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2017-March – Stockholm

This page contains information about the 108th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held  in Stockholm on 25-26 of March 2017.

OpCom Reports

Director  (Margaretha Eriksson) Director-Elect (Magdalena Salazar Palma)
Past-Director  (Costas Stasopoulos) Secretary  (Jan Verveckken)
Treasurer (Ralph Kennel) V/C Member Activities  (Antonio Luque)
V/C Student Activities  (Efthymia Arvaniti) V/C Technical Activities  (Christopher James)

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry  (AfI) History Activities Coordinator  (HA) Region 8 News (R8News)
Africa Area  (AA) Humanitarian Activities Subcommittee   (HuA) Section Vitality Coordinator  (SVC)
Awards & Recognition Subcommittee  (A&RSC) Life Member Coordinator  (LM) Standards Coordinator (StC)
Chapter Coordination Subcommittee  (ChCSC) Membership Development Subcommittee  (MDSC) Strategic Planning
Conference Coordination SubCommittee  (CoCSC) Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator  (VCF)
Educational Activities SubCommittee  (EASC) Professional Activities Subcommittee  (PASC) Women in Engineering Coordinator  (WIE)
Electronic Communications Coordinator (ECC) Young Professionals Subcommittee  (YP)

Section Reports

Algeria Section Iceland Section Republic of Macedonia Section
Austria Section Iran Section Romania Section
Bahrain Section Iraq Section Russia Section
Belarus Section Israel Section Russia (Northwest) Section
Benelux Section Italy Section Russia (Siberia) Section
Bosnia and Herzegovina Section Jordan Section Saudi Arabia (East) Section
Bulgaria Section Kenya Section Saudi Arabia (West) Section
Croatia Section Kuwait Section Serbia And Montenegro Section
Cyprus Section Latvia Section Slovenia Section
Czechoslovakia Section Lebanon Section South Africa Section
Denmark Section Lithuania Section Spain Section
Egypt Section Malta Section Sweden Section
Estonia Section Morocco Section Switzerland Section
Finland Section Nigeria Section Tunisia Section
France Section Norway Section Turkey Section
Germany Section Oman Section UK and Ireland Section
Ghana Section Poland Section Ukraine Section
Greece Section Portugal Section United Arab Emirates Section
Hungary Section Qatar Section Zambia Section

Reimbursement


Order of the day – Stockholm

Order of the Day

Friday, 24 March 2017

18:00 0:30:00 Registration
18:30 0:10:00 Welcome Mats Edvinsson
18:40 0:10:00 Stockholm City Welcome Karin Mäntymäki
18:50 0:30:00 Sweden Section Presentation Mats Edvinsson
19:20 0:40:00 Technical presentation; Nobel, History and Present Tobias Degsell
20:00 0:30:00 Cocktail Reception
20:30 2:00:00 Dinner
22:30 Dinner ends

Saturday, 25 March 2017

8:00 0:05:00 100 Procedural Call to Order Margaretha Eriksson
8:05 0:15:00 101 Procedural Roll Call and Introduction of New Officers Jan Verveckken
8:20 0:05:00 102 Procedural Welcome by Swedish section Mats Edvinsson
8:25 0:05:00 103 Procedural Introductory Remarks Eriksson/Verveckken
8:30 0:05:00 104 Action Approval of the Agenda Eriksson
8:35 0:05:00 105 Action Approval of the Consent Agenda Eriksson
8:40 0:35:00 106 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s Address+future Eriksson
9:15 0:20:00 107 Discussion IEEE President’s Address+future Karen Bartleson
9:35 0:25:00 108 Discussion IEEE Executive Director’s Address+future Jim Prendergast
10:00 0:20:00 Procedural Break
10:20 0:20:00 110 Discussion IEEE President’s Elect Address+future Jim Jefferies
10:40 0:10:00 111 Discussion Nominations & Appointments Costas Stasopoulos
10:50 0:40:00 112 Discussion Student Activities Report + future Arvaniti/Inacio
11:30 0:40:00 114 Discussion Technical Activities Report+future C.J.James
12:10 0:05:00 115 Discussion Workshops – Interactive Session Instructions Eriksson/Verveckken
12:15 0:20:00 116 Discussion Workshop and Interactive Session Pitches WS and IS leaders
12:35 0:01:00 117 Procedural Recess Eriksson
12:36 0:04:00 118 Social Group photo
12:40 1:00:00 Social Lunch
13:40 0:05:00 200 Procedural Call to Order Eriksson
13:45 0:15:00 201 Discussion Sections Congress 2017 Delimar
14:00 2:10:00 202 Discussion Presentations / Parallel Tracks see separate agenda for parallel tracks (turn page) All
16:10 0:10 Procedural Break
16:20 0:10 203 Discussion Overview of the results of the Motion for Sections Congress Verveckken
16:30 0:05:00 204 Procedural Recess Eriksson
17:30 1:30:00 Social Bus ride, guided tour of Stockholm, to dinner location
19:00 1:00:00 Social Cocktail reception
20:00 2:30:00 Social Dinner and Award Ceremony – Dress code: Formal Stasopoulos
22:30 Social Dinner end, bus ride back to Hotel

