{"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\">UH<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in 2007, when it was also the largest conference in the state. His former <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/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>UH<\/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>UH<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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>UH<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority, Meet <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the state\u2019s tourism industry honored the <abbr>UH<\/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>UH<\/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>Â鶹´«Ã½convention business brings in more than $500M<\/em><\/a>, December 16, 2014 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority\u2019s<\/a> global meetings, conventions and incentives division. &ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> represents over half-a-billion dollars in visitor spending since the opening of the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/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\" 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