2025 IEEE Vancouver Section AGM & Gala

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The 2025 IEEE Vancouver Section’s AGM and Gala Dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29th, starting at 5:30 PM in Burnaby, BC, at the Element Hotel. 

One of the highlights of the evening is an exciting keynote presentation by a distinguished local technology leader.


Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Richard Frank
Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, and Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC).


The event will also feature:
•    The announcement of student scholarships and section awards
•    Networking opportunities before and after the banquet
•    A student poster competition with cash prizes
•    A delicious buffet dinner, including vegetarian options
We have an exciting evening planned for our members, guests, and friends—featuring a great venue, delicious food, an outstanding keynote speaker, and valuable networking opportunities with colleagues and friends!


Tickets are on sale now and will be available until March 27. Stay tuned for further announcements.

Dress Code: Business attire

Registration Fees:
•    Student Members and Graduate Student Members: $30
•    General Members: $40
•    Senior Members and Life Senior Members: $40
•    Non-IEEE Members: $60


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  • Date: 30 Mar 2025
  • Time: 12:30 AM UTC to 05:30 AM UTC
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  • 5988 Willingdon Ave
  • Burnaby, British Columbia
  • Canada V5H 2A7
  • Building: Element Metrotown
  • Vancouver Section
  • Contact Event Host

  • IEEE Vancouver Section Secretary: Dr. Zhida Li (zhidali@ieee.org)

  • Starts 19 February 2025 01:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 28 March 2025 05:00 AM UTC
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  Speakers

Dr. Richard Frank

       

Richard Frank is a Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada and Director of the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC). Richard completed a PhD in Computing Science (2010) and another PhD in Criminology (2013) at SFU. His main research interest is Cybercrime. Specifically, he's interested in researching hackers and security issues, the dark web, online terrorism and warfare, eLaundering and cryptocurrencies, and online child exploitation. He is the creator of The Dark Crawler, a tool for collecting and analyzing data from the open Internet, dark web, and online discussion forums. Through this tool the ICCRC has collected ~150 million posts from various right-wing, left-wing, gender-based and religiously-motivated extremist communities, leading to a number of projects and publications.

Dr. Frank has publications in top-level data mining outlets, such as in Knowledge Discovery in Databases, and security conferences such as Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). His research can also be found in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, to name a few.

Biography:

https://www.sfu.ca/iccrc/members/memberprofiles/richard-frank.html 

 




Agenda

Preliminary agenda for the evening of the AGM & Gala:

5:30 PM  Networking, Appetizers, and Student Poster Competition
6:45 PM  AGM Business and Awards
7:30 PM  IEEE Canada President Address
7:45 PM  Dinner
8:40 PM  CCECE 2025
8:50 PM  Destination Vancouver
8:55 PM  Keynote Address
9:30 PM  Networking

 
Tentative Agenda of the Business Meeting:
    Meeting Opening / Call to Order
    Approval of the agenda
    Approval of 2024 minutes
    Introduction of the 2025 Vancouver Section Executive Members
    Chair’s report: section year-end highlights and results
    Treasurer's report and Auditors report
    Approval of the Chair and Treasurer reports
    Section plans for the coming year
    Upcoming IEEE conferences in Vancouver
    Scholarship announcements
    Awards and recognition announcements
    Any other business
    Adjournment

Sponsors:  The Vancouver Section gratefully acknowledges our generous AGM sponsors who are making this event possible:

  • Platinum Sponsor: Destination Vancouver 

  • Gold Sponsors: University of the Fraser Valley 

  • Gold Sponsors: Kwantlen Polytechnic University 

  • Silver Sponsors: Telus 

  • Silver Sponsors: Conferences & Accommodation (University of British Columbia)

  • Patrons: Langara College 


The participant permits photographs to be taken by the photographer during the 2025 AGM event and photographs may be used and published in print or electronically for lawful purposes such as but not limited to publicity, illustration, advertising, and Web content.