6th Lecture of IEEE CS San Diego's 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual)

This talk provides an overview of some prominent laminate material characterization techniques that are crucial for evaluating laminate permittivity and losses. These techniques are compared and contrasted with newer in-situ methodologies that excel at extracting parameters that yield highly accurate measurement-simulation correlation, highlighting where they excel and where they fall short.

The talk also demonstrates some common phenomena that can lead to dispersion in the measured time delay and effective dielectric constant, namely anomalous dispersion from discontinuities and non-TEM dispersion in microstrip structures.

Roasted Ocean Prawns GF: Oven roasted with garlic butter, lemon and gremolata.

Lemon Chicken: Chargrilled chicken breast marinated in lemon zest and Herbes de Provence served over basmati rice pilaf.

Pasta Primavera: Fresh fettuccine tossed with seasonal vegetables and our herbed cream sauce. Finished with Parmesan cheese.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries and organizations, but its growing adoption also introduces new security risks and challenges. This talk provides an introduction to the fundamentals of AI security, focusing on threats and vulnerabilities affecting AI models and applications. Participants will learn about common AI attacks, security risks associated with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), and fundamental approaches for protecting AI systems. 

Modern semiconductor fabs generate vast amounts of data from equipment, processes, sensors, metrology tools, and factory automation systems. The real challenge is transforming this data into actionable insights that improve yield, quality, productivity, and operational efficiency.

Join the IEEE Oregon Section Joint EDS & MTT-S Chapter for the webinar, "From Data to Decisions: Smart Manufacturing Analytics in Semiconductor Production."

This session will explore how advanced analytics, AI/ML, predictive maintenance, digital twins, and smart manufacturing technologies are enabling data-driven decision-making in semiconductor factories. Attendees will gain insights into how leading fabs use real-time data to optimize performance, enhance equipment utilization, and drive operational excellence.

Ideal for students, researchers, engineers, and industry professionals interested in the future of smart semiconductor manufacturing.

Join IEEE Hawaiʻi Women in Engineering (WIE) for a relaxing and creative Girls' Night Out! Take a break from work and school to unwind with fellow IEEE members while enjoying a Studio Ghibli puzzle activity and DIY keychain making.

This event is a wonderful opportunity to build friendships, network with other women in STEM, and enjoy a fun, welcoming evening together.

✨ Come relax, create, and connect with the IEEE WIE community. We look forward to seeing you!

• 🧩 Complete a Studio Ghibli puzzle together
• 🔑 Design and create your own personalized keychain
• 💬 Enjoy conversations and connect with fellow women in engineering and STEM

IEEE members, students, and friends interested in supporting the IEEE WIE community are welcome.

Please attend the 2026 IEEE Oregon Section Summer Social at Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum

Sign up to volunteer today! Google Form Link (https://forms.gle/KSkkUYPK2QVNQrKS7)

Where: Glad Tidings Family Life Complex

When: 7/27, 2pm to 7:00pm.

Who: For volunteering, college students and professionals are welcome to join!

STEM education is more than just learning about technology or engineering—it’s about developing critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills that are essential in today’s world. By exposing your child to STEM:

• Help them discover new interests and talents.
• Prepare them for high-paying and rewarding careers.
• Show them that they can be creators, innovators, and leaders.

Schedule:

2:15 - 2:30 PM | Welcome & Kickoff

• Welcome
• Event Overview
• Review of safety rules
• Introduction of volunteers, experiment leads, and technology demonstrators

2:30 PM | Presentation #1

Three classes (Build New Car/ attach Robot Arm, Troubleshoot Car/ Review/ Coding, and Art class)

2:45 PM- 5 PM | Build Car and Logo Art Design

5:00 PM– 5:40 PM | Dinner  

6:00 PM– 6:45 PM | Finish Car Building, and Test obstacle course/ race track

6:45 – 7:00 PM | Closing, Photos & Thank You

Our Program’s Commitment

Through our partnership with the IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section, TryEngineering, and Glad Tidings, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Here’s why this program is unique:

Mentors Who Care: STEM professionals from your community will guide your child every step of the way.

• Hands-On Learning: Engaging activities like designing bridges, building robots, and creating LED circuits make learning exciting.

Equity in Education: Our goal is to provide access and opportunity to all children, particularly those in underrepresented communities. 

We understand the vital role parents play in their child’s success. During the event, you’ll:

• See firsthand how STEM activities boost confidence and teamwork.
• Learn about free and affordable resources to continue your child’s STEM journey.
• Meet other parents who share the same goal of empowering their children.

