Khanh Luu


Meeting Schedule – Valletta

Friday

Exhibition Hall – Level 2 Bellavanti – Level 5 De Medici – Level 5 Laparelli – Level 5 Buonamici – Level 5 Carapecchia – Level 8 Board room – Level 8
8:00-8:30 Director Address
8:30-9:00 New Volunteers Orientation YP SAC Awards & Recognitions Humanitarian Activities
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 New Volunteers Orientation YP SAC Conference Coordination Action for Industry Educational/Professional Activities
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:00 Lunch at the restautant on Level 4
13:00-13:30 Strategic Planning WIE Conference Coordination Membership Development Educational/Professional Activities
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 SAC & YP Publications & Comunnications (r8news, r8today, etc.) Chapter Coordination Africa Council Finance
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30 History & Life M. OpCom
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30 Malta Section Presentation
18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30 Welcome reception
19:30-20:00
20:00-20:30 Buffet Dinner (Restaurant at Level 4)
20:30-21:00
21:00-21:30
21:30-22:00
22:00-22:30

Saturday and Sunday

Grand Ballroom – Level 7 Grand Ballroom – Level 7
8:00-8:30 Region 8 Meeting Region 8 Meeting
8:30-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-13:00
13:00-13:30
13:30-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
18:00-18:30 Boat tour
18:30-19:00
19:00-19:30
19:30-20:00 Gala Dinner
20:00-20:30
20:30-21:00
21:00-21:30
21:30-22:00
22:00-22:30 Walk to Hotel

Order of the day – Valletta

Saturday

Time Duration # Type Item Presenter
6:30 1:30:00 Social Breakfast
8:00 0:05:00 100 Procedural Call to Order Magdalena Salazar
8:05 0:15:00 101 Procedural Roll Call and Introduction Ana Madureira / Magdalena Salazar
8:20 0:05:00 102 Procedural Welcome by Malta Section Malta Section Chair – Conrad Attard
8:25 0:05:00 103 Procedural Introductory Remarks Magdalena Salazar
8:30 0:05:00 104 Action Approval of the Agenda Magdalena Salazar
8:35 0:05:00 105 Action Approval of the Consent Agenda Magdalena Salazar
8:40 0:25:00 106 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s Address Magdalena Salazar
9:05 0:30:00 107 Discussion IEEE President’s Address José Moura
9:35 0:10:00 108 Discussion IEEE Region 7 Director’s Adress Maike Luiken
9:45 0:10:00 109 Discussion IEEE Region 10 Director’s Address Akinori Nishihara
9:55 0:05:00 110 Procedural Introduction to Poster Session Magdalena Salazar
10:00 0:45:00 111 Poster session (Exhibition Hall – Level 2) Poster Session: Sub Committees + R8 SYP Poster + Coffee Break All Sub Committees
10:45 0:25:00 112 Discussion Student Activities Maciej Borówka
11:10 0:25:00 113 Discussion Member Activities Adeel Sultan
11:35 0:25:00 114 Discussion Technical Activities Sohaib Sheikh
12:00 1:00:00 Social Lunch (Admirals Landing Restaurant – Level 5)
13:00 0:30:00 201 Discussion IEEE VP, MGAB, IEEE MGA: Strategy & Direction / Managing Director, MGAB: Member & Geographic Activities Francis Grosz / Cecelia Jankowski
13:30 0:15:00 202 Discussion Publications and Communications Committee Christopher James
13:45 0:45:00 203 Poster session (Exhibition Hall – Level 2) Poster Session: 1/2 Sections + Humanitarian Activities Workshop (Simay Akar, Carapecchia – Level 8 ) 1/2 Sections / Simay Akar
14:30 0:20:00 204 Discussion Leveraging Local Strengths – TA and MGA Kathy Land
14:50 0:15:00 205 Discussion Vienna Office Activities Clara Neppel
15:05 0:45:00 206 Poster session (Exhibition Hall – Level 2) Poster Session: 2/2 Sections + Coffee Break 2/2 Sections
15:50 0:20:00 207 Discussion IEEE Strategic plan 2025-2030: Lessons Learned. How entrepreneurship finally caught on within IEEE Dejan Milojicic
16:10 0:10:00 208 Discussion Strategic Planning Committee Antonio Luque
16:20 0:15:00 209 Action Voting for Posters to be presented on stage on Sunday Magdalena Salazar
16:35 0:05:00 210 Procedural Closing of day one Magdalena Salazar
16:40 0:05:00 211 Social Group photo Ana Madureira
16:45

Saturday Afternoon

Time Duration # Type Item
17:50 0:10:00 Social Meeting Point: Outside Hotel
18:00 1:30:00 Social Boat tour + Lift + Walking
19:30 2:30:00 Social Dinner at Casino Maltese, city centre
22:00 0:30:00 Social Return to Hotel walking
22:30

Sunday

Time Duration # Type Item Presenter
6:30 1:30:00 Social Breakfast
8:00 0:05:00 300 Procedural Call to Order and Roll Call Magdalena Salazar
8:05 0:15:00 301 Discussion Presentation of Section poster voted best Industry Activity + discussion Ana Madureira
8:20 0:15:00 302 Discussion Presentation of Section poster voted best Membership Activity + discussion Ana Madureira
8:35 0:15:00 303 Discussion Presentation of Section poster voted best Section Vitality Activity + discussion Ana Madureira
8:50 0:15:00 304 Discussion Presentation of Section poster voted best Action for Africa + discussion Ana Madureira
9:05 0:10:00 305 Discussion Nominations and Appointments Margaretha Eriksson
9:15 0:30:00 306 Discussion Treasurer’s Report Adam Jastrzebski
9:45 0:15:00 307 Discussion Africa Council Habib Kammoun
10:00 0:30:00 Social Coffee Break
10:30 0:15:00 308 Discussion IEEE Technical Awards – Recognizing Technical Excellence and Leadership Vin Piuri, IEEE Technical Field Awards Council Chair
10:45 0:10:00 309 Discussion R8 Flagship Conferences Ljupco Karazdinov
10:55 0:30:00 310 Action Motions, presentation, discussion, voting Antonio Luque
11:25 0:30:00 311 Discussion Presentations of President-Elect Candidates Kathy Land / Dejan Milojicic
11:55 0:10:00 312 Discussion New Business Magdalena Salazar – All
12:05 0:10:00 313 Discussion Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Spain Section representative – Manuel Ballesteros
12:15 0:05:00 314 Discussion Closing Remarks IEEE President José Moura
12:20 0:05:00 315 Discussion Closing Remarks R8 Director Magdalena Salazar
12:25 0:05:00 316 Procedural Adjournment Magdalena Salazar – All
12:30 1:00:00 Social Lunch (Admirals Landing Restaurant – Level 5)
13:30

Consent Agenda

# Type Item
501 Action Approval of the minutes of the 111th Region 8 Committee meeting
502 Report Sub Committe and Section Reports

Life Members – “Experience does not go on retreat”

 

 

 

Preamble

It is a privilege to be an IEEE Life Member (LM) with so much to contribute back to the engineering community and to the public in general. You are entitled to become a LM when your age is at least 65 and the sum of your age and of your active membership duration reaches 100. Life Members are exempted of IEEE membership fees and pay lower fees at IEEE Conferences (at most – IEEE Student fees).

Most Life Member activities are performed by Life Member Affinity Groups (LMAG), similar to Chapters, established as part of an IEEE Section.

 

In summary the mission of Life Members Groups is to:

  • Enhance and encourage interest in electrical and electronic engineering at secondary and tertiary (college) levels.
  • Utilize the vast experience of LMs to impact the general public’s knowledge of electrical and electronic engineering and increase understanding of the role of engineers.
  • Foster collaborations in pre-university education and encourage students to consider taking up engineering as a career.
  • Promulgate the history of electrical engineering together with information and related technologies.

Please visit the website of the IEEE Life Members Committee (life.ieee.org) for more details.

Posted PM, Jan 01, 2021

 

 

IEEE Region 8 Life Member Committee

 

 Magdalena Salazar-Palma, Chair

 Peter Magyar, Past Chair

 Bernadette Bouchon Meunier, France Section LMAG Chair

 Luc J. Claesen, Benelux Section LMAG Chair

 Margaretha Ericsson, Sweden Section LMAG Chair

 Irina Naidinova, Estonia, Latvia and Lihuania Joint Sections (Baltic) LMAG Chair

 Michael Omoigui Osaretin, Africa Council LMAG Chair

 Grigoris Papagiannis, Greece Section LMAG Chair

 Antonio Savini, Italy Section LMAG Chair

Posted PM, Oct 18, 2025

 

 

 

 

R8 LMAG Activities Calendar 2025

2025-12-16 France Section LMAG

  • Seminar “SLICES, Your Scientific Instrument to support Future Networked System Research”

2025-12-10 Africa Council LMAG

  • 17th IEEE R8 AFRICON – Opportunity for LMAG activity

2025-12-04 Hungary Section LMAG

  • Social Meeting

2025-11-20 Benelux Section LMAG

  • IEEE Dedicates Milestone to the Rijndael AES Cipher

2025-11-17 https://region8today.ieeer8.org/.

  • Publication in R8 Today

2025-11-16 Petition submission to form Saudi Arabia Section LMAG

  • LMAG Development in R8 Middle East

2025-11-08 Switzerland LMAG

2025-11-04 France Section LMAG

  • Seminar „Climate Change, Energy Transition and Power Systems Flexibility”

2025-10-26 Sweden Section LMAG – Petition to form the ´Nordic´LMAG

  • Petition submission tor form the Joint Sweden, Denmark and Finland Sections ´Nordic´ LMAG

2025-10-22 Germany Section LMAG

  • Halbleiter im Fahrzeug – wohin geht die Reise?

2025-10-18 125th R8 Committee Meeting

  • LM Committee Presentation

2025-09-29 R8 HA and LM Joint Meeting 2025

2025-09-29 Final Program _ R8 HA & LM Joint Meeting 2025

  • R8 HA and LM Committee Annual Meeting 2025

2025-09-29 Benelux Section LMAG

  • LMC Newsletter – Prof. Patrick Dewilde Receives 2025 LMAG Individual Service Award

2025-09-25 Benelux Section LMAG

  • A Glimpse into the Final Frontier: Benelux LMAG Explores Liège´s Space Hub

2025-09-19 Joint Baltic Sections LMAG

  • Nordic Student & Young Professionals Congress 2025

2025-09-11 North Macedonia Section LMAG

  • Lecture: Trends in power and high-power electronics, computetional electronics and online education

2025-06-19 Benelux Section LMAG

  • IEEE Benelux Life Members Tour World-Leading IMEC Facilities

2025-06-13 LMC Evaluation Conference 2025

  • Promoting IAS LMs and young members

2025 -05-12 North Macedonia Section LMAG

  • RoboMac 2025

2025-05-12 North Macedonia Section LMAG

  • RoboMac 2025 Junior

2025-04-28 North Macedonia Sction LMAG

  • Lecture: Transform Codes for Speech and Audio Signals

2025-04-04 Promotion R8 Affinity Group Members

2025-04-04 Final Program _ Promotion of R8 Affinity Group Members _ Budapest 2025

  • IAS, R8, HS Introductory and Mentoring Workshop, Budapest

2025-03-15 IEEE Joint SAC, YP, WIE and LM Face-to-Face Meeting

  • How to overcome obstacles of the LMAG formation – R8 best practices

2024-12-05 Benelux Section LMAG

  • Engineering the Digital Twin: A Benelux LMAG Visit to Siemens Digital Industries Software

 

 

 

 

