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

j.d.cely@ieee.org

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