Panel Sessions

This panel session offers a chance to engage in dialogue with the Presidents of IEEE Societies within IEEE Division IV "Electromagnetics and Radiation." Given their shared research domains, this session presents a valuable opportunity to exchange perspectives on forthcoming technological challenges and foster avenues for future inter-society collaboration.

Rather than a traditional panel, the RF and Microwave League of Champions will be a quiz show pitting a team of academics against a team of industry veterans to answer technical riddles sourced from RF and microwave history. Each team will comprise 3 members who will answer as a team on questions about RF/microwave theory, circuits, and systems. This event will be an entertaining diversion from the typical technical panel and hopefully a great deal of fun for participants.

The growth in generative AI has, naturally, raised the question of its impact on RFIC design. The latter has been traditionally regarded as somewhat of a black art, requiring the ‘magic’ of human intuition and creativity.
But is RFIC design really so, or will AI be able to automate large portions of the design process in the future? Are the days of hand-crafted RFIC design limited? Will AI replace design engineers or only augment their capabilities, to some extent?
This lunch time panel, with both industry and academic experts, will attempt to predict the impact of AI in RFIC design.

This panel will bring together industry, government laboratories, and academia to discuss long-range WPT links. The koto will be: Will Ling Range WPT become a reality? What are the bottlenecks and limitations, and what has been done already? Which energy efficiencies are foreseen? It is expected to have a diverse group of researchers in different areas talking about these topics and to create enough discussion in the room to allow microwave enthusiasts and practitioners to foresee where to focus their interests and research strategies to work towards a future of WPT.

This panel session offers a chance to engage conversation and exchange ideas about the significance and challenges in monitoring climate change and the potentials of utilizing microwave technologies for remote sensing in various applications.

A recent high profile spectrum conflict has been between weather forecasters and the wireless industry on the use of passive microwave spectrum. While both sides are addressing critical economic and societal needs, there are many questions about the possibility for and impacts of coexistence, especially related to 50-58 GHz, which will be considered at the World Radiocommunication Conference-2027.
The wireless industry, as it deploys 5G technologies and plans for 6G, has a critical need to expand its access to spectrum to support the deployment of numerous wireless technologies that fuel economies and international competition. But the world is also facing increasing weather and climate related disasters that rely on improvements in environmental prediction to keep people and communities safe. Eighteen disasters in the US in 2022 (the third highest) had damage values above $1 billion (and an overall cost of $177.3 billion with 474 deaths).
This panel discussion will feature high level panelists from across the public, private and NGO sectors to discuss the increasing demand for passive microwave spectrum for both wireless tech and meteorology. The discussion will seek to foster more productive science and engineering discussions on these topics and highlight possible solutions for coexistence.