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the industry and society. As we are looking forward, it is important to review actions we have taken to give more power
to the future.
Our focus has been to increase industry and global participation. Presently,
approximately 50% of our membership
is outside North America, confirming
that we have become a truly global organization. We have experienced phenomenal growth in Chapters, with a rise in
student and professional Chapters from
160 to 290 and 230 to 250, respectively,
in just two years. As we now have more
student Chapters than professional ones,
our key goal is that our student members continue to be active in the IEEE
when they become professionals and go
on to establish new Chapters. We can accomplish this by emphasizing the value
and strength of engaging our global and
diverse community that implements new
ideas and applies best practices.

As we have the tradition of hosting first-class conferences and industry
events, our volunteers have undertaken
some very exciting initiatives to expand
industry and global participation. To
build on the success of the T&D Conference and Exposition, we are organizing similar events in Latin America and
Asia (e.g., in 2018, T&D Latin America
in Lima, Peru, and T&D Asia in Bangkok, Thailand) and will be expanding
them to include energy generation resources. Our Chapter volunteers have
proactively started organizing annual/
biannual industry workshops focusing on
industry executive and technical panels
and tutorials. Already in 2017, our Chapter and regional leaders have organized
workshops in Zagreb, Croatia; Vancouver, Canada; San Jose, Costa Rica; San
Francisco, United States (together with
California Public Utility Commission);
and the CEO Forum in Lima, Peru. New

workshops, such as the INSPIRE workshop in New Orleans, are coming up
in 2018.
For our volunteers to be actively
engaged, it is important that they are
supported by their company management. This is why we created the Executive Advisory Council (EAC) for
North America and are in the process
of creating EACs for other regions. We
are also developing corporate engagement packages with a goal for a member company to financially support
employees to join and participate in
various IEEE initiatives, and in return
the IEEE offers training, discounts, engagement opportunities, and a variety
of other benefits.
A very important initiative is IEEE
PES University, offering, among other things, tutorials and webinars on
emerging topics and standards and developing an open-source platform for

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