Key Dates
DEADLINE | ACTION/DESCRIPTION |
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To Be Announced | Log in instructions and credentials for the Review Portal sent to you on this date. As soon as you receive this information log in to the Review Portal and confirm all presenters in your session are valid. |
To Be Announced | Industry Session Chair Training |
To Be Announced | Review and provide feedback for draft Industry Session presentations. Inform speakers once feedback has been provided. If you do not have any feedback to provide, let the speaker know they must still upload a final version of their presentation as a PowerPoint file. |
To Be Announced | Deadline for presenters to upload final presentations in PowerPoint and PDF file formats to the presenter portal. Session Chairs are responsible for contacting presenters who do not upload materials by the stated deadline. |
To Be Announced | Chairs review the final PowerPoint and PDF file uploads by Industry Session speakers. |
To Be Announced | Each Industry Session Chair MUST register and pay the registration fee by this deadline. See below for more information on the registration requirements for Industry Session Chairs. |
Review Portal
Login credentials for the Session Chair Portal will be emailed to you on [Date To Be Announced].
Session Chairs will review and provide feedback for draft and final presentations within the Review Portal. Chairs will send task reminders to speakers through the Portal.
If a Session Chair is also a speaker, they need to use the Speaker Portal for uploading their presentation. The Review Portal is only for Session Chair Tasks, not Speaker Tasks.
Registration
Industry Session Chairs are required to register for APEC 2026 no later than [Date To Be Announced] at either the Full Conference Registration or Technical And Industry Session category at the appropriate rate (Member, Non-Member, IEEE Life Member, Student). No other registration category (e.g. Seminars Only) is permitted.
Conference registration is scheduled to open on [Date To Be Announced]. Early Bird Registration ends on [Date To Be Announced].
Session Chair Training
A training session for APEC Industry Session Chairs will be held on [Date And Time To Be Announced]. This training was mandatory for all APEC Industry Session Chairs.
Click here to download the presentation slides in PDF. [Slides will be available after training is delivered.]
Click here to watch a recording of the Industry Session Chair training. [Video will be available after training is delivered.]