SusTech 2025 is hosting talks on Sustainability topics leading up to the Conference April 23-25.

“Sustainable Mountain Development on the Campus: The Synergy of the Student Engaged Learning Model in the Context of Applying AI and High Technologies to Higher Education”

with Baktybek Abdrisaev and Tyler Jaynes, Utah Valley University, USA

Date/Time: July 16, 2034, 6 – 7 pm PDT (7 – 8 pm MDT)

Abstract:

Among the many challenges impacting higher education today, the ability to blend the ever-present changes in AI (artificial intelligence) and other high technologies with coursework stands out as a critical aspect of a well-rounded academic program. Particularly with respect to engaging college-level students in activities promoting the U.N’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their numerous targets, there is a growing need to establish an effective learning model that can encourage individual technological literacy while also showing how students can apply their field of study to sustainable community development. This talk will focus on how the Student Engaged Learning (SEL) model (as employed by Utah Valley University) can be an effective tool to raise individual awareness of sustainable community development, promote digital literacy and critical thinking, and prepare students for changes in labor market demands. By exploring how a focus on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) through the SEL model has resulted in positive student outcomes, we display how other sustainable community emphases can result in equivalent results.

IEEE Seattle Section Excom meeting with chapter and society chairs. 

This 2 hours workshop is an opportunity to learn more about the IEEE SA standards sponsored by IEEE Education Society (EdSoc), the IEEE SA Std. 1876-2019 on Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories and IEEE SA P2834 Standard for Secure and Trusted Learning Systems co-sponsored by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Computer Society / Learning Technology Standards Committee. This event offers students, faculty, and industry members the opportunity to collaborate around the EdSoc Virtual Graduate Study Consortium (VGSC) and motivate their future participation in IEEE SA working groups.

Learn about microwaves in quantum computing, superconducting qubit tech & examples from Google's state-of-the-art Sycamore quantum computer.

Event Details  

Per a recent Forbes article, "The rise of generative AI and surging GPU shipments is causing data centers to scale from tens of thousands to 100,000-plus accelerators, shifting the emphasis to power as a mission-critical problem to solve." making this talk particularly relevant.

The US Department of Energy projects that by the year 2055, given current projected growth, electrical demand for devices including the internet will exceed the capacity of planet Earth to provide that power. The electrical demands on data processing centers in a world of AI and cryptocurrency on top of standard workloads lead the industry down an unsustainable path. Hyperscale systems are feverishly adding processing, memory, storage, connectivity fabric, and communications at an alarming rate. Software engineers need to be part of the total cost of ownership calculation to address this energy crisis.
This talk details some key aspects of the system architectures that are being deployed in data centers, with focus on data movement between resources. Every time data is moved there is inherent inefficiency; we will calculate the wasted data movement in key parts of the system architecture. With this analysis, it is clear that the expansion of the data center architecture has exacerbated the variations in access latency time to each resource as well.

Software developers can leverage knowledge of the energy flow through the system to improve efficiency. Gains can be made on every level from the choice of machine level data types – to choice of high level languages – to various programmer interfaces between the application and the hardware resources. The variations in media access latency are only getting wider and more complex, so software developers are tasked with comprehending not only what data to process but where to place it in the system hierarchy.

The call to action will summarize some of the specific ways careful software engineering can help us avert the looming power crisis.

About the Speaker Bill Gervasi. 

Bill Gervasi is Principal Systems Architect for Wolley Inc, designing advanced memory and storage solutions for data 

NOTE:  This is an IN PERSON meeting.  To receive a link to the event's recording, complete the survey referenced in the header or footer.

The advent of 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) in advanced packaging and wafer-level IC packaging introduces significant challenges for inline defect inspection and offline failure analysis. The 3D stacking and wafer bonding processes create optically opaque structures, necessitating techniques like x-rays to penetrate multiple buried layers for defect detection. However, as device features in 3DHI continue to shrink (e.g., microbumps shrinking to

IEEE Bay Area Summer Social

Come join us for a fun Thursday evening at Ludwigs Biergarten Mountain View! Network with local IEEE young professionals and students in the area for internships, while enjoying delicious food and drinks. This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind, and connect with like-minded professionals in a casual setting. Don't miss out on this chance to make new friends and build connections to help you navigate the transition from student to working professional.

