Conferences are among the most important activities in Region 8 because of the important opportunities that they provide, especially for networking in Europe, Africa, and Middle-East. Additionally, an important intellectual property is generated through the Region 8 conferences and published in IEEE Xplore.

IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Committee (CoCC) has been running since more than 20 years ago. The CoCC aims to facilitate the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and to monitor and to provide oversight for Region 8 conferences, conventions and technical events sponsored or cosponsored by Region 8, and liaise with and advise Societies and Technical Councils planning conferences in Region 8.

For further details about the IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee, please have a look into:

• IEEE R8 CoCC Operations Manual <link>
• IEEE Technical Activities organizational chart <link>

If you have any questions related to our conferences or would like to know more how to be involved in our activities, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

2026 Team:

The Conferences Coordination Committee & Liaisons

Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus) Chair	René Garello (France) Past Chair	Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia) Member	Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) Member
Humphrey Muhindi (Kenya) Corresponding Member	Filippo SanFilippo (Norway) Corresponding Member	François Rivet (France) Corresponding Member	Sergio Rapuano (Italy) Corresponding Member, and Liaison with IEEE Society/Technical Councils and National Activities
Albena Mihovska (Denmark) Corresponding Member	Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) Liaison with R8 Flagship & Portfolio conferences	To Be Announced (TBA) Liaison with R8 Finance Committee

The ex-officio Members of the IEEE CoCC who are R8 members of ICC

The Ad-Hoc Committee for R8 Flagship & Portfolio Conferences

Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal) Chair, Liaison with CoCC MELECON 2026 steering committe chair	Tuziana Tombosso (Italy) RTSI 2026 steering committee chair and R8 representative for HISTELCON 2026 & IHTC 2026	Albert Lisko (South Africa) AFRICON 2027 steering committee chair	Giambattista Gruosso (Italy) RTSI 2027 steering committee chair
René Garello (France) ENERGYCON 2026 steering committee chair	Ibrahim Kucukdemiral (Uk & Irland) EUROCON 2027 steering committee chair	tba ( ) IHTC 2027 steering committee chair	tba ( ) Liaison with finance committee

Section Conference Coordinators

The IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Committee is working closely with the section conference coordinators in order to provide the best service to the community. Click <Here> to contact your section conference coordinator and start planning your conference.

Training Workshops for Conference Organizers & Coordinators

• August 25, 2025: 3rd 2025 R8 Conference Leadership Workshop, colocated with IEEE RTSI2025 Conference (Hybrid), Tunis, Tunisia <Program and slides: IEEE R8 Conference Leadership Workshop-August 2025-Tunisia>
• July 12, 2025: 2nd 2025 R8 Conference Leadership Workshop, part of R8 Section Volunteers Training Series (in-person), Tunis, Tunisia
• April 4, 2025: 1st 2025 R8 Training workshop for IEEE Conference Leaders (Hybrid), R8 Committee Meeting, Budapest, Hungary
• November 13, 2024: R8 Workshop on IEEE conference impact and development  (online) < program and slides >
• June25, 2024: R8 Workshop on Conference organization and sponsorship, in conjunction with R8 MELECON, Porto, Portugal <program and slides>
• March 1, 2024: R8 Workshop on IEEE Conference Impact and Development, Vienna, Austria <program and slides>
• December 5, 2023: R8 Workshop on Conference organization and sponsorship <agenda>
• July 5, 2023, R8 Workshop on Conference organization and sponsorship, Torino, Italy <agenda>
• March 24, 2023, R8 Workshop on Conference organization and sponsorship, Bucharest, Romania <agenda>
• November 3, 2022: R8 Conference Organizers Workshop
• June 13, 2022: R8 Conference Leadership Workshop, Palermo, Italy
• July 15, 2021: R8 Conference Organizers Workshop, online
• May 20, 2021: R8 Conference Leadership Workshop, online
• March 16, 2021: Conference coordination meeting, as part of the 116th IEEE Region 8 Meeting Series. <slides>

Best Practices for Virtual Events Course

Some courses are available in IEEE CLE website <Link>.

