GHTC Special Sessions
All held in Mediterranean Center Monte Carlo Room, unless noted
MONDAY
Opening Plenary
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Mediterranean Center – Riviera & Granada
- Welcoming Remarks – Keith Moore, Conference Chair
- Opening Remarks – Peter Staecker, IEEE President (Download Presentation)
- Keynotes:
“Diagnostics tools for neglected tropical diseases” (Download Presentation)
Tala de los Santos, PATH
“Computational Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Telemedicine and Global Health Application”
Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Conference Dinner/Reception
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Mediterranean Center – Riviera & Granada
- Keynote;
“Preparing Students for Innovative, Game Changing, Purposeful Careers” (Download Presentation)
James Plummer, Stanford University
Session A3
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
The workshop will include an overview of IEEE’s implementation of the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program of Purdue University. The EPICS in IEEE program fosters partnerships between university students and high school students to work with non-profit organizations to deliver technical solutions to local communities. The overview will include examples of successful partnerships from around the globe. Following the overview, attendees will participate in an interactive session focused on developing a proposal/petition for funding, followed by a presentation on next steps.
Presenters: Kapil Dandekar and Prasanna Venkatesan
Session B3
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Workshop: IEEE Actionable Data Book – Beyond the Horseless Carriage
This two-hour workshop will focus on the impact of new technologies on learning, education and training. Team members from the IEEE Actionable Data Book Project will each give a short presentation and lead discussion on a different aspect of a rapidly changing technical and pedagogical landscape.
Project participation is free and open to interested parties: see https://ieee-adb.org.
Presenters:
Dr. Edilson Arenas, School of Engineering, CQUniversity, Australia
Avron Barr, Director, The LETSI Foundation (Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability)
Carolyn Dickerson, Teacher and School Technology Administrator
Patrick Kane, Internet of Things Evangelist, Cypress Semiconductor
Tyde Richards, Chair, IEEE Actionable Data Book Project and IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
Session C3
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Student Poster and Student Paper Contests
Session Chair: Ramesh Nair
TUESDAY
Plenary
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
Keynotes:
“Innovating in Times of Disaster”
Desiree Matel-Anderson, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Willow Brugh, Geeks Without Bounds
“Making an Impact through Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software” (Download Presentation)
Gerardo Capiel, Benetech
“Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions”
Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
Session D3
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Special Interest Groups on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Workshop
This session provides an overview and introduction of IEEE SIGHT. SIGHTs are IEEE volunteer groups focused on addressing community issues and development using technology.
Presenters:
Kartik Kulkarni, Chair IEEE SIGHT Steering Committee
Holly Schneider Brown, Program Manager, IEEE SIGHT
Deepak Mathur, R10 HTC Coordinator
Alfredo Herrera, R7 HIC Founding member
Anand B, Chair, Madras SIGHT
Session F3
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel: Culturally Relevant and Usable Innovation and Technology
Moderator: Erna Grasz, Asante
Panelists:
Gathii Kanyi
Stan Mierzwa
Cormac Lynch
Session G3
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Young Professional Project Contest
Session Chair: Soon Wan
WEDNESDAY
Plenary
8:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
Keynotes:
“Red Cross Disaster Apps for Smartphones” (Download Presentation)
Dominick Tolli, American Red Cross
“Advanced Technology Research and Capability Insertion”
Andy Vidan, MIT Lincoln Lab
“Crisis Response – Google” (Download Presentation)
Nigel Snoad, Google Crisis Response
Session H3
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
X-Track: Featured Speakers
“Robotics and Automation Technologies for Improving the Quality of Life for Humanity”
Raj Madhavan, Chair, IEEE RAS – SIGHT
“Thermoelectric solutions for charging cellphones in off-grid locations”
Roger Johnson, Founder and CEO, Eidon Foundation
“Repair is Noble: Fixing the Global Water Crisis”
Cait Emma Smith, iFixIt.org
Julia Bluff, iFixIt.org
“The Ultimate Robot Challenge at Fukushima”
Kevin Roe, Esq., R&D Patent Attorneys
Session J3
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
X-Track:
“IEEE-Canada (R-7) Humanitarian Activities”
This presentation will show how much progress have been made since forming HIC as an Adhoc committee in 2009 and became a standing committee with its own structure under R-7 Bylaws This committee now is dealing with all IEEE-Canada volunteers across the country with many Humanitarian related projects that will be highlighted in this presentation.
Humanitarian Initiative Committee (HIC) Overview
Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, IEEE-Fellow, IEEE-Canada (R-7) HIC Chair
IEEE Canada HIC Ottawa Section Activities 2013
Sri Priya Sundararajan, Ottawa Section
Why choose Montreal to be the site of R-7 GHTC 2014
Laurent Lamarre, Ireq (Hydro Quebec)
“Social Intelligence Gathering for Disaster Response”
Ryan Bank, Founder and CEO, Social Intelligence Inc
Empowering Off-grid Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Wind, Water, Sunshine and Wastes
V. K. Damodaran, Director General and Managing Trustee of INGCORE
Closing Plenary
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
Keynote and Panel:
“Mobile Devices in Disaster Readiness and Response” (Download Presentation)
Pamela McCauley Bush, University of Central Florida
Panelists:
Ryan Bank
Nigel Snoad
Dominick Tolli
Andy Vidan
Closing Remarks: Keith Moore, Conference Chair