John Vig

Region 10 MeetingKota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

24-25 March 2007

How to Make Your Section an Award Winning One

Annual Election

IEEE-wide turnout was 14% in both 2006 and 2005 12.4% (5117 of 41336) voted for P-E in R10 (2006) Section turnouts ranged from 6 to 793 (Seoul) ≤20 voted in 10 sections

What can you do? Election turnout a factor in “best section” selection?

Urge members to vote: Ballot need not be mailed; all can vote on-line Graduate student members can vote Get to know the candidates – see their websites

Transnational ScorecardGood News & Bad News

TAB

PSPB (“Pubs”)

Standards Assoc.

Authors

Editors in Chief

Regions 1-6 Regions 7-10

Conferences

Locations

Chairs

90

83 17

88 12

31696733

414555

59

10

What Can R10 & its Sections Do?

Identify & groom future leaders Select those who have good ideas, know

how to sell those ideas; and are willing to volunteer, work, devote the necessary time

Establish N&A Comm. for IEEE-wide positions

The process will take time. On the technical side, conference committees are a good place to start.

Marketing at ConferencesA Unique Opportunity

>500 IEEE-sponsored conferences in 2006

200K participants; >50% were non-members.

Unique marketing opportunity

Recruit new members

Product sales & licensing (IEL, Enterprise…)

Publicize related conferences, standards, IEEE.tv

Recruit volunteers

Enhance IEEE’s image; “IEEE is awesome!”

Set up an exhibit booth. IEEE staff can help you.

Sales Rebates to Sections

FOM.9 - SALES REBATES TO ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS

“Rebates of 20% of the initial price and 15% of the renewal price shall be credited to organizational units that are the procuring cause of the new or renewal license of IEEE Enterprise, the IEEE Electronic Library (IEL), All Society Periodical Package (ASPP), and Prepaid Order Plan (POP). When an organizational unit and IEEE staff are jointly the procuring cause of a new license, 14% of the initial price shall be credited to the organizational unit and a 6% commission shall be paid to staff.”

Conferences Database

URL: http://ieee.org/web/conferences/search/index.html

Can be searched by geography, as well as technical keywords

Interested Sections can search database for conferences near them

Every conference has a primary point of contact listed for follow-up, with address information

• Proposals may be submitted anytime during the year.

• Regular initiative: $100K minimum.

• Seed Grant program - $25K maximum, with rapid decision

Proposal to BoD in June

Improved New Initiative Process

Questions?