Special Events:
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IEEE PES CSI (Community Service Initiatives) Workshop (San Jose Ballroom) – Friday October 10, 8am – 5:00 pm
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IEEE SIGHT Committee (Members) Meeting (Monterey Room) – Saturday October 11, 10 am – 6 pm
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Fostering Social Ventures Workshop: Fund Raising, Business and Presentations Skills (San Jose Ballroom) – Saturday October 11, 4 pm – 6 pm
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Disaster Response and Emergency Vehicles Demonstration (Outdoors) – Sunday October 12, 1:30 – 5:00 pm
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IEEE SIGHT Open Workshop (Monterey) – Sunday October 12, 2014 10:30am – 12:30 pm
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Panel: “Humanitarian Technology Innovation in Silicon Valley: The Rise of Social Enterprise” (San Jose Ballroom) – Monday October 13, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
GHTC Contest, Plenary, Invited, Demo/Presentation/Panel/Workshop, X-Track, Social Sessions:
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NOTE: Schedule of speakers subject to change. Click on speaker names to view abstracts and bios.
GHTC 2014 Student Paper Contest – Saturday October 11, 10:30am – 12:30 pm
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (San Jose Ballroom) |
Student Paper Contest Top 5 Student Papers Presentation Chair: Ramesh Nair |
Paper Title | Author Names |
| Command Based Intensity Controller for Surgical Lights | Keerthi Subu, Sahrudaya College, Kerala, India | ||
| Everybody Poops: Preliminary Design of Novel Sit Squat Toilet | Rebeccca Byler, Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| Exo Supportive Device For Individuals With Restricted Mobility | Dmitry Klisch, Algonquin College of Arts and Science, Canada | ||
| Promoting Education: A Framework for Monitoring E-Learning Impact | Raymond Harry, TUM, Germany | ||
| Postpartum Hemorrhage Treatment Using MNPs | Aswin Raghav, Dheepashri, Divyalakshmi, SSN College of Engineering, India |
GHTC 2014 Plenary Speakers Schedule
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| Day & Room | Session | Time | Title | Speaker Name(s) |
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (California Ballroom) |
Opening Plenary |
8:00am – 10:00am | Welcome Remarks | Catherine B. Nelson, Conference Chair |
| “Global Reach, Local Impact: IEEE and Technology, Aiding Humanity“ |
J. Roberto de Marca, 2014 IEEE President & CEO | |||
| “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 | |||
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (California Ballroom) |
Sunday Plenary | 8:00am – 10:00am | Morning Greeting | Catherine B. Nelson, Conference Chair |
| “Humanitarian Inc.? Exploring the Corporate Role in International Development Projects“ | 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) | |||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (California Ballroom) |
Monday Plenary | 8:00am – 10:00am | Morning Greeting | Catherine B. Nelson, Conference Chair |
| Keynote: “The Lifecycle of Innovations and Technologies for Empowering Women & Girls Worldwide“ | Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, Maternova | |||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (California Ballroom) |
Closing Plenary | 4:00pm – 5:30pm | “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 B. Nelson, GHTC 2014 Chair | |||
| GHTC 2015 | Joe Decuir, GHTC 2015 Chair |
GHTC 2014 Invited Speakers Schedule – Monday October 13, 9-10 am
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| Day & Room | Track | Time | Title | Speaker Name(s) |
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon K) |
Energy TrackInvited Speakers
Track Chair: Soon Wan |
9:00am | The Humanitarian Technology Sustainability Challenge | Ray Larsen, IEEE Community Service Initiatives |
| 9:30am | VOCTEC: A sustainable capacity building initiative for renewable energy technologies | Bülent Bicer, Arizona State University, College of Technology and Innovation | ||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon M) |
Health Track Invited Speakers
Track Chair: Nick Massetti |
9:00am | Saving Lives by Improving Global Medicine Quality: Microfluidics meets Quality Control | Muhammad H. Zaman, Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering |
| 9:30am | Prototyping Appropriate Medical Technologies for Quality Community Health Services | Mario Aleman, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria and IEEE SIGHT Nicaragua | ||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon A) |
Disaster, Connectivity, and Communication Track
Invited Speakers Track Chair: Catherine Nelson |
9:00am | System Design in Disaster Response: Providing Clean Water and Restarting Communications | Eric Rasmussen, Infinitum Humanitarian Systems and Singularity University |
| 9:30am | Grameen + Palantir = Data Driven Agriculture | Laura Jacob, Palantir Technologies Inc. and IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) | ||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon B) |
Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Track
Invited Speakers Track Chair: Joe Decuir |
9:00am | Beyond the hackathon: accelerating open source projects toward sustainability. | Lisha Sterling, Geeks Without Bounds |
| 9:30am | Making Crisis Legible: Opening Data across the Disaster Cycle | John Crowley, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative | ||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon L) |
Water and Agriculture Track
Invited Speakers Track Chair: Ed Perkins |
9:00am | Point of Care CD4 Testing for HIV/AIDS Patient Management: the BD FACSPresto™ | Scott Bornheimer, Becton-Dickinson Biosciences |
| 9:30am | Smart Villages: Resilience, Gender and Decentralization | John Coonrod, The Hunger Project |
GHTC 2014 Special Sessions C Schedule: Demo, Presentation, Panel or Workshop – Saturday October 12, 4-6 pm
See Workshops/Panels/Demos page for details.
