Technical Activities
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Transcript of Technical Activities
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 CelyDL Coordinator: Luis Iván Ruíz FlórezConferences: Viviana Gualteros
Societies representatives
– Communications Rep PEDRO AGUILERA– Power & Energy Rep NELSON SEGOSHI– Signal Processing Rep ROXANA SAINT-NOM– Computer Society Rep CARLOS A LOZANO– Industry Applications GABRIELA GARAY– Other Societies…
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STRENGTHS
STRENGTHSWe have beautiful and interesting cities to be venue for conferencesVolunteersExperienceGood technical backgroundChaptersIEEE Societies are very interesting in having more conferences in Latin America
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WEAKNESSES
Few volunteers know how to organize an IEEE conferenceNot enough facilities for IEEE conferencesPoor participation of members presenting papers in IEEE main conferencesPoor use of IEEE tools for conferences
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OPPORTUNITIES
Growing interest of societies in finding new venues for conferencesNew topics and technologies trends to discuss Young ProfessionalsVirtual media
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THREATS
Non-IEEE ConferencesFinancialsLow visibilityPerspective: innovation!
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STRATEGIC OBJETIVESSpread 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
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THANK YOU
Questions?
Eng. Jose David Cely CallejasR9 Technical Activities Committee Chair
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