This is a chance to show your child that their dreams matter and that they belong in STEM fields. Secure your spot today!

Register by March 23th
To ensure we have the proper supplies and resources, please RSVP by end of day March. 23, so we can better plan the workshop.

Together, let’s inspire a generation of problem solvers, innovators, and dreamers. We look forward to seeing you there!

Warm regards,
Aaron Lin, IEEE
Benita McLarin, Glad Tidings

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how organizations generate revenue, streamline operations, and automate complex business processes. From intelligent sales prospecting and personalized customer engagement to autonomous AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step workflows, AI is becoming an essential driver of business efficiency and competitive advantage.

Following our June session on AI-Powered Productivity, the IEEE Orange County Computer Society GET-AI Series continues with a practical, demo-driven July session focused on how organizations can leverage AI to improve efficiency, reduce operational costs, accelerate business processes, and build intelligent enterprise applications.

This double-feature session combines business and technical perspectives to demonstrate how AI can optimize both customer-facing and enterprise workflows through intelligent automation, advanced prompting techniques, and production-ready AI agent architectures.

As organizations increasingly adopt AI across their operations, the challenge is no longer simply using AI it is applying it strategically to create measurable business value.

This session explores how AI can help organizations:

• Improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation
• Reduce manual effort and operational costs
• Increase sales pipeline quality using AI-driven insights
• Automate repetitive business workflows
• Build enterprise-grade autonomous AI agents to Save Cost

Whether you're a business leader, consultant, architect, developer, product manager, or AI enthusiast, this session provides practical strategies and demonstrations that can be immediately applied within your organization.

Through live demonstrations, this session explores how LangGraph enables developers to build production-ready AI systems that are reliable, scalable, and designed to create efficient enterprise workflows. Attendees will learn how to move beyond simple LLM applications to intelligent agent architectures that streamline operations, optimize resource utilization, and reduce the cost of developing and operating AI-powered solutions.

• LangGraph fundamentals
• Designing efficient AI workflows
• Enterprise AI agent architecture
• Memory and state management
• Tool orchestration and workflow automation
• Human-in-the-loop approvals
• Multi-agent collaboration
• Enterprise automation and cost optimization patterns
• Best practices for building scalable, production-ready AI systems

👉 Takeaway: Learn how to build efficient, enterprise-grade AI systems that automate complex workflows, optimize business operations, reduce development and operational costs, and deliver measurable business value through intelligent automation.

This session demonstrates how AI can fundamentally transform go-to-market execution by identifying real-time business opportunities through trigger events, market signals, sentiment analysis, and intelligent prospecting.

Through live demonstrations, attendees will learn how AI can generate highly personalized outreach, automate prospect research, and enable sales teams to focus on meaningful customer engagement instead of manual list building.

• AI-driven sales intelligence
• Intelligent prospect discovery
• Event-driven customer engagement
• Effective prompting for business workflows
• Hyper-personalized outreach
• Reducing customer acquisition costs
• Improving pipeline quality through AI

👉 Takeaway: Learn how AI can improve sales efficiency, reduce manual effort, and create higher-quality business opportunities through intelligent automation.

Pradyumna Kodgi
Principal Product Manager | Oracle Health & AI
IEEE Senior Member | Vice Chair, IEEE EMBS – Orange County
Member, IEEE AI Agentic Systems & AI Policy Committees

📍 California, USA
📧 pkodgi@ieee.org
🔗 linkedin.com/in/pkodgi

In this talk, we will explore the evolving automation landscape in automotive manufacturing as physical AI and humanoids emerge, unlocking new opportunities. We will analyze how specialized and end-2-end AI models are expanding the capabilities and operational envelope for robots in perception, grasping, manipulation and assembly tasks.  The talk concludes with an industrial view and discussion around strategic factors influencing adoption of physical AI in serial production.

Dr. Parag Patre is an engineering leader with expertise in advanced robotics, physical AI, control systems, and autonomous technologies. Currently serving as a Senior Manager for Advanced Robotics at Magna International, with past tenures at Siemens, TE Connectivity and NASA — he specializes in bridging the gap between academic research and large-scale industrial applications. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida, a B.Tech. from IIT Madras, and is a widely published expert dedicated to industrializing advanced robotics.

“Preparing for 100% Clean and Renewable Energy Systems”

with Dr Ahmed Mousa, Chief Innovation Officer for Galileo Group, Inc.

