e sure to mark your calendars to come to APEC 2025, March 16-20 at the Georgia World Congress Center. This is a special year. We'll be marking our 40th anniversary.

The Conference Committee is hard at work building next year's world-class program. With all submission portals closed, the committees are now hard at work reviewing and selecting the submissions for Technical Sessions, Industry Sessions and Professional Education Seminars. The final program will be completed and all authors notified in early October.

Registration will open October 25th and the fee for full conference registration (still one of lowest of all IEEE conferences) includes free access to the Sunday and Monday Professional Education Seminars as well as a free ticket to the Wednesday evening Social Event. Discounted early bird registration closes on January 13th. Remember, you need to register to get access to the discounted hotel reservations. These special hotel blocks will sell out well early in the next year.

The APEC 2025 exhibition hall is sold out – 272 exhibitors and 130 companies on the wait list – reflecting the value that manufacturers in the industry place on our event. The exhibition begins on Monday evening with a hosted reception on the trade show floor. (Monday is St. Patty's Day, so I expect there will a lot of green worn that evening.) The exhibits are also open on Tuesday and Wednesday and offer a hosted lunch service to all attendees. This year, for the first time, exhibits only registration will come with a modest registration fee.

If you haven't already made plans to attend, don't wait any longer. Be sure you have it in your 2025 budget to attend this exceptional event – truly The Premier Event in Applied Power Electronics™

Provided by Greg Evans, APEC 2025 Publicity Co-Chair

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