The Event The Program The Hosts INDICON Brief Overview and Invitation. Satish Babu Chair, IEEE Kerala Section. 2 March 2012

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1 1 / 27 INDICON 2012 Brief Overview and Invitation Satish Babu Chair, IEEE Kerala Section 2 March 2012

2 2 / 27 Outline 1 2 3

3 3 / 27 INDICON: The largest and most comprehensive IEEE Event in India for the 45,000 IEEE members in India A 3-day Conference as well as a meeting of the IEEE Community and of India Council/Sections Jointly organized by India Council with one of the Sections Usually attended by IEEE Global and Regional leadership (and those of Technical Societies)

4 4 / 27 INDICON 2011 Indicon 2011 was held at Hyderabad in December 2011 About 450 delegates participated in the Conference Totally 320 invited presentations, workshops, tutorials, panels and papers, in addition to inaugural and valedictory sessions

5 5 / 27 Outline Dates and Theme Tracks Committees 1 2 3

6 6 / 27 Date and Theme Dates and Theme Tracks Committees Indicon 2012 is scheduled for 2-4 December 2012, in the city of Kochi (Cochin) in Kerala Venue for the event is Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, one of the most prominent technical schools in the area The overall theme of the Conference is Innovations in Social and Humanitarian Engineering

7 7 / 27 Conference Tracks Dates and Theme Tracks Committees The Conference is organized around five tracks: Power & Energy Communications & Networking Computational Science & Engineering Signal Processing & VLSI Interdisciplinary & Humanitarian Engineering

8 8 / 27 Pre-Conference Tutorials Dates and Theme Tracks Committees About 5-6 tutorials are planned: Cloud Computing Engines & Enterprise Applications Web 3.0, Internet of Things and the Future of the Internet Green Computing, Climate Change and ICTs Bio-inspired Computing SmartPhone & Tab Applications Analytics & Big Data Advances in SmartGrids

9 9 / 27 Important Dates Dates and Theme Tracks Committees Date 1-Mar Mar May Jun Aug Sep Oct Nov-2012 Activity Initial Website Launch Release of Call for Papers Last date for Submissions of Abstracts Intimation of acceptance/modification/rejection Last date for submission of full papers Intimation of acceptance of papers Author Registration Camera-ready paper submission

10 10 / 27 Advisory Committee Dates and Theme Tracks Committees 1 Dr. RG Gupta, Chair, IEEE India Council 2 Mr. NT Nair, past Chair, IEEE India Council 3 Prof. VK Damodaran, IEEE Kerala Section 4 Mr. E.E. Rajakumar, IEEE Kerala Section 5 Dr. VR Singh, Secretary, IEEE India Council 6 Mr. Amarnath Raja, IEEE SIG-HT 7 Mr. Deepak Mathur, IEEE R10 8 Mr. MGPL Narayana, IEEE Hyderabad Section 9 Mr. Harish Mysore, IEEE Bangalore office

11 11 / 27 Other Key Leaders Dates and Theme Tracks Committees General Chair: Mr. Satish Babu, Chair, Kerala Section General Co-chairs: Mr. Sasi PM, Associate Director, CDAC, Trivandrum Dr. Suresh Nair, CTO, NeST, Kochi Technical Chair: Dr. VR Singh, IEEE Fellow National Physical Laboratories, Delhi Organizing Chair: Dr. A. Unnikrishnan, Chair, Kochi subsection

12 12 / 27 Tracks & Tutorials Dates and Theme Tracks Committees Track Co-chairs: Track 1: Dr. Bijuna Kunju, TKM College of Engg, Kollam Track 2: Dr. Lillikutty, NITC, Kozhikode Track 3: Ms. Mini Ulanat, CUSAT, Kochi Track 4: Dr. P. Murali Krishna, NPOL, Kochi Track 5: Mr. Rajesh Kannan, Amrita University, Kollam Conference Co-ordination: Mr. B.Senthil Kumar, Secretary, IEEE Kerala Section

13 13 / 27 Outline IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala 1 2 3

14 14 / 27 Host Entities IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala Indicon 2012 is jointly organized by: IEEE India Council IEEE Kerala Section IEEE Kochi Subsection of Kerala Section

15 15 / 27 Kerala and Kochi IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala

16 16 / 27 About Kerala Section IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala Founded in 1983 (was a Subsection under Bangalore Section before) Fast growing section, noted for professional, student and humanitarian activities Although geographically one of the smallest sections in India, Kerala Section has two subsections (Malabar and Kochi)

17 17 / 27 About Kochi IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala A fast-growing historical city and port, often called the Queen of the Arabian Sea Main businesses include shipping, ship-building, tourism, fishing, and trade in spices Airport connects to all domestic destinations plus Middle East, South East Asia and Sri Lanka Like the rest of Kerala, a much-visited tourist destination

18 18 / 27 About Kerala IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala One of the strongest brands in tourism in India, heralded as "God s Own Country" The only 100% literate state in India; HDIs comparable to the developed world at a fraction of the cost; Historically associated with spices trade with maritime links to South East Asia and Middle East National Geographic s Traveller magazine named Kerala as one of the...ten paradises of the world... and one of the...50 must-see destinations of a lifetime...

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26 IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala 26 / 27 You are all invited to INDICON Kindly contact us Section for any support ( info@indicon2012.org)

27 IEEE Units About Kochi About Kerala 27 / 27 Thank You! c Satish Babu (2012)