R8 HA and LM Joint Meeting 2025 in conjunction with HISTELCON 2025

HISTELCON 2025

R8 HA and LM Joint Meeting 2025

0 _ Final Program _ R8 HA & LM Joint Meeting 2025

1 _ Opening Session _ R8 HA&LM Joint Meeting 2025

2 _ Daniel Mitchell _ IEEE Global Museum

3 _ Martin Bastiaans _ R8 HA

4 _ Peter Magyar _ R8 LM

5 _ Luc Claesen _ Benelux Section LMAG

6 _ Jordan Kolev _ Bulgaria Section LMAG

7 _ Goce Arsov _ North Macedonia Section LMAG

8 _ Hugo Wyss _ Switzerland Section LMAG

9 _ Roland Saam _ UK&I Section LMAG

 

Meeting pictures

Opening Address – Dusanka Boskovic, R8 Director

 

R8 HA & LM Meeting – Group Picture

 

Guest presentation – Daniel Mitchell, IEEE History Center

 

LM Individual Service Award Pesentation to Patrick Dewilde – Dusanka Boskovic, R8 Director, Mrs. Dewilde, Patrick Dewilde, Titiana Tambosso, R8 VC TA (l to r)

 

LMAG Achievement Award Presentation to Hugo Wyss by Dusanka Boskovic, R8 Director and Tiziana Tambosso, R8 VC TA (l to r)

 

Dusanka Boskovic, R8 Director (r) presents Certificate of Appreciation to Martin Bastiaans, R8 HA Coordinator (l)

 

HISTELCON Group Picture

Posted PM, Oct 6, 2025

 

 

 

2025 IEEE Life Member Individual Service Award

R8 recipient

Patrick Dewilde, Benelux Section LMAG

-For the exceptional and continuous service to IEEE, to the Benelux Section Life Member Affinity Group, advancing engineering education, fostering mentorship, innovation, research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

 

2025 IEEE Life Member Affinity Group Achievement Award

R8 recipient

Switzerland Section LMAG

Hugo Wyss, Chair 2024

-For actively promoting cooperation among national and international peer-groups and organizing meetings on urgent issues facing the industry.

Posted PM, Aug 23, 2025

 

 

 

Recognition of 2024 LMAG Activity

LMC Chair´s Email

Two highest activities 2024 per Region on basis of submitted vTools event reports, more than or equal to 12

R1   New Jersey LMAG  19

R2   –

R3   Atlanta LMAG  26

Canaveral LMAG, Costal South Carolina LMAG, NW Florida LMAG   18 each

R4   –

R5   Lone Star LMAG   75

Central Texas LMAG  26

R6   –

R7   –

R8   North Macedonia LMAG  43

Israel LMAG  19

R9   –

R10  Delhi LMAG  96

Kerala LMAG  69

Posted PM, Aug 24, 2025

 

 

In Memoriam Tony Davies (1936-2025)

 

With deep sorrow we report that Professor Anthony  (Tony) C. Davies of the King´s College London, died on March 22nd 2025 from heart failure. Tony was a Life Fellow of IEEE, and was an active member of the United Kingdom and Ireland Section LMAG until his death.

Tony held many volunteer positions in IEEE, beginning in 1975 as UK&I Section Secretary. He was elected as Region 8 Director 2003-04, served as Past Director 2005-06 and was particularly active in developing IEEE activities in the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia. He served as a Vice President of the IEEE Circuit &Systems Society. As a Life Member he organized IEEE activities in the History of Technology.

Tony was member of the R8 Life Member Committee 2021-24. He supported the R8 LM activity very intensively. He was also more times speaker in LM and also in joint LM & YP & Student & Society activities.

With his seemingly tireless energy, good humor, and gregariousness, Tony stood out at every meeting he attended, from student meetings right up to the Board of Directors.  Working with Tony was always an enjoyable and rewarding experience widely appreciated by his IEEE colleagues.

His passing has left a large gap in IEEE’s volunteer resources and in the Region 8 Life member activity.

