Innovating a Microwave Engineering Conference Program

The International Microwave Symposium (IMS) is the premier annual event of the IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S). This symposium has been held annually for over half a century, and is the world´s largest and most prestigious conference on the technology of RF, microwave, millimeter- and submillimeter wave components, devices, circuits, modules, and systems. Although MTT-S, with approximately 12,000 members worldwide, is only the fifth largest of the IEEE Societies, IMS is one of the largest IEEE conferences and attracts approximately 4,000 attendees annually who come to partake in one or more of the three principal components of the IMS: 1) a program of approximately 500 technical and research papers, 2) educational workshops and short courses at the state of the art, with an enrollment of over 2,000, and 3) an industry exhibit that attracts close to 800 exhibitors who display their latest products and services at the symposium for a period of three days.