Northeast Industry Day

Program

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Time:

Activity

8:00 - 9:30 AM

World Café: How Do You Innovate?

9:30 - 11:00 AM

Plenary Session
Welcome: Dr. Ali Abedi and Dr. Ashutosh Dutta
Welcome: Peter Eckstein, IEEE Region 1 Director-Elect.
Keynote: Dr. John Vig, IEEE President (2009), "Technology News"
Keynote: Dr. Norbert Doerry, US Navy, Electric Ships Program
"Systems Engineering and the Navy's
Next Generation Integrated Power System (NGIPS)"
Keynote: Dr. David Day, Senior Principal Scientist and Associate Department Head for the Human Language Technology Department, MITRE Corporation, "Extending Access to Clinical Health Information"

11:00 - 12:50 PM

Luncheon Speakers
Dr. Shri Goyal, IEEE Communication Society, COMSOC "Industry Programs"
Dr. Gabriel Jakobson, IEEE Communication Society, "Science and Technology Standing Next to Us"
Mark Galvin, Managing Director, NH Innovation Commercialization Center,
"Bringing Innovative Products to Market in Down Economic Cycles."

Track A
Broadband Communications
to Every House, Car, and Person

Track B
Human / Computer Interfaces
Hardware and Software

1:00 - 1:30 PM

Prof. Henning Schulzrinne
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
"Internet 2.0 - Challenges for the Next Generation Internet"

Michael Davies
Chairman and Founding Partner at Endeavour Partners & Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
"Innovation in Human-Computer Interfaces"

1:30 -2:00 PM

Kerry Cozad
Senior VP of Dielectric Communications
"Rural Wireless Connectivity: Design Concepts for Ubiquitous Coverage in Low Density Population Areas"

Bhumip Khasnabish
IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer
"Applications and Challenges of Cloud Computing, Networking, and Services"

2:00 - 2:30 PM

Susan Corbett
CEO of Axiom Technologies
"Wireless Broadband as a Solution for Hard to Reach
Super-rural Regions"

Matt Jonson
Cisco
"Strategic Collaboration for Cloud Computing"

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Networking Break

Energy - Generation, Harvesting,
Storage, and Applications

Systems - From Nano-scale to Global Scale

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Capt. Lynn Petersen
Deputy Director for Program Executive Office Ships (PEO-Ships), Electric Ships Office (PMS-320) and Energy Technology Div. Head in NAVSEA's Chief Technology Office
"Next Generation Power and Energy: Maybe Not So Next Generation"

Moni Islam
Coordinating Chair IEEE-45 Standard Development, Chair IEEE-P45.1 Shipboard Power System Design
"A Report on IEEE Standard Development
for Shipboard IPS System Design"

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Gerry Chasse
President of Bangor Hydro Electric Co.
"The Technical Challenges of Connecting Renewable Energy to the Grid"

Lori Saleski
BAE Systems
"Measuring Systems Engineering Productivity"

4:00 - 4:30 PM

Bill Staby
CEO and Founder of Resolute Marine Energy
"Recent Developments in the
Marine Renewable Energy Sector"

William Stoy
National Security Agency ( Retired)
"Systems Engineering vs. Project Management - Tensions Across a Spectrum of Projects"

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Closing Comments and Reflections
Dilip Chakravarty and Bruce Hecht

5:00 - 6:00 PM

Evening Reception
Sponsored by IEEE Women in Engineering
Welcome: Dr. Karen Panetta, Tufts University