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reparations for APEC 2025, in Atlanta next March, are now nearly completed. To celebrate our 40th anniversary, we will have a large wall poster of APEC history where attendees will be encouraged to share your APEC memories. We also plan to have a special Wednesday Night Social event commemorating APEC's important milestone.
At last year's event, Tony O'Gorman was introduced as the APEC 2025 General Chair. Sadly, Tony passed away in May and Aung Thet Tu agreed to carry out Tony's Plans for the conference. Here are a few words from Aung:
"I am saddened but honored to be able to fill in for him. Tony made many contributions to APEC over the years as Industry Sessions Chair, Assistant Program Chair and Program Chair, and he had been looking forward to his stint as Conference General Chair. We remember Tony not only for APEC and professional contributions, but also personally. The new Dialogue Preview Session on Monday will be dedicated to Tony O'Gorman for APEC 2025." – Aung Thet Tu. APEC 2025 General Chair
Yes, APEC is forty years young. The first APEC was held in April 1986 at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.. It consisted of 34 technical papers in 7 sessions, 6 professional education seminars, a panel discussion on the future of power electronics, a two-day exhibition with 20 exhibitors, and a total of 250 attendees.
Forty years later, APEC has grown to over 6,000 attendees, with over 750 technical presentations, 18 professional education seminars, and a three-day exposition with over 270 exhibitors. Today, APEC is the established premier power electronics conference and exposition where power electronics professionals, academics, and students from all over the world gather annually to share and learn about the latest research, technologies, and products for applications ranging from milliwatt-power mobile phone electronics to gigawatt-power solar energy farms.
Aung Thet Tu. APEC 2025 General Chair
As I reported in the previous newsletter, a full two months before registration opened in October, the booth space in the exhibit hall has already sold out. If you missed the opportunity to exhibit, please consider getting on the wait list.
Here's a quick rundown of the key APEC elements:
- Mobile App — attendees will have access to a cool new app to navigate the event.
- Exhibit Hall — nearly 300 exhibitors
- Technical Sessions — 14 multi-session tracks
- Industry Sessions — 30 sessions in parallel with Tech Sessions including several produced by
PSMA committees.
- Plenary Session — Four Monday afternoon speakers covering power electronics technology
advances and market projects; Check the program in January for the complete program.
- Dialog (formerly known as RAP) Sessions — Three Tuesday sessions following the close of
exhibits offering point-counterpoint positions on key topics.
- Professional Education Seminars — A selection of over two dozen half-day sessions taking place
on Sunday morning/afternoon and Monday morning. Full conference registration includes
access to these seminars is included.
- Student Job Fair – Event will be held on Tuesday, March 18th. Companies must register to
participate.
- MicroMouse — Ever popular event pitching university teams against each other will take place
on Monday evening in the exhibit hall from 7:30 to 9:30 PM. The three top teams will receive
cash prizes
- First Robotics — Where high schools students are challenged to build industrial-size robots to
play a difficult field game in alliance with other teams, will also take place Monday evening
evening in the expo hall from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
- Minors — To encourage STEM development with younger generations, minors are allowed
accompany the registered attendees to visit the exhibit floor, attend the plenary and debate
sessions, the
- Social Event — A great gathering for paid attendees will take place at the Georgia Aquarium.
As a PSMA member, you and your company collages are eligible for very attractive Full conference
discounts. Remember, you need to register to get access to the discounted hotel reservations. These
special hotel blocks will sell out well before February.
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™
I hope to see you in Atlanta, March 16-20, 2025
Provided by Greg Evans,
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