George Michael

IEEE Day is an annual event celebrated on the first Tuesday in October, IEEE Day 2021 will be held on 5 October. Celebrations can be held between 1 October and 17 October.

IEEE Day’s theme is: “Leveraging Technology for a Better Tomorrow.”

IEEE Day encourages members together to share ideas and be inspired to achieve their technological goals. This year, there will be a hybrid celebration due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Events will be held both in-person and virtually in locations around the world.

IEEE Day provides a toolkit that contains promotional copy, a social media collateral package, testimonials, logo and flyers, Wallpaper, Zoom Virtual Background, and a quick start guide.

The team is asking for everyone’s support in celebrating IEEE Day, sharing their knowledge, and pinning the event on the IEEE Day event map.

For any kind of query, do not hesitate to contact us. Follow us on our social media Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, IEEE Day community on collabratec

On 30 June (16:00 CEST), the IEEE’s European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) is hosting a public policy webinar exploring the EU approach to artificial intelligence, including possible roles and implications for the technology community in light of the European Commission’s new legal framework for AI.
Panelists will explore opportunities to harmonize AI rules and highlight IEEE’s efforts to promote AI standardization and certification activities and their European implications.
Speakers include Prof. Cecilia Metra (Chair of the EPPC WG on ICT), Dr. Ansgar Koene (Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at E&Y), and Mr. Salvatore Scalzo (Policy & Legal Officer at the European Commission).

For more information and/or to sign-up for this free webinar, go to: https://engage.ieee.org/EPP-Webinar-on-Artificial-Intelligence-Sign-Up.html

To review the European Commission’s proposals for harmonization of AI policy, go to: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-approach-artificial-intelligence

This call is devoted to young Startups (TRL 1-3) and entrepreneurs to showcase successful entrepreneurship ideas in the field of interest of IEEE.

The competitors shall prepare a  5 minutes video:  “My entrepreneurship idea in 5 minutes” in which will present their entrepreneurship idea and activity using slides, pictures, photos, graphics, lab demo, etc., to describe in the most convincing and attractive way their innovative idea, achievements, and field of application.

The participants at the IEEE RTSI START-UP AND ENTREPRENEUR VIDEO EVENT will be able to vote for their favorite video using a special application (i.e. Mentimeter) on their smartphones.

The competition will take place during IEEE RTSI 2021 “electronic virtual conference” (on September 6, 2021) and the participation is free of charge. See the program schedule on the web page of the conference to know the exact time. More details about: the platform to be used for the “live streaming event” and how to access, will be available on the conference web and sent to the video authors.

All competitors will receive a participation certificate and the best video will be awarded a customized IEEE certificate.

Entrepreneurs willing to participate in this competition shall send an e-mail to this address: [email protected]

no later than June 25, 2021.

In the Object of the e-mail the participant in this competition should write:

Best Entrepreneurship Activity Pitch Presentation – name surname

In the text of the e-mail the participant shall include the following info:

• title of the video
• name and affiliation of the author
• e-mail of the author

Details about uploading procedures will be sent to participants by e-mail.  The deadline for the submission of the video is July 10, 2020. All videos shall have MP4 format, size not larger than 100 MB and they shall not be longer than 5 minutes. A special commission will select the best videos (maximum 16 videos) that will be presented and voted by participants to the event.

All videos will be uploaded on the IEEE Italy Section web and media (depending on author permission).

For updates visit the source page.

In collaboration with IEEE Egypt Section, IEEE-FUE student branch invites you to our next [h>100] Series event;

Prof. Onur Mutlu will be our guest, and he will give a frontier lecture about Future Computing Architectures, which will cover some key problems that are critical to solving in current and future computing platforms.

Onur Mutlu is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He is also a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University.

He started the Computer Architecture Group at Microsoft Research and held various product and research positions at Intel, AMD, VMware, and Google. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and an elected member of the Academy of Europe.

IEEE-FUE is waiting for your participation and wishes you a great time and collaboration with your questions.

Please feel free to invite your colleagues as well.

Register now: https://bit.ly/3dLfV2e

The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform

Useful Links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/events/futurecomputingarchitectures6793276604022972416/
• https://m.facebook.com/110817463618264/posts/508108067222533/

IEEE Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the launch of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award.