Also, best practices for virtual events are available in the IEEE CEE website <Link>.

Conference Safety and Readiness

As global conditions continue to evolve and new challenges emerge, conference organizers, professional teams, and participants may have questions regarding travel, safety, and event logistics. The health and well-being of our participants and the IEEE community remains our highest priority. Accordingly, we are providing expert guidance and ongoing support through the following resources <Link>

IEEE Region 8 Flagship and Portfolio Conferences

Region 8 hosts the following flagship conferences:

• MELECON: Biennial (even years), held in one of the Mediterranean Sections
• ENERGYCON: Biennial (even years), about energy topics, held anywhere in R8
• EUROCON: Biennial (odd years), held in a European Section
• AFRICON: Biennial (odd years), held in an African Section

Region 8 hosts the following portfolio conferences:

• HISTELCON: Biennial (odd years), about history of electrical technologies, held anywhere in R8
• RTSI: Annual, Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation, held anywhere in R8
• IHTC: Annual, Humanitarian Technologies Conference, held in R8, then in R7, then in R9

Interested to organize one of the IEEE Region 8 flagship or portfolio conference?

Click <here> for further details.

IEEE Region 8 Sponsored Conferences

Upcoming & Recent R8 Flagship and Portfolio Conferences:

• November 17-20, 2027, IEEE R8 IHTC 2027, 10th IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference, Zagreb, Croatia
• September 23-25, 2027, IEEE AFRICON 2027, 18th IEEE R8 AFRICON, Kumasi, Ghana
• September 6-8, 2027, IEEE RTSI 2027, 11th R8 Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, Catania, Italy
• June 9-11, 2027, IEEE EUROCON 2027, 22nd IEEE R8 International Conference on Smart Technologies, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
• November 25-27 2026, IEEE R10 HISTELCON 2026, 10th IEEE HISTory of ELectrotechnology CONference, Tokyo, Japan
• October 27-29, 2026, IEEE ENERGYCON 2026, 9th IEEE R8 International ENERGY CONference, Paris, France
• October  2026, IEEE R9 IHTC 2026, 9th IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference, Guayaquil, Ecuador
• August 16-18, 2026, IEEE RTSI 2026, 10th IEEE R8 Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, Espoo, Finland
• February 2-4, 2026, 23rd R8 MELECON 2026,  New Cairo, Egypt
• December 10-12, 2025, 17th IEEE R8 AFRICON, Polokwane, South Africa
• September 30 – October 2, 2025, IEEE R8 HISTELCON 2025, 9th HISTory of ELectrotechnology CONference, Bonn, Germany
• August 24-26, 2025, IEEE RTSI 2025, 9th IEEE R8 Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, Tunis, Tunisia
• August 13-15, 2025, IEEE R7 IHTC 2025, 8th IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference, Edmonton, Canada
• June 4-6, 2025, IEEE EUROCON, 21st IEEE R8 International European Conference on Smart Technologies, Gdynia, Poland

Upcoming & Recent R8 Financially Co-sponsored (FCS) Conferences

• September 14-16, 2026,  IEEE WiSEE 2026, 14th IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments, Leuven, Belgium
• November 25-26, 2025, 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), Belgrade, Serbia
• July 2-5, 2025, 30th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Bologna, Italy
• April 22-25, 2025, 15th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), London, United Kingdom

