As IEEE Flagship Conference run by the IEEE Region 8 HISTELCON 2025 is dedicated to any aspects of the history of electrical engineering, electronics, sensing technologies, computing, telecommunications, and IT-based systems in general as well as their impact on the social and economic development. HISTELCON 2025 is the ninth in a row and the first to be held in Germany.
The historic City of Bonn is a natural habitat for homing HISTELCON 2025, since Heinrich Hertz chose Bonn in 1889 as the place of his academic work until his untimely death. Here he constructed the “Bonn Pair of Parabolic Mirrors” visualizing the transmission of electro-magnetic waves. A few kilometers north, an IEEE Historical Milestone commemorates Christian Hülsmeyer’s first demonstration of the RADAR, based on Hertz’ discoveries.
As a highlight of HISTELCON 2025, a Round Table brings together mature communities that rarely meet in intimate conversation: the IEEE President Kathleen Kramer, the NATO Chief Scientist Steen Søndergaard, General Michael Traut, German Space Command, Hensoldt’s CTO Jürgen Bestle, Nora Malchin, Head Innovation Hub, NATO ACT, and David Michelson, Chair IEEE History Committee.