INDICON 2012 - IEEE Region 10

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INDICON 2012
Brief Overview and Invitation
Satish Babu
Chair, IEEE Kerala Section
2 March 2012
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INDICON: The Event
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)
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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
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Date and Theme
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
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Conference Tracks
The Conference is organized around five tracks:
Power & Energy
Communications & Networking
Computational Science & Engineering
Signal Processing & VLSI
Interdisciplinary & Humanitarian Engineering
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Pre-Conference Tutorials
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
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Important Dates
Date
1-Mar-2012
15-Mar-2012
15-May-2012
15-Jun-2012
1-Aug-2012
30-Sep-2012
1-Oct-2012
1-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
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Advisory Committee
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Dr. RG Gupta, Chair, IEEE India Council
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Mr. NT Nair, past Chair, IEEE India Council
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Prof. VK Damodaran, IEEE Kerala Section
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Mr. E.E. Rajakumar, IEEE Kerala Section
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Dr. VR Singh, Secretary, IEEE India Council
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Mr. Amarnath Raja, IEEE SIG-HT
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Mr. Deepak Mathur, IEEE R10
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Mr. MGPL Narayana, IEEE Hyderabad Section
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Mr. Harish Mysore, IEEE Bangalore office
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Other Key Leaders
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
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Tracks & Tutorials
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
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Host Entities
Indicon 2012 is jointly organized by:
IEEE India Council
IEEE Kerala Section
IEEE Kochi Subsection of Kerala Section
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Kerala and Kochi
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About Kerala Section
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)
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About Kochi
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About Kochi
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
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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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You are all invited to INDICON 2012.
Kindly contact us Section for any support
(email: info@indicon2012.org)
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Thank
You!
c
Satish
Babu (2012)
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