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Online, interactive live event enjoyed a successful inaugural year in 2019.

EDI CON Online, an interactive event held for the first time September 10-12, 2019, has posted impressive results for its inaugural year with more than 4400 sessions attended to date. 97% of attendees surveyed noted they would attend another EDI CON Online, and 97% would also recommend the event to a colleague.

“We are very pleased with the response from the industry,” says Carl Sheffres, publisher of Microwave Journal and Signal Integrity Journal, the publications organizing the event. “Our research indicated that today’s engineers often have conflicts preventing them from attending training or events in person, so we aim to help alleviate these issues with EDI CON Online.”

Attendees who shared their experiences agreed, with one attendee saying “It worked out perfectly for me. Also, the great benefit was the ability to access the presentations after the event.” And another response, “I was very pleased with this event. It was a lot of high-quality presentations, yet I didn’t have to deal with travel, missing work, etc. Thank you!”

Over a three-day period, EDI CON Online 2019 included 32 speakers, 3 plenary keynote talks, 15 technical sessions, and 13 sponsored workshops. Platinum sponsors Samtec, Mini Circuits, and Rohde & Schwarz delivered engaging video keynote presentations. The technical sessions and workshops offered chances for attendees to ask questions in a live Q&A session.

Event organizers have announced that next year’s EDI CON Online event will take place on consecutive Tuesdays in October, with a plan to offer sessions over four days (October 6, 13, 20, and 27) organized into tracks that are again kicked off by keynote sessions.

Platinum, Workshop, and Track Sponsorships are now available for 2020. Potential sponsors can contact their MWJ/SIJ sales representatives for more information or go to www.edicononline.com. Attendees can still register and watch the 2019 sessions. Registration for the 2020 event will open in the late summer of 2020.

 

Free registration to 31 sessions delivered over 3 days gives engineers working in RF, microwave, and high-speed digital applications access to training sessions without leaving the office.

 

August 8, 2019 (Norwood, Mass.) – EDI CON Online, a new interactive event being held online September 10-12, 2019, has opened registration for its three days of tracks: 5G/IoT (September 10), Radar/Antenna (September 11), and Signal Integrity/Power Integrity (September 12), with EMC/EMI topics spread throughout the tracks. The interactive technical sessions will occur at no cost to attendees, and attendees are also eligible to earn IEEE CEU/PDH credits for attending.

The thirty-one sessions over three days include keynotes, technical sessions, and sponsored workshops. Attendees select the sessions for the online event in a single sign-on registration portal and can participate in as many sessions as they wish live (with question and answer sessions) or watch later on demand. Sessions are produced on a multimedia platform, including video, traditional webinar, and screen sharing formats.

EDI CON Online is pleased to announce that Rohde & Schwarz, Mini-Circuits, and Samtec will be the Platinum Sponsors of the event and will be producing each day’s opening keynote, respectively. Here is a list of the speakers currently scheduled for technical sessions at EDI CON Online. For the complete program, including workshops and keynotes, see the online program https://www.edicononline.com/program-schedule/.

September 10, 2019: 5G/IoT (including EMC/EMI)

• Design of a Fully Integrated, Surface Mount 3.5 GHz Doherty GaN PA for 5G Applications, Robert Smith, Plextek RFI
• EMC Success Strategies for the Internet of Things, Mike Violette, Washington Laboratories & American Certification Body
• 5G Phased Array Antenna Design, Anil Pandey, Keysight Technologies
• mmWave Will Be the Critical 5G Link, Joe Madden, Mobile Experts Inc.
• 5G and the Future of Low Latency Applications, Caroline Y. Chan, Intel Corporation

September 11, 2019: Radar/Antennas (including EMC/EMI)

• A Three-Step Process for Radiated Emissions Troubleshooting Success, Ken Wyatt, Wyatt Technical Services, Inc.
• Near-Field Antenna for RFID Tag Inspection, Scott Best, SiberSci, LLC
• MIMO Radar for Vehicles, Eli Brookner
• Metamaterials for Electronic Scanning, Wideband Antennas and Stealth/Cloaking, Eli Brookner
• Latest Trends in Active Electronically Scanned Antennas (AESAs), Joseph R. Guerci, President/CEO of Information Systems Laboratories Inc.

September 12, 2019: Day 3: SI/PI

• Characterizing the VRM, Steve Sandler, Picotest
• Best Design Practices to Eliminate Ground Bounce in Your Next Product, Eric Bogatin, University of Colorado, Signal Integrity Journal, and Teledyne LeCroy
• Test Fixture De-embedding for PCB Characterization and Material Extraction, James L. Drewniak, Missouri S&T
• High-Speed Interconnect Design and Correlation at 112 Gbps PAM: How does this affect me? Scott McMorrow, Samtec
• DDR/LPDDR Board Design for Signal and Power Integrity, Shalom-Shlomi Zigdon, The College for Board Design and PCB Engineering at Israel

 

Attendees who wish to register for free can do so here: https://www.edicononline.com/register/.

 

About EDI CON
EDI CON uniquely brings together RF, microwave, EMC/EMI, and high-speed digital design engineers and system integrators for networking, training, and learning opportunities. Attendees come to EDI CON to find solutions, products, and design ideas that they can put into immediate practice for today’s communication, defense, consumer electronics, aerospace, and medical industries. Drawing attendees from both the analog and digital spheres, EDI CON enables designers to see techniques and technologies used in other applications that could be applied or adapted to solve their latest design challenges. At EDI CON CHINA, the exhibition hall features product displays, demonstrations, interactive sessions, speed trainings, networking opportunities, and educational talks that address all aspects of design, simulation, test, and verification. EDI CON Online brings this same type of learning directly to engineers’ desktops. More information at www.edicononline.com.

About the Organizers
EDI CON is organized by Microwave Journal, the Signal Integrity Journal, and the event planning division of their parent company, Horizon House. Microwave Journal, Signal Integrity Journal, and Horizon House also team with Microwave Journal China and ACT International (Hong Kong) to organize and produce EDI CON China (May 12-13, 2020  in Beijing, China). An experienced and well-established organizer of targeted events, Horizon House additionally organizes European Microwave Week (EuMW) on behalf of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). To subscribe to Signal Integrity Journal, visit www.signalintegrityjournal.com. To subscribe to the Microwave Journal, visit http://www.mwjournal.com.

 

EVENT CONTACT:
Carl Sheffres, Publisher & EDI CON Sales Director
+1-781-619-1949
csheffres@mwjournal.com