Posted PM, Jul 01, 2025

 

 

 

 

IEEE Region 8 Life Member Affinity Groups (LMAGs)

Status: 2025-07-29

 

LMAG Name

Service Providing Organization ID

(SPO ID)

Former name: Geocode

Chair & Email

Austria Section LMAG LM80037 Michael Heiss
Benelux Section LMAG LM80001 Luc J. Claesen
Bulgaria Section LMAG LM80075 Jordan N. Kolev
Croatia Section LMAG LM80065 Zoran Vukic
Cyprus Section LMAG LM80073 Lazaros Savvides
Czechoslovakia Section LMAG LM80071 Andre Sopczak
Egypt Section LMAG LM80003 Samir I. Shaheen
France Section LMAG LM80005 Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Germany Section LMAG LM80017 Michael Wahl
Greece Section LMAG LM80029 Grigoris Papagiannis
Hungary Section LMAG LM80051 Peter Kadar
Iran Section LMAG LM80027 Vahid Ahmadi
Israel Section LMAG LM80009 Shmuel Auster
Italy Section LMAG LM80011 Antonio Savini
Jordan Section LMAG LM80079 Mohammed Zeki Khedher Mohammed
Lebanon Section LMAG LM80091 Ernst Huijer
North Macedonia Section LMAG LM80077 Goce Arsov
Norway Section LMAG LM80013 Filippo Sanfilippo
Poland Section LMAG LM80033 Adam Dabrowski
Portugal Section LMAG LM80045 João Costa Freire
Romania Section LMAG LM80061 Mircea Eremia
Russia Section LMAG LM80059 Boris Kutuza
Russia North West Section LMAG LM80087 Serguei V Smolovik
Serbia and Montenegro Section LMAG LM80069 Vladimir Katic
Slovenia Section LMAG LM80067 Jurij Tasic
Spain Section LMAG LM80023 Manuel Castro
Sweden Section LMAG > Staus change to

Joint Sweden, Denmark and Finland Sections  ´Nordic´ LMAG

Sweden Section LMAG

Denmark Section LMAG

Finland Section LMAG

 

 

LM80019

LM80025

LM80035

 

 

Margaretha Eriksson

Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam

Mahdi Pourakbari Kasmaei

Switzerland Section LMAG LM80007 Robert Weiss
Turkey Section LMAG LM80055 Erdal Panayirci
UK&Ireland Section LMAG LM80015 Alan Shore
Africa Council LMAG

The participating 10 Sections are: 

Algeria Section

Ghana Section

Kenya Section

Mauritius Section

Morocco Section

Nigeria Section

South Africa Section

Tunisia Section

Uganda Section

Zambia Sectio

The participating seven (7) Subsections are:

Botswana Subsection

Burkina Faso Subsection

Ethiopia Subsection

Liberia Subsection

Lybia Subsection

Sudan Subsection

Tanzania Subsection

Comment: Egypt Section belongs to the Africa Council but the Egypt Section LMAG is independent and not part of the Africa Council LMAG.

LM801

 

Omigui Osaretin Michael

 

Joint Bahrain, Oman and Qatar Sections LMAG

Bahrain Section LMAG

Oman Section LMAG

Qatar Section LMAG

 

LM80083

LM80004

LM80095

Ali Zolait
Joint “Baltic” LMAG

Estonia Section LMAG

Latvia Section LMAG

Lithuania Section LMAG

 

LM80006

LM80010

LM80097

Irina Naidionova

LMAG Map 

Posted PM, Dec 31, 2024

 

 

 

 


2018 WIE Outstanding Student Volunteer of the Year Award – Ozgenur Sevgili

Özgenur Sevgili was born in 1996 in Samsun, Turkey. She started in 2014 her studies in Mathematical Engineering at Yildiz Technical University (YTU), and always advocated for women’s rights at university. She joined IEEE during her second year and was vice chair of IEEE YTU WIE AG 2016-2017. During her term, she focused on the STAR program. She is currently IEEE Women in Engineering Turkey Student Representative.


