Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced the agenda, speakers, and opens registration for the 2019 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) to be held on May 17, 2019, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina. The IEEE VIC Summit convenes leading technology innovators, visionaries, and disruptors to share insights on emerging technologies and discuss their impacts on humanity's future.
The summit culminates with the IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala, which will be live streamed and recognises outstanding innovators for extraordinary achievements in electrical, electronics, communications, environmental, and safety technologies, computer science and engineering, engineering education, and the allied branches of engineering and the related arts and sciences. 2019 ceremony includes the first presentation of the IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Outstanding Young Professional Award, which was created to recognise up-and-coming technology leaders and highlight their specific work in advancing technology.
This year’s IEEE VIC Summit brings to light the important role of women in technology with a keynote presentation from Dr. Telle Whitney, ‘Our Time to Lead: Women and Men Creating Technology Together, and Defining Our Future.’ Dr. Whitney, a computer scientist, former CEO of The Anita Borg Institute, and an expert on diversity, will speak on the dream of inclusion in technology, discussing her own journey as a woman engineer and her efforts to create a global movement for women technologists. Other panel discussions will cover topics including smart networks and social innovations, future security risks posed by the Internet of Things and ethics in artificial intelligence. Master of Ceremonies Mike North brings a unique mix of engineering and artistic skills as MC of the IEEE VIC Summit.
IEEE rolls out the red carpet at the IEEE Honors Ceremony Gala, where the achievements of IEEE Life Fellow Kurt Petersen will be honoured with the IEEE Medal of Honor for his visionary contributions that led to the global growth of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The direction he provided for the field resulted in the tiny sensors, actuators, and other microelectronics that proliferate smart devices, healthcare tools, and automotive systems, enabling such innovations as autonomous driving, precision surgical techniques, and advanced smartphone applications.
This year’s recipient of The IEEE President’s Award, selected by the IEEE Board of Directors, is Katherine G. Johnson, whose mathematical calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA were critical to the success of the first and subsequent US human spaceflights.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.
