Reaching Out to Members Beyond North America [President’s Message]

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As I write this article in mid-April, I am excited to be able to share that we have just received confirmation that the 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, during the week of 15–20 June. This is the first time that the Annual Meeting has been held outside North America since 2005. Some readers and Society members will recall that in 2000, the Annual Meeting was held in Hong Kong, China, and that the 2005 Annual Meeting was held in Rome, Italy. However, since then, the Annual Meeting has been in North America, and since 2017, has been colocated with the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), which is jointly held by the Industrial Power Conversion Systems Department (IPCSD) of the IAS and the IEEE Power Electronics Society.