2. Spring Planning Meeting August 29, 2015 San Marcos,TX
Consultants Network IEEE Central Texas Section Affinity Group
Spring Planning Meeting August 29, San Marcos,TX

3. 2015 CTCN Leadership Team Kai Wong – Chairman/Program Mgr.
Sergio Liberman– Vice Chair
Jody Everett – Treasurer
Bill Martino – Secretary
Karen Ulferts – Communication Mgr.
Luis Basto – Web Master
Notes:

4. CTCN Affinity Group Update
8 regular meetings YTD
Officers meetings regularly
Sergio L will be moving to California for a new job.
Luis Basto joined our team
No Consultants Workshop this year
Notes:

5. 2015 CTCN Meetings
Date
Topic
Speaker
L31?
Jan
Breaking barriers in manufacturing with low cost 3D printing
Matt Fiedler
Y(T)
Feb
Internet of Everything
Kwok Wu
Mar
Factom: Bitcoin Blockchain for IoT
Brian Deery
April
High Resolution Audio
Sergio L
May
Fracking and the Energy Market
DR Word
Jun
IEEE Followship in DC
Len Hause
Y(P)
July
US Infrastructure - Esp. Bridges
James Mercier
Aug
Call Center S/W Powered by Watson
Ryan Lund
Notes: 144 total attendees at Gary’s talk in auditorium. 42 attendees at workshop. 28 IEEE members. For yr: avg guests 10.5, ieee 14 ¼.
* Joint with CAS/SSC, CEDA, TMC, COMSOC/SP, & WIE

6. 2015 CTCN Remaining Meetings
Date
Topic
Speaker
L31?
23-Sep
Five Keys to an Engaged and Innovative Culture
Carrie Vanston
Prof.
28-Oct
Atlas Wearable Product Development
Peter Li
Tech
18-Nov
FPGA Review
Jody Everett
?-Dec
Holiday Party
Notes: 144 total attendees at Gary’s talk in auditorium. 42 attendees at workshop. 28 IEEE members. For yr: avg guests 10.5, ieee 14 ¼.

7. SWOT Analysis Strength – Good team work & network to recruit speakers.
Weakness – Not attracting enough new members.
Opportunity – Host joint events with other groups.
Threat – Staying relevant as local technical employment conditions improve and CTCN membership ages.

8. Chapter Plans / Issues
Mix topics at monthly meetings to cover professional development, training, and technical topics.
Co-host/support workshop with chapters sharing same interest.
Attract younger members with current and relevant topics and speakers.
Improve return rate for first time attendees.
Notes:

9. QUESTIONS??? Thanks
If you’d like to learn more about electronic services, you’ll want to attend the session on the Electronic Services being presented this afternoon by Christian Borgert (BORE-GERT) and Chip Dawson. If you miss this afternoon’s session, you can see it tomorrow morning.
Now I’d like to answer your questions about newsletters and electronic services . . .
(After Q&A)
I’m sorry we don’t have time to answer all of your questions, but we have an abundance of expertise with us this weekend, and much of it is in the Computer Lab upstairs. Stop by and get more information anytime.

10. 2015 IEEE CTS Conference & Workshop
No.
Date
Name
Chapter
Location 1
3/27/2015
Texas WISE
CAS, SSC
Round Top 2
3/29-4/1/2015
2015 International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC)
Communication
Blanton UT Austin 3
3/31-4/1/2015
th IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects (SELSE)
Computer
H. Garden Inn, Austin 4
5/17-20/2015
th System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE)
Rel., Sys.. Man & Cybernetics
Hilton, SA 5
5/31-6/4/2015
2015 IEEE 26th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
Hilton Austin 6
2015 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) 7
6/22-25/2015
Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM)
Reliability
JJP-UT, Austin 8
9/27-30/2015
2015 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
CEDA
UT Austin 9
11/2-6/2015
2015 ICCAD
ACM/SIGDA CEDA
Austin 10
11/15-20/2015
IEEE HP CNSA
ACC Austin 11
10/16/2015
Power Engrg. Training
PIx2
TECO 12
9/23/2015
IEEE Rockstar of Wearables.
Brazos Hall 13
8/3-5/2015
NI Week
CTS
 ACC