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 28, 6pm – 7 pm Pacific Time

Abstract:

This talk will outline the characteristics of 100% clean and renewable energy systems, and how we can prepare for them, considering the guidelines of IEEE Planet Positive. Utilities must supply critical leadership in addressing climate change, sustainability, socioeconomic issues, and environmental stewardship. The transition to a sustainable future requires balancing today’s short-term needs with future planning for 100% clean and renewable energy systems. Issues include global collaboration, the role of inverter-based resources, climate change mitigation, large load vs. energy efficiency/load management and the future role of energy control centers. Supporting equity and inclusion mandates planning for rural electrification and for providing affordable power to disadvantaged communities.

The IEEE Oakland-East Bay Communications Society Chapter is pleased to host an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer presentation by Dr. Wei Gao, Principal Engineer at Broadcom.

Presentation Title

Meta-Learning-Assisted Predistortion for Power Amplifier Linearization in Wireless Communication Systems

Abstract

Modern wireless communication systems require highly efficient RF power amplifiers while maintaining excellent signal linearity. This presentation introduces recent advances in AI-assisted digital predistortion techniques, focusing on meta-learning-based approaches that improve power amplifier linearization for IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi systems. The talk discusses practical implementation challenges, optimization techniques, and industrial applications developed through years of experience at Broadcom.

Speaker

Dr. Wei Gao
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2025–2026)
Principal Engineer, Broadcom

Everyone is welcome, including IEEE members, students, researchers, and industry professionals.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Industry Board and Santa Clara Valley Chapter are pleased to announce an upcoming event on Video Coding Standards in the Age of AI which will be held on July 30, 2026 in Palo Alto, CA.

As AI continues to evolve, it is playing an increasingly important role in next-generation signal processing and multimedia technologies. At the same time, major international and open-source standardization organizations are actively exploring how AI can be integrated into future standards. This event will bring together experts from industry and the standards community to discuss the latest advances in AI for video coding, current standardization efforts, and future research directions.

Speakers

This event features distinguished speakers from industry and standardization community:

• Arianne Hinds (INCITS L3 Chair)
• Debargha Mukherjee (Google, Principal Engineer / Director)
• Alican Nalci (Meta, Research Scientist)
• Leo Zhao (Tencent, Principal Research Scientist)

Whether you are a researcher, engineer, student, or practitioner interested in AI and video compression, we warmly welcome you to join us for an evening of technical discussions and networking with leaders from academia and industry.

IEEE Alaska Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 ⋅ 6:00 – 7:30pm (Alaska Time - Anchorage)

Jeremie Smith is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting using the IEEE Alaska Section Account

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98832778456?pwd=WnhVWFpOOGQ0YkZEVnlqMlJjWG5lZz09

Meeting ID: 988 3277 8456
Passcode: 269832

Please register if you will be attending.

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

We hope you are having a great summer break. We are excited to invite student interns, recent graduates, young professionals, and industry leaders to our outdoor casual networking event at Log Boom Park in Kenmore, WA. Enjoy this relaxed setting to connect and share your experiences. Food and drinks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there.

IEEE Orange County PES/IAS Chapter's ExCom meeting

All IEEE OC PES/IAS Chapter members are requested to attend this meeting. 

To AVOID unauthorized attendance you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

CHEERS OCEANEERS! August 12th, 2026

This month is about RoboSub!  Our main presentation is from Teagan Darling and other team members from Miramar College Engineering Club.

Miramar College Engineering Club: RoboSub 2026 Overview

The Miramar College Engineering Club just competed in its first year of the RoboSub competition. This competition tasks students from around the world with creating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with the goal of completing a series of increasingly difficult tasks and claiming the title of RoboSub 2026 Champion.

This talk will give an overview of the team’s trials, tribulations, innovative fixes, spectacular… let’s call them missteps, and great connections formed over the past year.

In addition, we will have Leverett Bezanson, Chair of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), present information about their last cycle of internships including some details about the projects that they worked on.
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Welcome to the monthly event for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), San Diego Chapter, which is hosting this meeting jointly along with TMA BlueTech (The Maritime Alliance), and MTS (Marine Technology Society).

Please join us for the main presentation and also plenty of time for networking and friendly conversation about everything oceanic, engineering, science, Blue Tech, and more.  No need to be an IEEE or OES member, or TMA, or MTS.  Everyone is invited.

This month, we will be at Quantum Brewing again, a cool science-themed brewery founded by a biochemist.

No ticket required, but please order something for yourself from the brewery.

Please grab a bite from a nearby restaurant, which is okay to bring into the brewery per the owner.

