The Lunchtime Panel and Rump Sessions: Lively Discussion for All
Phillip Smith, IMS 2009 Panel & Rump Sessions Chair

The lunchtime panel and rump sessions bring together experts in a particular area to engage in a lively discussion on topics of contemporary interest to the MTT community. This year's IMS will feature four lunchtime panel sessions as well as a Tuesday evening rump session. Audience interaction and participation are strongly encouraged. Along those lines, we will be experimenting with the use of so-called "audience response systems" this year, for the first time, enabling real time polling of audience members during the session. These "RF clickers," now widely used on college campuses, allow audience response to multiple choice questions to be quickly collected and shown. Another first this year: awards will be given to panel session organizers who have excelled in the task at hand. One award will be made for the "Most Well-Attended Panel Session," while a second will be given for the "Most Interesting Panel Session," as evaluated through audience feedback.

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A Look at the IMS 2009 Paper Selections
Mark Gouker & Larry Kushner, TPC Co-Chairs

Registration is open, and it is time to make plans for attending the symposium. This year we are introducing a number of changes to make your time at the symposium more productive, less hectic and more enjoyable. The RFIC and ARFTG only attendees will also find more activities and technical content of interest. We hope you will stay an extra day or the entire week! Follow the link the get the "Inside" story.

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Note to Exhibitors: Trade Journals Help Deliver your Message
David Vye, Editor — Microwave Journal

Approximately ten thousand attendees will be at this year's IMS; yet an even larger number of microwave engineers and their managers will be back at the office, receiving word of the show through the media. Therefore, exhibitors should implement plans for both the show floor and a communication plan to maximize their IMS marketing to the non-attending population. Among any marketing communication plan, the press release is undoubtedly one of the leading tools for spreading company and product news tied to the show. Marketing groups just need to get the information out to the proper news organizations and trade journals. This effort needs to begin months before the booths go up in the convention center.

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IMS2009 Official Hotel Update

If you have not done so yet, now would be a good time to reserve your hotel room for IMS. The 2009 Steering Committee has secured favorable rates for attendees at the official IMS2009 hotels located throughout the city of Boston. If proximity to the BCEC is important to you, consider staying at the Westin Waterfront, which serves as this year's headquarters hotel for the symposium and is connected to the convention center via a walkway. Nearby, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront is also within short walking distance. Further away but in the fashionable Back Bay neighborhood is the co-headquarters hotel, the Sheraton Boston, as well as the remaining official hotels — Westin Copley, Boston Marriott Copley, Courtyard Marriott Boston Tremont, Midtown Hotel and Boston Park Plaza.

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