{"id":70758,"date":"2025-04-24T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=70758"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:49:47","slug":"talking-about-apec-2025-on-the-show-floor-with-general-chair-aung-thet-tu","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/magazine\/talking-about-apec-2025-on-the-show-floor-with-general-chair-aung-thet-tu\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about APEC 2025 on the Show Floor with General Chair Aung Thet Tu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apec-conf.org\/\">APEC<\/a> was very successful, from its start 40 years ago to an event with over 6,000 attendees, over 750 technical presentations, 18 professional education seminars, and a three-day exposition with 300-plus exhibitors. We ran into Aung Thet Tu, APEC 2025 General Chair, on the show floor and had the opportunity to talk about the event, its history, and the power electronics industry in a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicdesign.com\/resources\/industry-insights\/video\/55284182\/electronic- design-talking-about-apec-2025-and-the-power-electronics-industry\">Electronic Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70760\" title=\"Alix and Aung\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alix-and-Aung-300x190.png\" alt=\"Alix and Aung\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alix-and-Aung-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alix-and-Aung-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alix-and-Aung-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Alix-and-Aung.png 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s APEC was very successful, from its start 40 years ago to an event with over 6,000 attendees, over 750 technical presentations, 18 professional education seminars, and a three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[776,414,777],"magazine-categories":[27],"class_list":["post-70758","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apec","tag-pels","tag-power-electronics-magazine","magazine-categories-industry-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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