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Introduction

The Bangalore Chapter of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society aims to bring together professionals, students and researchers, who are actively working in the various fields related to Consumer Technology. The Society was called as IEEE Consumer Electronics Society until 15-August-2020.


Theme of Chapter

The goals of the chapter are to:

1. Help current Consumer Technologies practitioners improve their capabilities, and lead to further fundamental research and development in the Bangalore area, and India in general.

2. Mentor and groom the next generation of Consumer Technologies Engineers by working directly with local and national Engineering Colleges and Universities.

3. Provide a common platform for Consumer Technologies organizations to share experiences and knowledge, and create common India specific standards in the longer term.



News and Events

Jun 2021 Website of IEEE Consumer Technology Society Bangalore chapter moved to https://r10.ieee.org/bangalore-ctsoc/.

Sep 2020 IEEE Consumer Technology Society Bangalore chapter, announces Remote Internship programme.

Aug 2020 IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is renamed globally as IEEE Consumer Technology Society (IEEE CTSoc)

May 2020 Covid-19 situation has created a major gap to reach out and conduct physical seminars/workshops for the learning community.IEEE CESoc has explored the opportunity to reach out to the learning community via an online platform. By the collaboration with IEEE Mangalore sub section, IEEE CESoc Bangalore Chapter conducted a webinar to engineers interested in the IoT technology, whether novice or professional. [link]. More than 150 students-professors-professionals attended the event via webex. Detailed report available at, [link]

Apr 2018 IEEE CESoc, Bangalore supported the launch of CE Student Chapter at SRM Institute of Techology, Chennai, setting a model for collaboration across sections in India for the first time. [link] [link]. More than 100 students attended the event. Detailed report available at, [link]

Oct 2017 IEEE CESoc, Bangalore successfully conducted the first ICCE-Asia 3-day conference in India, from Oct 5-7, 2017, at Hotel Courtyard Marriott, Bengaluru. [link]. The key focus areas of the conference were Consumer Electronic Devices, Mobile Phones, Embedded systems, Advanced Chip Design for IoT and Low Power, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics. The program schedule is available at this link. Photos of the event are now available at this link

Sep 2017 IEEE CESoc, Bangalore will be hosting the first ICCE-Asia 3-day conference in India [link]. Preparations ongoing for the tutorials, keynotes, hackathons, and product demonstrations.

April 2017 IEEE CESoc, Bangalore section conducted GFX2017, focusing on OpenGL Development [link], coordinated by Prabindh Sundareson. Report available at [report link]

July 2016 - Mr. Satish Patel, Secretary, IEEE CESoc, Bangalore section will be presenting at the Seminar, “Android Applications on IoT” from 29th to 30th July 2016, Organised by Kumaraguru College of Technology, Department of Information Technology in association with IEEE. [link]

May 2016 - IEEE Bangalore section invited CE representatives to participate in the National level Project Expo, organised by GSSS Institute, Mysore IEEE Student Branch. Prabindh Sundareson presented different aspects of the technology lifecycle at this one-day expo [link]

September 2015 - Prabindh Sundareson presented at an Invited talk at Oxford College of Engineering, Bangalore on CE Trends. Dr. Vivek Maik, and Dr. Preeta Sharan from Oxford College of Engineering coordinated the meeting

June 27 2015 - IEEE CE society organises the Fifth installment of the Advanced Graphics Workshop series, GFX2015, focusing on "Graphics for the Automobile". Report is available at this link.

Oct 11 2014 - IEEE CE society organises 1-day workshop on "CE Today", an invited talk series, focusing on emerging technologies in the areas of Consumer Technology. More information and registration information at, this link.

May 19 2014 - IEEE CE society participates in "App development course on Android", at Visveswaraya Industrial Museum. Mr. Satish Patel(Texas Instruments) started the course with an Introduction to Android.It was followed by Mr.Aravind(IISc) on Algorithms,Flow chart,Programming concepts. Mr.Vijay(IBM) gave a quick introduction to App INVENTOR.Mr.ADITYA PRABHU( Benz) gave a demo of Car game app. Mr.Aravind(IISc) helped the students in selection and development of their own apps. Mr.Amit gave an intro to coding of apps(ECLIPSE),Google Play store. Coverage by Times here . The event was attended by large number of high school students and many applications developed.

Feb 2014 - IEEE CE society announces GFX2014 - Fourth Advanced Graphics Workshop . For more details and registration, refer this link. This event is completed. Report available at 2014.

Innovation Workshop iQ 2013, July 20, 2013, Bangalore. Report available at this link.

May 25, 2013 - IEEE CE society announces GFX2013 - Third Advanced Graphics Workshop . For more details and registration, refer this link. This event is completed. Report available at 2013.

Mar 21, 2013 - IEEE CE society announces Distinguished Lecture by Joe Decuir on low energy Bluetooth 4.0 standard. For more details and registration, refer this link. Final report on this session is available now at, this document.

