Dear Industrial Electronics Society Members,
We enter the new year full of enthusiasm, hoping that for the first time in the last years, the beginning of the year will not surprise us. The most important task for all of us is to reactivate relationships during direct meetings of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES). We hope that our IES Chapters and Student Branch Chapters will organize many exciting events locally, strengthening the technical community. IES will focus on organizing many conferences and workshops globally, please take the opportunity to meet and exchange experience and knowledge during them. I want to invite IES members to actively participate in IES flagship conferences IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (4-6 April 2023), which will take place soon in Orlando (USA), IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (19-21 June 2023), that will be organized in Helsinki (Finland), and 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (16-19 October 2023) in Singapore, that is the most significant event in the IES.
We are also looking forward to the new year of the 2022 Journal Citation Reports publication. Especially for our two young journals IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, which will be indexed for the first time. I am keeping my fingers crossed for them. Many more essential challenges are ahead, but we look at them with full confidence in success. With such strong support from IES members, all challenges can be overcome. I wish IES and you a successful 2023.