First drink is on us, and we will provide appetizers to share. Price of admission (including drink and food) is for young professionals and for students/interns. See you there!

Why Connect with Young Professionals?

Getting involved with your local IEEE Young Professional (YP) organization is a great way to bridge the transition between academic life and a full-fledged professional career. A few key benefits of being involved in your local YP section include:

• Networking Opportunities: IEEE YP events bring together like-minded individuals from diverse technical backgrounds. It's a perfect platform to expand your professional network, potentially connecting you with future collaborators, mentors, or employers.
• Professional Development: Gain valuable insights and skills through workshops, seminars, and panel discussions tailored to enhance your professional growth. These events often cover topics ranging from technical advancements to career advancement strategies.
• Transition from Student to Professional: For students/interns transitioning into full-time roles, IEEE YP provides a supportive environment helping navigate this crucial career phase successfully.
• Friendship and Camaraderie: Beyond professional benefits, IEEE YP fosters friendships and camaraderie among its members. Building a strong network of peers who share your interests can make your professional journey more fulfilling and enjoyable.

Public Transportaion and Parking

There are multiple city parking lots and parking garages nearby. Moutain View Cal Train Station is with in walking distance to the venue.

IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter July Meeting and Seminar

Join us for a talk from SSCS Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Shreyas Sen from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, on Friday, July 19th, 2024. The seminar will be held from 11:00am to 12:00pm (PST) via a Hybrid format. Please register for the meeting link and information.

Topic:

Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication

Abstract:

We are living in the age of human-machine augmentation and coexistence (e.g., smartphones, AI assistants, computers, earbuds, smart watches) and steadily marching towards a new age of human-machine seamless cooperation (HMC) or even symbiosis. Radiative communication using electromagnetic (EM) fields is the state-of-the-art for connecting wearable and implantable devices enabling prime applications in the fields of connected healthcare, electroceuticals, neuroscience, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and human-computer interaction (HCI) and HMC, forming a subset of the Internet of Things called the Internet of Bodies (IoB). However, owing to such radiative nature of the traditional wireless communication, EM signals propagate in all directions, inadvertently allowing an eavesdropper to intercept the information. Moreover, since only a fraction of the energy is picked up by the intended device, and the need for high carrier frequency compared to information content, wireless communication tends to suffer from poor energy-efficiency (>nJ/bit). Noting that all IoB devices share a common medium, i.e. the human body, utilizing the conductivity of the human the body allows low-loss transmission, termed as human body communication (HBC) and improves energy-efficiency. Conventional HBC implementations still suffer from significant radiation compromising physical security and efficiency. Our recent work has developed Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC), a method for localizing signals within the body using low-frequency transmission, thereby making it extremely difficult for a nearby eavesdropper to intercept critical private data, thus producing a covert communication channel, i.e., the human body as a ‘wire’ along with reducing interference and providing 100x more efficient communication than Bluetooth.
In this talk, I will highlight recent advancements in the field of IoB enabled by the Body-as-a-Wire technology which has a strong promise to become the future of Body Area Network (BAN) along with it’s counterpart in the Brain leading to broadband communication. We will focus on the circuit model developed in recent literature explaining the fundamental behavior of Electro-Quasistatic Body and Brain Communication, leading to understanding of channel loss. We will finally show how such low-power communication is paving the way forward for Secure and Efficient IoB for seamless Human-Machine Co-operation.

