Computer SocietyAustin Chapter

IEEE Central Texas Section

Spring Planning MeetingJan 25, 2014

San Marcos, TX

IEEE Central Texas Section

Chapter Leadership Team

Camron Malik Chair camron@austin-cs.org

Vinay Abburi Vice Chair vinay@austin-cs.org

Choudur Lakshminarayan

Secretarychoudur.lakshminarayan@

hp.com

Taoufik Ben Abdellatif

Treasurer taoufik.abdellatif@hp.com

Steve Teleki Chair Emeritus Steve@teleki.net

IEEE Central Texas Section

Chapter Updates• 2013 – Year built upon ‘12 foundation

• 10 Chapter meetings (Tech)• Regular Board meetings (Admin)• On Social Media

•Twitter: @AustinIEEECS (Tweet #AustinIEEECS)

• Received short-term support• MDI Group ($1000)• CA ($1000)

• Maintaining momentum• Consistent attendance

• 2014 Officers elected, installed

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2013 Chapter Meetings (1)

Month Technical/Admin

Topic Speaker L31

Jan TechInternet of Things (IOT), m2M – Smart Converged Gateway for Smart Grid, Smart Cities

Kwok Wu, PhD Yes

Feb TechSensor and Sensing for Continuous Monitoring in Healthcare

Choudur Lakshminarayan, Ph.D

Yes

Mar TechIBM Watson and the Beginning of a New Era of Cognitive Computing

Rob HighYes

Apr Tech Wading into OpenGL ES Alex Kluge Yes

May TechMingle, Twist and Go – An integrated ALM environment

Justin Craycraft

Yes

Jun SUMMER BREAK

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2013 Chapter Meetings (2)

Month Technical/Admin

Topic Speaker L31

Jul TechAffordable 3D Printing at the Human Scale - large-format 3D printing under $6k

Tim SandfortYes

Aug TechStart-up 2013 – It’s a Brave New World Out There

Dave PanosYes

Sep TechMotion Video Compression! Video Quality! Exploring the three-dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform

Raymond Westwater, Ph.D

Yes

Oct TechDistinguished Speaker Series: "Advances in Neural Engineering Research and Education"

Metin Akay, Ph.D Yes

Nov TechFrontiers in Big Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenge

Choudur Lakshminarayan, Ph.D

Yes

Dec WINTER BREAK

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SWOT Analysis Strengths

Good board, strong working relationships, engaged, new member (secretary, Comm chair)

Weaknesses Funding – inability to roll over budget to next year.

Can’t raise and “save” for future Opportunities

Partner with local companies/start-ups Use Meetup and Social media

Threats Lack of funds/sponsors (lost sponsors)

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Chapter Plans / Issues

Finalize budget Find sponsor(s) Expand via social media (Meetups, etc) Build self sustaining momentum

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QUESTIONS???

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