Feb 23, 2013 - Careers in Compute, Graphics and Visual Engineering, CCGE 2013 (REVA College of Engineering)

IEEE CESoc conducted a half-day workshop for Engineering students at REVA college of Engineering, Bangalore, with the participation from leading companies in the Compute, Graphics and Visual Engineering fields, and Association of Bangalore Animation Industry (ABAI). Pictures of the event at this link. Complete report in this document.

December, 2012 - Technical talk on Image Sensors (Dr. David Burrows, Aptina)

IEEE Consumer Technology Bangalore Chapter’s, Technical Talk on Image Sensor was held at Aptina India Ltd, on Dec 12, 2012. This talk was conducted by Dr. David Burrows, Vice President of Euro India R&D, Aptina Imaging Ltd. Imaging Professionals from leading companies in Bangalore and Researchers from Academia attended the talk. Speaker covered the history and the basics of Image sensor including the complexities of the design involved. He also covered some of the trends in imaging and the processing requirement to meet those challenges. The talk was attended by around 55 participants from companies and academia like Texas Instruments, Aptina India Ltd, ST Ericsson, Mobiatrics, Ittiam, Ricoh Innovation, Philips, HCL , Sir MVIT College, RVCE College , IISc, Path Partner Technology, Sling Media, Nokia, Motorola Mobility... More details are available at this document.

July 28, 2012 - Innovation Workshop (iQ 2012)

The unique workshop on Innovation was held at Institute of Engineers on July 28, under the aegis of the IEEE Consumer Technology Chapter. This workshop was conducted by Sudeendra Koushik, Secretary of CE Bangalore Chapter. The content covered from history and context of Innovation, personal impact of Innovation on organisation and society, Personal Tookit for innovation, Innovation and Organisation processes, Inspiration from Nature, Conceptual models of various innovation methods and models. Around 30 professionals benefited from the event. More details of the workshop is available at this document.

May 26, 2012 - Second Advanced Graphics Workshop (GFX2012)

Taking into account the increasing demand for knowledge base and trainings in the Graphics field, the CE society, Bangalore chapter will organise the second event in the Graphics series - an Advanced Graphics workshop covering internals of OpenGL ES specification, and also provide hands-on tutorials. More details of the workshop is available at this link.

April, 2012 - Android workshop for Engineering Students at PEC Engineering College, Mandya

1-day workshop for students conducted at PEC, Mandya. Sudeendra Koushik (secretary, IEEE CESoc), coordinated this workshop, and was conducted by Kapil. Students from 2nd to 6th semesters participated. Below is one of the feedback from a participant.

"...discussed about Android Architecture, Meaning and Usage of different layers, followed by different components of Application layer in slightly more detail apart form core java basics. We also did some hands on all the concepts we covered during the session. The enthusiasm of students was encouraging. Almost everybody tried to do implementation of the concepts we discussed about and many were able to do that independently. It was also encouraging to see the diversity of participants. Students from across different branches and from different semesters which ranged from 2nd to 6th, participated in the discussion. The expectation from this session was to make students comfortable with the basics of Android and make them reach to a level from where interested students can move to next level independently without spending much time apart from getting the overview of best practices followed in industry in terms of code development. I'm thankful to the Organizers, who gave me this opportunity to interact with student community for this technical discussion."

Advanced Graphics Workshop - December 2011

Taking into account the increasing demand for knowledge base and trainings in the Graphics field, the CE society, Bangalore chapter will organise an Advanced Graphics workshop covering internals of OpenGL ES specification, and also provide hands-on tutorials. More details of the workshop is available at this link.

April - August 2011

Android workshop

In continuation of the IEEE CE society's charter to enable new technologies for Consumer Electronics, the chapter conducted an Android-Internals workshop in August 2011, at SVCE Bangalore. Report of the workshop is available in document linked here . This is the second technical workshop the IEEE CE Bangalore chapter has conducted in this series. The earlier event, also focused on Android, was conducted at PES, Mysore. Both the events were well attended, with more than 100 overall participants. The speaker in both the sessions was Mr. Satish Patel, TI.

IEEE Technical talk on Technology Innovation In Consumer Markets

Dr Narendranath Udupa, Technology Manager, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, Bangalore, presented a 2 hour session on Technology Innovation in Consumer Markets. Dr. Udupa's talk was held at the TI auditorium, Bangalore, and was well attended by the technical community in Bangalore.

Jan - Mar 2011

IEEE Industry Day, 2011

The IEEE India Day was held in March 10-11, 2011. The IEEE CESoc, Bangalore Chapter participated in it with a CE Track in the event, that was kindly sponsored by the IEEE. A report on the CE Track is available by clicking here. The consolidated presentations (PPT format) presented during the track can be downloaded here


We have a number of technical and mentoring activities planned through 2010-11.

