GHTC 2014 is being held at the Holiday Inn San Jose Airport, 1350 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95112
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Welcome Messages from
Conference Chair and Vice Chair
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 4th annual IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014. This year we are located in the heart of Silicon Valley, a hub of visionaries, leading-edge researchers, and world-class technology entrepreneurs. We have 3 exciting days filled with technical papers, demonstrations, workshops, posters, awards and a student contest. We have an excellent speaker line up with people from across the globe representing academia, NGO’s, government and corporate sectors. With this program we continue to foster a comprehensive, collaborative environment, where the best and the brightest can work together to support innovative humanitarian solutions.
This year along with our superb technical track, we have added a few new tracks. One is the invited speaker track that will feature experts in GHTC’s 5 key areas. These practitioners come to share their functional solutions, field experience and lessons learned. The other is a skills track focusing on helping your humanitarian venture succeed by teaching courses in business acumen, grant writing and presentation skills. We are also honored to have the Palo Alto Mobile Emergency Operations Center here to demonstrate the latest advances mobile communications.
We hope you enjoy the conference and take this opportunity to meet colleagues, make new friends and enhance your professional growth as we work together to change the world.
Sincerely,
Catherine Blackadar Nelson
GHTC 2014 Conference Chair
Welcome to GHTC 2014.
Please use this opportunity to share your successes with technology for humanitarian use, learn from your colleagues, and continue to support humanitarian work and GHTC going forward.
We hope this conference will encourage you to continue implementing humanitarian technologies, and inspire you to invent new ideas. We are looking forward to seeing new papers and presentations from you at next years GHTC, planned for October 2015 in Seattle.
Sincerely,
Joe Decuir
GHTC 2014 Conference Vice Chair
Advanced Program Schedule
| Time | 10-Oct-14 | Friday | ||||
| 8:00am - 5:00pm | IEEE PES CSI (Community Service Initiatives) Workshop (San Jose Ballroom) [Separate Registration] |
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| 1:30 - 7:30pm | Registration Open (1st Floor Lobby) |
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| 6:00 - 7:30pm | Welcome Reception (California Ballroom) |
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| 7:30 - 9:30pm | Young Professional Session (California Ballroom) “Empowering Good People to Do Good: Unlocking Tech-For-Good Innovation” Anh Bui, Director, Product Strategy for Global Literacy, Benetech |
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| Time | 11-Oct-14 | Saturday | ||||
| 7:00am - 6:00pm | Registration (1st Floor Lobby) |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast (Mezzanine Level) | |||||
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Opening Plenary (California Ballroom) Welcome Remarks Catherine Nelson, Conference Chair Opening Remarks Roberto de Marca, IEEE President “From Humanitarian Engagement to Sustainable Impact” Khanjan Mehta, Humanitarian Engineering, Penn State Keynote: “Empathetic innovations for closing the social technological gap” Anil K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Management and Honey Bee Network |
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| 10:00am | Exhibits Open (Mezzanine Level) | |||||
| 10:00am - 6:00pm | IEEE SIGHT Committee (Members) Meeting (Monterey Room) |
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| 10:00am | Break (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level | |||||
| 10:30am - 12:30pm | San Jose Ballroom | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Student Paper Contest - Top 5 Student Papers Presentation [Ramesh Nair] | Energy Track Technical Paper (Session A1) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session A2) | Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track Technical Paper (Session A3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session A4) | Water and Agriculture Track Technical Paper (Session A5) |
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| 12:30pm | Lunch (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level | |||||
| 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Salon C | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Posters (Setup 1:30-2:30, Presentation @2:30) | Energy Track Technical Paper (Session B1) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session B2) | Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track Technical Paper (Session B3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session B4) | Water and Agriculture Track Technical Paper (Session B5) |
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| 3:30pm | Break (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level; Posters Presentation - Salon C | |||||
| 4:00pm - 6:00pm | Workshop on Fostering Your Social Venture (San Jose Ballroom) |
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| 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Salon C | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Posters Presentation | Special Session (Session C1) | Special Session (Session C2) | Special Session (Session C3) | IEEE EPICS Workshop (Session C4) [Nicholas Kirsch] | X-Track (Session C5) | |
| 6:00pm | Break | |||||
