Region 9 of the IEEE Signal Processing Society has seen a lot of new activity recently. Since late 2010, four new chapters have been created in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Southern Brazil and Brasília). The chapter in Colombia is a few years older, and there are also chapters in Argentina, Guadalajara and Western Puerto Rico. This means that we can expect much action in the region: seminars, Distinguished Lecturer (DL) tours, conferences and other opportunities for learning and networking.

Instituto Tecnológico de Metropolitano (ITM) and Universidad de Antioquia are organizing a conference in Medellin, Colombia: the XVII version of the digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision conference that will be held in September 12, 13 and 14, 2012. This event is sponsored by the IEEE Colombia’s chapter of Digital Signal Processing. The objective of the conference is to present technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied digital, and image processing.

IEEE recently launched a news page and blog with the tagline “Brightening the future, improving the world” that promotes the value of IEEE Societies and communities.