IEEE SoutheastCon 2010
March 18, 2010 through March 21, 2010
Embassy Suites, Charlotte/Concord, NC
Please come back - our site will be up by July 2008!!
The Region 3 Executive Committee has approved the bid of the NC Council and Charlotte Section to host IEEE SoutheastCon 2010. The event will be held from Thursday, March 18 to Sunday, March 21, 2010. The conference will include the standard sub-conferences (Technical, Student, and Region 3).
The conference site is the Charlotte-Concord Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center. The hotel currently has over 300 rooms and plans to build another 150 in an adjoining tower by August 2009. This hotel currently has over 42,000 sq. feet of convention space, and expects to add even more with their new tower construction project. The rooms can accommodate up to four students very comfortably. Some of the amenities offered as a concession to the IEEE is free breakfast for all attendees, free evening manager’s reception, and free wired and wireless Internet connectivity in rooms.
Charlotte is the largest city between Atlanta and Washington, DC. It is the 20th largest in the US and one of the fastest growing. The Charlotte metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of Duke Energy, Wachovia Bank, Bank of America, Family Dollar, Goodrich Corporation, Lowe’s Hardware, many NASCAR teams, and many other businesses. Charlotte’s airport serves as a hub for US Air. Nearly all Region 3 cities with an airport have a direct flight to Charlotte on at least one airline. Interstate 85 and 77 run through the city, and Interstate 40 is forty miles north of the conference site. The metropolitan area has many activities available for visitors, including the largest tourist attraction in NC (Concord Mills Mall – ˝ mile away from the conference site), Lowes Motor Speedway (˝ mile away from the conference site), the US Whitewater Center, and numerous museums.
Plan to join us in 2010! If you are interested in volunteering, contact Jim Conrad, the General Chair, at 704-687-8597 or jmconrad@uncc.edu.