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Section Conferences CTS Fall Planning Meeting San Marcos August 28 th , 2010 Thuy Dao CTS Conferences Coordinator. CTS Guidelines. Contact Thuy Dao (thuybdao@ieee.org) to determine the meeting category for your event at the beginning of your planning.
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Section ConferencesCTS Fall Planning MeetingSan MarcosAugust 28th , 2010Thuy DaoCTS Conferences Coordinator
CTS Guidelines • Contact Thuy Dao (thuybdao@ieee.org) to determine the meeting category for your event at the beginning of your planning. • Workshop, training class, tutorial, and lecture – local chapter event • Submit plan and budget to CTS executive committee for approval prior to execution on plan. • Budget should resulted in 20% surplus. • Conference, and Symposium – event involving society or budget >$10K • An MOU has to be signed between CTS & event organizer if CTS / chapter is to be financial or technical sponsor • All contracts have to be reviewed and approved by CTS executive prior to signing. • Submit plan and budget to CTS executive committee for approval prior to execution on plan. • Budget should resulted in 20% surplus.
CTS Conferences • 2010 – Financial Sponsor • Kai Wong - Consulting Nuts & Bolts 4/23 – (100%) • Thuy & Kenny - I2MTC 5/3 – (25%) • Michael Frye - SA TMC EM Symposium 5/21 – (100%) • Haoxing Ren - Frequency Synthesizer 8/12 - (100%) • Thuy Dao - Solar Technology Workshop 9/17 – (100%) • Mike Noth- AUS PES NEC Update Training Class 10/15 – (100%) • Kenny Rice - ACISC, Austin Conference on Integrated Systems & Circuits which is sponsored by UT. – CTS provided some funding. • 2010 – Opportunities • Kenny Rice - ISLPED 8/18 • Thuy Dao - BCTM (bipolar/bicmos circuits & technology) 10/4 • CMRF (compact modeling for RF/Microwave applications)10/7 • EPEPS (electrical performance of electronic packaging & systems) 10/25 • ITC (international test conference) 10/31
2011 • Kenny - IEEE USA March – Austin • Others in planning phase: • Thuy Dao - ICICDT 2012 – (100%) • Globecom 2014 - submitted proposal. • EMC AUS (Ross Carlton) – possible future conference proposal. • Communication / Signal Processing Society AUS (Hanan Potash) – Wireless Hive Networks Conference. • SMC SA (David Akopian) – Lectures that charge a small fees to attend.
WHY CTS SUPPORT CONFERENCE ACTIVITES • CTS Conference Goals • Increase education of CTS Chapter leaders so as to increase future conference activity • Identify more conferences to sponsor financially • Support Non-Financial Sponsored Events when IEEE members benefit • Financial Sponsored Conferences provides long term financial resources to support more IEEE member activities.
CONFERENCE CHALLENGES • Increasing conference awareness • Finding volunteers willing to lead / participate • Educating chapter (and Section) leaders to get involved with their societies so as to bring conferences to CTS
IEEE EDUCATION FOR CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS • IEEE POCO Web Pages • WEB based conference schedule • WEB based financial planning • Past POCO Conferences’ presentations available • E-letters for latest news • Annual POCO Conference • 2009 presentations on POCO website • Do & Don’t for holding conference outside of US – example China • Technical Sponsor requirements - new