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IPC COMMUNITY 78 SPRING 2024 Europe By Sanjay Huprikar, President, IPC Europe and South Asia Operations The IPC Europe team will be actively engaging the electronics manufacturing industry during the second quarter of 2024 across five major events. Soldering aficionados will have the oppor- tunity to show off their skills during the Hand Soldering Competitions at two industry trade shows: • Innoelectro 2024, organized by the National Electronics Society of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, April 23–25 • FocusonPCB, organized by Nürnberg Messe in Vicenza, Italy, May 15–16 The winners from these regional events will compete with a dozen regional winners from around the globe at the HSC World Finals at electronica 2024, organized by Messe München in Munich, Germany, Nov. 14–15. Our team members will be at these shows to answer questions related to IPC's important "forward-looking" initiatives: workforce devel- opment, sustainability, advanced packaging, design, and factory of the future. IPC has been developing new communities across the European value chain over the past four years, and we are thrilled to host three of them in June at important industry meetings: • European PCB executives will meet in Brus- sels on June 11 to discuss topics related to resiliency, security, and R&D investment with the European Commission. • Influential leaders from OEM, semiconduc- tor, OSAT, packaging, EMS, PCB, substrates, and materials companies will meet with the European Commission in Brussels on June 11 to discuss the innovation and competi- tiveness required to implement a "silicon to systems" approach to manufacturing elec- tronics in Europe. • UK EMS executives will meet in London on June 13 for the third annual networking event featuring speakers from Make UK Defence, in4ma, MP Corporate Finance, and Leonardo. Asia By Sydney Xiao, President, IPC Asia Pacific As the electronics industry supply chain shifts, manufacturers are ramping up investment and production in Southeast Asia, resulting in sig- nificant talent shortages, especially in technical positions. The IPC Asia team is addressing these gaps by actively localizing additional standards and certification programs, making them more accessible to local companies. Simultaneously, we aim to partner with governments and educa- tional institutions to implement tailored work- force training initiatives.