Published on August 17, 2025

Collage with IEEE ProComm attendees at events during the conference

ProComm 2025–A recap penned by Oliver Niebuhr of the University of Southern Denmark (shared with permission). Photo gallery below!


The 51st IEEE Professional Communication Conference just wrapped up here at the Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) in Sønderborg Kommune, and what a ride it’s been!

We’ve had inspiring talks on written, spoken, and multimodal communication—from signal-based insights to conceptual frameworks to hands-on applications. Huge thanks to all participants for making this such a rich, fun, and meaningful event, in particular so to our two wonderful keynotes by Olivia Fox Cabane and Ingo Siegert.



We also want to thank the amazing IEEE ProComm board—Allison Hutchison, PhD, Suzanne T. Lane, Sean Moseley, Joyce Karreman, Alan Chong, Traci Nathans – Kelly . PhD, Mary R. Glavan and maaany others—for their continued support, energy, and encouragement throughout the planning and execution of this conference.

We are furthermore gratefully indebted to Katarzyna Janus-Fiutowska and Berit Nielsen Balle as well as to Charlotte Breidert and Madara Ruta Kalnina for all that precious help behind the scenes, phones, and desks of this conference! Without you the conference would not have been the same!

A very special shoutout to Pato Soto, our photographer extraordinaire, who somehow always caught the right people at the right moment—and in doing so, captured the spirit and atmosphere of ProComm better than words ever could!

And let’s not forget the legendary LEGO challenge—your creativity, teamwork, and commitment turned bricks into metaphors and metaphors into bonding.

Extra thanks for the overwhelming interest in our CIE Acoustics Lab and Charisma Research in connection with AllGoodSpeakers ApS—ïo valls ratés, Sara Pearsell, Ph.D. and I… we’re humbled and thrilled about it!

Oh, and our welcome reception and conference dinner? Both ran 1–2 hours longer than planned… which is how organizers measure success, right?