The food and drinks are not being funded by the hosts.  Please open your own tab.

IEEE Orange County Section Executive Committee Monthly meeting - occurs every 2nd Thursday of the month. 

All IEEE OC Committee/Chapter/Affinity/SIG Chair/Key Volunteers (or their proxy) are requested to attend. Other IEEE members are also welcome to attend. Please RSVP here to receive the meeting login information. Routine attendance is required to qualify for your chapter's annual IEEE rebate.

To AVOID unauthorized attendance, you MUST REGISTER for this event so that you can be sent the meeting link.

Marine Technology Society (MTS) San Diego: Summer 2026 Internship Closeout & Summer 2027 Internship Kickoff BBQ

When: Friday August, 14, 2026 | 2:00-6:00 PM PST

Where: SeeByte - 2240 Shelter Island Dr San Diego, CA 92106

Join the San Diego Section in celebrating the achievements of the 2026 Summer Internship Program cohort as they showcase their summer projects. Food provided. Donation welcome to support the 2027 Summer Internship Program. 

Interested in showcasing your technology at this event? Reserve an exhibit table when you register! 

Special Notes:

All are welcome and it is free.  We will be taking donations to MTS for prizes or raffle items.  Food will be free, but we will guilt people into donating.  Menu is tri-tip sandwiches. 

Join us for the upcoming technical talk —attend in person at Stockman’s Restaurant or virtually via Microsoft Teams 

Title:

Accelerated Qualification of Novel Nuclear Structural Materials: Multiphysics Simulations of a MEMS-Based Creep Device Under Ion Irradiation

Abstract:

Qualification of structural materials for advanced nuclear reactors requires testbeds capable of
simultaneously replicating and monitoring high temperatures, irradiation, and mechanical stress.
This talk presents a multiphysics modeling framework for the design and optimization of an in-
situ testbed for measuring irradiation creep and thermal fatigue.
The testbed couples a silicon MEMS device with ion irradiation and scanning electron
microscopy to enable real-time mechanical testing under irradiation. Finite element simulations
developed in CUBIT and BISON resolve the coupled thermal, electrical, and mechanical
response of the MEMS device and quantify induced strain in the sample. Geometry optimization
of the MEMS device is performed to achieve uniform temperature and strain fields in the test
sample.
Results demonstrate that the multiphysics framework reduces reliance on iterative physical
prototyping in testbed development and provides a reproducible basis for geometry and loading
parameter selection in nuclear materials testing.

Speaker: Akanksha Parmar
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Idaho National Laboratory

Akanksha is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in C650 department at INL, where her research
focuses on computational modeling of nuclear fuels, including high burnup structure, chromia-
doped UO₂, and annular fuel pellets, using advanced constitutive models such as crystal
plasticity.
She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, where she combined
multiscale modeling with hands-on fabrication, processing, and characterization to study
microstructure evolution during additive manufacturing. She holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and
Astronautics from Purdue University, where her thesis focused on multiscale modeling of
composite structures.

IEEE New Era AI 2024 Workshop series   

Register ,  Workshop  I participnts free 

Come to Master the new generation of intelligent, event-driven applications—where you transform input instantly into AI Agents, AI-guided decisions, and automate real-world actions.  Take away an actionable portfolio for your future.
For healthcare professionals, multimodal prototyping tools are used to analyze medical imagery such as X-rays and pathology slides. For Data scientists and analysts - process research papers, survey responses, or unstructured datasets at scale. For Software engineers - integrate RAG-based chatbots into existing applications to surface answers from knowledge bases. For Business analysts: extract structured data to derive insights without complex parsing logic. For Students and Researchers -prototyping an AI assistant that helps with literature review, data labeling, or experiment documentation.

Takeaway: Master the next generation of AI. By the end of this session, you’ll have a portfolio-ready project and the specialized skills to create actionable AI-guided results, setting your expertise apart in this competitive world.

No Code skill required.  Hybrid.  IEEE Certificate Available

Speakers 

Nithin Vommi is an Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he has spent nearly a decade building
and scaling large-scale distributed systems. He leads AWS Lambda streaming and queueing platforms, focusing on
serverless architectures and event-driven systems. Nithin has published technical articles, holds patents, and
speaks at AWS events, including re: Invent. Over his time at AWS, he has launched more than a dozen customer-
facing features on serverless platforms, several of which were highlighted at AWS re: Invent and are broadly adopted by enterprises.
His current interests include serverless, generative AI, and event-driven design patterns.

