Hi, Some of this would depend on how involved you or your company is with IPC. This year the IPC Designers Summit is co-located with IPC EXPO. It is a great place to talk to the fabricators. You can also add the CID or CID+ course and exam to your trip. I plan to attend the IPC Designers Summit this year for a number of reasons: 1. As I mentioned, it's a chance to talk to fabricators 2. The Embedded Passives Technology Center at IPC EXPO 3. Off-site Applied Training Workshop 4. Hands on training 5. Technical papers a better fit for my current position I stopped attending PCBWest a few years ago when the sessions seemed to be repeated. I did notice that this year there are a number of new sessions. In choosing which conference to attend, you really need to look at the program and select the best fit for your current and future goals. I look at program, costs, travel expenses, company needs and my career goals to determine if I will attend a conference. I am thinking about alternating between the two conferences. I will have a better feel after I attend the IPC conference. That's $.02, ----------------------- Karen McConnell -----Original Message----- From: Jack C. Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:54 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [DC] PCB/IPC Conferences Are any of you able to provide a comparison between the IPC Conference and the PCB Design Conference? I am only able to attend one event per year (if that. This year my boss... ...well, that's a different discussion) anyway, I've only attended the PCB Design Conference, and I would hate to miss it, I don't suppose anyone has ever suggested that IPC and PC Design magazine shake hands and have ONE conference? Well, maybe that's a different discussion too... OKAY, can anyone COMPARE them? Jack, the "one training event per year" guy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------