For 2025, MTT-S will continue its annual conference tradition and San Francisco, CA, the ‘Golden Gateway’, will welcome the MTT Society’s IMS2025. This month’s issue is focused on IMS2025 and provides you with a preview of the events of Microwave Week. Before I begin introducing the issue, I would like to thank the Guest Editors, Alfred Riddle and Austin Chen, for their dedication and effort in working with the entire IMS2025 Steering Committee to put together informative articles for you to read about the events scheduled for Microwave Week. Start your exploration of the IMS2025 focused issue with the IMS2025 General Chair’s Greeting by the co-chairs of IMS2025, Steven Rosenau and Jay Banwait. As General co-chairs, they have been working for a number of years with a dedicated team both within the Bay Area, as well as around the globe, to put together an exciting technical and social program for all attendees. The tagline for the conference, “Welcome to the Wireless Golden Gateway!”, is indicative of the broad reach of the technologies we all work with everyday, and in particular the robust RF and microwave technology innovations fostered in the Bay Area, and especially Silicon Valley. The technical portion of the program has been organized by the Technical Program Committee, chaired by Anh-Vu Pham and Tom Mckay, and this should be the next article to read about the diverse technologies to be presented at the conference. Also included are articles on the many technical activities taking place during the week, such as the RFIC and ARFTG conferences, Focus, Panel, Rump and Special Sessions, and the workshops, for which IMS is well-known. In addition to these technical activities, there are several competitions and, of course, the many Student, Young Professionals, Women in Microwaves, and other networking and informal technical activities. And finally, the IMS Exhibition, which will again house the largest gathering of companies in our field, all under one roof. Toward the end of the issue, you will find a summary IMS preview, outlining everything happening during Microwave Week.

In addition to these articles about Microwave Week, we also have our usual technical features that have a broad technical reach and are representative of the topical areas presented during the week. Finally, this issue is not only about IMS2025 and Microwave Week; we also have our regular columns for you to read. We begin with a column from MTT-S President, Goutam Chattopadhyay, and his thoughts on IMS2025, followed by Fred Schindler’s and Rajeev Bansal’s MicroBusiness and Microwave Surfing columns, respectively. Our Women in Microwaves column features a summary of the activities held at the 2024 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference, held in Bali, Indonesia last November. Rounding out the issue, we have a new Enigmas, etc. problem for you to solve (the solution will be provided next month). Finally, check out the Conference Calendar for upcoming international and regional conferences related to the MTT-S.

I hope you enjoy the issue, and I look forward to seeing you at IMS2025 and Microwave Week.

Robert Caverly, EIC, IEEE Microwave Magazine