An overview of the 2nd Symposium

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An overview of the 2nd Symposium Radio and
Wireless Symposium and MTT Wireless Fred
Schindler 2006 General Chair
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Overview

• Objective and Goals
• Steering Committee
• Branding
• Coordination
• Schedule at a Glance
• 2006 Venue and Local Arrangements
• Publicity
• Technical Program
• Finance
• Governance and Future Plans

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Objectives

• Create a new IMS scale event
• Consolidate multiple existing events
• RAWCON, PA-W, SiRF, IMS TPC, AdCom
• Revenue diversification for the Society
• Everything needs to come together in 2006
• Strong exhibit
• Strong technical program
• Strong attendance
• Set the stage for future growth

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Goals

• Attendance
• Technical 1000
• Total 4000
• Exhibition
• 300 booths (capacity is 446)
• Financial
• 15-20 surplus

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Steering Committee Technical Program

• Chair Mohammad Madihian
• Vice Chair Xiaodong Wang
• Special Sessions (including Panels)
• Fazal Ali
• Paul Draxler
• Roger Sudbury

• Workshops
• Jenshan Lin
• Luciano Boglione
• Interactive Forum
• Aly Fathy
• Takao Inoue
• Student Papers
• Gabriel Rebeiz
• Short Course/Tutorial
• Madhu Gupta

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Steering Committee

• Publications
• George Heiter
• Electronic Subm.
• Jeff Pond
• Special Issue
• Ke Wu
• Webmaster
• Takao Inoue

• Publicity
• Jeremy Muldavin
• Zhensheng Zhang
• Registration
• Ellen Lan
• Nitin Jain
• Signage
• Robert Welstand
• International Liaison
• Anil Agrawal

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Steering Committee

• Local Arrangement
• Paul Yu
• Jennifer Turso (contract)
• Finance
• Upkar Dhaliwal
• Clark Bell
• Exhibition
• Harlan Howe (Horizon)

• SiRF
• George Ponchak
• PA Workshop
• Peter Asbeck
• At Large
• Steve Kenney
• Ke Wu
• Roger Sudbury
• Peter Staecker
• Dick Sparks

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Steering Committee Meetings

• Meet monthly via telecom
• Will become more frequent
• Sub-meetings held as needed
• Will have a meeting Tues evening during IMS
• 6-10pm Regency C
• San Diego meeting on November 3

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Branding

• IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
• Centerpiece of the Week
• Evolved from RAWCON
• Broad Wireless and Communication appeal
• ComSoc Tech Co-sponsor
• www.radiowireless.org

• MTT Wireless
• Consists of
• PA Workshop
• RWS
• SiRF
• Exhibition
• Brand appeal to IMS attendees and exhibitors
• www.mttwireless.org

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Coordination

• Close ongoing cooperation across 3 conferences
• Common functions
• Publicity
• Local arrangements
• Finance
• Registration
• Principals of cooperation
• Each conference covers its costs without exhibit
  income
• Independent but coordinated tech programs, social
  functions, fees, student competition,
  publications

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Schedule at a Glance

• Sat 1/14 AdCom side meetings
• TPC Reception
• Sun 1/15 TPC Meeting
• RWS Workshops (pm only)
• AdCom Meeting (eve)
• Microwave Journal Reception
• Mon 1/16 AdCom Meeting
• Topical Workshop on PAs for Wireless Comm
  (PAW)
• RWS Workshops
• PAW Reception Banquet

• Tue 1/17 PAW continues
• RWS opens
• Exhibits open
• RWS rump session (eve)
• Weds 1/18 RWS Continues
• SiRF opens
• Exhibits continue
• Exhibitor hosted reception
• RWS Banquet
• Thus 1/19 RWS continues
• SiRF continues
• Exhibit continues
• SiRF reception banquet
• Fri 1/20 SiRF Continues

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Conference Site
Exhibit Meetings Halls GH Headquarters
Marriott 189 Others Omni 165 Embassy
149/169
Embassy
Marriott
Omni
Halls GH
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Publicity

• Publicity is the key our success
• Comprehensive Plan
• Coordinated with Horizon House
• Multiple distribution of the Call for Papers
• Multiple ads and cross promotions
• Special MTT Wireless Gift at the IMS
• San Diego CVB representative on site
• Exhibitors promo package
• Follow-up this week

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Technical Program Committee

• Subcommittees
• 1- MIMO Techniques (C)
• 2- Wireless Comm (C)
• 3- Wireless Sensors and Ad-hoc Networks (C)
• 4- Emerging Tech (C)
• 5- Front-end Electronics (M)
• 6- Antennas (M)
• 7- Signal Generation Power Amplification (M)
• 8- Analog/RF ICs for Wireless Application (M)

• 80 members from MTT and ComSoc
• 50/50 balance between industry and academia
• lt10 are also on IMS TPC
• Geographic representation from Africa, Americas,
  Asia, Europe
• 3 year term

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Technical Program

• RWS Contributed Papers
• Website is open
• Due date is July 7
• Late news papers Sept 7
• PAW Contributed Papers
• Due Sept 1
• SiRF Contributed Papers
• Due Sept 7

• Session plan
• 1 PAW session Mon and Tues afternoon
• RWS Plenary/Special session Tues morning
• 3 RWS sessions Tues, Weds, Thurs
• Invited speaker to open each session
• 1 SiRF session Weds, Thurs, Fri

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Technical Program

• Panel Sessions
• Tues noon Mobile Data Formats (e.g. WiMax)
• Weds noon CAD Evolution, RF Systems
• Thurs noon not planned
• Tues evening Rump still considering ideas

• Workshops
• Plan 6 half-day workshops
• 2 Sunday afternoon
• 2 Monday morning
• 2 Monday afternoon
• Solicited ideas from
• MTT TCs
• ComSoc TCs
• Continuing to solicit beyond deadline

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Technical Program

• Plenary and Banquet working on high recognition
  speakers
• Special follows Plenary
• Interactive Forums
• Planned on Tues and Weds. Thurs is possible
• Short Course/Tutorial under consideration
• Special Issue looking for a publication
• EuMA journal is a possibility

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Finances

• Combined Budget
• Assumptions
• 750 Total Tech attend
• 300 Total Booths
• Revenue 464.9k
• No sponsorships included
• Expenses 402.6k
• Surplus 62.3k (15.5)
• Update is underway
• Registration fees revised
• Bottoms-up expenses

• Upsides
• Higher attendance
• Higher booth sales
• Sponsorships
• Downsides
• Lower attendance
• Lower exhibition
• Guaranteed minimum

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Governance

• Exec Committee
• Selects sites
• Approves leaders
• Membership
• RWS, PAW, WAMI, SiRF, IMS
• Local arrangements and Finance Chairs
• RWS Steering
• Succession by merit

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Future

• Plan 3 year rotation
• San Diego
• Florida
• central
• 7-12 Jan. 2007 Long Beach, CA
• 2008 likely Orlando
• 2009 or 2010 return to San Diego
• Sites are no longer easy to find without a track
  record