What Engineering in Medicine & Biology does

The IEEE Communications Society San Francisco Chapter is a local, volunteer-run professional society chapter operating in the San Francisco Bay Area under the global IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) umbrella, a public charity described as the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. The chapter was formed in 2017 following a petition by Hao Yue, supported by local IEEE Communications Society members, and the chapter website's first news post was published on 12 February 2018. It serves individual communications technology professionals — engineers, researchers, and other technical practitioners — by providing local in-person networking, technical meetings, and knowledge-sharing opportunities in the communications technology field.

The chapter's operations are run by three elected officers: Chair Alex Matov, PhD (SMIEEE, founder in scientific computing and early disease detection / data set analysis), Vice-Chair Charles Koch, MBA, JD (associate in patent litigation at Pepper Hamilton), and Treasurer/Secretary Farid Farahmand, PhD (Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, Sonoma State University). Administrative meetings are held at Cafe deStijl, across the Embarcadero at swissnex, and technical meetings take place at Spaces Levi's Plaza, a coworking venue nearby. Headcount is reported as 1–10, and member engagement is delivered primarily through IEEE Collabratec, the parent organization's online collaboration platform.

The chapter does not have a commercial business model: pricing is "not applicable for this professional society chapter," no revenue is disclosed, and the entity is a non-profit subsidiary unit within the parent IEEE organization with no independent ownership structure. The publicly visible events calendar currently lists zero upcoming events and only one historical event dated 29 September 2015, indicating limited recent programmatic activity despite the website remaining nominally live (IEEE copyright notice dated 2026).

Name

Engineering in Medicine & Biology

Legal name

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Website

https://sf.chapters.comsoc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1963

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The IEEE Communications Society San Francisco Chapter is a volunteer-run local professional society chapter serving communications technology professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area through in-person networking events and technical meetings under the global IEEE umbrella.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Society Chapter (Communications Technology)

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies) (THAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

Keywords

• Professional society chapter
• Communications technology networking
• Technical member meetings
• IEEE local chapter
• Engineering professional community

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The IEEE Communications Society San Francisco Chapter provides a local professional community for IEEE Communications Society members in the San Francisco Bay Area, organizing in-person technical meetings, officers' administrative meetings, and member networking. The chapter functions as a regional extension of IEEE ComSoc and offers its programming exclusively to local members of the IEEE Communications Society, without selling any separate commercial products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IEEE Communications Society San Francisco Chapter Membership Access Free-for-members local chapter programming distributed to IEEE Communications Society members in the San Francisco Bay Area, including technical meetings and officer-led administrative meetings.
• IEEE Collabratec Access (Chapter-Level) Online collaboration platform for IEEE members to connect and engage with the professional community, made available to local chapter members.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IEEE Communications SocietycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe San Francisco Chapter is a local chapter of the IEEE Communications Society (comsoc.org), operating under the broader IEEE organization. IEEE is described as the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
• IEEEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe chapter operates under the IEEE umbrella organization. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, functioning as a public charity.
• swissnexminorOthersThe chapter holds officers' administrative meetings at Cafe deStijl, located across the Embarcadero at swissnex, which appears to be a partner venue or location provider.
• Spaces Levi's PlazaminorOthersThe chapter holds technical meetings at Spaces Levi's Plaza, a coworking venue located around the corner from Cafe deStijl.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology): A major international professional society for engineering and technology, running a similar member-services, local-chapter, conference, and publication model targeting engineers and technologists globally.
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU): The United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. Operates conferences, standards, and membership programs that parallel IEEE ComSoc's mission of advancing communications technology globally.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): The largest international society for computing professionals, running a parallel model of SIGs, local chapters, conferences, and publications that overlaps with IEEE ComSoc's audience of communications and computing professionals.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society: A sister IEEE society focused on signal processing research and practice. Operates a similar model of global society plus local chapters serving engineers and researchers in adjacent technical fields.
• IEEE Computer Society: Another major IEEE sister society serving computing professionals through conferences, publications, standards, and local chapters; directly comparable structural model to IEEE ComSoc and overlapping technical audience.
• IEEE Communications Society: The parent global society of the subject chapter. IEEE ComSoc organizes conferences, publications, and standards in communications technology worldwide; the SF Chapter is a direct local affiliate of this organization.

Direct peers

• ACM SIGCOMM: ACM's special interest group on data communications, running conferences (SIGCOMM), publications, and awards for the same communications technology professional audience that the IEEE ComSoc SF Chapter serves.
• IEEE San Francisco Section: The broader IEEE geographic section that the ComSoc SF Chapter operates within. Provides a directly comparable local IEEE organizational structure with overlapping member base and event programming in the same SF Bay Area geography.
• IEEE Communications Society Los Angeles Chapter: A regional sister chapter of the same IEEE Communications Society, providing a directly comparable organizational structure for benchmarking chapter programming, officer model, and member engagement in a similar California tech market.

Emerging players

• Internet Society (ISOC): A nonprofit organization promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet. Runs chapters, standards engagement, and technical events for a community that overlaps with IEEE ComSoc's communications-engineering audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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