The best technical conference papers of IPC APEX EXPO 2025 have been selected. Voted on through a ballot process by members of the IPC APEX EXPO Technical Conference Program Committee (TPC), the international group of paper authors will be recognized during show opening remarks on Tuesday, March 18.

NEPCON NAGOYA is the exhibition held in the center of the manufacturing industry of Japan. Nagoya is a capital city of Aichi prefecture which has Japan's largest automotive-related manufacturing industry cluster. IPC Japan will have its booth and have Japan regional final of IPC hand soldering competition 2024.

This face-to-face opportunity intends for regional task group members in Japan such as 7-31BV-JP and D-33AA-JP. With the guests from IPC Global, we discuss and make proposals to the original task group.

This annual seminar is held mainly for IPC members, regional TG participants and its standards users in Japan with the collaboration of IPC Asia. In the morning of the day, we have guest speakers from IPC global such as TG chair and liaison to update on IPC standards and activities for them. Following this, in the afternoon, Japan regional task group meeting(s) will be held.

This competition is for choosing the Japanese champion to dispatch the world final 2025 with the cooperation of Japan Unix Co., Ltd. Preliminary details (mid-July & August) will be announced around June in their website. And then, only who pass the preliminary is invited to the final at NEPCON NAGOYA (Oct. 29 - 31).

With the cooperation of Japan Unix Co., Ltd., guests from Japanese companies will give presentations focused on the use of IPC standards and its activities. This time, the chair (from Tokai Rika Co., Ltd.) and vice-chair (from Toyota Motor Corporation) of a Japan regional task group are invited to give a talk. This webinar will be provided in Japanese only, mainly with the aim of increasing the number of IPC users in Japan.

In recent years, economic security has become an extremely important theme in the electronics industries worldwide, and it's no exception for Japanese companies. As part of IPC's efforts to strengthen its activities in Japan, we have decided to hold quarterly roundtable discussions with Japanese companies to deepen the discussion on economic security in cooperation with Bower Group Asia (BGA). This is the first meeting, and we will have a guest from well-versed ex Diet members.

IPC/WHMA and Baird Center announce that for the second consecutive year, Electrical Wire Processing Technology Expo (EWPTE) has been recognized as a top 100 fastest growing show in the United States for net square footage and number of exhibiting companies by Trade Show Executive.

The IPC WorksAsia is a technical seminar that IPC focuses on professional fields. It aims to strengthen member interaction and cooperation, promote resource sharing, and help electronics manufacturing enterprises stand out in the competition.

Trade Show Executive, the foremost magazine for the trade show industry, recognized IPC APEX EXPO 2024 as one of the top 100 fastest-growing trade shows in the United States for the number of exhibiting companies and net square footage.