Our October Monthly Meeting

We are holding our October meeting on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. This dinner meeting will be at the usual place and time. That is 5:30PM at Zippy's, 59 North Vineyard Boulevard Honolulu, HI 96817. Map: http://zippys.com/live/locations/vineyard/.  Everyone please come and join us for a great evening. This is the start of our IEEE Day celebrations with many IEEE promotions.

Technical Talk

This meeting will include a short EXCOM meeting followed by a Communication Chapter technical talk entitled "What's New in Communications?" presented by Eran Agmon.

 

EXCOM Meeting Agenda

1.   Schedule technical and professional talks and activities.  November should include a talk by Edward Tavares of Verizon who will speak on network security. November is also when our Business Card Exchange event traditionally takes place. The Business Card Exchange is an annual professional activity event held at UH-Manoa in conjunction with the student branch. We also are looking into arranging STEM and Computer Society Events. We are always looking for suggestions from our members about the types of technical talks we should hold.

2.   Make sure all attendees know about the pertinent promotions and contests taking place on IEEE DAY 2012. We should enter the photo contest again this year and make sure that potential new IEEE members know about the promotion giving them $25.00 off on the registration fee.

3.   Our Committee on Conference Bids needs to review the status of fund raising, registrations, and papers for the IEEE GHTC 2012 compared to 2011 with a view toward preparing a bid hosting IEEE GHTC 2014.  Information on this topic will be presented. Montreal and Seattle are also interested in putting in a bid. The San Francisco section is hosting IEEE GHTC 2013, but has not settled on an exact location because of cost considerations.  Portland is hosting a new conference next year, SUSTECH 2013, which they hope to make into an annual event which could be hosted be various section like the GHTC.

4.   We need to review the changes made by IEEE in June to the rules by which we are governed. These include term limits and election requirements.

If there are additional items that anyone wants to discuss, please add a comment or notify me. Thanks.