I am very pleased to announce that the former chair of Vancouver Joint Communications Chapter, Prof. Dave Michelson was nominated as the IEEE Vancouver Section Chair. Since I (your humble servant) is now the section secretary and Ms. Zahra Ahmadian (our Vice Chair) took the lead on the newly formed IEEE Vancouver WIE Affinity Group we have a strong representation locally.

I would like to mention that Prof. Dave Michelson also have been able to help IEEE ComSoc and the Japanese MCPC to form an alliance. This will help to cross-promote IEEE WCET and MCPC wireless certification programs. Thank you Dave for this successful and important achievement.

I would like to thank Dr. Edmund Ho for his role as the chair of the advisory committee for the last two years and welcome Mr. Lee Pucker as the new advisory committee chair.