May 6 Meeting at Zippy's on Vineyard

Title May EXCOM Meeting Category Administrative Description Attendees 1. John Camery , Section Chair, presiding 2. David Morse, PACE Chair 3. Al Toda 4. Kishore Erukulapati , Secretary 5. Chris A. Rusell, Vice Chair 6. John Borland, Nominations Chair 7. Grant Torigoe 8. Song K. Choi 9. Eran Agmon Minutes of the meeting 1. Immigration. IEEE Hawaii chair (John Camery) wrote letters two Hawaii Senators on IEEE position regarding immigration. IEEE US strongly support EB visa program and discourages drastic increases to H1 B visas to companies that outsource jobs overseas. John Camery participated in webcast meeting organized by IEEE USA on 5/2/13. IEEE Hawaii delegation lead by John Camery met Senator Hirono to communicate IEEE USA's position regarding this. Song K Choi and Kishore were part of the IEEE delegation. IEEE US & IEEE Hawaii Section encourages all members to write to their representatives. 2. Central Area Awards.  We have two student chapters in Hawaii (UH Maui Chapter & UH Manoa Chapter). IEEE Hawaii section would like to recognize our active student chapters by providing banners. Student chapter name (UH Manoa IEEE student branch, HH Maui IEEE student branch) will be printed in the banner. This resolution was moved by David Morse, seconded by Kishore Erukulapati. All IEEE members are encouraged to read award description and nominate someone appropriate in our section. Additional information is available at www.ieee.org/go/hawaii.  3. IEEE Election & Future leadership development within our section Nominating Chair (John Borland) communicated that there is only one nomination for the position of secretary for this year. All IEEE Hawaii members interested in leadership positions in our section (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer) are encouraged to submit nominations. It is important to develop new leadership due to term limits on the members that are currently in leadership roles in our section. David Morse was nominated for the position of Section Chair. John Camery and David Morse called IEEE Communication Chair (Oscar Libed) during the meeting and left a voice message to find out Oscar's status. 4. Plan activities and make sure all chapters report the required meetings  a. All chapters are required to report at least two meetings per year. David Morse confirmed that IEEE computer society meeting held in April were published. b. IEEE Computer Society Plans to organize a presentation in June 2013 on "Advanced analytics" by Kishore Erukulapati, followed by a panel discussion. Professionals from Big Data, Open Data, Data Mining, and Advanced Analytics are encouraged to participate in the panel discussion. Additional details will be forthcoming soon. c. PACE Chair (David Morse) communicated that PACE meeting will be held in August and will be sponsored by IEEE Hawaii Section and Computer Society Chapter. IEEE USA provides $500 funding for this. This will focus on 5 minutes turbo talk by participants. The best presentations will be posted in social media. Additional details will be forthcoming soon. 5. Distribute MD materials. Materials (IEEE pens/pads/membership material) were distributed to meeting participants. 6. Tech Talk.  June EXCOM Meeting will include tech talk on "antennas" from our guest (Eran Agmon). This will be held at Maple Garden Restaurant, 5:30 pm, Monday, 3 June. Keywords Immigration, Technology, Leadership, IEEE, Computer Society, Communication, PACE Guests  Attendance 3  IEEE Member Attendance 6 Start Time 2013-05-06 17:30:00 End Time 2013-05-06 19:00:00 Time Zone US/Hawaii Location Region 6 Section HAWAII OrganizationalUnit (section) City Honolulu State/Province Hawaii Country United States Submission Info Created On 2013-05-08 10:44:39 UTC Submitter KISHORE ERUKULAPATI Submitter Email ekishore@gmail.com