2015-March – Limassol


2015-March Limassol

This page contains information about the 104th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held in Limassol on 28-29 of March 2015.

IEEE Region 8 Meeting - Limassol - Group Photo

OpCom Reports

  Director (Costas Stasopoulos)
Past-Director  (Martin Bastiaans) Secretary  (Christian Schmid)
Treasurer  (Brian Harrington) V/C Member Activities  (Dusanka Boskovic)
V/C Student Activities  (Mona Ghassemian) V/C Technical Activities  (Igor Kuzle)

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry (AfI) History Activities Coordinator (HA) 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) 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 UK and 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

Algeria Sub-Section Mauritius Sub-Section Sudan Sub-Section
Botswana Sub-Section Palestine Sub-Section Tanzania Sub-Section

Reimbursement


Meeting Schedule

R8 Limassol Meeting Time Table
(Subject to Change)
Friday Saturday Sunday
Mavrommatis Ballroom A Summit B Summit A Ballroom A&B Ballroom A&B
8:00-8:30 All R8 Committee and Subcommittee members (except Section Chairs) – Ballroom A R8 Meeting
8:30-9:00 R8 Meeting
9:00-11:00 Educational Activities New Volunteer Orientation Membership Development Awards and Recognition
11:00-12:00 Chapter Coordination Professional Activities Section Vitality
12:00-13:00 Young Professionals Action for Industry
Lunch
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Interactive Session Lunch
14:00-15:00 Student Activities Young Professionals Conference Coordination Action for Industry
15:00-16:00
16:00-17:00 Strategic Planning Cultural Tour – 16:45
17:00-18:00 MA all TA all
18:00-18:30 Coffee Break
18:30-20:00 Cyprus Section Presentation – Technical Presentation – Ballroom A Cyprus Dinner (off-site)
20:00-22:30 Welcome Reception, Dinner and Awards Ceremony at Ballroom A&B (Companions Welcome)

Order of the day

time min # type item presenter
Friday evening event
17:00 60 Registration / Refreshments
18:00 45 Cyprus Section presentation Antoniou
18:45 15 Signing of MOU, IEEE Cyprus Section – Cyprus Technical Chamber Antoniou/Achniotis
19:00 30 Technical Talk Chrysaphis
19:30 30 Cocktail reception
20:00 150 Dinner and Award Ceremony – Dress code: Formal Delimar
22:30 Dinner ends
Saturday morning meeting
8:00 5 101 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
8:05 15 102 Procedural Roll call and Introduction of new officers Schmid
8:20 5 103 Procedural Welcome by Cyprus Section Antoniou
8:25 5 104 Procedural Introductory remarks Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:30 5 105 Action Approval of the agenda Stasopoulos
8:35 5 106 Action Approval of the consent agenda Stasopoulos
8:40 20 107 Discussion Director’s address Stasopoulos
9:00 15 108 Discussion IEEE Presidents’ address Michel
9:15 15 109 Discussion IEEE Executive Director’s address Prendergast
9:30 25 110 Procedural Break
9:55 10 111 Discussion IEEE Collabratec Day
10:05 10 112 Discussion Nominations & Appointments Bastiaans
10:15 40 113 Discussion Member Activities report Boskovic
10:55 10 114 Discussion MGA Chair’s address Wong
11:05 20 115 Discussion MGA Managing Director’s address Jankowski
11:25 45 116 Discussion Technical Activities report Kuzle
12:10 5 117 Discussion Address by the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Kouyialis
12:15 10 118 Discussion Interactive Session Instructions Stasopoulos/Schmid
12:25 1 119 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
12:26 4 Group photo
12:30 60 Lunch
13:30 Lunch ends
Saturday afternoon meeting
13:30 5 201 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
13:35 150 202 Discussion Interactive Session All
16:05 1 203 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
Saturday evening program
16:45 165 Cultural visit by bus to the ancient city of Courion – Dress code: Casual, comfortable shoes
19:30 165 Dinner at a Cyprus restaurant with traditional music and dance (Shiambelos Restaurant)
22:15 Dinner ends, transfer to hotel by bus
Sunday morning meeting
8:30 5 301 Procedural Call to order and roll call Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:35 45 302 Discussion President-Elect candidates debate Arvaniti/Mintzer/Bartleson
9:20 5 303 Discussion Secretary’s report Schmid
9:25 15 304 Discussion Treasurer’s report Harrington
9:40 40 305 Discussion Student Activities report Ghassemian
306 Action Establishing Region 8 Section Award for Student Activities Arvaniti/Ghassemian
10:20 10 307 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Delimar
10:30 30 308 Procedural Break
11:00 20 309 Discussion Section development and vitality Szabo/Eriksson
11:20 10 310 Discussion Reflections of the Past-President De Marca
11:30 15 311 Discussion Building Technical Communities: TABs Priority and MGA Cooperation Piuri/Ruggieri
11:45 15 312 Discussion What is new in Standards? Karachalios
12:00 10 313 Discussion IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Activities in Africa Kaabunga
12:10 10 314 Discussion IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Engagement in Europe Delimar
12:20 15 315 Discussion Future R8 Conferences (Histelcon, Africon, Eurocon, Energycon, Melecon) Kuzle
12:35 10 316 Action Motions Stasopoulos
12:45 30 317 Discussion New business Stasopoulos
13:15 10 318 Info Next meeting Schmid/Burnik
13:25 5 319 Adjournment Stasopoulos
13:30 60 Lunch
14:30 Lunch ends
Consent agenda
401 Action Approval of the minutes of the 103rd Region 8 Committee meeting
402 Action
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