25th Anniversary Speakers

  • Technologies for a Sustainable Future

    Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 15:45 - 17:00

    Climate change poses a major threat to the world population across many dimensions, including coastal and inland flooding, wildfires, elevated temperatures, food security and increased storm intensity. Sustainability is of increasing importance as we seek the benefits of circular economy with increasing life cycle energy and environmental efficacy. IEEE is responding by supporting the development of technologies to measure, adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change and address global sustainability using its full range of capabilities, including convening researchers and practitioners at conferences and events, supporting the dissemination of knowledge through world class publications, enabling the development of standards, engaging with policy makers, and engaging in educational activities spanning K12, the general public, media, practitioners and researchers distributed across the planet in the full topical breadth of 47 Societies and Councils, engaging the full capabilities of the IEEE to support the engineering and technology community in this critical effort. Learn how you can join the effort through many different engagement paths.

  • Conference Sustainability Considerations

    Tuesday | October 31, 2023 | 15:45 - 17:00

    Sustainability is a pressing issue in society in general. Sustainability and how it relates to conferences has become a concern. In traditional conferences hundreds or thousands of people travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers to meet. How do we account for the carbon cost of this travel? What are conferences' other carbon costs? Are there, or can there be, offsetting benefits? What have we learned from our virtual experiences during the COVID pandemic, and from the reopening after the pandemic? We will review these questions and what IEEE is doing and can do to address these concerns.

Member Society Presidents

  • Jessica Bian

    President, IEEE Power & Energy Society

  • Dragan Damjanovic

    President-Elect, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, & Frequency Control Society

  • Manuel Delgado-Restituto

    President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

  • Christian Hansen

    VP Conferences, IEEE Reliability Society

  • Branislav Notaros

    President-Elect, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

  • Vignesh Rajamani

    President, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

  • Manuel Ramirez

    President, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society

  • Mariusz Malinowski

    President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

  • Deepak Uttamchandani

    President-Elect, IEEE Sensors Council

  • John Vig

    Founding President, IEEE Sensors Council