The IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS) is the premier annual international meeting for technologists involved in all aspects of microwave theory and practice. It consists of a full week of events, including technical paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials, as well as numerous social events and networking opportunities. The symposium also hosts a large commercial exhibition. Co-located with IMS are the IEEE RFIC and ARFTG conferences... 

IMS2016 – What’s Up With All the Wires
IMS2016 – The Gateway to the Wireless Future
IMS2016 Highlights:
    • Nearly 10,000 attendees including 3,000 technical program attendees from more than 60 countries.
    • Over 75 technical sessions, workshops, and panels sessions
    • 79 MicroApps sessions
    • A record breaking exhibition with 625 exhibiting companies including 67 first-time participating companies
    • Engineering students played a large part in the event through numerous presentations as well as the student design competition, student paper competition, PhD Initiative, and Project Connect
    • IEEE Mars Mission 4 player VR Experience at the Wearables + Wireless Pavilion
    • From Bits to Waves, a practical workshop where participants built a modern digital radio in one day
Read the IMS2016 San Francisco press release: