{"id":61232,"date":"2017-06-06T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=61232"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:39:46","slug":"largest-conference-of-the-year-returns-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/largest-conference-of-the-year-returns-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest conference of the year returns to state, due to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> faculty and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jcqExvc7GhA?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ims2017.org\/\"><abbr title=\"Institution of Electrical and Electronics engineers\">IEEE<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Microwave Theory &#038; Techniques Society\">MTT-S<\/abbr> International Microwave Symposium<\/a> (IMS)2017, the state\u2019s largest conference of the year, returned to the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Convention Center in June 2017. The conference generates an estimated $38 million in visitor spending.<\/p>\n<p>It was only the second time that the symposium was held off of the North American continent in its 60-year history. <a href=\"http:\/\/ee.hawaii.edu\/index.php\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa Electrical Engineering<\/a> Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/ee.hawaii.edu\/faculty\/detail.php?usr=25\"><strong>Wayne Shiroma<\/strong><\/a> led the team that brought the conference to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in 2007, when it was also the largest conference in the state. His former <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> engineering students, who served on his 2007 steering committee, were instrumental in helping to bring this record-breaking conference back 10 years later. The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> group worked on <abbr>IEEE<\/abbr> <abbr>MTT-S<\/abbr> <abbr>IMS<\/abbr>2017 for nine years, putting in thousands of volunteer hours.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa electrical engineering graduate <strong>Justin Akagi<\/strong>, who is now a nuclear engineer at Pearl Harbor, helped with both meetings and served as vice chair of <abbr>IEEE<\/abbr> <abbr>MTT-S<\/abbr> <abbr>IMS<\/abbr>2017. &ldquo;A lot of us are <span aria-label=\"kamaaina\">kama&#699;aina<\/span>, so we are excited to be there to support <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in whatever way we can\u2014by helping to bring the conference here, make it work and be a great event,&rdquo; Akagi said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The thing that I\u2019m absolutely the most impressed with, the thing that I am most proud of, is the fact that we\u2019re taking <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> students and molding them into the leaders of tomorrow,&rdquo; said Shiroma, who also served as <abbr>IMS<\/abbr> chair.<\/p>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Tourism Authority, Meet <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and the state\u2019s tourism industry honored the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering as the <span aria-label=\"Elele\">&#699;Elele<\/span> Organization of the Year in 2017 for its role in securing more than $170 million in convention business to the state. That\u2019s just a fraction of the tourism business <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> has helped to generate over the years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/elele-college-of-engineering\/\"><em>$170M in convention business generated by College of Engineering<\/em><\/a>, March 31, 2017<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/uh-convention-business-brings-in-more-than-500m\/\"><em>糖心Vlog官方 convention business brings in more than $500M<\/em><\/a>, December 16, 2014 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is known for its sand, surf and sun, but we should also be known for our science, and that science is largely completed by the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. They provide the general scientific infrastructure for the technical conferences we are attracting,&rdquo; said Debbie Zimmerman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiitourismauthority.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Tourism Authority\u2019s<\/a> global meetings, conventions and incentives division. &ldquo;<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> represents over half-a-billion dollars in visitor spending since the opening of the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Convention Center.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61238\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2017.jpg\" alt=\"large group of people\" width=\"620\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2017.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2017-260x88.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>IMS<\/abbr> 2017 planning committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61239\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2007.jpg\" alt=\"another large group of people\" width=\"620\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2007.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2007-260x88.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>IMS<\/abbr> 2007 planning committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>糖心Vlog官方 Manoa Professor Wayne Shiroma and his former engineering students were instrumental in helping to bring this record-breaking conference back 10 years later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":61253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[179,182,9,56],"class_list":["post-61232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/manoa-engineering-ims2017-conference-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61232"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124674,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61232\/revisions\/124674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}