Networking & Collaboration

IEEE helps you build personal connections and work together with colleagues to move technology forward.

In today’s fast-moving tech landscape, collaboration isn’t just valuable—it’s essential. Your IEEE membership offers you access to a global community of fellow technologists who can help deepen your expertise, fuel innovation, and expand your network.

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Your Digital Hub for Connection

Looking to grow your career and your professional network? With IEEE Collabratec^®, you have an online platform to connect with technical experts around the world and work together on meaningful projects. You can also publish your work to deepen your impact, find volunteer opportunities, and join conversations on the technical topics that matter to you.

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Find your community

With 11,000-plus Sections, Chapters, affinity groups, and Student Branches around the world, IEEE makes it easy to engage with colleagues who share your goals.

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Join an affinity group

Network in your technical field

By joining one of our 39 Societies, you can cultivate a circle of collaborators, mentors, and experts in your technical field. You can also deepen your knowledge through our conferences and events, cutting-edge periodicals, and educational resources.

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Join a Technical Council or Community

Help solve global challenges

Leverage your expertise to have a meaningful impact on the technology issues you care about. IEEE supports over 200 member-lead initiatives that use technology to solve global challenges.

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Exchange ideas

With more than 2,000 conferences and events held worldwide each year, IEEE puts you in the room—online or in person—with colleagues who have similar interests.

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Boost your visibility

We help you connect with industry and technology experts to pursue long-term projects, co-author papers, and help develop standards that transform how we live.

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“It’s a global family. You meet with so many inspiring people in this network, and you gain a lot by training yourself from the resources.”

Simay Akar Koehler

CEO and founder of AKEC (AK Energy Consulting)

Find Your Networking Group

Who you know is just as important as what you know. When you’re building a network, it helps to seek out professionals who share your interests, backgrounds, and experiences. Explore some of our affinity and special interest groups—or choose from our other Societies, Councils, and communities—to find your people.

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Standards

The Evolution of Wi-Fi Technology and Standards

Wi-Fi technology is based on the IEEE 802.11™ series of wireless connectivity standards that have revolutionized how we communicate and access information. Learn how IEEE collaboration helped bring about inexpensive, equitable internet access globally—and how we’re making innovative new applications possible.

May 23, 2023 IEEE Standards Association

“When I started working, I was one of the only women in the company that was an engineer and not a secretary. I joined IEEE because it’s a huge, wonderful network of engineers where we could exchange our interests and volunteer with different committees, [like] Women in Engineering and Young Professionals. …Due to my membership in IEEE, I truly became aware of the impact I can create.”

Ana Cigaran Romero

Head of Chapter Advisory & Cooperations at Digitalisation System Operations

Benefits That Evolve With You

Join IEEE and get exclusive access to our global network of experts, world-class educational resources, and professional development opportunities that will help you grow—and advance—in your career.

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