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which provides access to industry, references, and career development. It has
already been used as a case study for
other societies and is becoming a template for the entire Ieee. please check
its contents-technical reports, tutorials,
e-learning modules, plain Talk courses
for nonengineering professionals, videos, and webinars-and let us know
what you think. our webinars have been
very successful. John mcdonald (former pes president) was able to attract
over 1800 registrants to his smart grid
webinar, "application of microgrids
and distributed Generation" (flawlessly
managed by our staff, including Ieee
smart Grid coordinator angie rajski).
Juan Carlos montero (pes vp, marketing and Image) presented two versions
of his webinar "What's in pes for me?,"
one in english and one in spanish.
We also encourage our members to
publish in our award-winning publications (led by mariesa Crow, vp, publications) as well as present at and attend our
global conferences to continue sharing

best practices and innovative contributions and ideas. We have also seen major
expansion in the scope and number of
tutorials presented at our conferences,
addressing both practical issues and
innovative technologies to help improve how we operate and maintain
the grid. presently, we need to choose
from a large number of excellent tutorials (a good problem to have). They have
been very well attended, thanks to our
industry leading presenters and excellent planning (superbly managed by sue
Koval and pes staff).
The global presence of pes is nowhere more apparent than with our
Chapters under the leadership of Frank
Lambert, vp, Chapters. In the first five
months of 2016, our volunteers created
32 new Chapters. our focus is on better
engaging industry participants and promoting the work of our technical committees at international meetings and Chapter activities. We have many initiatives to
showcase practical and important work
at panels during our conferences, such as

Innovative smart Grid Technologies in
minneapolis, minnesota, united states,
Ljubljana, slovenia, and melbourne,
australia; T&d Latin america in morelia, mexico; esmo in Columbus, ohio,
united states; power africa in Livingstone, Zambia; apeeC in Xi'an, China;
powercon in Wollongong, australia; and
pedes in Kerala, India.
our technical committees, led by the
pes Technical Council (chaired by miriam sanders) implemented a new structure
to respond to changing industry needs.
Those initiatives provide an invaluable
platform to benefit from global synergies
between private and public sectors (utilities/independent system operators, vendors, academia, national labs, regulatory
organizations, and other industry participants) as well as objective industry
leadership that is critical for addressing
the fast-changing power and energy industry in the best way.
There are still a number of things we
need to improve. For example, it is important to publicly acknowledge volunteers
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