Lamentations-ps {If Jeremiah had a blog...}

I am writing this to everyone active in the field of consumer/electronics in Bangalore, in the context of working together to establish a chapter of the IEEE Consumer Electronic Society, in Bangalore.

As you are all aware, we have significant activity in the CE space in and around Bangalore, in Software, Hardware, IP, and services. We have companies that have created successful reference designs that are used in products that sell in millions around the world. We have companies that specialize in critical aspects of a CE device starting from the User Interface, to powerful software frameworks, to optimized DSP algorithms, to complex device drivers across multiple operating systems. We have academic institutions that are amongst the best in the world, providing a strong backbone that drives the research and development in CE related areas.

So, what additional mileage can the CE society bring to us?

Here are my thoughts, please feel free to add your thoughts to the discussion:

- The field of CE, is a very, very, fast changing dynamic field and a demanding one at that. Expectations on video resolutions, size, power consumption are increasing in a manner that would challenge established players and products. An organized local forum would help to keep track of these changes, at an institutional level, and at a personal level, by having focused workshops, seminars and inviting key people in our industry to share their thoughts on areas of relevance

- By providing a local forum, we enable even relatively new members to learn the ropes fast, enabling better productivity of our technical teams

- Interaction with other CE members across the world, now becomes easier – enabling technical, and further, business interactions

- By forging strong ties with already established societies like the SP society, we reinforce the technical strength of our community

- Provides timely and better access to CE sponsored conferences, workshops and tradeshows like the flagship CES

- Consumer Electronics has been designated as one of the 10 areas that IEEE wants to reach out and drive across the field, because of its importance to our daily lives. By being CE society members, we can extend this outreach to our own local community

And more !…If you are interested to participate in the activities of the Chapter as a volunteer or member so that we can take it to the next level, please indicate your interest by registering online (takes less than a minute) at,

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFI5RGFUQVNTbTQxTV9mU0ZTM3hkdFE6MA

Thanking you for your time and looking forward to your active participation,

Prabindh Sundareson, on behalf of the IEEE CE Society Bangalore Core Team, Nov 2009