2014-August – Amsterdam

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2014-August Amsterdam

 in 2014-August – Amsterdam

This page contains information about the 103rd IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held in Amsterdam on 21-22 of August 2014.

Section Chairs Message

• Agenda Book
• Unapproved minutes from Budapest
• Amsterdam Travel Advisory
• Novotel Holiday Inn RAI

Click here for the photogallery

Click here for the Region 8 Committee Group PhotoSections Congress 2014 Information

• IEEE Section Congress 2014 – Brochure
• Sections Congress 2014 Flyer

OpCom Reports

Director  (Martin Bastiaans)
Past-Director  (Marko Delimar)	Secretary  (Ali El-Mousa)
Treasurer (Brian Harrington)	V/C Member Activities  (Aleksandar Szabo)
V/C Student Activities  (Pablo Herrero)	V/C Technical Activities  (Carl Debono)

Subcommittee Reports

Awards & Recognition Subcommittee (A&RSC)	V/C Technical Activities  (IRSC)	Section Congress Coordinator
Chapter Coordination Subcommittee (ChCSC)	Life Member Coordinator  (LM)	Standards Coordinator  (StC)
Conference Coordination SubCommittee  (CoCSC)	Membership Development Subcommittee  (MDSC)	Strategic Planning
Educational Activities SubCommittee   (EASC)	Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee Candidates' biographies	Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator  (VCF)
Electronic Communications Coordinator  (ECC)	Professional Activities Subcommittee  (PASC)	Women in Engineering Coordinator (WIE)
History Activities Coordinator  (HA)	Region 8 News  (R8News)	Young Professionals Subcommittee  (YP)

Section Reports

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

Sub-Section Reports

Mauritius Sub-Section

Palestine Sub-Section

Sfax Sub-Section

Sudan Sub-Section

Tanzania Sub-Section

Motions

• Revision to IEEE Region 8 Operations Manual
  IEEE R8 Operations Manual (Edit 15 June v1)
• Revision to collection of IEEE Region 8 donations

Reimbursement

• download the reimbursement form: IEEE R8 Expense Sheet February 2013 V11
• download the reimbursement guidelines: Region 8 Reimbursement Policy BH2

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Meeting Schedule

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Time Table
	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Location Time	Novotel Hotel	RAI Room Elicium 1	RAI Room Elicium 1
08:00-12:40		R8 Committee meeting	R8 Committee meeting
12:40-13:00		Lunch (First floor restaurant)
13:00-13:30			Lunch (First floor restaurant)
13:30-14:00		R8 Committee Meeting
14:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30	Registration / Refreshments
17:30-18:00	Benelux Section presentation (Calla room)
18:00-19:00	Technical speech “Electrical Engineering Challenges for Space Applications: An ESA Perspective” By: Riccardo de Gaudenzi et al. (Calla room)
19:00-20:00	Welcome reception (The hotel foyer)
20:00-22:00	Welcome dinner

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Order of the Day

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Thursday, 21 August 2014

 

Time	#	Type	Item	Presenter
8:00	101	Procedural	Call to order	Bastiaans
8:05	102	Procedural	Roll call	El-Mousa
8:10	103	Procedural	Welcome	Vandendorpe
8:15	104	Procedural	Introduction of new officers	El-Mousa
8:25	105	Procedural	Introductory remarks / Sven-Olof Öhrvik	Bastiaans/El-Mousa
8:30	106	Action	Approval of the agenda	Bastiaans
8:35	107	Action	Approval of the consent agenda	Bastiaans
8:40	108	Discussion	Director's address	Bastiaans
8:55	109	Discussion	Secretary's report	El-Mousa
9:10	110	Action	Treasurer's report  – budget for 2015	Harrington
9:30	111	Discussion	Strategic Planning	Delimar
9:35	112	Discussion	Sections Congress 2014	Salazar-Palma / Skodras
9:55	113	Discussion	Awards & Recognitions	Delimar/Turner
10:10	114	Procedural	Break
10:40	115	Discussion	Student Activities report	Herrero c.s.
			Student and Young Professional Congress outcome ( SYP Photos )	Herrero/Schmid
			Student Branch revitalization	Arvaniti
11:25	116	Discussion	MGA Managing Director's address ( MGA Information Management )	Jankowski c.s.
12:25	117	Procedural	Recess	Bastiaans
12:30			Group photo
12:40			Lunch
13:30	201	Procedural	Call to order	Bastiaans
13:35	202	Discussion	Presentation of OpCom candidates  ( Presentations )	Delimar
14:35	203	Discussion	Presentation of N&A Subcommittee candidates	Delimar
14:50	204	Procedural	Break – after the break we go into Executive Session
15:20	205	Discussion	Discussion about OpCom candidates	Delimar
15:50	206	Action	Election of OpCom members	Delimar
16:10	207	Discussion	Discussion about N&A Subcommittee candidates	Delimar
16:20	208	Action	Election of N&A Subcommittee members	Delimar
16:30	209	Procedural	Recess	Bastiaans

 

Friday, 22 August 2014

 

Time	#	Type	Item	Presenter
8:00	301	Procedural	Call to order and roll call	Bastiaans/El-Mousa
8:05	302	Discussion	IEEE President's address	de Marca
8:35	303	Discussion	IEEE Executive Director's address	Prendergast
9:05	304	Discussion	Member Activities report	Szabo c.s
9:50	305	Discussion	TM Council change to Technology and Engineering Management Society	Desmond
			Communication Conference targeted towards industry	Desmond
10:00	306	Discussion	Section development and vitality: Metropolitan Area Workshop	Stasopoulos
10:10	307	Discussion	Section development and vitality: Entrepreneur activities	Stasopoulos
10:20	308	Procedural	Break
10:50	309	Discussion	Technical Activities report	Debono c.s.
			Appropriately allocating expenses from technically cosponsored conferences	Debono
			Education challenges in the Global Village	Pavlidou
			The Distinguished Lecturer program	Joffe
			Webinars on conference organization	Haase
			Industry Relation activities – experiences and how to proceed	Neumeier
11:35	310	Discussion	Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT)	Brown
11:45	311	Discussion	National Society Agreements	Lillie
12:00	312	Discussion	IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Activities in Europe ( Africa Ad Hoc Committee Update )	Delimar
12:15	313	Discussion	Director-Elect's address	Stasopoulos
12:30	314	Action	Motions	Bastiaans
	315	Action	Revision to IEEE Region 8 Operations Manual	Delimar
12:45	316	Discussion	New business	Bastiaans
12:50	317	Info	Next meeting	El-Mousa/Antoniou
12:55	318	Action	Adjournment	Bastiaans
13:00			Lunch
14:00			Lunch ends

Durrani -Grand challenges talk for R8 and 9

 

Consent Agenda

401   Action   Approval of the minutes of the 102^nd Region 8 Committee meeting

402   Action   Revision to collection of IEEE Region 8 donations

 

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