| 6:30 - 9:30pm | Dinner Reception (California Ballroom) “Technology, Gaza, and Perception: a Human Response to Human Suffering” Donna Baranski-Walker, Rebuilding Alliance Maha Elgenaidi, Islamic Networks Group “Ultrasound Everywhere” Dr. Brad Younggren, Chief Medical Officer, Mobisante |
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| Time | 12-Oct-14 | Sunday | ||||
| 7:00am - 6:00pm | Registration (1st Floor Lobby) |
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| 7:00 - 8:00am | Breakfast (Mezzanine Level) |
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| 8:00am - 10:00am | Sunday Plenary (California Ballroom) Catherine Nelson - Morning Greeting Luke Filose, Intel Corporate Social Responsibility, Education Service Corps Keynote: “IT Innovations for Human Rights, Civic Engagement and Humanitarian Development” Camille Crittenden, CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) |
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| 10:00am | Exhibits Open (Mezzanine Level) | |||||
| 10:00am | Break (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level; Posters Presentation - Salon C | |||||
| 10:30am -12:30pm | IEEE SIGHT Workshop (Monterey) |
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| 10:30am -12:30pm | Salon C | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Posters Presentation | Energy Track Technical Paper (Session D1) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session D2) | Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track Technical Paper (Session D3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session D4) | Water and Agriculture Track Technical Paper (Session D5) |
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| 12:30pm | Lunch (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level; Posters Presentation - Salon C | |||||
| 1:30 - 6:00pm | Disaster Response Mobile Emergency Operations Center Demonstration Ken Dueker, Palo Alto Emergency Services (Outside) |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 pm | Salon C | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Posters Presentation | Energy Track Technical Paper (Session E1) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session E2) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session E3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session E4) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session E5) |
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| 3:30pm | Break (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level; Posters Presentation - Salon C | |||||
| 4:00 - 6:00pm | Salon C | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L |
| Posters Presentation | Special Session and Panel (Session F1) | Special Session and Panel (Session F2) | Special Session and Panel (Session F3) | Special Session and Panel (Session F4) | X-Track (Session F5) |
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| 6:00pm | Break | |||||
| 6:30pm - 9:30pm | Social Event & Awards Ceremony (California Ballroom) R6 Awards GHTC Student Paper Awards Global Humanitarian Engineering Awards “Bringing the First 100 Watts to Last Mile Health Centers” Laura Stachel and Brent Moellenberg, We Care Solar “Trends in Engineering for Global Development” Iana Aranda, ASME & Engineering for Change |
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| Time | 13-Oct-14 | Monday | ||||
| 7:00am - 3:00 pm | Registration | |||||
| 7:00 - 8:00am | Breakfast (Mezzanine Level) |
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| 8:00am - 9:00am | Monday Plenary (California Ballroom) Catherine Nelson - Morning Greeting Keynote: “The Lifecycle of Innovations and Technologies for Empowering Women & Girls Worldwide” Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, Maternova |
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| 9:00 - 10:00am | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L | |
| Invited Speakers for Energy Track | Invited Speakers for Health Track | Invited Speakers for Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track | Invited Speakers for Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track | Invited Speakers for Water and Agriculture Track |
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| 10:00am | Exhibits Open (Mezzanine Level) | |||||
| 10:00am | Break (Exhibits) - Mezzanine Level | |||||
| 10:30am - 12:30pm | Panel: Humanitarian Technology Innovation in Silicon Valley: The Rise of Social Enterprise (San Jose Ballroom) |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L | |
| Energy Track Technical Paper (Session G1) | Health Track Technical Paper (Session G2) | X-Track (Session G3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Technical Paper (Session G4) | X-Track (Session G5) |
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| 12:30pm | Lunch - Mezzanine Level | |||||
| 1:30 -3:30pm | Salon K | Salon M | Salon A | Salon B | Salon L | |
| Energy Track Lightning Talk (Session H1) | Health Track Lightning Talk (Session H2) | Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track Lightning Talk (Session H3) | Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track Lightning Talk (Session H4) | Water and Agriculture Track Lightning Talk (Session H5) |
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| 4:00 - 5:30pm | Closing Plenary (California Ballroom) “From Crab Pots to Micro Chips: How Technology Has Been Applied To Humanitarian and Disaster Relief through the Last Century” John McKnight, Salvation Army "How the View from Space Improves Life on Earth" Steve Hipskind, NASA Closing Remarks Catherine Nelson, GHTC 2014 Chair GHTC 2015 Joe Decuir, GHTC 2015 Chair |
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| 5:30 - 6:30pm | GHTC Steering Committee Debrief Meeting (Monterey Room) |
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