org The section meeting is our place to communicate face to face 11/15/2019

Membership Statistics 11/15/2019

Membership Statistics 994 members (stats. on 7 April 2016) 708 Students 165 Graduate students 93 Members 1 Affiliate members 27 Senior members 0 Fellow members 0 Life Member Membership by grades / profiles Over a half of the members are students  lack of higher grade, loyal members

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Membership Retention

Statistics 11/15/2019

Top 5 cities 11/15/2019

Past Main Activities 11/15/2019

October 2015: IEEE Day 11/15/2019

November 2015: Apps for Democracy Challenge Sponsored by the IEEE eGov – Computer Society http://ieee.tn/hackathon/ 11/15/2019

December 2015: Tunisian Students & Young Professionals congress 11/15/2019

3rd TSYP 2015 Challenge result: 4th TSYP 2016 will be organized by ULT Student branch

January 2016: Towards Tunisian Smart cities Think tank smartcities.ieee.tn 11/15/2019

February 2016: Tunisian Engineering Day 11/15/2019

March 2016: 1st Tunisian Smart Cities workshop In conjunction with droidcon.tn 11/15/2019

March 2016: Spring School on Cloud Computing, IoT & Big Data jia.ieee.tn 11/15/2019

April 2016: Tunisian Forum for Industry-Academia Partnership tfiap.ieee.tn 11/15/2019

Next Main Activities 11/15/2019

R8 SYP 2016 www.syp-regensburg.de 17-21 August 2016 in Regensburg, Germany R8 will offer one registration for each active SB Section will offer travel grants to SB chairs/representatives Travel grant up to ………… per SB 11/15/2019

Tunisian Engineering Day To be organized by all IEEE student branches in a congress center To be discussed… 11/15/2019

2nd IEEE DEPRI 2nd Days of Exchanges and Partnerships for Research and Innovation Invitation to laboratories and research units/centers directors, main companies with R&D departments, Ministries Awards dinner ceremony: best cites IEEE paper, best chapter, best student chapter, etc. To be discussed … 11/15/2019

4th Tunisian SYP congress December 2016 11/15/2019

Awards & Grants 11/15/2019

IEEE Day Largest Gathering Photo $250 ENIT SB 11/15/2019

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, USA 13 IEEE IAS members received travel grants to participate to the IAS annual meeting Oct. 2015 11/15/2019

Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) Program Recruiters of the Month for Recruiter name Number of new recruited members May Akram Marzouki 23 June Asma Debiche 11 October Haifa Hammas 24 Mouna Tayehi 12 November December Mohamed Samy Garali 137 Meher Bnouni 16 Ayoub Salha Khalil Ben Sassi Nabilla Fessi 10 11/15/2019

Recuirment silver award 11/15/2019

Received funds $$$ http://ieee.tn/activities/awards-and-grants/ 11/15/2019

2015 R8 Outstanding Large Section Award

MGA Outstanding Section Award Deadline: 15 May 2016 Help!!! 11/15/2019

Nominations & Appointments Committee 11/15/2019

N&A Committee 2015 2016-2017 [to be confirmed] Mourad Loulou (chair) Olfa Jemai Farhat Fnaiech 2016-2017 [to be confirmed] Mourad Loulou ?! 11/15/2019

New: Vice Chair becoming Chair MGA 9.4.F: A Section may define in its local operating procedures document if the Vice Chair shall automatically become the Chair at the conclusion of their term Other officers should be elected taking into account that the Vice Chair will become the Chair after concluding his term 11/15/2019

Proposed election process dates 1 June 2016: Call for Nominations to [deadline: 15 July] Chair Chair Elect (will serve as 2019-2020 section chair) Secretary Treasurer 1 August 2016: Communicate slate of selected candidates and start petition process [deadline: 31 Aug.] 15 September 2016: prepare ballot and announcement of election [voting deadline: 15 Oct. 2016] 20 October 2016: Announcement of election results  11/15/2019

Legal Issues 11/15/2019

Legal status in Tunisia IEEE staff contacted a local counsel to register a branch of IEEE in Tunisia Arabic name: جمعية آي تربل إي بتونس Follow the IEEE bylaws Papers sent to government on 17 March 2016 Announcement will be submitted to the official gazette on 17 April 2016 for publication 11/15/2019

National Society Agreements 11/15/2019

Looking for agreements with IEEE offers National Society Agreement NSA template: http://www.ieee.org/nsa Could offer 20% reduce to members of both organizations (national society & IEEE) Proposed organizations: Ordre des ingénieurs Tunisiens OIT ALECSO Others ?! 11/15/2019

Other agreements Telecommunications company to offer free communications between IEEE members Other proposals ?! 11/15/2019

Volunteers Tools 11/15/2019

Compliance Training https://compliance-training.ieee.org 11/15/2019

IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence! https://ieee-elearning.org/CLE/ 11/15/2019

IEEE vTools vtools.ieee.org 11/15/2019

Questions? Comments? 11/15/2019

Thank you! 11/15/2019