IMS2025 – The Wireless Golden Gateway

Taking place in San Francisco, Calif., this year, IMS2025 will be the largest gathering of RF and microwave engineers with about 9000 attendees and 500+ companies in the exhibition. There is a lot going on during the week so here are some of the highlights in chronological order to help with your planning.

Sunday

The Workshops start at 8 a.m. on Sunday and go through Monday covering various topics. The half-day Quantum Bootcamp also starts at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with the AI/ML Bootcamp starting in the afternoon.

Sunday evening is the RFIC reception, forum and plenary talks featuring Dr. John Smee, senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm, discussing RFICs for 6G and Maryam Rofougaran, CEO and co-founder of Movandi, talking about next generation ICs for data centers and AI.

Monday

The RFIC Technical Sessions start Monday morning at 8 a.m. and run through Tuesday. There are panel sessions each day starting at noon Monday through Thursday. The half day Wireless Power Technologies Bootcamp and full day RF Bootcamp also start at 8 a.m. on Monday.

The IMS plenary session is Monday evening featuring talks by Arogyaswami J. Paulraj, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, discussing Antenna Arrays for Communications, Positioning, and Sensing and Jin Bains, CEO of Mini-Circuits, discussing the Next Generation of RF Systems. Following that is the IMS Welcome Reception, which will be hosted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA).

Tuesday

The IMS Technical Sessions start Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. and run through Thursday covering field, device and circuit technology, passive and active devices/components, emerging technical areas, focus and special sessions and systems and applications.

The exhibition opens at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday and runs through mid-afternoon on Thursday. There will be about 9000 total attendees with about 500 exhibiting companies. The Startup Pavilion will also be on the exhibition floor with a program of panel sessions and talks. The MicroApps typically given by industry experts on the exhibition floor also starts Tuesday morning and run through Thursday. The Startup panels sessions and talks will be mixed into the MicroApps sessions Tuesday through Thursday. The Industry Workshops start Tuesday morning and run through Thursday, covering practical simulation, test and device/component sessions.

The HAM Radio Social Networking Reception is on Tuesday starting at 6:30 p.m. The Women in Microwaves and Young Professionals affinity groups will also have events on Tuesday starting at 7 p.m. At the time of writing, the location of these events was not available.

Wednesday

The Future G Summit will feature four sessions throughout the day, each focusing on a different theme: standards and regulatory progress towards the next G, AI in wireless communications, technologies for mmWave to THz and non-terrestrial networks. The Interactive Forum is Wednesday afternoon.

The IEEE Entrepreneurship Hard Tech Venture Summit is an innovation event that recognizes the unique challenges faced by early-stage hard tech startups. The Hard Tech Summit starts Wednesday and runs through Thursday at the Marriott Marquis.

There is an industry hosted reception on the exhibition floor starting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and the MTT-S Awards Banquet will be hosted at the Marriott Marquis starting at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday

The IMS Closing session is Thursday afternoon featuring David F. Welch, founder and CEO of AttoTude, discussing Next Generation Networking in the Data Center.

Friday

The ARFTG conference takes place on Friday.

IMS typically sets records for attendance and number of companies in the exhibition whenever it is located in San Francisco or Boston, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn, network and catch up with old friends.