IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - May/June 2023 - 8

Past President's Message
and Signal Processing (AVS); Automotive CE
Applications (CEA); Consumer Communications
Networks and Connectivity (CCN); Consumer
Power and Energy (CPE); Consumer Systems for
Healthcare and Wellbeing (CSH); Entertainment
and Gaming (ENT); Human-Machine Interaction
and User Experience (HMI); Internet of Things,
Internet of Everywhere and Edge Computing
(IOT); Machine learning, Deep learning and AI in
CE (MDA); Quantum in Consumer Technology
(QCT); Security and Privacy of CE Hardware and
Software Systems (SPC); Sensors and Actuators
(SEA); Smartphone and Mobile Device Technologies
(MDT); Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
and Metaverse (VAM)).
Back when I started the creation of the TCs in
September 2019, we established 14 TCs, and in
2021 we established QCT as the 15th TC. In 2020,
we created the position of VP-Technical Activities
and established the Technical Committees
Board to facilitate these TCs per the By-laws and
Policies & Procedures that were being drafted
(refer to article " Establishing the Technical
Activities and Technical Committees of IEEE
Consumer Technology Society " W. Almuhtadi; F.
Lamberti, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine,
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 4).
The responsibilities of the TCs are as follows:
1) To support Society's technical activities in
the areas of conferences, publications, standards,
education, and history.
2) To investigate, evaluate, promulgate, and foster
current and emerging technologies and
applications of interest to the Society.
3) To create additional TCs for technologies of
interest to the Society and conduct periodic
and special technical meetings as directed
by the BoG.
4) To support the development of new crosscutting
initiatives in collaboration with other
TCs of the Society, and, as appropriate, with
other IEEE Society/Council Technical Committees
and IEEE organizational units.
5) To define new areas of technology focus and encourage
the formationof new initiatives through
the Society Future DirectionsCommittee.
TheTCmembers get thechancetoserve on
conference organizing committees, editorial
boards, and become distinguished lecturers, to
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To stay current or join a TC, visit https://ctsoc.
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IEEE DIGITAL REALITY TECHNICAL
COMMUNITY (DRTC)
IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc)
was the main player in the IEEE Digital Reality
Initiative (DRI)-(2019-2022), an initiative under
IEEE Future Directions. This became the " Digital
Reality Technical Community, " and CTSoc
signed the MOU in December 2022.
CTSoc is leading the IEEE Digital Reality Technical
Community (DRTC) with a focus on the
Metaverse to foster and support Digital Transformation.
This includes AI/ML, AR, VR, ... XR, Digital
Twins (incl. Cognitive, Personal Digital
Twins), Massive Distributed Intelligence, and
Expanding into the Metaverse. All these topics
are in rapid evolution, requiring research from
both academia and industry in lively academic
initiatives commensurate with strong industry
interest. There is impact on standardization and
regulation, plus immense societal and ethical
issues to be resolved.
Overall, CTSoc worked to enhance and foster
our relevance to emerging technologies while
searching and exploring new technologies to
embrace and promote the services provided by
our future initiatives, conferences, publications,
and educational programs.
CTSOC INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES
CTSoc conferences are a chance for members
andnonmembers to interact,meet leaders in industry,
government, and academia, learn and share
their research and experiences, and demonstrate
their corporate leadership in consumer technologies.
However, conference organization and volunteers
were lacking, paper submission quality and
attendance was declining (before COVID), industry
was disengaged, continued decrease in paper submissions
and quality, patronage did not exist, marketing
and publicity also did not exist and
financials for sustainability was poor. Thus, the
goal and focus was to complete restructuring conferences
to overcome these concerns.
Over the past 4 years, we worked on reforming
the conferences' organizing committees-
especially our flagship ICCE, ICCE-Berlin, GEM,
and new ISDPSM (full names are below)-and
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