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2016 IEEE Region 8 Election results

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During the IEEE Region 8 Committee meeting in Porto, Portugal, 24-25 September 2016, elections were held for the five Region 8 Operating Committee members who are elected by the voting members of the Region 8 Committee and for the three members of the 2017-2018 Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee who are elected by the Region 8 Section Chairs. The results of the elections are as follows:

Region 8 Operating Committee

  • 2017-2018 Secretary:  Jan Verveckken  (Benelux)
  • 2017-2018 Treasurer:  Ralph Kennel  (Germany)
  • 2017 Vice Chair, Member Activities:  Antonio Luque  (Spain)
  • 2017 Vice Chair, Student Activities:  Efthymia (Femia) Arvaniti  (Austria)
  • 2017 Vice Chair, Technical Activities:  Christopher James  (UK and Ireland)

Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee

  • Ali Hessami  (UK and Ireland)
  • Ljupco Karadzinov  (Republic of Macedonia)
  • Panayiotis Symeou  (Cyprus)

2017-March – Stockholm

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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

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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

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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

IEEE TISP Week 2016

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IEEE Region 8 Education Activities Committee is organizing the  ‘IEEE Region 8 Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Week’ from 8-16 October, 2016. The event will have multiple IEEE Sections organizing TISP teacher training workshops in their Sections. TISP workshops have IEEE-trained volunteers providing inquiry based science education training to school teachers based on the lesson plans provided on tryengineering.org and trycomputing.org. They’ll follow up the workshops with regular contact with the school teachers to evaluate impact.

The aim of the event is to

  1. train school teachers to conduct inquiry based science education (IBSE) hands-on activities in the classroom;
  2. train teachers on how to motivate students in the classroom toward a better understanding of engineering;
  3. highlight the excellent work being done by our Sections to promote TISP in their localities;
  4. re-energize the inactive TISP volunteers into organizing a TISP teacher training workshops in the Section;
  5. gather data from school teachers about the impact of the TISP program in their classroom.

The following Sections are organizing a workshop as part of TISP Week with about 600 teachers being planned to be trained – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malta, Palestine (sub-Section), Spain, Tunisia, UAE and Uganda.

For more information, please visit http://tisp.ieeer8.org

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Smart Tech Birmingham: Early Bird Registration closes August 31st, 2016

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Registration is now open for IEEE Smart Tech Birmingham, UK, 21-22 October, 2016. Early-bird pricing ends August 31! 

 

Workshop Topics Include: 

  • LiFi: LED-Based Network Communication
  • Industry Applications of Robotics
  • Introduction to ARM Architecture Fundamentals
  • Multi-Core CPU/GPU System and Software Development
  • Professional and Business Development: Confident Networking
  • Business Strategy for Consultants and Entrepreneurs
  • Software Defined Radio: Implementation, Design and Real-Time Operation

Evening Reception and Keynote Address by Sir Robin Saxby, former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings, PLC.

 

Learn more and register at http://bit.ly/29RLXeP

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IEEE Smart Tech Birmingham

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Registration is now open for IEEE Smart Tech Birmingham, UK, 21-22 October, 2016. Early-bird pricing ends August 31.

Workshop Topics Include: 

  • LiFi: LED-Based Network Communication
  • Industry Applications of Robotics
  • Introduction to ARM Architecture Fundamentals
  • Multi-Core CPU/GPU System and Software Development
  • Professional and Business Development: Confident Networking
  • Business Strategy for Consultants and Entrepreneurs
  • Software Defined Radio: Implementation, Design and Real-Time Operation

Evening Reception and Keynote Address by Sir Robin Saxby, former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings, PLC.

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Learn more and register at http://bit.ly/29RLXeP

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Upcoming Webinar: A Preview of and Discussion on IEEE International Smart Cities Conference Content

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Upcoming Webinar

A Preview of and Discussion on IEEE International Smart Cities Conference Content

July 28, 2016 | 11:00am – 12:00pm EDT

Click Here to Register Now

About the Webinar

This webinar will give attendees a preview of the content to be available at the conference this September 12-15 in Trento, Italy. Attendees of the webinar are encouraged to participate and express their views and interests, thereby helping to further shape conference content. The conference theme, Improving the Citizens’ Quality of Life, will factor into the material presented. Dario will be joined in presentation by conference track co-chairs in the areas of Smart Government, Health and Well-Being, Smart Energy Systems, Smart Transportation, Big Data and Open Data, and Privacy and Security.

Speakers include:

  • Moderator: Dario Petri, University of Trento, Italy, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 2016 Chair
  • Technical Program Committee Co-chairs: Soufiene Djahel, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Bernardo Tellini, University of Pisa, Italy
  • TRACK Smart Energy Systems Co-chairs: Carlo Alberto Nucci, University of Bologna, Italy, and Davide Brunelli, University of Trento, Italy
  • TRACK Big data & open data Co-chairs: Andrea Molinari, University of Trento, Italy, and Frederick Mintzer, IBM TJ Watson Research, Center
  • TRACK Privacy and security Co-chair: Andrea Lanzi, University of Milano, Italy

Please register to attend today and join us on
Thursday, July 28 from 11am – 12pm EDT

Click Here to REGISTER TODAY

About R8

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Welcome to Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional society, and comprises more than 360,000 members who conduct and participate in its activities in 150 countries.
Founded in 1884, the IEEE is a non-profit organisation, and through its members is a catalyst for technological innovation. We are a leading authority in a broad range of areas such as computer engineering, electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, biomedical technology, and telecommunications, naming only a few.
We publish 30 percent of the world’s literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology, and hold more than 300 major conferences and 6,000 local meetings annually. Recognized as essential guides for every industry, more than 800 active IEEE standards are in use today with 700 currently in development.
Please use the links at the left to navigate this website, and find out more about the Region and its activities.

Region 8 covers covers Europe, Middle East and Africa, as shown in the map below.

Region 8 Vision

Region 8 is an effectively organized, dynamic and influential entity, recognized as a leading and esteemed part of a truly transnational IEEE, with IEEE benefits equally available to all members

Region 8 Mission

To serve the needs of the members of the Institute, the profession and society at large, by enhancing and supporting the IEEE’s Organizational Units and their activities within Region 8