EDI CON China 2015 Sets Record for Attendance

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EDI CON China 2015 Sets Record for Attendance

April 29, 2015 (Norwood, Mass.) - Horizon House Publications and Microwave Journal China are pleased to announce that 2625 total attendees visited EDI CON China 2015 in Beijing, April 14-16, at the China National Convention Center (CNCC), significantly exceeding the previous two years attendance numbers. This included 1214 delegates attending the conference and exhibition. The plenary session drew close to 300 attendees with about 350 attending the Keysight sponsored reception dinner. The exhibition contained close to 100 companies occupying 1300 square meters in floor space. EDI CON China has grown each year since its start in 2013 establishing itself as the leading RF/microwave, high-speed digital and EMC/EMI conference and exhibition in China.

Attendees and sponsors complimented the quality of the conference with an average session size of about 50 attendees that participated in 90 paper sessions, 33 workshops and 2 panels. The newly added 5G Forum kicked off with experts from China Mobile and Ericsson presenting their vision and progress in the area of 5G technologies followed by a panel session taking questions from the audience. More than 150 people attended the panel session that was followed by 8 papers sessions and 2 workshops to complete the full day forum.

In an interview with Microwave Journal at EDI CON China 2015, Keysight's strategic marketing manager for China, Elizabeth Ruetsch, commented that this year was a step function better than previous years with the quality of the technical presentations and questions from the attendees. She further commented that EDI CON China is a unique event where the entire wireless supply chain is represented from the carriers like China Mobile and China Unicom to the hardware providers like ZTE and Ericsson to the device/component suppliers like Qorvo and Freescale and NXP. Many distributors also participated in the exhibition including Richardson RFPD, Transemic, Sanetronic and Mitron.

EDI CON China is scheduled to take place again at the CNCC on April 19-21 in 2016 with Keysight as the host sponsor. More information can be found at http://www.ediconchina.com/.

EDI CON China 2015 Sets Record for Attendance - RF Cafe

About EDI CON

EDI CON is an industry-driven conference/exhibition targeting RF, microwave, EMC/EMI, and high speed digital design engineers and system integrators developing products for today's communication, computing, RFID, wireless, navigation, aerospace and related markets. The technical program and exhibition include the leading international RFIC, component and material manufacturers, semiconductor foundries, EDA software and test equipment/solution providers. This year's conference features the most recent trends in high-frequency electronics and wireless communication technology, addressing all aspects of design, simulation and test verification through an understanding of system requirements for wireless communication networks, such as small cell infrastructure, SATCOM and microwave backhaul.

About Horizon House

Horizon House is an experienced and well-established organizer of targeted events, including European Microwave Week (EuMW) on behalf of the European Microwave Association (EuMA), and several major microwave related conferences/exhibitions such as the RF/Microwave, M2M and Microwave Backhaul Zones at Super Mobility Week (CTIA).

Microwave Journal China, a Horizon House Publication and sister magazine of Microwave Journal, is promoting and publicizing EDI CON China to local engineers, technology companies and academia, while also providing input from, and a link to, the wider high speed, high frequency, RF and microwave community.

Editorial Contacts:

North America: Pat Hindle +1 781 619 1946 PHindle@MWJournal.com Twitter: @pathindle

International: Richard Mumford +44 207 596 8787 RMumford@MWJournal.com

China: Katie Huang 电话:82420876,58607751 katieh@actintl.com.hk

 

 

Posted April 30, 2015