The 33rd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM 2025 was held in Radisson Blu Resort, Split, Croatia, September 18 to 20, 2025. 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.
On November 3, 2025, as part of the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer program and the IEEE Founder’s Day celebration of IEEE HKN, the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, was the epicenter of the discussion on the future of telecommunications, when it received three leading international experts in an academic meeting organized by the IEEE ComSoc Monterrey Chapter.
The Internet of Things (IoT) Research Lab at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (IoT-UC), supported by the IEEE Communications Society Chile Chapter, recently hosted a series of invited talks on emerging challenges in IoT connectivity, with a focus on satellite communications and advanced wireless technologies.
During the 2024–2025 biennium, several activities of the Distinguished Lecturer Program were organized by different ComSoc chapters in Latin America. The main goal of the Distinguished Lecturer Program is to offer the benefits of world-class lectures to IEEE members around the globe.