YP track at IEEE Region 10 SYWL Congress

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The biennial event of the Asia-Pacific region was held from 30th August to 2nd September this year. The flagship congress looked upon by every enthusiast volunteer, had a turnaround of 260+ delegates - around 30% of which was by the Young Professionals. Unlike the usual 2-days track, the YP centric track this time was fabricated for inducing a more focused brainstorming on day-1 while on day-2 exposure to more communities and instances where YPs can further contribute in addition to self-development tracks were in the focus area. The tracks were planned with a goal to cover myriad topics, across all verticals that could nourish the experience for YPs.

The day commenced with the IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals Coordinator - Nivas Ravichandran, sharing the Region 10 Young Professionals’ current targets and achievements, newer goals, and the delight to have had established YP community in 17 sections across Asia-Pacific under his leadership. He also shared the success of the flagship events of the YP - the HardTech Summit and how the YP is trying to put up the event irrespective of newer challenges. The ‘Section Meetups’ was another successful initiative in adding values to the intra-section networking.

To diversify the experience of the delegates further, we had  Rafal Sliz, Global Young Professionals Chair from Region 8. His insights and one-to-one interactions hold not only the sharing of inter-regional practices and cultures but also the challenges that each region and YP as whole faces and the efforts they put up to overcome these.

Continued panel discussion with the IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect 2018, Akinori Nishihara. Knowing his perspective on the significance of YP in IEEE, expectations and how he can cultivate our growth was a key takeaway for delegates as it motivated them to define a path as a volunteer and know the kind of support we can get in raising the bars higher. Also, it was important for the YPs to know and realize how their steps are and will continue in the shaping of the IEEE community. It seemed to be a great exposure to be able to participate in such a candid dialogue and to learn from Akinori san that a far vision, simplicity, and determination remains constant across all levels of volunteering.

With a view of broadening the horizon for all sections, the track included sessions on ‘Best Practices’ - progressive and unconventional - that was followed by sections of  Bangalore, Tokyo, Bangladesh, and Region 2; represented by Abhishek Appaji, Mayumi Suzuki, ARM Abdullah Rocky, and Jeff Eker respectively. The flow of ideas throughout these sessions, the story of their executions and the willingness of sections to implement and enhance these was a testament to the how it appealed to the volunteers.

To boost up the interactions and networking, the YPs had a workshop led by Flavia Dinca, Global Young Professionals Vice-Chair and moderated by the Global YP team attendees, viz. Rafal Sliz, Flavia Dinca, Shashank Gaur; the participating teams putting up the best of their ideas and visions to empower YP  further by channelizing the efforts in utilizing this platform and building new ones within. The supreme target was to come up with a perspective on potential benefits to YPs, irrespective of their region.

The ‘YP Poster Competition’ was another platform for volunteers to propose their abstracts, plans, successful initiatives, missions, and visions.

The Global YP team made sure to acknowledge the best of the ideas with a token of appreciation in order to vitalize the morale of the volunteers.

Overall, the Young Professionals track tried to deliver a brewing experience to the volunteers. From networking among Region 10 to across Region 8 and Region 2, from brainstorming about their paths in IEEE to career development. We believe the power of this community lies not only in the energy they hold to revolutionize things but the joy each one of them takes in their volunteering affairs. With the supports from IEEE, the Young Professionals aim to grow not only themselves but everyone who comes along.

YP Award was announced on Awarding night on 31st Aug, 2018. Dr. Kurnianingsih from Indonesia Sections is one of recipients of YP Award in Academician.

• Start time: 30 Aug 2018 01:40 PM UTC
• End time: 02 Sep 2018 07:40 AM UTC
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• Starts 28 February 2018 01:26 AM UTC
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