Mr. Ravi Godugu is a seasoned Software Engineer at AWS Computing

Tejas Ghadge is the engineering head for AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda Event-Driven Applications, and AWS Lambda
Developer Experience, where he leads an organization of 100+ engineers/managers across multiple sites in the US and
Canada. With over 14 years of experience at AWS, Tejas brings deep operational and architectural experience from
- operating large-scale (millions of requests per second) event-driven systems, leading and analyzing hundreds of
operational incidents, and successfully launching dozens of delightful customer features for AWS Lambda and AWS
Amplify customers.

Technical Requirements

Laptop with a modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, or Edge)
2. Stable internet connection
3. No local software installation required — labs run in a browser-based IDE and a temporarily provided AWS account
4. No prior machine learning or data science experience required

•  IEEE  Professional certificate and Hrs will be offered to those attendees who pass a simple quiz at the end of class, with a fee.  

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers 

Global data center power demand is forecast to rise by 160% to 165% by 2030, with AI driving the majority of this surge. By 2030, worldwide electricity use by data centers is expected to reach 945 TWh. By 2035, demand is projected to soar further to 1,300 TWh globally, with AI making up 70% of total data center power.

Nuclear power reactor is considered to be one of the most viable solutions to fulfill this surge in energy demand caused by AI. 

In this talk, we will examine what is the current state of nuclear power generation, what is the projected growth, cost involved and comparison with conventional energy solutions and alternate energy sources such as Solar and Wind.

Dr. Stan Trout of Spontaneous Materials will discuss how changing tariffs, domestic sourcing requirements, and global market forces are reshaping the permanent magnet industry and what these trends mean for its future. With nearly 50 years of experience in permanent magnets, magnetic materials, and rare-earth technologies, Dr. Trout is widely recognized as a leading authority in the field.

For more information, see Permanent Magnets, A Material in Flux

What if medical electronics could become virtually invisible – not only conforming seamlessly to the human body but also sensing, communicating, and even interacting with living tissues? Recent advances in graphene and other two-dimensional materials are making this vision possible by enabling a new generation of wearable, implantable, and intelligent bioelectronic systems. Their unique combination of atomic thickness, flexibility, transparency, electrical conductivity, and biocompatibility is fundamentally changing how electronics interface with biology.

In this talk, I will explore how these materials are enabling technologies that were previously impossible. I will introduce graphene electronic tattoos that laminate onto the skin like temporary tattoos to provide long-term, high-fidelity monitoring of electrophysiological, mechanical, and biochemical signals. Applications will include continuous cuffless blood pressure monitoring using bioimpedance, multimodal physiological sensing, and wearable biosensors capable of tracking biomarkers directly from sweat. Beyond the skin, I will discuss the translation of these ultrathin biointerfaces into implantable devices, including transparent graphene arrays for recording and stimulating the heart. These tissue-conformable interfaces enable simultaneous electrical sensing, optical imaging, and optogenetic modulation while opening new opportunities for minimally invasive therapies and next-generation bioelectronic medicine. Finally, I will present our recent work on graphene-based neuromorphic devices that emulate the adaptive behavior of biological synapses with energy efficiencies approaching those of neurons. These systems represent an important step toward intelligent bioelectronics capable of learning from physiological signals, enabling adaptive biosensing, closed-loop therapeutics, and future human–machine interfaces. Together, these examples illustrate how atomically thin materials are driving the shift from rigid electronic devices to bioelectronic systems that integrate naturally with living tissues.

Topic: Rocky Reach Dam Tour

Date:  Friday, Sept. 25th, 2026

Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Place: Rocky Reach Discovery Center

Agenda:         

10:00 am – Check In, Introductions, Safety Talk

10:30 am – 12:00pm Tour- Fish Passage, Generator and Turbine, Top of Dam, Control Room

12:00pm – 1:00pm – Lunch Rocky Reach Café

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – On your own tour of the Discovery Center

Visit Requirements:

• This is a hard hat, tour of an operating power plant.  Closed toe shoes, long pants, and sensible clothing are required. Shorts, dresses, sleeveless shirts, tank tops, high heels are not permitted.
• There is a significant amount of standing, walking and climbing stairs on this tour. Attendees must be able to walk at least a mile and climb stairs and must be over 12 years of age.
• You cannot have a pacemaker.
• Fanny packs, bags, purses, etc., are allowed.  Backpacks can be stored at site.
• This is a technical tour for IEEE members and their quests. 

