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Mar 22, 2017 7:00 am - Mar 25, 2017 6:00 pm EDT

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2017)

It is an immense pleasure to extend a warm welcome to all the academic scholars, professors, industry experts, managers, and business partners to the Annual IEEE Industrial Electronics Society's 18th International Conf. on Industrial Technology (ICIT). 2017 will be held in North America's 3rd largest city, Toronto, which lies within the Province of Ontario, Canada. The conference is scheduled to take place from March 22-25, 2017, and will be held in the heart of the city, at the Hilton Toronto, located in downtown Toronto.

The objective of ICIT 2017, as seen in the previous editions, is bringing together researchers, inventers, and experts from academia and industry, working in varied areas of industrial technology. ICIT 2017 will consist of keynote lectures, tutorials, workshops, and oral presentations on all aspects of state-of-the-art and innovative developments in the areas of industrial electronics applications and technologies.

On behalf of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the main sponsor of this prestigious international event, and on behalf of the conference's various committees, it is my pleasure and honour to invite and welcome you as a participant in IEEE ICIT 2017. The ICIT 2017 technical program consists of 8 Keynote Talks, a 2-day Industry Forum, an Educational Boot Camp (6 Half-Day Short Courses and 4 Half-Day Tutorials, 32 technical sessions in 12 tracks, 24 or more special sessions, 2 industrial workshops, and 2 technical tours.

The scope of the conference will cover, but will not be limited to, the following topics:

  • New Technologies for Electric Transportation
  • Electric Energy Storage Systems
  • Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics
  • Power Systems and the Smart Grid
  • Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grid
  • Sensors, Actuators and Micro-nanotechnology
  • Cloud Computing, Big Data and Software Engineering
  • Signal and Image Processing and Computational Intelligence
  • Electronic System on Chip and Embedded Control
  • Electrical Machines and Drives
  • Industrial Automation, Communication, Networking and Informatics

Special Sessions: More than 30 Special Sessions on specific, emerging topics are being organized during the conference.

Committee Members

ICIT Organizing Committee
Advisory Board

  • J. David Irwin, Chair, USA
  • Bimal K Bose, USA
  • Bogdan M. Wilamowski, USA
  • Carlo Cecati, Italy
  • Carlos Couto, Portugal
  • Emil Levi, UK
  • Gerard-Andre Capolino, France
  • Giuseppe Buja, Italy
  • Joachim Holtz, Germany
  • Jose Rodriguez, Chile
  • Kim F. Man, Hong Kong
  • Kouhei Ohnishi, Japan
  • Luis Gomes, Portugal
  • Marco Liserre, Germany
  • Maria I. Valla, Argentina
  • Marian P. Kazmierkowski, Poland
  • Mariusz Malinowski, Poland
  • Mo-Yuen Chow, USA
  • Okyay Kaynak, Turkey
  • Ren C. Luo, Taiwan
  • Rokuya Ishii, Japan
  • Takamasa Hori, Japan
  • Xinghuo Yu, Australia
  • Yousef Ibrahim , Australia
  • Yoichi Hori, Japan

Honorary Chairs

  • Kamal Al-Haddad, ETS, Montreal, Canada
  • Leopoldo Franquelo, Univ. of Seville, Spain
  • K. Gopakumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

General Chair

  • Sheldon S. Williamson, UOIT, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

General Co-Chair

  • Chandan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Technical Program Co-chairs

  • Nihal Kularatna, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • Akshay K. Rathore, Concordia Univ., Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Fei Gao,, UTBM, Belfort, France

Special Session Co-Chairs

  • Max Mauro Santos, UTFPR-PG, Ponta Grossa, Brazil
  • Yunwei (Ryan) Li, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • Yousef Ibrahim, Federation University, Australia

Finance Chairs

  • Ambrish Chandra, Ecole de technologie superieure, Quebec, Canada
  • Vijay Sood, UOIT, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Tutorial Co-Chairs

  • Marcelo Simoes, Colorado School of Mines, USA
  • Kaushik Basu, IISc-Bangalore, India
  • Kiyoshi Ohishi, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan

Industry Liaison Chair

  • Justin Gammage, UOIT, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Kathy Nicolay, Leaders Circle Manager
  • Martin Agelin-Chaab, UOIT, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada