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62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Singapore, 2023
The IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) is the flagship in the Control Systems Society's set of conferences. It is hosted by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the European Control Association (EUCA). By every measure, CDC is a highly successful conference in terms of participation and technical quality. But why is that? What are the components needed to make a successful conference? In one of the recent Presidential Columns in the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, I asked the question of why people attend our conferences. The answers I got from our membership painted a clear picture. The number one reason people attend our conferences is to reconnect with friends and colleagues, and to network. A close second was to keep a finger on the technical pulse and see what is going on in the community. Reason number three was “interesting locations”. The 62nd CDC in Singapore has all these elements in spades! The technical program is great. The excitement about being back in person after a global pandemic is palatable, and as far as interesting locations go, Singapore is hard to beat.
Magnus Egerstedt President, IEEE Control Systems Society