Dear Industrial Electronics Society Members,
The calendar year is ending, and it is always a period of taking summary. Therefore, it is also worth mentioning some events in our Society in 2022. Finally, we returned to relative normality after more than two years of the pandemic. The first event was finally a hybrid, and not just an online meeting, during the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics conference in Anchorage (Alaska, USA). Then, we held a fully stationary 48th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2022 (Brussels, Belgium) with around 800 participants. It is also worth mentioning that our journals performed very well in the JCR ranking published this year. This is why we decided to launch a new Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (T-ICPS) that the IEEE Periodical Committee accepted. I would also like to emphasize that the pandemic has shown that there is also interest in fully online conferences, so we have organized the first IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON), which will be forever in our portfolio of conferences. Finally, our Society passed an evaluation by the TAB Society and Council Review Committee (SCRC).
Therefore, we can look to the new year with optimism. I wish all IES members all the best in the new year, 2023.
