lanning for APEC 2019 is well underway.  The Call-for-Papers closed in July with 1,048 digests submitted. Now the committee and over 100 volunteers have the task of peer-reviewing all of the digests in preparation for the mid-year meeting at the end of September. At that time, the tough task will be to select the top 500+ papers for the Technical Sessions program. As in APEC 2018, 60 Students that have a technical paper accepted are invited to apply for a Student Travel Reimbursement Award of up to $1000 to cover their attendance at APEC2019. For more information, see the article on page 4 of this issue.

Work continues in development of the Plenary Session program. The committee has put together an exceptional roster of candidates. The program will be finalized before the next edition of this newsletter. The Plenary Session is expected to bring well over 2,000 attendees. In addition, IEEE.tv will, once again, be streaming the entire session, live, for those who can't make it to APEC by Monday afternoon.

By early September, all the submissions of proposals for both the very popular Industry Sessions as well as the highly-informative Professional Education Seminars will be under consideration. The Industry Session tracks that run in parallel with the Technical Sessions are expected to be as popular as ever.

This year, at APEC2018, over 1,500 APEC attendees arrived early to take advantage of the weekend and Monday morning Professional Education Seminars. The committee is planning for a repeat of this attendance in 2019.

Exhibit reservations for APEC2019 have hit an all-time high with 281 exhibitors and 46,600 square feet of exhibit space. The exhibit is sold out and there are over 50 companies on the waiting list. The Exhibit Committee is working hard to accommodate as many of these as possible.

On the Saturday prior to the start of APEC2019, PSMA and PELS will be sponsoring two workshops, the fourth High Frequency Magnetics Workshop and the second Capacitor Workshop. For more information see the articles on each workshop in this issue of the UPDATE.

Registration opens on October 29th.  Go to www.apec-conf.org to get all the information you need. In addition to making your reservation to attend, you will also be able to book your hotel accommodations. APEC has secured blocks of rooms at the close-in hotels to the convention center.  As usual, these rooms will sell out long before next March.

The entire APEC Conference Committee is excited about bringing our Premier Global Event in Applied Power Electronics to Anaheim, March 17-21, 2019.

Provided by Greg Evans, APEC 2019 Publicity Chair

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