Attending an IEEE convention is a chance to be taught concerning the newest advances in expertise, meet a number of the world’s main researchers, and community with thought leaders and trade practitioners.

Final 12 months IEEE held practically 2,300 conferences in 109 international locations. The analysis from these cutting-edge occasions includes greater than 72 p.c of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Not everybody can attend a global convention in individual, although. To extra broadly share a number of the cutting-edge analysis that was carried out final 12 months, IEEE Conferences, Occasions & Experiences, in collaboration with the IEEE China workplace, produced a brand new digital collection. Held in December, the IEEE Tech Frontiers occasion curated content material from three main gatherings: the IEEE Transmission and Distribution Convention and Exposition, the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Convention, and the IEEE Convention on Pc Imaginative and prescient and Sample Recognition.

These conferences cowl a few of right now’s most essential applied sciences, reminiscent of energy and power, photovoltaic expertise, and synthetic intelligence, they usually entice article submissions from everywhere in the world. Convention organizers had been capable of spotlight the recent subjects and attention-grabbing components of every occasion.

Practically 2,500 individuals attended the two-hour session, which was offered in English and Mandarin.

“IEEE conferences are tech frontiers that present students and engineers with a platform to alternate and be taught concerning the newest developments in order that we are able to have innovation and excellence,” Bin Zhao, president of the IEEE Electron Units Society, mentioned on the occasion. The IEEE Fellow served because the occasion’s champion and moderator.

“We wish to assist professionals construct networks and connections,” Zhao mentioned, “in order that now we have higher capabilities to push our tech ahead.”

Conferences in China advance tech innovation

IEEE Senior Member Yinghong Wen, chair of the IEEE China Council, kicked off the occasion.

“IEEE China has continued to develop, and worldwide occasions have performed a key position in our development,” Wen mentioned. “Worldwide occasions are one of the best supply from which we be taught the newest tech breakthroughs and perform worldwide tech exchanges. IEEE conferences are thought to be essentially the most premier tutorial gatherings for electronics, electrical engineering, laptop science, and different related fields.”

Weiqing Tang, CEO of the China Pc Federation, mentioned the group believes within the significance of cooperation with worldwide organizations such because the IEEE Pc Society. The CCF has practically 120,000 members and holds greater than 1,600 occasions annually. The 2 organizations have partnered on a number of initiatives together with member growth, publications, and conferences. The collaboration helps frequent missions, Tang mentioned.

“The CCF steadfastly helps IEEE China in persevering with to carry occasions,” he mentioned, “and is keen to lend a serving to hand in order that extra persons are conscious of those occasions.”

“IEEE conferences are tech frontiers that present students and engineers with a platform to alternate and be taught concerning the newest developments in order that we are able to have innovation and excellence.” —Bin Zhao, IEEE Electron Units Society president

Wen identified that the IEEE Transmission and Distribution Convention and Exposition has promoted expertise exchanges and cooperation, permitting China’s energy sector to maneuver towards a extra sustainable future.

“That [yearly] occasion has served as an essential basis for China’s sensible energy grid and environment friendly energy transmission,” she mentioned.

IEEE Fellow C.Y. Chung, an influence grid specialist and the IEEE Energy & Vitality Society’s 2025 president-elect, offered an summary of the annual convention and a number of the subjects it covers, reminiscent of sensible grid growth and power storage programs. Greater than 13,800 individuals from 78 international locations attended final 12 months’s convention, making it amongst IEEE’s largest, he mentioned.

“Energy engineers are working very laborious in decarbonizing our energy system,” he mentioned. “They’re engaged on using power effectivity insurance policies and packages to cut back power utilization, rising using renewable energies reminiscent of wind and photo voltaic, and selling economy-wide electrification.”

The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Convention (PVSC), sponsored by the IEEE Electron Units Society, covers developments in PV science and engineering, manufacturing, reliability, deployment, coverage, and sustainability.

The IEEE Tech Frontiers presenters (from high left): Bin Zhao, Yinghong Wen, Weiqing Tang, Fred Schindler, Tyler J. Grassman, C.Y. Chung, and Walter Scheirer.IEEE Conferences, Occasions & Experiences

The PVSC has “promoted tech innovation within the Chinese language PV sector, elevating IEEE’s worldwide competitiveness,” Wen mentioned. “This permits China to understand net-zero energy transmission and contribute to the worldwide response to local weather change.”

IEEE Senior Member Tyler J. Grassman, the 2025 PVSC convention chair, added that the occasion is a well-liked venue for asserting new world data set for photo voltaic cells and modules.

One other extremely attended occasion is the IEEE Convention on Pc Imaginative and prescient and Sample Recognition (CVPR), which is sponsored by the IEEE Pc Society. The 2024 convention attracted greater than 12,000 attendees from 76 international locations and areas—the biggest to this point, says IEEE Senior Member Walter Scheirer. He famous that most of the attendees had been from China.

Scheirer is chair of the IEEE Pc Society’s Technical Neighborhood on Sample Evaluation and Machine Intelligence.

“It’s actually thrilling to see this cross-Pacific engagement taking place,” he mentioned. “We would like researchers from everywhere in the globe who’re engaged on laptop imaginative and prescient to interact with us.”

He mentioned developments within the discipline, reminiscent of generative AI, which is a trending matter in laptop imaginative and prescient and different areas.

“There may be additionally a number of emphasis on AI applied sciences getting used to create pictures and movies,” he mentioned. “CVPR stays the first place the place this new work is rolling out.”

The convention, Wen mentioned, “stimulates a lot of modern concepts and the commercialization of laptop imaginative and prescient in China.”

Go to the IEEE Tech Frontiers web site to view the occasion on demand. It’s accessible in English and Mandarin.