// March 2023

By Yessica Sáez - IEEE ComSoc Panama Chapter Chair, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá

On December 5, 2022, the ComSoc Panama chapter received the 2022 Chapter Achievement Award (CAA) from IEEE ComSoc for the Latin America Region (R9), acknowledging Chapter activities throughout 2021. Upon receiving the CAA, the ComSoc Panama chapter was also granted with the 2022 ComSoc Chapter of the Year Award (CoYA), which honors the highest ranked ComSoc chapter among the Regional Chapter Achievement Award recipients. Dr.

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By Victor Lin - IEEE Buenaventura ComSoc Chapter Chair, USA

In December 2022, Dr. Frank Chang, senior member of IEEE and OSA Fellow, presented a talk at the Hub 101 (an Cal Lutheran University incubator) in Ventura County, Southern California on pluggable optics vs. co-packaged optics (CPO) for high-speed optical communications. Dr. Chang is Source Photonics’ Chief Engineer and CTO for advanced and next-generation transceiver design.

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By Amnah Ebrahim - Bahrain, Mohab Mangoud - IEEE ComSoc Bahrain Chapter Vice-Chair and Mohammed Jassim - Bahrain

Under the organization and patronage of the University of Bahrain, College of Engineering, Bahrain IoT and AI Challenge was organized as a part of a greater regional challenge known as the Arab IoT and AI Challenge which was hosted by 12 Arab Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, And United Arab Emirates) alongside Bahrain.

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By Dinko Begusic - Croatia, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues - Portugal, Josko Radic - Croatia, Katarina Rados - Croatia, Matko Saric - Croatia, Nikola Rozic - Croatia, Pascal Lorenz - France and Sinisa Krajnovic - France

The 30th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks — SoftCOM 2022 was held in a hybrid format, including live and virtual participation in Radisson Blu Resort Split, Croatia, 22 to 24 September, 2022. The Conference has been technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) with the support of the Technical Committee on Communications Software (CommSoft) and the IEEE Croatian Section.

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By Artur Tomaszewski - Poland, Dritan Nace - France and Jacek Rak - Poland

After a break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Compiegne in France was the venue location for the 12th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM 2022). This edition of RNDM was organized on September 19-21, 2022 by the University of Technology of Compiegne (UTC), France in co-operation with Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland. Technical co-sponsorship was provided by IEEE France Section and by IFIP TC6 WG 6.10.

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