54th ECTC Executive Committee Meeting

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54th ECTC Executive Committee Meeting
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54th ECTC Excomm Meeting Agenda 6/4/04

• Report on 54th conference Patrick Thompson
• Finance report Tom Reynolds
• Nomination and approval of 55th Finance Chair
  recommendation to be submitted to Govcomm
• Arrangements Chair report Pete Walsh
• Nomination and approval of 55th Arrangements
  Chair
• Discussion of site 2007 meeting
• San Jose
• PDC report Al Puttlitz
• Publication Report John Lau
• Publicity Report Jim Bruorton
• ECA Representative Glyndwr Smith
• CPMT Representative CP Wong
• Request to evaluate running of technology corner
• Size
• Look and feel
• Post Mortem
• Open Discussion

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Agenda

• 54th ECTC highlights
• 55th ECTC

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54th ECTC program highlights

• 326 Technical Papers
• 273 Oral (7/session)
• 53 Poster

• 554 Abstracts
• 43 University
• 11 Lab/consortia

Affiliations 49 Corporations 4 RD
Institutes 47 Universities

• Papers from 24 Countries
• North America-56
• Asia 30, 8 countries
• Europe 13, 12 countries
• Other 1, 2 countries

• Attendees
• 845 paid
• 1003 total

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54th ECTC enhancements

• Technical program
• 554 abstracts-a record!
• 39 sessions
• Special Topics-MEMS and nanotechnology
• Panel session
• Plenary session
• NEMI workshop
• gt40 PDC submissions
• Intel Best Student Paper Award

• Website
• Members Only link
• On-line PDC submission
• Improved abstract scoring interface
• Real-time web links to conference program

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Location survey results

• Held a survey of Program Committee on ECTC
  locations
• Fixed vs rotating location
• Location preferences

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ECTC location survey

• Survey of attendees at 2005 ECTC planning meeting
• 2 questions
• Do you prefer ECTC to stay in one location or
  rotate?
• What cities do you prefer and what cities do you
  dislike as ECTC sites?

Fixed or rotating locations
64, or 90, prefer rotating 3, or 4, prefer
fixed 4, or 6, stated no preference
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ECTC location choices
Top net preferred cities San Diego (48) Orlando
(35) Las Vegas (29) San Jose (28)
Top net cities not in recent rotation Seattle
(12) Hawaii (8) Denver (7)
Bottom net preferred cities New Orleans
(-4) Atlanta (-4) Dallas (-3)
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55th ECTC Assistant Program Chair

• Torsten Wipiejewski
• VP Photonics, ASTRI
• Hong Kong
• Optoelectronics Committee

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55th ECTC website administrator

• Rao Bonda
• Sr. Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor
• Phoenix, AZ
• Professional Development Course Chair
• Components and RF

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Post-mortem (1/2)

• Panel session
• No floor microphone
• Should have 1 at dais for each two people
• Only one microphone worked. Needed to call AV
• Reception
• Changed location
• Signs very poor, people confused
• Hotel should assign someone to direct people if
  they require move
• Good location right across from panel discussion
• PDC and NEMI speakers breakfast
• Split into two rooms with no notice or signs
• Changes need to be communicated
• Need start of day briefing
• Intel award
• Needs better organization

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Post-mortem (2/2)

• NEMI
• Registration separate
• Not handled well
• Not done as agreed on
• Breakfast meeting
• Using AV was very positive
• Breaks
• Food ran out 20 minutes into the breaks
• Lead free sessions concurrent
• Session 19
• Had problems with computer hookup. Seemed to be a
  computer issue but worked when tested in authors
  room
• Cost out PCs for sessions
• USB stick solution for 10 could sell as sponsor
  logo sponsorship
• Publications done for PDC late and some authors
  needed to bring copies
• Books stolen from PDC rooms during lunch
• Room changes are a problem. We publish a list and
  changes occur every day