Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, April 11–14 Technical Activities José David Cely Callejas TAC Chair
Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, March 11–14 Technical Activities Committee Members Chair : José David Cely DL Coordinator: Luis Iván Ruíz Flórez Conferences: Viviana Gualteros Societies representatives –Communications RepPEDRO AGUILERA –Power & Energy RepNELSON SEGOSHI –Signal Processing RepROXANA SAINT-NOM –Computer Society RepCARLOS A LOZANO –Industry ApplicationsGABRIELA GARAY –Other Societies… 2
Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, March 11–14 STRENGTHS STRENGTHS We have beautiful and interesting cities to be venue for conferences Volunteers Experience Good technical background Chapters IEEE Societies are very interesting in having more conferences in Latin America 3
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WEAKNESSES Few volunteers know how to organize an IEEE conference Not enough facilities for IEEE conferences Poor participation of members presenting papers in IEEE main conferences Poor use of IEEE tools for conferences 5
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OPPORTUNITIES Growing interest of societies in finding new venues for conferences New topics and technologies trends to discuss Young Professionals Virtual media 7
Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, March 11–14 THREATS Non-IEEE Conferences Financials Low visibility Perspective: innovation! 8
Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, March 11–14 STRATEGIC OBJETIVES Spread the conferences in Region 9 –Training on Conference Organization during RR2012 –R9 conferences Sub-committee –IEEE POCO –Support preparing proposals for conferences –Publication of Call for Papers of conferences –Seed money for conferences Spread the technical activities offer –Regional Speakers Program –Engineering Virtual Conference –Grants for young authors of accepted papers for IEEE conferences 9
Reunión Regional / Regional Meeting 2012, March 11–14 THANK YOU Questions? Eng. Jose David Cely Callejas R9 Technical Activities Committee Chair 10