he 2020 PSMA Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with APEC 2020 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA on Monday March 16. A buffet breakfast at 7:30 a.m. will precede the meeting and individuals from member companies as well non-member guests are invited to attend and participate in a full agenda of topics of interest to the industry. At the meeting, you will have the opportunity to meet and interact with many of the students who received APEC Travel Support to present their papers at the Technical Sessions. year. Regular member company representatives will participate in the election of four Directors to serve on the PSMA Board for a three-year term beginning immediately and ending at APEC 2022. The detailed agenda for the meeting will be on the PSMA web site and will include reports from each of the technical committees and stimulating discussions on new PSMA initiatives for 2020 and beyond. The APEC 2020 Conference Chair will review the progress on APEC2020 and there will be a report on plans for APEC 2021 in Phoenix, AZ. There will also be invited presentations from iNEMI and IEEE PELS to review their activities and opportunities to continue to strengthen the relationships between PSMA and each of these organizations.

Members and guests are also invited to remain for the Board of Directors meeting that will immediately follow the Annual Meeting. Participation in these meetings will provide you with the opportunity to network with colleagues from other companies and to influence the direction of the PSMA and the power sources industry.

Another way to get more out of your company membership in PSMA is to get involved with one of our active technical committees. The Capacitor, Energy Harvesting, Energy Management, Industry-Education, Magnetics, Marketing, Power Electronics Packaging, Power Technology Roadmap, Reliability, Safety & Compliance, Semiconductor and Transportation Power Electronics committees all plan to hold open meetings during the week of APEC 2020. All are invited to participate or to just drop in any of these committee meetings to hear and provide input as the committee activities are being planned for the coming year. Visit the PSMA website to see the schedule of PSMA meetings and events at APEC 2020.

On March 14, 2020, the Saturday prior to the start of APEC 2020, PSMA and PELS will be sponsoring two workshops, the fifth High Frequency Magnetics Workshop -"Power Magnetics @ High Frequency" and the third Capacitor Workshop – " How to Choose and Define Capacitor Usage for Emerging Applications". Information on these workshops are available in separate articles in this issue of the Update.

Be sure to visit us at the PSMA booth, in the APEC hub #1325, in the exhibition area during APEC. PSMA is again sponsoring the popular PSMA/ APEC Passport Program in the Exhibit Hall. Visit the booths of participating PSMA members to enter your name into a raffle drawing.

We look forward to a good turnout at the PSMA meetings and a very busy and exciting week.

For the latest information on all of the activities planned during APEC 2020, visit us at www.psma.com.

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