Speaker Biography:

Shreyas Sen is an Elmore Associate Professor of ECE & BME, Purdue University. His current research interests span mixed-signal circuits/systems and electromagnetics for the Internet of Bodies (IoB) and Hardware Security. He has co-authored 3 book chapters, over 200 journal and conference papers and has 25 patents granted/pending. Dr. Sen serves as the Director of the Center for Internet of Bodies (C-IoB) at Purdue. Dr. Sen is the inventor of the Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC), or Body as a Wire technology, for which, he is the recipient of the MIT Technology Review top-10 Indian Inventor Worldwide under 35 (MIT TR35 India) Award in 2018 and Georgia Tech 40 Under 40 Award in 2022. To commercialize this invention Dr. Sen founded Ixana and serves as the Chairman and CTO and led Ixana to awards such as 2x CES Innovation Award 2024, EE Times Silicon 100, Indiana Startup of the Year Mira Award 2023, among others. His work has been covered by 250+ news releases worldwide, invited appearances on TEDx Indianapolis, NASDAQ live Trade Talks at CES 2023, Indian National Television CNBC TV18 Young Turks Program, NPR subsidiary Lakeshore Public Radio and the CyberWire podcast. Dr. Sen is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2020, AFOSR Young Investigator Award 2016, NSF CISE CRII Award 2017, Intel Outstanding Researcher Award 2020, Google Faculty Research Award 2017, Purdue CoE Early Career Research Award 2021, Intel Labs Quality Award 2012 for industry wide impact on USB-C type, Intel Ph.D. Fellowship 2010, IEEE Microwave Fellowship 2008, GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Research Award 2007, and nine best paper awards including IEEE CICC 2019, 2021 and in IEEE HOST 2017-2020, for four consecutive years. Dr. Sen's work was chosen as one of the top-10 papers in the Hardware Security field (TopPicks 2019). He serves/has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L), Nature Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Electronics, IEEE Design & Test, Executive Committee member of IEEE Central Indiana Section and Technical Program Committee member of TPC member of ISSCC, CICC, DAC, CCS, IMS, DATE, ISLPED, ICCAD, ITC, and VLSI Design. Dr. Sen is a Senior Member of IEEE and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE SSCS society.

IEEE SSCS Oregon Chapter 2024 Summer Social

Join us at Wildwood Taphouse, in Cedar Mill, from 4:00pm to 7:00pm on Friday, July 19th, 2024. Drinks, beverage, and hors d'oeuvres are on the Oregon SSCS Chapter! Please Register on vTools so that we can have an accurate headcount and plan accordingly.

Space assets such as satellites, drones and spacecraft are increasingly attractive targets for adversaries ranging from individual hackers, to hacker groups and nation states. This rapid rise in the cyber threat landscape necessitates smarter cyber tools to stay ahead of our adversaries. In this talk, I will present the work being done by the Cyber Defense Engineering and Research (CDER) group at JPL in addressing cyber challenges as pertaining to JPL’s missions. I will specifically focus on our work combining model-based engineering and AI-based reasoning to build a unique capability for automated cyber risk assessments.

The software that drives Autonomous Systems, such as Robots and Self-driving cars, runs on Platforms that can run the software fast and reliably. The platform may be broader than just the operating system or environment in which the software runs. It's the ecosystem where software is created, deployed, and maintained on diverse devices. Platform applications such as the Robot Operating System(ROS) and Docker serve numerous industries. Most Software Developers get a platform to add their software to, with their new badge and notepad, the first day they join a new employer, thanks to the SW Architect or Platform team. However, if you want to create a blue-sky application, you may find yourself unmoored without an existing platform or adopt one with more than you bargained for. 

This hands-on workshop series will help you build a minimal and general platform that may be specialized to your new application. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and learn by doing. The style of this workshop is collaborative and conversational. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experts alike. The organizers intend to create a space to help beginners up the learning curve and allow practitioners to share their best practices.  

We will spend the second of the three sessions defining the containers in which applications run. The agenda is as follows. 

