Kls Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum

KLS GOGTE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BELGAUM IEEE Student Branch Date: July 25, 2015 REPORT: IEEE R10 SYW CONGRESS, COLOMBO, SRILANKA

The International IEEE R10 Congress was held at Galadari hotel, Colombo Srilanka. This congress witnessed around 200 delegates coming throughout Region 10 (Asia). It was indeed a great pleasure to be a part of such massive and magnanimous congress and I was truly overjoyed to be a part of the Bangalore section contingent, in turn representing IEEE GIT at an International level. The congress lasted for four days, rather for four prolific days.

DAY1 & 2: The event kick started by the ice breaking session, providing a comfort zone amongst the delegates. The actual sessions commenced by the opening speech by the R10 director Mr. Ramakrishna Kappagantu. It then followed various sessions by diligent and well known speakers. The schedule was divided into four tracks, student, young professional, WIE, and Humanitarian activities.

Therefore it was quite interesting and enthralling to attend each of the sessions from each particular track. Some of the topics which enlightened me were: (elaborating a few)

A practical networking session by Margaret Errickson: It was a complete session filled with alacrity and craziness in pursuit to grow contacts. KLS GOGTE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BELGAUM IEEE Student Branch Best practices for WIE: The different and best activities conducted were on a display. The session was handled by Keyanna Tennant (WIE R10 Representative), which made me to grasp some of the unique ideas, such as providing a technological support to the needy for instance, the students from Pakistan constructed a heater which can be used to heat the food and as well used as a heater in the winter. Apart from it, there were many innovative and ominous ideas shared.

Member benefits and engagement in R10 for young professionals: This session highlighted on the different schemes that can be utilized by an YP member, such as the insurance facility, IEEE labs and mentoring programs.

Along with these motivating sessions there were many others as well which were useful and productive.

DAY 3: The second day as well followed a plethora of edifying talks. The session named 10,000 silver bullets was impressive, the tagline which was endorsed “if you want to dent in a company there is no 1 silver bullet but there are 10,000 was quite remarkable, it basically focused on how to crack an interview in the corporate world. Insights on the various societies working under IEEE such TEMPS, MEMS, SIGHT, IAS, etc were absolutely gainful. Informative talks on guidelines for technical paper and effective technical paper presentation were beneficial.

DAY 4 (An extra mile): The day 3 commenced with a session on a new mindset on career development and innovation followed with a session on languages in Asia pacific region, which proved to be invigorating as it provided a frame of languages in Region 10. Finally a talk on “Preparing yourself to be global employee” was conducted which also demonstrated to be profitable.

Apart from the stacked schedule; cultural night and gala dinner was organized.

The major part of this congress was networking which has enabled me to grow gregarious and placate with others; get some liaison contacts which would surely be beneficial in the future events organized at our student branch. To deduce, the R10 Congress has not only shown the different facets of IEEE but has also made me to grow in a charged manner. Albeit, this was the first time for a student to represent IEEE GIT at International level, I have put in my best efforts to grasp each and every thing conducted in the congress. Looking forward to strengthen and brighten IEEE GIT.

Prof. Abhishek Deshmukh Miss Pranali Shinde Staff Advisor 7th sem EC, GIT IEEE-GIT WIE Chair,IEEE GIT Student Branch Hub Leader NK Hub Bangalore Section