This award will recognize an individual who has had a significant impact on the engineering-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem. The accomplishments of the candidate should be of “significant importance” and should have made a distinguishing contribution to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country/region.

Eligibility:

• Both IEEE Members and Non-IEEE Members may self-apply or be nominated by others
• Candidates cannot be members of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Awards Committee.
• Candidates must not be past recipients of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award.
• Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulations established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.

Nominee Solicitation:

• Nominations will be submitted via the IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award Nomination form
• Self-nominations are accepted
• Nominators cannot be members of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Awards Committee
• Nominations should comply with IEEE Policies and restrictions on awards. Incidents of misconduct including, but not limited to, violations of IEEE’s publication policies, will be strongly considered by the awards committee and may be grounds for denial of an award or leadership position.

Award recipients will be scored and selected based on the following judging criteria:

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Value creation
• Impact
• Sustainability

The person/team will receive an honorarium of $2000 USD and a plaque commemorating their achievement.

Submissions will be accepted through 31 August 2021 followed by a thorough review in September.

The recipient will be selected by September 30th and announced during the first week of October.

IEEE AFRICON 2021
“Contributing to the Industrialisation of Africa through Innovations in Science and Technology”

13-15 September, Arusha, Tanzania

Dear Colleagues – Members of IEEE,

We are currently accepting technical paper submissions for our flagship conference, IEEE AFRICON 2021. AFRICON is an IEEE Region 8 flagship conference on the African continent. IEEE AFRICON 2021 will be held in Arusha, Tanzania, 13 – 15 September 2021. The conference is co-sponsored by IEEE Region 8, the IEEE Tanzania Sub-section, and Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology. Topics cover the full area of IEEE, e.g., Communications, Networks, Electronics, Power and Energy, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Industrial Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and E-learning. This conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, major technical symposiums, industry and academic panels, workshops, tutorials, and invited tracks.

The CONFERENCE VENUE is Arusha International Conference Center (AICC)

Important Notice: If the COVID-19 pandemic and travel ban from some countries prevent authors of accepted papers from attending the conference, arrangements for virtual presentations will be made for such authors.

TRACKS

• Artificial and Computational Intelligence
• Cloud Computing, Small Data, and Big Data Engineering
• Communication Networks
• Innovations for Digital Transformation and Industrial Development
• Industrial Electronics, Control, Autonomous Systems, Instrumentation, and Consumer Applications
• Power and Energy Systems

Special Sessions

• 4th Developing Countries Robotics Forum
• Sustainable Broadband Connectivity & Digital Entrepreneurship for Africa

We are also inviting undergraduate student authors to participate in the student paper contest.

See details on the website.

Please find the pdf version of the FINAL CfP at:

https://africon2021.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Call-for-papers-v6-EXTENDED-FIRM.pdf

IMPORTANT DATES

• 14 May 2021 – EXTENDED Full paper deadline FIRM
• 14 May 2021 – EXTENDED Special Sessions deadline FIRM
• 25 June 2021 – Student Paper Contest submission deadline
• 25 June 2021 – Paper acceptance notification
• 16 July 2021 – Early registration, Camera-ready papers

EARLY REGISTRATION FEES

• IEEE Member: USD 410
• IEEE Student Member: USD 250
• IEEE Life Member: USD 250
• Non-IEEE members: USD 530
• Students non-member: USD 300
• One Day only: USD 150
• Workshop/Tutorial/Special Sessions: USD 150
• Accompanying person: USD 200

LATE REGISTRATION FEES

• IEEE Member: USD 450
• IEEE Student Member: USD 300
• IEEE Life Member: USD 300
• Non-IEEE members: USD 600
• Students non-member: USD 350

*Registration Fee is Inclusive of welcome Reception, Gala Dinner, Keynotes, Technical Sessions, Conference Bag, Proceedings on USB, Lunch, coffee breaks and snacks, mineral water, writing pads, and pens.

All accepted papers and presented during the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. The conference proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library®.

For further details about the conference please visit:
https://africon2021.org/

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information you may require ([email protected]).

Kind regards,
IEEE AFRICON 2021 organizing team