• Recap and level set on part 1 - Set up your Workspace 
• Install Docker 
• Build an image that contains the packages required by a software application using Dockerfile 
• Launch containers based on multiple images using docker-compose 

The latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI in May of 2024 concludes that 2023 was the year the world discovered generative AI (GenAI) and 2024 is the year organizations truly began using—and deriving business value from—this new technology. An incredible 65 percent of respondents report that their organizations are regularly using GenAI, which is nearly double the percentage from the previous survey just ten months before. Respondents’ expectations for gen AI’s impact remain as high with three-quarters predicting that gen AI will lead to significant or disruptive change in their industries in the years ahead.

This session is an invaluable opportunity for business leaders like you to overcome your hesitation and uncertainty of AI. Mastering AI tools and techniques is not just about keeping pace with technology; it's about leveraging these advanced resources to fill in knowledge gaps, enhance decision-making, and drive productivity.

Learning to utilize AI not only streamlines operations but also significantly boosts your capacity to deliver increased business outcomes, making you more valuable and a strategic asset to your organization. You will leave equipped with practical, actionable strategies that you can implement immediately, turning your uncertainty into confidence and empowering you to leverage AI effectively in your daily tasks. 

Embarking on a job hunt for executive or professional roles in 2024?

Delve into the secrets of a successful job hunt and unlock the key trends shaping this year's employment scene. Elizabeth will unravel the mysteries surrounding the economic forecast, unveiling whether it's the perfect time to embark on a new career chapter or conduct a stealthy job search.

 Discover the cutting-edge resume strategies and gain an insider's perspective on what hiring managers are truly seeking in the talent they bring aboard. Don't miss out on this exclusive session where the future of your career awaits!

Learn about all-digital transmitter design techniques, including advanced techniques such as ML/AI applied to improve overall performance.

The software that drives Autonomous Systems, such as Robots and Self-driving cars, runs on Platforms that can run the software fast and reliably. The platform may be broader than just the operating system or environment in which the software runs. It's the ecosystem where software is created, deployed, and maintained on diverse devices. Platform applications such as the Robot Operating System(ROS) and Docker serve numerous industries. Most Software Developers get a platform to add their software, with their new badge and notepad, to the first day they join a new employer, thanks to the SW Architect or Platform team. However, if you want to create a blue-sky application, you may find yourself unmoored without an existing platform or adopt one with more than you bargained for. 

This hands-on workshop series will help you build a minimal and general platform that may be specialized to your new application. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and learn by doing. The style of this workshop is collaborative and conversational. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experts alike. The organizers intend to create a space to help beginners up the learning curve and allow practitioners to share their best practices.  

We will spend the last of the three sessions getting services in a mixed set of languages to interact with each other in the Robot Operating System (ROS).  The agenda is as follows. 

• Recap and level set on part 1 - Set up your Workspace
• Recap and level set on part 2 - Containerize Applications
• Launch Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) in a Docker Container
• Create C++ and Python Nodes 
• Run multiple nodes interactively in ROS2

Aug. 1-2, 2024

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is hosting the IEEE Region 6 Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit (WIE ILS). Registration and poster submissions are already underway!

IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Summits (ILS) provide regional opportunities to foster networking, mentorship, and collaboration. With the leadership and creativity of IEEE WIE volunteers, WIE Summits have been extremely successful and have made an outstanding impact on communities around the globe!

The ILS serves as a valuable platform for individuals from diverse backgrounds, including women in STEM, to enhance their skills and forge meaningful connections with like-minded professionals. Building on the success of the 2019 events, which attracted nearly 400 attendees, we aspire to expand the reach to 600 attendees this year.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was chosen to host this Summit once again, along with nine other global locations. The overarching theme “Charting Your Course,” seeks to empower today’s trailblazers to become tomorrow’s change makers. The event will offer a dynamic and immersive experience featuring inspiring talks, engaging panel discussions, interactive workshops, valuable networking opportunities, and more.