Sunday, 26 March 2017

8:30 0:05:00 300 Procedural Call to Order and Roll Call Eriksson/Verveckken
8:35 0:45:00 301 Discussion President-Elect Candidates’ Debate Piuri/Zurada/Costa
9:20 0:05:00 302 Discussion Secretary’s Report Verveckken
9:25 0:20:00 303 Discussion Treasurer’s Report Ralph Kennel
9:45 0:15:00 304 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Stasopoulos
10:00 0:20:00 Procedural Break
10:20 0:40:00 305 Discussion Member Activities Report Antonio Luque
11:00 0:20:00 306 Discussion Technical Activities & working with Societies Marina Ruggieri
11:20 0:20:00 307 Discussion MGA VP’s Address+future Mary Ellen
11:40 0:15:00 308 Discussion IEEE Region 10 Kukjick Chun
11:55 0:05:00 309 Discussion Silent Reflection: what to adapt in your own Section Strategic Plan
12:00 0:20:00 Procedural Break
12:20 0:20:00 310 Discussion Future Conferences (Energycon, Melecon, GCC,Histelcon) C.J.James
12:40 0:10:00 311 Discussion Section Development & Vitality Szabo
12:50 0:05:00 312 Discussion Silent Reflection: what to adapt in your own Section Strategic Plan
12:55 0:05:00 313 Info Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Delimar/Verveckken
13:00 0:20:00 314 Action Motions Erkisson
13:20 0:10:00 315 Info New Business All
13:30 0:05:00 316 Action Adjournment Eriksson
13:35 1:00:00 317 Social Lunch

Consent Agenda

401 Action Approval of the minutes of the 107th Region 8 Committee meeting
402 Report Reports

Motions

501 Action Approval of Kazachstan Subsection Stasopoulos

Meeting Schedule – Stockholm

108th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting Overview
(subject to change)
Friday Saturday Sunday
B1+B2 B3(120 pax) C1(40pax) C2 (40pax) C3(40pax) C4(40pax) B123 B123
8:00-8:30 Director’s Address to all appointed members and Subcommittee members R8 Meeting
8:30-9:00 R8 Meeting
9:00-10:00 Young Professionals (YP) (closed) Student Activities Committee (SAC)
(closed)
Chapter Coordination Strategic Planning
10:00-11:00 SAC
11:00-12:00 Conference Coordination Action for Industry (AfI)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
(for ChCo attendees)
YP
13:00-14:00 Lunch Chapter Coordination Meeting +Society Reps (Closed) Lunch Lunch
14:00-15:00 New volunteer orientation SAC+YP
(closed)
Secretary Team Humanitarian Activities Discussions in rooms C1,C2,C3,C4,C5 Lunch
15:00-16:00 R8 News
16:00-17:00 SAC+YP+AfI Awards & Recognition Membership Development
17:00-17:30 Professional Activities Educational Activities Break
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break Bus tour through Stockholm towards dinner location (All Dinner Attendees)
18:00-18:30 Registration
18:30-19:00 Sweden Section Presentation and Technical Lecture Cinema Seating
19:00-20:00 Gala Dinner
(Companions Welcome)
20:00-20:30 Cocktail Reception Technical preparations for meeting
20:30-22:30 Dinner (Companions Welcome)
22:30-23:30 Technical preparations for meeting
23:30-24:00 Bus ride to hotel