Business in the front party in the back
August 2024
Here's a wrap-up of IMS 2024 from someone who only attended the exhibition this year. It was held at the Walter E. Washington convention center in Washington DC.
Here's a view of the exhibition. IMS is certainly back to its pre-pandemic numbers.
The Women in Microwaves soiree was at the International Spy Museum, and as usual it was a big hit. On the ground floor you can admire a recreation of the Turtle, the first submarine used in warfare. Another highlight of the WIM was the singing Tesla coil demo that was provided by Dr. David Ricketts. We linked to it from our WIM page here at Microwaves101 and it's posted to our YouTube channel, Be sure to check it out!
We always look for miss-spellings in exhibition, but this year did not see any. But the hotel we stayed at could use some help from a microwave engineer.
Here's a rogue's gallery of engineers enjoying free beverages during the exhibition reception on Wednesday night.
As we pointed out before the show, we had 300 tee shirts to give away. We ended up with quite a few XXXL and XXL shirts left over, so if you know any full-sized microwave engineers who would wear one please tell them to contact us.
Big thanks go to Anding Zhu of MTT's Technical Coordination & Future Directions Committee for all his help in designing and arranging for tee shirts as a joint effort to help encourage MTT members to write articles for us. The shirt is like a mullet haircut... business in the front (MTT-S), party on the back (Microwaves101)!
By the way, that's not scoliosis making my left shoulder higher. It's an unintended consequence of reattachment of my rotator cuff 15 years ago.
Anding also helped arrange the first formal presentation by Microwaves101 at IMS - "Publish with Microwaves101". If that's something you're interested in, you can download our slide deck here. It was a small but enthusiastic audience - keep an eye out for new MW101 authors in the coming months! Jeez, that guy could use some Botox!
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And of course, as always, we were sharing a booth with our friends at EverythingRF. Here's our booth with some microwave legends. If you don't recognize anyone in the photos on this page, you need to come to IMS more often!
And here's our intrepid staff.
When you live on the exhibition floor for three days the possibilities for delicious and nutritious food are nearly endless (if you like burgers, tacos, and sub-sandwiches, that is). Always remember to bring some Tums.
There was certainly a lot of spurious references to artificial intelligence (AI). You can expect more and more of this in the future. Let's hope that AI can replace C-level executives faster than it kills off engineering jobs.
See you next year in San Francisco!
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