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Kathy Land
As a Program Manager for a United States Federal Government agency. Ms. Land has served three terms on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors. She served as a member of the IEEE-USA Board of Directors (2013, 2016), as a member of Region 3 Executive Committee (2016, 2017), was President… Read more
Melissa Sassi
Melissa Sassi is the Chief Penguin of IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator. Yes, she created her own penguin title! Melissa works with early stage entrepreneurs on digital and business transformation. Have you heard of Call for Code? It’s an IBM initiative aimed at preparing for and responding to climate change via tech innovation. Melissa is… Read more
Preliminary Speaker Announcement
Final CFP Extension GHTC 2020
Due to numerous requests from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made a FINAL deadline extension to June 15 midnight PT. No further bulk extension. It is best to ensure you have registered the paper even if you can’t get it uploaded, as we can always do a paper-specific deadline adjustment if… Read more
GHTC 2020 Student Poster Contest
The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Student Poster Competition is planned for October 2020 during GHTC 2020 with online delivery mode. The deadline for submitting an abstract for the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Student Poster Competition is October 2, 2020. Please see Student Poster Flyer. Students are invited to send ideas… Read more
IEEE Humanitarian Funding Opportunity for COVID-19 Projects
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in an unprecedented manner, and as such, the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) has adapted its requirements to better enable IEEE volunteers to contribute. For that reason, IEEE HAC and SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) Projects will join forces to prioritize proposals that have a strong… Read more
GHTC 2020 Call for Papers Deadline Extended
The submission deadline for papers for GHTC 2020 has been extended to May 1 May 15. See the CFP page for details. Action plans are now in place to support a Hybrid Conference (combining both physical and virtual participation) should the impact of COVID-19 prevent some presenters and delegates travelling to attend the conference…. Read more
GHTC 2019 Proceedings Published in IEEE Xplore
The GHTC 2019 Proceedings have been published in IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9017211/proceeding Visit GHTC Proceedings Portal here.
Top 50 most popular papers from GHTC proceedings
As of year-end 2019, these are the 50 most popular papers (by downloads) from all published GHTC proceedings in IEEE Xplore. (Total downloads of all papers – thru 2019 – since 1st GHTC 2011: 333,786)
Top cited papers from GHTC
As of year-end 2019, these are the top cited papers from all published GHTC proceedings :