EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/492307

Summary: Built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee Dam was the largest concrete structure in the world for decades. With the expansion of the third power station in 1974 made it the largest power plant in the world at the time. It still remains the largest power plant in the USA with a capacity of over 6 GW in three power stations. Tour Summary: The tour will start at 12:00 noon at the Visitor Center for a safety briefing. We will load into USBR vans and head to the Crown Point Viewing Area, North Dam, Banks Lake Headworks, Pumping Generating Plant, 3rd Powerhouse and top of the dam. Then back to the vans and visitor center by 4:30. Visit Requirements: · This is a hard hat, VIP tour of an operating power plant. Closed toe shoes and sensible clothing is required. Shorts, dresses, sleeveless shirts, tank tops, high heels are not permitted. · Photo ID is required for this tour. Unfortunately, US Citizens only due to the time it takes to perform background checks. US citizens will be asked to provide a copy of their ID sent directly by email or mail to the USBR at least one week in advance of the tour and will be required to present their driver’s licenses or valid ID the day of the tour. The email address of where to send your ID will be provided after registration. · No backpacks, fanny packs, bags, purses, etc., are allowed. Wallets fitting in a pocket are OK. Water will be provided along the way. · This is a technical tour for IEEE members and their quests. There is a shorter tour available for the public that may be more appropriate for others such as younger children. More info on the public tour can be found at https://www.usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/visit/index.html · Coming early or staying late, the daily nightly laser show starts at 8:30 pm. · There is a significant amount of standing, walking and climbing stairs on this tour. · Photos are allowed in most areas of the tour. Restricted areas will be pointed out. - Registration opens Friday July 25th. To attend this tour, you will need register by August 29th, 2025. - There is a $5.00 members and their family and $10 non-member registration fee to attend this tour. If a family member or guest is attending with you, they will need to be registered separately. Agenda: Agenda 12:00 pm – Check In, Welcome, Introductions and Safety Talk 12:30 pm – 4:30 Tour of the switchyard, Banks Lake Headwork, Coulee Dam and Powerhouses Highway 155, Grand Coulee, Washington, United States, 99116

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.): https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/i6n2sgjLQFelwXCNz4-YGQ Synopsis: As large language models (LLMs) evolve from static, prompt-based tools into autonomous, agentic systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting with minimal human oversight, organizations face an exciting yet complex frontier. These advanced systems hold the potential to revolutionize enterprise workflows, developer tools, and customer-facing applications—but realizing that potential requires navigating a host of technical and ethical challenges. This panel brings together leading voices from AI research, infrastructure engineering, and real-world application domains to discuss how agentic LLM systems are moving from lab experiments to production-grade deployments. Panelists will explore critical topics such as orchestration, safety, observability, and evaluation, while offering hard-earned lessons from deploying these systems at scale. Whether you're building tools for developers, integrating LLM agents into enterprise pipelines, or shaping the next wave of intelligent products, this discussion will equip you with the strategic and technical know-how to bring agentic AI into impactful, everyday use. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what it truly takes to operationalize the future of AI. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Speaker(s): Yubin Kim, Gautam Solaimalai, Shaleen Kumar Gupta, Vishal Jain, Rahul Raja, Harsh Varshney Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/494702