What an inspiring morning!
As President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), I had the pleasure of organizing the 50th IECON 2024 Celebratory Panel this morning in Chicago.
Thank you IEEE President Elect Kathleen Kramer, VP IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) Fred Schindler, and past VP TAB John Verboncoeur, for joining us and reflecting on mission and vision of IEEE.
The panel was moderated by Division VI Director and IES Past President Kamal Al-Haddad, and joined by several General Chairs of IES IECON conferences:
Ren Luo (IECON 1996, Taipei, Taiwan), Xinghuo Yu (IECON 2011, Melbourn Australia), Kamal Al-Haddad (IECON 2012, Montreal, Canada), Peter Palensky (IECON 2013, Vienna, Austria), Kiyoshi Ohishi (IECON 2015, Yokohama, Japan), Carlo Cecati (IECON 2016, Florence, Italy), Milos Manic 2018 IECON in Washington, D.C., Luis Gomes (IECON 2019, Lisboa, Portugal).
We were joined by the Div. VI representative, President of the IEEE Reliability Society SEC SBC, Steven Li, and representative of Sister Society, President of IEEE Industrial Applications Society Andy Knight.
The anegdotes from past IECONs were shared, and ideas for future conferences proposed - from #AI driven interactive sessions, to real-time paper review.
Planning a flagship conference like IECON usually takes three years, and deploys hundreds of volunteers. Congratulations to Mohammad Shadmand for record-breaking IECON 2024!
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