The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE has held a virtual conference of its Asia Pacific Region chapter in Bangladesh.
It was the first full virtual conference in the country as well as in IEEE Asia-Pacific region, the organisers said.
The conference, TENSYMP 2020, was its eighth edition and organised between Jun 5 and 7.
With the use of advanced communication technology, more than 1,000 technologists from different locations joined virtually and presented their recent research outcomes in the conference organised by IEEE Bangladesh Section in association with IEEE Asia Pacific Region.
“Researchers from all around the world felt as if attending a face-to-face technical conference, seeing all presenters presenting technical papers with live video and participating in live discussion sessions,” IEEE Bangladesh Chair Celia Shahnaz said in a statement.
IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organisation with more than 400,000 enthusiastic technologist members from 160 countries.
IEEE Bangladesh has more than 3,500 members and branches in 51 universities.
Despite the pandemic, TENSYMP 2020 received 1,030 valid technical papers involving 2,308 authors from 19 countries. ♦
