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concept and new contextual directions
may require adaptation as new initiatives start competing for their place in
the market. Along with our colleagues
from other Societies, we will continue
exploring, learning about, and investing in those new technologies. We will
also actively seek to develop the means
and ways to stabilize and boost the revenue brought about by our various publishing activities.

Conferences
Our conferences, which currently
amount to nearly 40 events annually
around the world, continue to be an
important bridge and opportunity for
members to present and acquire relevant and up-to-date technical information at the highest level. Our many
offerings are often linked to branded
conferences, with staying power that
has been tested over the years. Such

is the case with the Transmission and
Distribution Conference and Exhibition (T&D), which celebrates its 50th
anniversary in Chicago in April 2014.
T&D is PES's largest conference, routinely attracting between 10,000 and
15,000 attendees. International conferences, like ISGT, that focus on practitioners have successfully been offered
on six continents and continue to
attract solid attendance while providing relevant and regionally sensitive
technical content. There are a number
of boutique conferences in specialized
areas, some of which have been offered
for decades, that PES supports through
technical cosponsorship agreements,
enabling their papers to become part
of IEEE Xplore and accessible to wide
audiences around the globe. In addition, we are seeking partnerships with
other organizations, such as IET and
CIGRE, to enable and promote a wider

exchange of technical information for
the benefit of all members.

Standards
The standards activities of PES are
impressive. We currently produce
nearly half of the standards approved
by the IEEE Standards Association.
With recent procedural changes, new
smart grade standards will be developed even faster then before. Among
the problems that we would like to
address is the participation of industrial members in standards developing entities that could be significantly
better. Yet another challenge of this
post-depression economy is that many
industrial employers have for some
time restricted employee travel to
technical conferences and technical
committee meetings where important work is being done on developing
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