Overview of 2006 Status and Future Plans

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Overview of 2006 Status and Future Plans
MTT Wireless 20062006 Radio Wireless
Symposium15-20 January 2006 San Diego
Convention Center

• 9 January 2005
• Fred Schindler Chair
• Mohammad Madihian Vice Chair, TP Chair

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Goals

• A strong 1st event that sets a standard
• Technical program
• Exhibition
• Overall attendance
• Well coordinated successful collocated events
• Entice TPC members to stay for the conferences
• Attendees
• Technical 1000
• Overall 4000
• Exhibition 400 booths

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Organization

• Finance
• Chair - Upkar Dhaliwal
• Vice-Chair Clark Bell
• Local Arrangements Chair
• Paul Yu
• Local Arrangement Contactor
• Jennifer Turso
• PA Workshop Liaison
• Peter Asbeck
• SiRF Liaison
• George Ponchak
• Exhibition Manager
• Harlan Howe
• At Large (Advisors)
• Dick Sparks
• Madhu Gupta
• Roger Sudbury
• Steve Kenney
• Peter Staecker

• General Chair
• Fred Schindler
• Vice Chair and TP Chair
• Mohammad Madihian
• TP Vice Chair
• Xiaodong Wang
• Workshop Chairs
• Jenshan Lin
• Luciano Boglione
• Special Sessions (incl Panels)
• Fazal Ali
• Paul Draxler
• Publications
• George Heiter
• Publicity
• Jeremy Muldavin
• Electronic Submissions
• Jeff Pond
• Webmaster

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2006 Local Plans

• Hired Jennifer Turso for Local Arrangements
  support
• Headquarters hotel San Diego Marriott
• Other hotels under negotiation
• Omni
• TBD (lower cost alternative)
• Hospitality suite?
• Guest program find a service provider

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MTT Wireless Schedule
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MTT Wireless Schedule
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Publicity

• Completed several items
• Design
• Announcement
• Press release
• First Call
• Combined Call
• Luggage tags
• Need ideas
• A gift with basic info for every IMS attendee,
  that they will take and use!

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Publicity

• Need to get the message out
• Globally
• Locally Southern CA
• Need to have a strong program and publicize it!
• Speakers that will draw attention attendees
• Need to draw working engineers
• Assure a strong and successful Exhibit

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Technical Program
Subcommittees
1- MIMO Techniques (C) 2- Wireless Communication
(C) 3- Wireless Sensors and Ad-hoc Networks (C)
4- Emerging Technologies (C) 5- Front-end
Electronics (M) 6- Antenna (M) 7- Signal
Generation and Power Amplification (M) 8-
Analog/RF ICs for Wireless Application (M)
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Technical Program
Technical Coverage

• High quality technical program
• Good balance between Communication Microwave
• Address enabling Radio Wireless technologies
• Plenary session entertaining the audience with
  world-class speakers addressing system-level hot
  topics of the day
• 2 invited expert talks for each regular session
• All the technical material will go through review
  process
• Poster sessions for idea incubation as well as
  interesting controversial themes

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Technical Program
Paper Review Process Dates

• Full on-line process
• No TPC meeting
• Paper submission deadline 7/8/05
• Accept/Reject letter due 8/13/05
• Late Breaking News deadline 9/7/05
• Advance Program available 9/18/05
• Final Program 11/1/05

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Technical Program
Workshop Plan

• Workshop proposal due 6 June, 2005.
• Follow IMS style proposal submission, etc.
• Announced and requested TC support in TCC
  meeting.
• Waive speakers workshop registration fee or not?
  Some suggestions from TCC meeting.
• Coordinate with PA Workshop and SiRF.
• Continue to solicit proposals from COMSOC TPC

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Technical Program
Workshops Tentative Schedule

• Sunday 2-6pm, 2 ½-day workshops more MTT flavor
  TPC attendees.
• Monday 8am-12noon 2 ½-day workshops either MTT or
  COMSOC.
• Monday 130-530pm 2 ½-day workshops more
  COMSOC flavor

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Technical Program Committee Membership

• High quality TP needs high-quality members
• Emphasis to get world-class members from
  Americas, Europe, and Asia
• 50 from ComSoc, 50 from MTT-S
• Good balance between Industry (28) and Academia
  (26)
• Avoid having current TPC members (coordinating
  with Dave)
• Limited term (3-year) membership
• Need to keep adding 30 every year during the
  transition period in order to be able to dismiss
  those completing their 3-year term
• Subcommittee chair position to rotate every year
• New TP chair to assign new subcommittee chairs

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Budget

• Combined budget of RWS/PAW/SiRF
• Approved by Budget Committee
• Expenses 388.9k
• Income 464.9k
• Surplus 76.1 or 19.6
• Assumptions
• 300 booths
• 700 technical attendees (400 RWS)

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Coordinating Events

• 2006 and 2007
• IMS TPC meeting
• PA Workshop
• SiRF
• 2008
• Add WAMICON

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Future Sites

• Planned pattern SoCal, FL, central, repeat
• 2007 Long Beach
• 2008 likely Orlando
• 2009 central or San Diego
• Depending on convention center availability
• 2010 San Diego or Florida
• Depending on 2010 site

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Additional Issues

• Publicity
• Publicity
• Publicity