The 11th edition of the IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) returned to Brasil for in 2019. (LATINCOM 2011 was held in Belém, Brasil). The conference goal is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners in Latin America to share R&D results, to meet, and to network. The technical program received 114 submissions which were reviewed by 65 technical program committee members. Fifty-four of the submissions were accepted for presentation at LATINCOM 2019 in 15 technical sessions. These papers were also included in the conference proceedings which is now available on IEEE Xplore. The authors of the accepted papers are from 12 countries (six in Latin America and six beyond Latin America). This is a healthy international mix that allowed those from outside Latin America to learn what is happening in Latin America and for Latin Americans to interact with fellow researchers from outside the region. The quality of this year's technical program was quite good and included papers on diverse topics ranging from vehicle-to-everything networks (two sessions) to a variety of issues on Internet of Things (two sessions) to an interesting variety of applications that help people, such as location-based services, multimedia, and healthcare. The quality of this program would not be possible without the diligent efforts of the technical program committee. This truly international committee devoted many hours to reviewing and obtaining reviews for the submissions.
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This is the ninth and last in the series of articles, started in May 2018 and published monthly in the IEEE ComSoc Global Communications Newsletter, which covers all areas of IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities. In this series of articles, I introduce the Vice-President and six Directors on the Member and Global Activities Council (namely: Sister and Related Societies; Membership Services; AP, NA, LA, EMEA Regions) and the two Chairs of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) and Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committees. In each article, one by one they present their sector activities and plans. In this issue, I interview Nury Ramirez, Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals (YP) Standing Committee. Nury currently works as a Technical Project Leader with Continental Automotive, Guadalajara, Mexico. She worked for many years at Intel, where she held several Program Manager positions in R&D at the Data Center Group. She has also held positions at Cisco. She is just finishing her term as Chair of ComSoc's Young Professional Committee and she is the current Chair of the IEEE Guadalajara Section (Mexico) and has held several positions in her young volunteer career at IEEE. Nury received her Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Ecuador and the Master's in Quality Engineering and Management from ITESO in Mexico. Stefano: Hello Nury! Let us begin by explaining what the Young Professionals Committee is in the IEEE Communications Society. Nury: The Young Professionals affinity group of IEEE is dedicated to foster the professional development of young members. We want all senior students and graduate students' members to expand their professional and global network, elevate their professional image, and give back to their community. Having this IEEE MGA affinity group within ComSoc is vital as it works on grooming the next generation of leaders and enables them to build global professional networks. Stefano: Do you feel that the Young Professional group is important among ComSoc priorities? Nury: Yes, it is. Since the beginning of this term, President Khaled Letaief and the VP MGA Nei Kato stated the importance of student and young professional involvement to vitalize
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