Upcoming & Recent R8 Technically Co-sponsored (TCS) Conferences

• November 4-6, 2026, 21st IEEE International Conference on Design, Test and Technology of Integrated Systems (DTTIS), Hammamet, Tunisia
• October 28-30, 2026, 7th International Conference on Smart Systems and Technologies (SST), Osijek, Croatia
• September, 7-9, 2026, IEEE International Conference on Omni Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Bologna, Italy
• July 1-3, 2026, 13th IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Madrid, Spain
• June 17-19, 2026, IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Automotive (MetroAutomotive), Brescia, Italy
• May 25-29, 2026, 49th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO), Opatija, Croatia
• November 24-26, 2025, 4th IEEE International Conference on Signal, Control and Communication (SCC), Sousse, Tunisia
• November 5-7, 2025, IEEE International Workshop on Technologies for Defense and Security (TechDefense), Rome, Italy
• November 4-6, 2025, 12th IEEE Twelfth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet), Hammamet, Tunisia
• October 30-November 2, 2025, IEEE International Multi-Conference on Smart Systems & Green Process (IMC-SSGP), Hammamet, Tunisia
• October 22-24, 2025, 17th International Conference on Advanced Technologies, Systems and Services in Telecommunications (TELSIKS), Nis, Serbia
• Sept 15-17, 2025, 67th International Symposium on ELectronics in MARine (ELMAR), Zadar, Croatia
• June 9-12, 2025, 12th International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computing Engineering (IcETRAN), Čačak, Serbia
• June 2-6, 2025, 48th ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO), Croatia
• January 9-11, 2025, IEEE 6th International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS), Lyon, France

Upcoming & Recent R8 TCS/FCS Students & Young Professionls Congresses

Archive: List of previous R8 Flagship, Portfolio, FCS and TCS Conferences <Link>

How to apply for IEEE Region 8 Sponsorship

If you would like to apply for the sponsorship of a technical event that you are planning, please refer to the descriptions of our sponsorships. IEEE Region 8 annually supports an appreciable number of conferences, especially located in Europe, Africa, and Middle-East.

Please note that using the IEEE Region 8 logo or announcing an IEEE R8 sponsorship of a technical event before applying for sponsorship and obtaining approval from the IEEE R8 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities is strictly forbidden.

There exist two main types of sponsorship of conferences:

1. Financial sponsorship or co-sponsorship

In this case, the IEEE R8 is involved in technical, financial, publicity and administrative aspects of the conference. Two cases are possible:

• Sole Sponsorship: indicates full and sole R8 involvement in the conference. The R8 accepts complete responsibility for the technical, financial, publicity and administrative aspects of the conference.
• Co-Sponsorship: indicates a shared involvement (in the technical, financial, publicity and administrative areas of the conference) between the R8 and other entities. These entities are other IEEE Organizational Unit(s) and other “Not-for-Profit” non-IEEE organizations.

2. Technical Co-Sponsorship

In this case, the IEEE R8 is involved solely in the organization of the technical program of the conferences. The R8 has no financial involvement in the conference. Technical co-sponsorship may or may not include proceedings acquisition for IEEE Xplore.

Important Notes:

• The relationship between sponsoring organizations must be explicitly defined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed following the submission of the IEEE conference application <link>.
  • Start a new application English Video
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• Conference applications must be submitted before 12 months. Applications received after these deadlines most likely will not be approved.
• Incomplete applications will be returned without processing.
• Any revisions to a previously approved budget, deadline extension, program, etc., must be submitted to the conference coordination committee for re-approval.
• Read more details about Requirements and benefits for IEEE Region 8 Sponsorship <link>.
• If it will be your first request of IEEE R8 sponsorship, we recommend to contact us at [email protected] before the submission of your conference application.

IEEE Conferences, Events & Experiences (CEE)

IEEE conference services are provided for IEEE sponsored conferences (by IEEE R8 and/or other IEEE units). Numerous services includes:

• Overall guidance
• Organiser/OU education and training
• Identifying and facilitating sponsorship
• Finance, budgeting, insurance, contract review and approval
• Banking and credit card processing
• Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)
• Publication of your proceedings
• Webpage design
• Marketing your conference
• Site location, event management, meeting logistics
• Contract negotiations, food & beverage planning, supplier management

Further details are available in:

• IEEE CEE website: https://events.ieee.org/
• IEEE CEE Resource Library: https://events.ieee.org/forms-and-templates/

IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing

• IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing (eCP): https://ieeeexpressconferencepublishing.ieee.org/

CoCC Posters:

Region 8 Booth during HISTELCON, Bonn, Germany (October 2025):

• Poster is available here as PDF

Region 8 Athens meeting (March 2018):

• Poster is available here as PDF

Region 8 Malta meeting (March 2019):

• Poster is available here as PDF.

• Information about conference organization is available here as PDF.

Former CoCC teams:

• 2025: René Garello (France, chair),Tiziana Tambosso (Italy, past-chair), Ibrahim Kucukdemira (UK & Ireland), Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia), Tulay Yildirim (Turkey), Albert Lysko (South Africa), Filippo San Filippo (Norway), Ahmed Hassan (Egypt), Abdelhamid Itrani (Algeria), François Rivet (France), Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus), Nadezhda Kunicina (Latvia), Sergio Rapuano (Italy), Toni Mattila (Finland), Pascal Lorentz (France), Rodolfo Oliviera (Portugal).
• 2024: Tiziana Tambosso (Italy, chair), Habib M. Kammoun (Tunisia, past-chair), Abdellah Kouzou (Algeria), Shaun Kaplan (Germany), Robert Bierwolf (Benelux), Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia), Sergio Rapuano (Italy), Katerina Papanikolaou (Cyprus), Aleksandar Mastilovic (Serbia), Pascal Lorentz (France), Paul M. Cunningham (UK & Ireland)
• 2023: Tiziana Tambosso (Italy, chair), Habib M. Kammoun (Tunisia, past-chair), Abdellah Kouzou (Algeria), Shaun Kaplan (Germany), Robert Bierwolf (Benelux), Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia), Sergio Rapuano (Italy), Fatma Taher (UAE), Ana Madureira (Portugal), Pascal Lorentz (France)
• 2021/2022: Habib M. Kammoun (Tunisia, chair), Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia, past chair), Robert Bierwolf (Beneleux), Tiziana Tambosso (Italy), Nadezda Kunicina (Latvia), Eric Kuada (Ghana), Ridha Hamila (Qatar), Albert Lysko (South Africa), Marios Antoniou (Cyprus), Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden)
• 2019/2020: Ljupco Karadzinov (North Macedonia, chair), Peter Nagy (Hungary, past chair), Tomislav Capuder (Croatia), Robert Bierwolf (Beneleux), Khaled Mokhtar (UAE), Vikass Monebhurrun (France), Boris Dumnic (Serbia)
• 2017/2018: Peter Nagy (Hungary, chair), Adel Alimi (Tunisia), Tomislav Capuder (Croatia), Shaun Kaplan (South Africa)
• 2015/2016: Adel Alimi (Tunisia, chair), Jan Haase (Germany, past chair), Peter Nagy (Hungary)
• 2013/2014: Jan Haase (Austria, chair), Dirk van Hertem (Benelux), Stefano Zanero (Italy)
• 2011/2012: Carl Debono (Malta, chair), Karl Gudmundsson (Iceland), Jan Haase (Austria)
• 2009/2010: Marian Kazmierkovski (Poland, chair), Gerhard Hancke (South Africa), Gerard-André Capolino (France), Baldomir Zajc (Slovenia)
• 2007/2008: Francisco Sandoval (Spain, chair), Gerhard Hancke (South Africa), Marian Kazmierkovski (Poland), Gerard-André Capolino (France), Peter Farkas (Czechoslovakia, past chair)
• 2005/2006: Peter Farkas (Czechoslovakia, chair)
• 2003/2004: Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain, chair)
• 2001/2002: Tariq Durrani (UKRI, chair)
• 1999/2000: Baldomir Zajc (Slovenia, chair)