During the IEEE Region 10 Annual General Meeting 2017 held at Chiba, Japan IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals Coordinator Nivas Ravichandran presented this deck to all the Section Chairs from Asia Pacific as a way to provide awareness about Young Professionals and their activities.

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BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
NIVAS RAVICHANDRAN
IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals Coordinator – 2017

2. Transition from GOLD to Young Professionals
New Name, New Feel!
“Graduated from their first professional degree within the last 15 years. There
will be an opt-in option available for members that do not meet this criteria.”
The name, “IEEE GOLD” was not instantly recognized as a Young
Professionals Group
Increase member awareness and engagement

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Inconvenient Truths about Young Professionals
Inconvenient Truth #1
Belonging to a community alone does not drive us
–We are comfortable changing jobs every 2 years
–We are comfortable joining/leaving professional
associations

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Inconvenient Truths about Young Professionals
Inconvenient Truth #2
We have a short attention span
–We are the connected generation, 15 seconds is our
maximum attention span
–We are not only content consumers, we are also content
creators

5. 5 2/26/17
Inconvenient Truths about Young Professionals
Inconvenient Truth #3
Our time is limited
–Many YPs are starting new jobs/careers and families, so we
have to juggle our time
–There's only a small piece of time left for IEEE

6. 6 2/26/17
Inconvenient Truths about Young Professionals
The Takeaway
The next “young” generation will be different than
this one
–IEEE must invest in it's IEEE Young Professionals program
in order to stay relevant

7. 7
Challenges faced by Young Professionals
increase in
membership fee
Early in career
with need to grow
Lack of recognition
(in a few sections)
Lack of
focused activities

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Importance of Young Professionals to IEEE
Increase membership
retention rate
Develop and nurture
future IEEE leaders
Recruit and develop YP volunteers
for the section
Help recent graduates to find
value in their membership

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Activities / Initiatives
Technical Workshops
Entrepreneurship activities
Investment Seminar
Power plant / Industry tours
Personal finance seminar
Humanitarian Workshop
Graduation reception
Volunteer Training
Career Decision
Career Fair
Humanitarian Activities
Skills Development activities
Leadership Training
Volunteering opportunities
Networking activities
Few fun activities

10. 120,153 Young Professional Members worldwide*
Region 9:
5,558
Region 1:
6,445
Region 2:
5,774
Region 3:
6,803
Region 4:
5,571
Region 5:
6,586
Region 6:
11,758
R1-6 Total:
42,937
Region 7:
5,667
Region 8:
29,748
Region 10:
36,252
* based on December 2015 Membership Development report

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12. 12 2/26/17
Sections without Young Professional Affinity Groups
57
Sections
39
Have YP AGS
18
Sections without AG
Sections which do not have Young Professional AG
North Asia
• Changwon
• Daejeon
• Fukuoka
• Hiroshima
• Sapporo
• Sendai
• Seoul
• Shanghai
• Shikoku
• Shin-etsu
• Wuhan
• Xian
• Macau
• Nanjing
South Asia
• Gujarat
• Kharagpur
ANZ
• Northern Australia
South East Asia
• Republic of Philippines

13. 2016 Congresses / Meetups
Volunteer Training: Students / WIE / Young Professionals
Region 10 India Congress
Japan YP Congress
Pakistan
Australia

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IEEE Young Professionals Meet up
Format:
• Open to IEEE & Non-IEEE members
• Graduating student members
• Informal nature
• Debates | Networking | Brainstorming
• Minimal lectures
• Beginning of the year

16. Strengthening the global IEEE member network
Creating global networking experiences at conferences
IEEE Conference Sponsored by Society
(1000+ Int’l Attendees)
FREE Off-Site Meetup Event
with Local IEEE Members
Young Professionals Event at
Conference - (Panel, Hackathon,
“Breakfast with Mentors”)
International
Conference Attendees
Local Section
IEEE Members
Global Professional Networking Experiences

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TIPS / ACTION POINTS TO SECTIONS

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Voice for Young Professionals in Executive Committee
Action Point #1

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Encourage YP Representation in Region / Council Congress
Action Point #2

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Encourage / Involve Young Professionals to Societies
Action Point #3

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Support with funds/resources for activities
Action Point #4

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SUCCESS STORIES

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Success Stories of Young Professionals Empowerment
IEEE Tokyo Section

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Success Stories of Young Professionals Empowerment
IEEE Bangalore Section

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Success Stories of Young Professionals Empowerment
IEEE Kerala Section

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#GOYOUNGPROFESSIONALS
NIVAS RAVICHANDRAN
nivasravichandran@ieee.org