IEEE Conferences and
Membership Value
Howard E. Michel
IEEE Vice President
Member and Geographic Activities
22 July 2011
IEEE 2011 Panel Of Conference Organizers
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Today’s presentation
 Importance of IEEE Conferences to Membership
Value
 Growth trends of IEEE Conferences
 Improving the value of membership through
Conference Collaboration
 IEEE needs you, our volunteer leaders to support
these activities for our members
MGA Vision
Ensure Quality Member Opportunities for Continuous
Engagement
Mission
Inspire, Enable, Empower and Engage Members of IEEE
Guiding Principles
Member is integral to IEEE and inseparable from the IEEE operation.
Members shape IEEE's future.
Members collaborate to create IEEE's future.
IEEE enhances members' future.
Conferences Support the MGA Vision
Members engage with other members and potential
members with similar technical interests.
Offer opportunities for professional growth and
networking.
Build stronger relationships among the geographic
units – often between geographic units but also
between geographic units and societies.
Provide unique membership development
opportunities for acquiring new members.
Opportunity to engage local industry and better
support the practitioner.
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Membership Value
Satisfaction by Importance - Higher Grade Members
70
More critical strengths
Less critical strengths
email alias
online access to
journals
60
% Satisfaction (mean=41)
printed journals
conferences
online access to
conferences
proceedings
online access to
standards
printed books
50
printed standards
printed conf
proceedings online webinars
insurance
discounts of prod/svc
local meetings
promote prof to pub
awards/scholarship
representing pub policy
online communities
cont education opp
internet video
opp for leadership rolesprofessional
part in standards
networking
forums,humanitarian
and online efforts
40
30
tools
online career resource
printed career
resources
20
social networking
Top improvement opportunity
Lower priority improvements
10
0
0
10
20
30
40
50
% Importance (mean= 39)
5
60
70
80
2008
Membership Value
Satisfaction by Importance - Students
Top 3 Box %
80.0%
More critical strength
Less critical strength
online access to
transactions, journal
70.0%
% Satisfaction (mean=47)
conferences
online access to conf
proceedings
email alias
60.0%
printed transactions
printed conf
proceedings
50.0%
printed books
online communities
discounts
printed stds internet video
prof networking
online career
and tools
online meeting forums
student
student
branchcontests
resourcers
promote profcont education
meetings
opp for leadership
insurance
representation pub awards and scholarship
ability to part standards
policy
printed career recource
social networking
humanitarian efforts
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
online access to
standards
Lower priority
improvement
Top opportunity to improve
10.0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
% Importance (mean=55)
6
80%
90%
100%
Reasons Joined IEEE Originally
HG
Members
Students
To remain technically current
64%
To obtain IEEE publications
55%
To enhance my career opportunities
41%
To join IEEE societies
39%
37%
To enhance my stature within the profession
34%
To network with others in the profession
27%
For continuing education
24%
To participate in local IEEE activities
22%
A professor suggested it
To obtain a reduced registration fee at IEEE conferences
To have access to discounts on professional and personal services
To give back to my profession
20%
13%
13%
9%
To access insurance
6%
To give back to the world community
6%
To obtain an IEEE email alias with virus protection
6%
To participate in standards development
To participate in student branch activities
To participate in student contests
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BASE: ALL QUALIFIED RESPONDENTS (Members, N=1,319/Students, N=905)
Q915. Please indicate the major reasons you originally joined IEEE. Please choose all that
apply.
= Statistically higher at the 95% confidence
level (between Members and Students).
Reasons for Maintaining IEEE Membership
- Higher Grade Members
2008
2004
To remain technically current
72%
66%
To obtain IEEE publications
62%
59%
To join IEEE societies
40%
39%
To network with others in the profession
38%
30%
To enhance my stature within the profession
34%
31%
To enhance my career opportunities
32%
30%
For continuing education
31%
29%
To obtain a reduced registration fee at IEEE conferences
27%
20%
To participate in local IEEE activities
26%
19%
To obtain an IEEE email alias with virus protection
23%
13%
To give back to my profession
21%
N/A
To have access to discounts on professional and personal services
20%
26%
To access insurance
19%
N/A
To give back to the world community
13%
N/A
To participate in standards development
10%
N/A
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BASE: ALL QUALIFIED RESPONDENTS (Members, N=1,319)
Q915. Please indicate the major reasons you originally joined IEEE. Please
choose all that apply.
= Statistically higher at the 95% confidence
level (between 2008 and 2004).
Total Number of IEEE Conferences
IEEE Society/Council/Geographic Unit Sponsored/Co-Sponsored/Other
908
865
744
Conference Locations
IEEE (ALL)Sponsored/Co-Sponsored Conferences
Regions 7–10 Represent 78% (and Growing…)
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Technical Society and Local Section
Conference Collaboration
Brings an understanding of the local area.
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–
–
–
Section demographics
Industry
Universities
Government
Provide cultural perspective and gain potential cost
advantages.
Transnational growth worldwide has resulted in more
complex country requirements and laws.
Catalyst for technical exchange between researchers
and practitioners from different technological
fields.
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Multidisciplinary Conferences
Region 5
The most interesting and pressing problems
are inherently multi- and inter-disciplinary
Region 1
Over 450 attendees in 2009 including representatives from over 10
foreign countries.
Region 10
157 attendees, 22 exhibits, 4 tutorials, 4 three tracks.
Region 1
IEEE Region 10 Technical Conference (The TENCON Series)
IEEE Long Island Section and its Technical Society Chapters (15),
IEEE Region 1, and the Institute for Research & Technology
Transfer (IRTT) at the Farmingdale State College (SUNY).
Since 1980
YEAR
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LOCATION
TOPIC
1998
New Delhi
Global Connectivity in Energy, Computer, Communication and Control
1999
Inchon
Multimedia Technology for Asia-Pacific Information Infrastructure
2003
Bangalore, India
Convergent Technologies for the Asia-Pacific
2007
Taipei, Taiwan
Intelligent Information Communication Technologies for Better Human Life
2009
Singapore
Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development
Opportunity to engage
industry and practitioners
Disciplinary Conferences
Data Driven Engagement
– Section technical interest
 Section Society membership
 Local industry
– Engage with Society conference planning committee
– Local authenticity
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Hotel options
Conference center
Partner program options
Local volunteers – members, students
– Bring additional richness to the conference
 Local industry participation
 Possibility of practitioner’s track
Example
– Boston Section – Computer Society
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Computer Society Chapter
1260 Computer Society Members
World-class industry and universities to draw from
Robust hotel and conference facilities
Collaborate and Focus on the Member
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What can you do?
Continue to organize excellent IEEE
Conferences
Develop mutually supportive relationships
with other IEEE OUs and collaborate in
support of IEEE members
Help us grow and broaden IEEE’s conference
program by developing conferences
– relevant to the local community
– beneficial to working professionals as well as academics
– in emerging cross-disciplinary fields of interest.