025 was a milestone year for both APEC and PSMA as both celebrated their 40th Anniversary. PSMA started the celebration off with the 10th annual Magnetics @ High Frequency Workshop held the Saturday before APEC. Over 120 attendees were present for a full day of presentations, demos and networking opportunities. More information on the workshop can be found elsewhere in this newsletter.

On Sunday, March 16th members of the PSMA Executive Committee and members of the Industry Education Committee had a lunch with members of the China Power Supply, an annual event that was reinstated last year following the pandemic. PSMA and CPSS discussed their membership models, how to grow the industry and ways the two organizations can work together.

Monday, March 17th started with the PSMA Annual Meeting (also covered elsewhere in this newsletter). A big highlight of the Annual Meeting was the awarding of the first Joe Horzepa Lifetime Service Award, presented to Kendall Alderman on behalf of his father Arnold. The Annual Meeting was also used to pass out PSMA-related badge ribbons for members to wear to celebrate PSMA's achievements over the years.

During the exhibition hall hours on March 17th PSMA announced the winner of the first Global Energy Efficiency Award, given to Pulsiv of the United Kingdom. This event is also covered in another article in this newsletter.

During exhibition hall hours PSMA offered free headshots to all attendees as part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations. This was a very popular event, and Eric Persson was kept busy. The headshots were taken in the PSMA mentoring room, another PSMA activity. This is the third year that PSMA organized mentoring for recipients of the APEC Student Attendance Support grants and the first year PSMA secured a room for the mentors and mentees to meet.

PSMA committees also ran a dozen Industry Sessions at APEC 2025 including the first three-committee sponsored Industry Session with participation from the Energy Harvesting, Energy Management and Energy Storage Committees. The Power Packaging and Manufacturing Committee presented an overview of their upcoming Power Technology Report on Embedded and Integrated Magnetics during their workshop. The Reliability Committee had a call to participate in the IPC 9592C Standards Committee being formed with IPC. We are looking forward to APEC 2026 in San Antonio and to 40 more years of PSMA and APEC leading the way in the power industry.

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