YP Meetup AGM 2019  NOTICE                                             3 Dec 2018

Dear IEEE Young Professional (YP) Members,

This communication is also to inform the slate for the Executive Committee for the year 2019 of YP Bangalore section and also call for the YP Meetup during Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of the Section at which the Executive Committee and the Office Bearers for the year 2019 will be introduced.

YP Meetup

The YP Meet up is scheduled to be held on Sunday, 6^th January 2019 at Dayanandasagar College of Engineering, hosted by Dayanandasagar University, Kumaraswamy layout, Bangalore immediately after AGM of Bangalore section.

https://goo.gl/maps/EZZgWLhVTHy

We plan to give some souvenir for all the YP members who will be attending the meetup apart from what Section would be giving. In this regard, your requested to register separately again for the YP meetup to enable the logistics. (Please note you should register again even if you had registered for Section AGM separately).

For Registration for YP meetup, please use the below link. Register on or before 25 Dec 2018

https://in.explara.com/e/ieee-young-professionals-bangalore-section-meetup-2019  

 YP Meetup Agenda 

8:30 - Registration & Breakfast

9:30 to 12:30 - Bangalore Section AGM

13:00 - Welcome and activities of Young Professionals by Outgoing Chair (2017-2018)

13:30- Falicitation of Execom 2018

13:40- Slate Presentation 2019 and presentation of new Execom

14:00- Address by Incoming Chair (2019)

14:20- Address by past core committee

15:00- Activities and curtain close

About Young Professionals Bangalore Section

The IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section Affinity Group was formed in 2000 and ever since then the young professionals team has been an integral part of section activities. Since its inception, the affinity group has organised numerous events that have stood out as a trademark and truly empowered technology.

Volunteer growth and member engagement has been a core focus for young professional operations. The young professional volunteers from Bangalore Section have stepped up to take larger responsibilities on a global scale such as chairing the IEEE Xtreme committee, IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technologies (SIGHT) committee etc. Several volunteers have been awarded with prestigious IEEE awards such as the Young Professional Achievement Award, Outstanding Volunteer Award etc.

Over the past few years, the young professionals team has worked in close proximity with other IEEE societies such as Computer Society, Power and Energy society, COMSOC etc. and have initiated workshops such as IPR and Innovation workshop, IEEE Volunteers for Emergencies, STEP, ELEVATE, etc. to ensure that its members are updated with the latest trends in technology. Additionally, they have also aimed to partner with local developer communities to bring professionals from different domains and streams under one roof, thus extending their reach to all professional members and bringing in diversity in the kind of events they conduct. Some of the few major partnerships in the past have involved Drupal and iOS communities.

The Young Professionals team initiated their first annual young professional congress on 28th August 2015 at Christ University which was followed by their active involvement and organisation of the IEEE Region 10 Student/ Young-professionals/ Women in Engineering/ Life Member Congress from 25th-27th August, 2016 as part of IEEE Region 10 Fifty Year Celebrations. We were also actively involved in IEEE ALL INDIA STUDENTS, YOUNG PROFESSIONALS & WIE CONGRESS held in Allahabad in 2017 and Mysore in 2018. We also represented Bangalore Section in Bali Region 10 congress 2018 held in Bali, Indonesia during Aug-Sept 2018. These congresses combine technical and leadership sessions to nurture volunteers to become tomorrow’s leaders.

IEEE Young Professionals have developed a strong connection with the industry and have aimed to strengthen the relevancy of IEEE Membership to industry. We have launched a highly successful program called IEEE ELEVATE to bridge the gap between the educational institutes and corporate world/startups by providing a platform for IEEE volunteers to develop and improve their skill set by interacting with professionals and Industry Leaders. Under this initiative, we have organised numerous industrial visits to ISRO, Nokia, General Electric, CDAC etc. and various technical workshops spread across a variety of technical areas such as Machine Learning, Swift, Cloud Computing, Android, Deep Learning, IOT, etc. Our focus is to impart education in an effective manner has seen them put their efforts in conducting the Teachers-in-Service program by collaborating with the block education officers in Karnataka to train pre-university teachers on the application of engineering, science and mathematics by sharing real world experiences. We have trained over 4000 teachers ever since the inception of this program and have helped to bring a positive change to the education system in rural India and this year we conducted two such programs.

Frequent Student transition & Elevation Partnership (STEP) programs have helped interested students learn about the young professionals and section activities and helped them transition from student membership to IEEE Young Professionals thus ensuring continuity of their membership. Students have also been apprised about India’s position in the field of research with the aim to equip them with the knowledge of technical writing and publishing under their #TechnicalWriteIndia campaign. We have also started training aspiring and budding engineers towards entrepreneurship in terms of bootcamps and workshops.

Our volunteers have represented Region 10 in other regions by sharing their Technical expertise and IEEE practices. We have also got maximum funding from few years for our events from MGA, Region 10, societies and HAC for our activities. We have been integral part of sections and many young professionals have volunteers for SmartTech, Blockchain workshop, TEMS Industry forum, Region 10 congress, R10 50 years celebration, AISYWC 2018, INDICON , etc. Offlate we have also showed our presence in various conferences by organizing special young professional tracks in flagship conferences like COMSNETS, SSCI, ISC, etc.

2017 IEEE YP events report

https://tinyurl.com/YP-2017-Report

2018 IEEE YP events report

https://tinyurl.com/YP-report-2018

These initiatives have motivated individuals and YP Affinity group to win many laurels to the section.

Notable Awards:

•   Kartik Kulkarni (R10), Bangalore Section in 2011 :For dynamic leadership in spearheading humanitarian and innovative engagement opportunities for young IEEE engineering professionals in India.
•   Manjunath Iyer (R10), Bangalore Section in 2013: For continuous support to the IEEE Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) and Student Transition & Elevation Partnership (STEP) events.
•   Nipun Manral (R10), Bangalore Section 2015: For exemplary leadership and contribution toward student and young professional activities and for continuous efforts to elevate the technical and professional development of IEEE members. Also awarded with IEEE Asia Pacific Young Professional Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016, IEEE Bangalore Best Volunteer Award 2015, IEEE Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Professional Affinity Group Award 2015, IEEE, MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award 2015.
•   Abhishek Appaji: New Initiative Program Award at IEEE Region 10 Student, Young Professional, Women in Engineering Congress 2015 held from 9^th to 12^th July 2015 at Colombo, Srilanka  

IEEE Young Professionals Bangalore Section recently in 2017 received HALL OF FAME Award, Best Poster Award in R10 Congress, Bali and Gold Medal/first place as per MGA Report Aug 2018 for surpassing the recruitment and retention goals for student member promoted to young professionals.

IEEE BANGALORE SECTION YOUNG PROFESSIONALS 2019 Slate Presentation

The Slate Nominations Committee with Dr. Sudheendra Koushik, Puneet Kumar Mishra and Nipun Manral as members have proposed the slate for the Executive committee (EXECOM) of the IEEE Bangalore Section YP or the year 2019 is given below:

Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year-2019!!

IEEE Bangalore Section Young Professionals Team