1. Spring Planning Meeting September 24, 2016 San Marcos,TX
Consultants Network IEEE Central Texas Section Affinity Group
Spring Planning Meeting September 24, San Marcos,TX

2. 2016 CTCN Leadership Team Bill Martino – Chairman
Jody Everett – Vice Chair/Treasurer
Luis Basto – Secretary/Webmaster
Kai Wong – Pgm Mgr/Member at Large
Karen Ulferts – Member at Large
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3. CTCN Affinity Group 2016 Update
8 regular meetings thus far, 1 joint with LM (Austin), 1 joint with COM/SP/CEDA
3 more regular meetings and a social planned, 1 joint with WIE
5 Officers meetings
No Consultants Workshop in 2015
Volunteered to assist N3XT. Kai especially helpful identifying and recruiting speakers.
On-site help unnecessary
Website improvement remains conceptual
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4. 2016 CTCN Regular Meetings Jan Fun with Chemistry Y(T) Feb*
Date
Topic
Speaker
L31?
Jan
Fun with Chemistry
Katherine Biberdorf
Y(T)
Feb*
Discover Engineering: Encouraging…
John Purvis
Y(P)
Mar
CoA R&D Using Open Data, Big…
Ted Lehr
April
Aquafer Science &Texas Ground…
Ernest To
May
Epidermal Sensing Systems…
Pulin Wang
Jun
Object Based Audio for Home…
Sergio Liberman
July
Secure Element – Protecting Dgtl Life..
Karen Lu
Aug**
Body Hacking: Improving Yourself…
Dustin Trammell
Sep***
Women and Engineering: Ethics Gap
Karen Ulferts --
Oct
FPGA’s in 2016
Jody Everett
Nov
James Mercier
Dec
Annual Social
Notes: 144 total attendees at Gary’s talk in auditorium. 42 attendees at workshop. 28 IEEE members. For yr: avg guests 10.5, ieee 14 ¼.
* Joint with LM (Austin) ** Joint with COM/SP/CEDA ***Joint with WIE

5. SWOT Analysis Strength – Good teamwork & network to recruit speakers.
Weakness – Retaining new members and persuading more regulars to join IEEE.
Opportunity – Become more effective connecting contractors with consultants.
Threat – Staying relevant among many networking opportunities for local entrepreneurs, consultants, professionals

6. Chapter Plans / Issues
Mix topics at monthly meetings to cover professional development, training, and technical topics.
Improve website, add link to CTS job opportunities page, switch to WordPress
Co-host/support workshop with chapters sharing same interests.
Attract younger members with current and relevant topics and speakers.
Add one more elected Member at Large
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7. 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.