IEEE Region 10 Executive Committee held their virtual 2021 meeting on 10th January 2021. The meeting, held from 7.30 AM to 1.30 PM Indian Standard Time over Webex virtual meeting platform, was attended by all the newly appointed executive committee members of IEEE Region 10 for the year 2021 (refer Table 1). IEEE Past President, Toshio Fukuda, and Past VP MGA, Kukjin Chun also attended the meeting.
Due to the virtual nature of the meeting, and the fact that Region 10 spans eight different time zones, the meeting was only scheduled for just over half a day, and was quite different from the previous R10 meeting. The meeting started with the address by R10 Director, Deepak Mathur, followed by messages by IEEE Past President, Toshio Fukuda and Past VP MGA, Kukjin Chun. R10 Past Director, Akinori Nishihara then gave an update on the region’s activities and achievements for the year 2020.
Throughout the meeting, the activities and plans were presented and were due for review and approval before the R10 AGM on 6th and 7th March 2021. Each Executive Committee, led by the three Vice-Chairs (Zia Ahmed – Technical Activities, Byung-Gook Park – Membership Activities, Nirmal Nair – Professional Activities) presented their plans for the year 2021. Akinori Nishihara then presented the advisory and nomination, before financials and budget were discussed by the past and current Treasurers, Seishi Takamura and Rajendrasinh Jadeja. The meeting concluded with the sharing of the 2021 meeting calendar and AGM agenda by the Secretary, Sameer SM.
