What is WIM?
WIM stands for “Women in Microwaves” and is the subset of women in engineering working within the field of microwave engineering and typically active within the MTT society.
The mission of IEEE WIE is to facilitate the global recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines.
Women In Microwaves Panel on Leadership: How to Inspire Change
Tuesday, 24 May 2016; 13.30 - 15.10
Moscone Convention Center, Room 310
The Women In Microwaves (WIM) organization, a subset of the IEEE Women In Engineering (WIE), will present a panel session entitled “Leadership: How to Inspire Change”. The panel will explore and discuss topics useful to all technical professionals who are striving to grow their leadership skills.
· Examples and advice for inspiring change
· What conscious steps can be taken to stand out from your peers
· How diversity helps us avoid becoming stagnant
· How to overcome career roadblocks
· The role that visibility plays in successful leadership
The panel will include women IEEE Fellows that have been recognized by IEEE-MTTS for their technical achievements as well as their leadership abilities. The panel will also include industry leaders from around the world as well as a tech industry leadership coach. The session will allow attendees to hear firsthand how the panelists have become leaders and inspired change within their own organizations, whether their contributions have been in the commercial industry, the defense industry, or academia.
Moderator for the panel will be Keysight Technologies’s Marketing Programs Manager, Kaelly Farnham. Kaelly actively works to inspire and motivate change as a council member on the Keysight Society of Women Engineers Enterprise Program (KSWEEP). She is also communications chair on the their Employee Networking Group, Women in Leadership Development, which provides a forum for women to practice leadership skills, volunteer in the community, and resolve workplace issues related to women.
Women in Microwaves Reception: Tuesday, 24 May 2016: 1800 - 1930
The Women in Microwaves Reception will be held at the View Lounge at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
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E komo mai — Welcome to what is widely regarded as the most prestigious microwave industry gathering in the world: the 2017 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2017), to be held 4–9 June 2017 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
IMS2017 is the largest international conference devoted to the research, development, and application of RF and microwave theory and techniques and is expected to draw over 8,000 participants and 500 exhibiting companies from around the world. This conference is organized and sponsored by the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This is the 60th year that MTT-S has organized this symposium, and only the second time that it is being held off of the North American continent – the first time being 2007 when it was also held in Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i has long been regarded as the Crossroads of the Pacific, making it the perfect venue to bridge East and West by encouraging attendees and exhibitors alike to interact in a global microwave village.
IMS2017 (ims2017.org) is the centerpiece of Microwave Week 2017, which also includes the Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium (rfic-ieee.org) and the Automatic Radio-Frequency Techniques Group Conference (www.arftg.org).
You may also consider vacationing in Hawai‘i before or after the conference. The Hawaiian Islands are a world-renowned visitor destination with many activities for you and your family to enjoy. Snorkel among tropical fish at Hanauma Bay. Learn to surf at Waikiki Beach. Golf at one of more than 80 courses and world-class resorts. Explore fiery lava flows on the Big Island. Hike through lush rainforests on Kauai. Cruise down a Maui volcano on a mountain bike. Many of these and other historical Hawaiian cultural activities are part of our guest program.
I look forward to catching the wave with you in Hawai‘i.
Aloha kakou,
Wayne A. Shiroma
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