The Annual General Meeting of IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Chapter was held on 14th Jan 2017 at Bluewave Hotel, Shah Alam. During the meeting, many important tasks were discussed by the committee members. Some of the highlighted agenda discussed were the tasks that are handed over to the newly appointed Chairman of 2016-2017 and brief explanation of the events that had been held throughout the year of 2016. In addition, the committee also discussed on CPMT Website maintenance which involves external service with the ability of website modifications and budget matters for the maintenance task. Apart from that, membership awards were introduced to keep on activities of membership rewards for long royalty members. In addition, some activities related to enhancement and liaising with the student chapter were discussed. For example USM student branch were sponsored to have an exhibition booth at 2016 IEMT/EMAP conference. Other discussed matters were the conference payment system. For conference & training, more companies are keener to allow/pay for HRDF approved training. 1st Exco meeting was conducted at same venue. Shaw Fong shared the Plan 2017 for CPMT which focused on:

• Subsequent Leadership Pipeline & Membership Development o 1 Day Workshop event
• Website enhancements
• CPMT Collaboration (HQ + R10) & IEEE M’sia Alignment
• Continuation of the “Best Engineering Student Award”