Analyzing the ComSoc Conference Portfolio

In this President's Page, I am pleased to introduce Stefano Bregni, the past Vice President for Conferences (2018–2019, 2020–2021) and currently Director for Conferences Operations (2022–2023) of the IEEE Communications Society, who will present the analysis we are carrying out on our Conference Portfolio. Prof. Stefano Bregni is with Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He contributed to ETSI/ITU-T Standards on network synchronization, and is an author of 100+ papers and of a recognized book on network synchronization (Wiley, 2002). He has served as a tireless IEEE volunteer for more than 25 years. He is or served as General Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2022, Technical Program Co-Chair of GLOBECOM 2023 and ICC 2016, Technical Program Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2012 and GLOBECOM 2009, Symposium Co-Chair in nine other ICC/GLOBECOMs and Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM). He received the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award (2019) and the IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences (2014).