IEEE Cruise Conference

The IEEE Seattle Section Affinity Group CN is co-locating a special conference during the (https://cruise.ieeeusa.org), to be held 16-20 October on Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas. Our events are FREE to attend, however in order to do so – you must be booked on the IEEE-USA 50th Anniversary Cruise by(https://cruise.ieeeusa.org/). Doing so will get you a lanyard which is required for entrance. NOTE: Failure to book accommodations through the link above will lead to you being denied entry into all IEEE-USA 50th Anniversary Cruise activities and the IEEE Seattle Section Affinity Group Cruise Conference. If you have any questions regard to the cruise itself, contact cruise@ieeeusa.org (https://cruise.ieeeusa.org) After you have booked the IEEE-USA 50th Anniversary Cruise, be sure to (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/347133) using the button below. ————————————————————— Topics include: Green Energy, RF Communications, Women Entrepreneur, 5G, EM Field MagLev, AI Machine Learning, Advanced Metering, Power, Space and Health electronics, International Space Station, Islanding switch, Microgrids as a Service, software models, National Electric Code updates, NESC, cryptocurrency, blockchain, Metaverse, Virtual Reality, Analytics Big Data, IEEE 1547 Utility interconnection, large Scale Utility power, Utility scale batteries, Cathodic protection, AV design build, commissioning, Clean Energy Fusion, Smart Cities, socio-technical aspects of Cybersecurity, and Patents/Trademarks. Agenda: IEEE Cruise Conference Thursday October 19, 20238:00 am Breakfast in Key Largo Dining Room 11:00 am Announcements IEEE 11:05 am Announcing the Speakers 11:10 pm Introduction of the Key Note Speaker and presentation by Dr. Melissa Sassi, Network, Partner, ‘Women Start-Ups – Pitfalls to Avoid’ 11:35 am Raimundo Rodulfo, Director of Innovation Technology, City of Coral Gables, CIO ‘Traffic Com’ 12:00 pm Jeff Glickman, ‘Artificial General Intelligence: Bridging the Gap Towards Human-like Cognition’ 12:25 pm Ron Zimmer, past CEO of the Continental Automated Buildings Association, ‘Intelligent Buildings + Smart Cities = Reduced Energy’ 1:00 pm Lunch – Microgrid Consortium 3:30 pm Aaron Albritton, Crafting a proper Commissioning (Cx) Plan and Specifications for Electrical Systems Commissioning 3:55 pm Curtis Ashton, Director of Training American Power Systems EastPenn ‘Li-Ion Batteries for home, telecom, UPS Pros and Cons’ 4:20 pm Gora Datta, Chairman CEO CAL2CAL Corp., Cyber Healthcare’ 5:30 pm Dinner at the Key Largo Dining Room 7:30 pm Dr. Yu Yuan, President of IEEE Standards Association, ‘Metaverse is the Next Big Thing’ 7:55 pm Karen Pedersen, PE, Ethics in Engineering 8:20 pm Michael Shapiro, PE, ‘Microgrids and the Inflation Reduction Act’ Michael Shapiro, LLC 8:45 pm Bob Dent, Past President at IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, ‘Updates’ 9:10 pm Fred Furguson, CEO and Founder, Waterotor Energy Technologies Inc ‘Kinetic energy’ 9:35 pm Dennis Walters, Chief of Staff, Stars Technologies Corporation, ‘On Site Hydrogen Fueling’ 10:00 pm EDT IEEE Prize Pack Giveaway 10:05 pm EDT Salute to our Speakers 10:10 pm EDT Happy Hour 11:10 pm EDT End of Conference (See you Arizona for the IEEE Phoenix Tech Conference and Expo) Nationally known speakers – William Hawkins, Principal data consultant, Enterprise Data Solutions, Inc. Lunar data protection – Gora Datta, Chairman CEO CAL2CAL Corp, ‘Cyber Healthcare’ – Raimundo Rodulfo, Director of Innovation Technology, City of Coral Gables, CIO ‘Traffic Com’ – Karen Pedersen, PE, Pedersen Power Solns, IEEE President 2017 ‘Ethics in Engineering’ – Kishore Kadari, Embedded Software Engineer, ‘Digital Twins’, University of South Florida – Muntaser Syed, ‘Chat GPT’, NVIDIA, GPU Developer Advocate – Fred Ferguson, CEO and Founder, Waterotor Energy Technologies Inc ‘Kinetic energy’ – Ron Zimmer, past CEO of the Continental Automated Buildings Association, ‘Intelligent Buildings + Smart Cities = Reduced Energy’ – Dennis Walters, Chief of Staff, Stars Technologies Corporation, ‘On Site Hydrogen Fueling’ – Jeff Glickman, ‘Artificial General Intelligence: Bridging the Gap Towards Human-like Cognition’ – Charly Esnal, Entrepreneur, Mana Tech ‘Start Ups’ – Curtis Ashton, Director of Training American Power Systems EastPenn ‘Li-Ion Batteries for home, telecom, UPS Pros and Cons’ – Josh Robinson, IRISS, VP BD, ‘Electrical Safety Infrared Windows’ – Heather Thompson, ‘Personal Branding’, Executive Leadership Transformation, Blue Phoenix – Alexander Pfalzgraf, ‘Digital Transformation Manufacturing’, Siemens – Dr. Yu Yuan, President of IEEE Standards Association, ‘Metaverse Is the Next Biggest Thing’ – Thomas Coughlin, IEEE President Elect 2024, ‘Storage and Data in today’s World’ – Chris Houghtaling, Raise Link, CEO, ‘Start ups’ – Kartik Kukarni, Chair, Social Impact Committee, Distributed Systems and Blockchain Technologist – Chris Widener, NYT and WSJ Best Selling Author, Motivational Speaker Hall of Fame, Keynote – Ahmed Soliman, Researcher, Florida International University – Michael Shapiro, PE, ‘Microgrids and the Inflation Reduction Act’ Michael Shapiro, LLC – Priyanca Ford, Fusion Unlimited Clean Energy Kronos Fusion Energy – Dave Lewis, CEO and Founder of MoveEV, ‘Electrical Vehicle Charging Latest Trends’ – Aaron Albritton, Global Director of Commissioning for Burr Computer Environments Inc, ‘Electrical Commissioning’ – Binesh Kumar, Technical Project Lead for Atom Power, ‘Technical Organizational Leadership’ – Bob Dent, Past President at IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, ‘Updates’ – Babak Enayati, Director of Engineering, New Leaf energy, ‘Utility Scale Microgrids’ – Andreas Fornwald, CEO, Doosan Grid Tech, CEO, ‘Battery Energy Storage Systems Utility’ – Kaveh Aflaki, IEMS executive Board member, ‘Smart Wires’ (https://60c89b22-fa84-4f7f-9915-ca0ea9310154.usrfiles.com/ugd/60c89b_f896e8906f3649e293316b8c0ed9b222.pdf) (https://youtu.be/FdxPU2Hsw6A) (https://youtu.be/8k2U7ugYiRs) (https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c89b_9b96a5e1325f4610a9340f2424b7d029~mv2.jpg) (https://60c89b22-fa84-4f7f-9915-ca0ea9310154.usrfiles.com/ugd/60c89b_ff69bc91b0db4580ba189be08a7f54ad.pdf) – IEEE-USA 50th Anniversary Cruise Information: (https://cruise.ieeeusa.org/) Bldg: Cruise Terminal # 1, Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, 9050 Discover Place, Port Canaveral, Florida, United States, 32920