| Day & Room | Track | Session | Time | Paper ID | Session Title | Speaker Name(s) |
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon K) |
Special Session (Session C1) | C1-1 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm | 319 | DEMO
NASA Solutions using Satellites to Improve Environmental Management: Navigating Earth Science/Earth Observation Data and Information Resources |
Sarah Hemmings*, NASA; Nancy Searby, NASA; Christine Lee, ; David Toll, NASA; Ana Prados, |
| C1-2 | 5:30pm – 6:00pm | 284 | DEMO
Autonomous Modular Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicle as First Responder |
NiMA Asghari*, IKW, University of Osnabrück; Amin Abouee, Technical University of Munich; Seyed Jalal alddin Khademi Kolahbakhsh, TU Darmstadt | ||
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon M) |
Special Session (Session C2) | C2-1 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | 203 | WORKSHOP
Frontiers of Humanitarian Engineering: Learning from Social Justice, Feminism, and Failure |
Brent Jesiek*, Andrea Mazzurco, Julia Thompson, Purdue University; Jane Lehr, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo; Juan Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; |
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon A) |
Special Session (Session C3) | C3-1 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm | 308 | DEMO
WLAN Communication Prototype as a Contingency network for Natural Disasters |
Andres Astudillo*, IEEE |
| C3-2 | 5:00pm – 6:00pm | 267 | DEMO
Communicating in Disasters: A Ten-Year Experience with Interactive Demo by HumaniNet |
Gregg Swanson*, HumaniNet | ||
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon B) |
Special Session (Session C4) | C4-1 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | – | WORKSHOP
EPICS in IEEE |
Nicholas J. Kirsch, University of New Hampshire |
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon L) |
Special Session (Session C5) | C5 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | – |
X-TRACK Session |
See X-track Schedule |
GHTC 2014 Special Sessions F Schedule: Demo, Presentation, Panel or Workshop – Sunday October 12, 4-6 pm
See Workshops/Panels/Demos page for details.
| Day & Room | Track | Session | Time | Paper ID | Session Title | Speaker Name(s) |
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon K) |
Special Session (Session F1) | F1-1 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | 293 |
PANEL Human Trafficking: Research Perspectives on Challenges and Opportunities for |
Nicole Bryan*, Montclair State University; Rane Johnson, Microsoft Research; Sasha Poucki, ; Sue McIntyre, ; Mary Leary, |
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon M) |
Special Session (Session F2) |
F2-1 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm | 296 |
PANEL Using Technology to Bring Biomedical Innovations to Emerging Markets |
Jitendra Mudhol, CollaMeta; Terry Mandel*, BioMedLink; Kevin Montgomery, Collaborate.org; Dan Desmond, SIMI Group |
| F2-2 | 5:00pm – 6:00pm | – | OPEN | |||
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon A) |
Special Session (Session F3) |
F3-1 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm | 253 | DEMO
Changing How Technology & Information Is Used During Humanitarian Challenges |
Mark Parker*, Smart Selling International |
| F3-2 | 5:00pm – 6:00pm | 374 |
DEMO Mobile Training Toolkit (MTT): A Comprehensive and Sustainable Capacity Building Approach for Solar PV Energy Technologies |
Bülent Bicer*, Arizona State University | ||
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon B) |
Special Session (Session F4) |
F4-1 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm | 17 |
DEMO New Zealand Red Cross “Succinct Data” Communication System |
Matthew Lloyd*, New Zealand Red Cross |
| F4-2 | 5:30pm – 6:00pm | 254 | Collaborate.org – A Worldwide Collaboration and Geospatial Infrastructure | Kevin Montgomery*, Collaborate.org | ||
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon L) |
Special Session (Session F5) | F5 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm | – | X-TRACK Session | See X-track Schedule |
GHTC 2014 X-Track Sessions Schedule
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| Day & Room | Track | Session | Time | Paper ID | Session Title | Speaker Name(s) |
| October 11, 2014 Saturday (Salon L) |
X-Track Special Session (Session C5) |
C5-1 | 4:00pm – 4:30pm | – | Representation Technologies | Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley |
| C5-2 | 4:30pm – 5:00pm | – | Inculcating Mass Awareness on Environmental Issues | Ravindra Joshi, IEEE Delhi Section HTC | ||
| C5-3 | 5:00pm – 5:30pm | – | Role of Rural Microgrids in Alleviating Energy Poverty | Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Solarillion Foundation | ||
| C5-4 | 6:30pm – 6:00pm | – | Emergent Response: How humanitarian organizations and grassroots networks can collaborate on disasters response and recovery work | Devin Balkind, Sarapis |
| October 12, 2014 Sunday (Salon L) |
X-Track Special Session |
F5-1 | 4:00pm – 4:30pm | – | Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenges | Raj Madhavan, UMD and IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) |
| F5-2 | 4:30pm – 6:00pm | – | Workshop: Micro-grid: Examples and Discussion | Moderator: Nathan Johnson, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University |
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon A) |
X-Track (Session G3) |
G3-1 | 10:30am – 11:30am | Workshop: Safety and Security for Healthcare Workers in West Africa | Facilitator: Eric Rasmussen | |
| G3-3 | 11:30am – 12:00pm | – | X-Track – Open Session | |||
| G3-4 | 12:00am – 12:30pm | – | X-Track – Open Session | |||
| October 13, 2014 Monday (Salon L) |
X-Track (Session G5) |
G5-1 | 10:30am – 11:00am | 262 | Human-centric Health: Empowering People with 24/7 Personalized Monitoring | Yasunori Kimura*, Ajay Chander, Surya Josyula, Fujitsu Laboratories of America |
| G5-2 | 11:00am – 11:30pm | X-Track – Open Session | Open | |||
| G5-3 | 11:30am – 12:00pm | X-Track – Open Session | Open | |||
| G5-2 | 11:30am – 12:30pm | – | X-Track – Open Session | Open |
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