October Executive Committee Meeting

This talk will cover the status of fiber optic transceiver co-packaging efforts, both VCSEL- and SiPh-based, where they fit into the Ethernet switch market and the evolving Computer IO market, and how these technologies are advancing HPC (High Performance Computing), Data Center, and AI applications. The emphasis will be on new requirements and challenges driven by AI systems.

Part of the 11th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2026) Location: Santa Clara University | Date: Oct 13-15, 2026 

The future of the Edge is not just decentralized—it must be sustainable. As AI models grow in complexity, the environmental and energetic costs of deploying them on edge devices have become a critical bottleneck.

The Minimalist Edge AI Challenge invites student teams to tackle the "AI Bloat" head-on. This one-day competition challenges you to take state-of-the-art "heavy" models and transform them into lean, green, high-performance machines capable of running on constrained, eco-friendly hardware. Can you maintain intelligence while slashing the carbon footprint? Join our Discord group for latest updates (https://discord.gg/V29ZXCTFR5).

Participating teams will be tasked with deploying a complex AI workload (e.g., real-time multi-object tracking or environmental anomaly detection) onto provided low-power hardware (Qualcomm Arduino UNO Q).

Your mission is to optimize for the "Green Trifecta":

1. Model Accuracy: Maintain high predictive performance and reliability while operating under strict resource constraints.

2. Model Compression: Use pruning, quantization, and distillation to shrink the model footprint.

3. Resource Efficiency: Minimize peak RAM and CPU utilization to ensure smooth execution on minimalist hardware.

4. Energy Parsimony: Achieve the lowest possible Joules-per-inference to maximize battery life and sustainability.

• Showcase Your Skills: Pitch your solution to a jury of world-leading edge computing experts from academia and industry.

• Build Your Career & Network: Pitch your solution to a premier jury of world-leading edge computing experts and recruiters from academia and industry giants like Qualcomm.

• Engineer for Planet Earth: Move past theoretical AI. Help define the actual benchmarks for "Green AI" and create real-world impact by building hyper-efficient, eco-friendly edge computing models.

• Cash Prizes: The top three teams from each track will receive cash rewards:

• 1st Place: jumi,000

• 2nd Place: 0

• 3rd Place: 0

• Participant Perks: All competition participants will receive IEEE Computer Society swag and a free IEEE Computer Society Student Membership (Note: Requires an active IEEE Student Membership).

• Open to all undergraduate and graduate students registered at a recognized university.

• Teams should consist of 2 to 4 members.

• Recommended Skill Set: * Proficiency in Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow) and/or C++/Rust.

• Experience with model optimization techniques (Pruning, Quantization).

• Knowledge of Linux systems and resource profiling.

• A passion for sustainable engineering.

●      Team Registration Deadline: Sept. 6th, 2026

●      Competition Day: Oct. 13-16 (Co-located with SEC 2026)

*****This vTools link is for purchase of Vendor Tables ONLY! No walk-in registrations.*****

(Limit of 10 vendor tables so do not delay!)

Vendor table will be one 6-foot exhibit table. Vendor table includes one (1) attendee ticket. A power strip will be available upon request.

For more than one (1) attendee to support the table, please register additional people using the regular attendee link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562108

Tape, Tacks, Nails may not be applied to walls, ceilings, or doors and are strictly prohibited.

Outside food, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverage are not allowed.

IEEE and the Hotel are not responsible for any loss or damage to property belonging to you.

Sign-in for attendees and continental breakfast will open at 7:15AM, so please be completely set up by 7:15AM.

Vendors are encouraged (voluntary) to bring up to three (3) giveaways to be included in the overall raffle for attendees.

This one-day Technical Seminar will cover the fundamentals of electrical design, cable ampacity, protective relaying, and interconnections. The seminar will serve as a primer for engineers and a refresher for experienced engineers. During breaks and lunch there will be opportunities to network with your peers and meet with manufacturers. The registration cost includes continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments.

Please join us in attending this one-day Technical Seminar which will include an impressive list of speakers from IEEE, Eaton, Electrical Reliability Services (a Vertiv Company), ETAP, SEL, and NEMA. Seminar topics will include:

• Overview of IEEE 1547-2018, Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of distributed energy resources (DER) with Electric Power Systems
• Electrical Design Fundamentals – Circuit Breaker Applications Understood  
• Medium Voltage Cable Installations
• Cable Ampacity and Sizing Fundamentals Generator
• Protective Relaying Fundamentals
• NEMA Resources and the NEMA Standards Store

 Plan to attend this timely, educational Seminar. Registration is now open!