1. Region 6 Young Professionals
Sean Collison – R6 YP Chair
11/7/2018

2. IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group
YP Affinity Group is an international community of enthusiastic, dynamic, and innovative IEEE members and volunteers.
Benefits
Provides Professional Networking to early-career IEEE Members.
Helps YP’s evaluate their career goals.
Helps YP’s polish their professional image
Creates building blocks for a lifelong and diverse professional network.
11/7/2018

3. IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group
Automatically included in Affinity Group for 15 years after first professional degree (e.g. Bachelors), can opt-in after that.
No extra cost to be a member of the YP Affinity Group.
11/7/2018

4. Current Plans Engage YP Chairs in each Section
Should host at least 2 meetups / events each year to retain Affinity Group.
I will start up regular meetings w/ YP Chairs to drive cross section collaboration.
If you don’t have YP Affinity Group in your section, you can easily create one.
LA Section just submitted a petition to create a YP Affinity Group.
Feel free to ping me if you need details on how to submit a petition for creating a YP Affinity Group.
11/7/2018

5. Current Plans (cont.)
We would like to host more YP meetups at major conferences.
We are looking for a major Conference in 2016 to host a flagship event Event was at the International Microwave Symposium in Phoenix, AZ.
We get MGA funds ($1000) to help sponsor the flagship event.
Budget for the year $5,000.
We are currently sponsoring a YP hackathon in The Bay Area for $500.
11/7/2018