Dec 2010 Events:
Dr.Thomas Coughlin (the Distinguished Author of "Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics" and the Founder and Chairman of the Storage Visions Conferences), presenting on 2nd and 3rd December 2010. Details of this Distinguished lecture series is given in this link.
Dr.Thomas Coughlin's talk on Hierarchical Storage Models - PPT Slides are available now in this link.
A detailed report on the DLP program and the technical talks that were conducted in November and December 2010 is provided in this link.
Further events will be announced in the mailing lists and via LinkedIn.


Origins of the IEEE CTSoc, Bangalore Chapter

Origins of the chapter The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (which was the name of our society before August 2020), Bangalore Chapter was officially inaugurated on November 15, 2010. A report on the inauguration is available by clicking here.


Office Bearers - 2019 to Present

Chair:
Arun Shankar K (Continental Automotive R&D, Bangalore)

Vice-Chair:
Kousik Sankar (Cisco Technologies, Bangalore)

Secretary:

Satish Patel (Linaro, Bangalore)

Treasurer:

Satish Patel (Linaro, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chairs:

Satish Patel (Linaro, Bangalore)

Dr.Vivek VenkobaRao (Vitesco Technologies, Bangalore)

Members: Rohith Kamath (Vitesco Technologies, Bangalore)

Prabindh Sundareson (Nvidia, Bangalore)

Arun Naik (Microchip, Bangalore)


Office Bearers - 2016 to 2018

Chair:
Kousik Sankar (Cisco Technologies, Bangalore)

Treasurer, Membership Development Co-chair:

Arun Naik (Microchip, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chairs:

Satish Patel (Linaro, Bangalore)

Dr.Vivek VenkobaRao (Continental Automotive R&D, Bangalore)

Members: Prabindh Sundareson (Nvidia, Bangalore)


Office Bearers - 2013

Membership Development and University interactions Co-chair:

Vijayaraghavan Harikumar (Alethea Communications, Bangalore)

Secretary:

Kousik Sankar (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Treasurer, Membership Development Co-chair:

Arun Naik (Intel, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chairs:

Prajit Nair (Aptina Imaging, Bangalore)

Satish Patel (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Kousik Sankar (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Members:

Prabindh Sundareson (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Bhaskar Karmakar (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Chair: Sudeendra Koushik (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)


Office Bearers - 2012

Membership Development and University interactions Co-chair:

Vijayaraghavan Harikumar (Alethea Communications, Bangalore)

Secretary, and Membership Development Co-chair:

Sudeendra Koushik (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Treasurer, Membership Development Co-chair:

Arun Naik (Infineon Technologies, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chairs:

Prajit Nair (Aptina Imaging, Bangalore)

Satish Patel (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Kousik Sankar (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Member:

Prabindh Sundareson (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Chair: Bhaskar Karmakar (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)


Office Bearers - 2011

Membership Development and University interactions Co-chair: Vijayaraghavan Harikumar (Alethea Communications, Bangalore)

Secretary, and Membership Development Co-chair: Sudeendra Koushik (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Treasurer, Membership Development Co-chair: Arun Naik (Infineon Technologies, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chair: Kousik Sankar (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Advisory Member - CE Ecosystem Development, and University interactions: Sudeendra Koushik (Practice Director, HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Advisory Member: Sudhakar Ganganna (Amberroot Systems, Bangalore)

Chair: Bhaskar Karmakar (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)


Founding Office Bearers - 2010

Membership Development and University interactions Co-chair: Vijayaraghavan Harikumar (Alethea Communications, Bangalore)

Secretary, and Membership Development Co-chair: Bhaskar Karmakar (Texas Instruments, Bangalore)

Treasurer, Membership Development Co-chair: Arun Naik (Infineon Technologies, Bangalore)

Technical Activities Co-chair: Kousik Sankar (HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Advisory Member - CE Ecosystem Development, and University interactions: Sudeendra Koushik (Practice Director, HCL Technologies, Bangalore)

Advisory Member: Sudhakar Ganganna (Amberroot Systems, Bangalore)

Chair: Prabindh Sundareson (Texas Instruments, Bangalore) - IEEE # 41354822



About the IEEE CTSoc, Bangalore Chapter

The IEEE Consumer Technology Society, Bangalore chapter, is a non-profit organisation, registered in Karnataka.

Account Name: "IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Bangalore Chapter"

Account Number: 30903-38644 (SB Account)

Bank Details: Central Bank of India, 71 Miller Road, Bangalore 560052, India

Bank Branch: Millers Road Branch (Extn.)

MICR Code: 56001-6003

IFSC/RTGS Code: CBIN-028-2314 (For transfer from within India)

SWIFT Code: CBIN-INBB-MRB (For transfer from outside India)

Auditors - M/s Navneeth Kini & Co., Bangalore


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