2018 Outstanding WIE Section Volunteer Award – Dr. Ilhem Kallel

Dr. Ilhem Kallel is an A. Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedia of Sfax, and a senior researcher with REGIM-Lab in National school of Engineers of Sfax (university of Sfax-Tunisia).  She received the bachelor degree in computer science in 1988 from ISG Tunis, the DEA degree in Information Systems and new
Technologies in 2003, from FSEGS, and the PhD degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 2009 from ENIS. Since 1988, Dr. Ilhem had many leadership positions and a rich professional experience dealing with developing and managing enterprise information systems within an industrial company, teaching fields of computer science and training of teachers.
Besides professional and associative activities, including those of IEEE, Dr. Ilhem is involved in many associative projects and activities. She usually takes part or organizes many scientific and social events (meetings, conferences, workshops, contests, competitions, training sessions, booths, soft skills training, etc.) and she is participating in international research cooperation projects and research mobility.
She supervises engineering research projects and contributes to the review process of many international conferences and journals. Her research interests are mainly in collective and hybrid intelligence, pedagogical innovation in education, intelligent
multirobot systems, fuzzy modeling, swarm intelligence, multiagent systems, and systems’ quality assessment.
Dr. Ilhem Kallel is an IEEE member since 2001: from graduate student Member, to member, to senior member on 2014. Currently, she serves as a chair of Education Tunisia chapter for 2017-2018. On 2009, she was the founder and the past chairwoman of IEEE Tunisia Women In Engineering; she was one past chair of SMC and CIS Tunisia Chapters, the chapters coordinator in Tunisia Section for 2015-2016. She volunteered as a proctor in some IEEExtreme programming competitions. Dr. Ilhem is the WIE SAG adviser at ENIS and a member of the DIS TC in SMC Society. She was the winner of the 2011 WIE Clementina Award for Region 8 for her professional and personal achievements; this award attests that she can serve as a role model for combining professional achievements and family life. Recently she wins the 2018 R8 Outstanding Women In Engineering Section Volunteer Award.
Moreover, she participates in the organization of many IEEE activities and technical events, and actively takes part in all section ex-com meetings and some R8 meetings. She invites many Distinguished Lecturers from WIE, SMC, CI and Education societies.


IEEE Region 8 – Elections 2018 – Belgrade

Dear IEEE Region 8 Committee members,

On behalf of the Region 8 Nominations and Appointments Committee it is my pleasure to present to you the booklet ( IEEE Region 8 - Elections 2018 - Belgrade ) which contains all the relevant information on the upcoming elections for the Region 8 Officers. The elections will  be held in Belgrade on Saturday 20th  of October.

During the meeting, the candidates will have time to make a small presentation and accept questions. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,
Costas Stasopoulos
IEEE Region 8 Chair Nominations and Appointments Committee


Call for Paper deadline extention: IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit’18

,The IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit’18 will be held alongside the 5th IEEE CiSt Congress http://www.ieee.ma/cist18/ on October 23 – 25 2018 in Marrakech, Morocco.

5th IEEE CiSt Congress

5th IEEE CiSt Congress

The main objective of the summit is to provide an exclusive platform for women researchers, professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs in ICT to learn from each other, share their knowledge and experience and create an inclusive community that commonly innovates to the benefit of the society, and equally promotes the sense of collaboration, leadership, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit among participants.

Topics and Submission

We solicit submission of original projects and ideas describing significant developments from women researchers and professionals in any ICT related fields, as well as showcases reporting ongoing research or projects achieving significant contributions like prototypes, products, services or applications.

Prospective authors should submit by using the online paper submission platform , a paper up to 6 pages using the IEEE Manuscript template.

NB: Submitted papers should have at least one female Author or Co-Author, and only female Authors are accepted to register and present the accepted papers.

Publication

Accepted and presented contributions will be published in the congress proceeding and submitted to IEEE Xplore Library, Scopus and DBLP. Furthermore, Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for publication in a special issue/section of an international journal.

The 3 best papers will be awarded during the IEEE Women in Engineering International leadership summit.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline Extention:       September 07, 2018

Acceptance Notification:                                 September 12, 2018

Author Registration:                                       September 15, 2018

WIE Summit Dates:                                         October 23-25, 2018

Contact information

Detailed and up-to-date information about IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit’18, Marrakech, Morocco can be accessed through the website:

http://www.ieee.ma/site/event/ieee-women-in-engineering-2018/

For any inquiry, contact us on:

[email protected]