Join us for an inspiring day focused on inclusion, leadership, mentorship, and more! The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Summit 2024 is hosted by the WIE affinity group of the Richland Section of the IEEE. The Summit is for anyone seeking:

• Greater empowerment
• Leadership development
• Networking and collaboration opportunities

This day-long Summit includes Keynote Speakers, Panel Discussions, Poster Sessions, and a number of Interactive Sessions by outstanding speakers. We anticipate participation from academia, industry and the national laboratories, representing a wide breadth of technical fields. The event will bring together engineers, scientists, students, researchers, problem solvers, and project managers from across the region, providing unique opportunities for cross-cutting partnerships.

• ATTEND this inspiring and empowering event. Registration is now underway – you won’t want to miss out!
• PRESENT a poster. If you are or know students, post-bachelors, post-masters, and/or post-doctorates who would be interested in participating in the poster session, abstract submissions are due June 10. Learn more here.

Registration note: This year’s conference will be at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Due to the nature of the venue, registration and approvals are required to access the facility. The registration deadline for non-US citizens is June 14, 2024, and further information will be needed for approval. Your credit card will not be charged until full approval is acquired. US citizens may continue to register through July 19, 2024. To learn more about PNNL, click HERE.

Important deadlines:

1. Posters Abstract Submission – June 10, 2024 July 10, 2024
2. Registration for Foreign Nationals – June 14, 2024
3. Registration for US Citizens and PNNL employees – July 19, 2024

Registration Fees:

• Optional Welcome Reception on Aug 1, 2024 (Includes Conference T-shirt – .00)
• Event Registration:
• IEEE NON-MEMBER – 0
• IEEE MEMBER – 5
• Student –

Venue and hotel information: click here.

IEEE Alaska -- Audit Committee 

IEEE Alaska Executive Committee Meeting

Tuesday August 6, 2024 ⋅ 6pm – 7:30pm (Alaska Time - Anchorage)

Robert Posma 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

Hybrid Meeting

On-line and In Person at Quadrant

Refreshments will be available at Quadrant prior to the start of the presentation.

Where: Quadrant, 1120 Ringwood ct. San Jose, 92131. and Online Click here to register.
When: Thursday, August 8th, 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PDT (GMT-8)
Who:  Prof. S. N. (Prem) Piramanayagam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore IEEE Magnetic Society 2024 Distinguished Lecturer.

Details: https://scvmag.org/event/brain-inspired-computing-using-magnetic-domain-wall-devices/

Please join us for the 2023 IEEE Summer Social.

We will be meeting at Next Level Pinball Shop & Museum where we will have access to play 400+ pinball and other arcade games.

This a family event and lunch will be provided at 12:30. Entrance for the day is included with lunch. Please feel free to arrive early. Their hours are from 10:00 AM  - 11:00 PM.

Design Issues and Considerations when Planning a Shielded Chamber

When you are looking to install a shielded chamber, there are several aspects which you need to take into account, depending on what the chamber will be used for, and the size of the chamber. During this presentation we will review some of these, and provide some guidance on the areas which you, as the user of the chamber, need to consider when starting to plan the installation of a new chamber. We will also consider areas which we, as the chamber supplier, can assist with, and provide design input on for you. While focusing on larger EMC chambers, this presentation will also be relevant for smaller chambers, shielded rooms or anechoic chambers, and whether for EMC, antenna, RF or microwave applications.

1. General issues of chapter development, next meeting time, and speaker.
2. Officers election and reporting: 
1. Chair: Alex Dely
2. Vice Chair: Christian Ramiscal
3. Secretary
4. Treasurer
5. Program Committee Chair
6. Publicity Chair
7. Workshop Committee Chair
3. IEEE Reliability Society's 75th Anniversary Celebration and Chapters Congress update
4. Technical presentation update
1. Resources material for meetings – ILN (videos), CLE (training material), iln.ieee.org, http://ieee-elearning.org/CLE/
2. Suggestions:
1. CHIPS Act Microelectronics fabrication (Focus on reliability)
2. NIST Metrology Grand Challenges and Work Elements
3. Applications of Artificial-Intelligence/Machine Learning to Reliability (interesting focus at yesterday’s Intel Innovation-Future of AI in Phoenix)
4. Applications of Augmented/Virtual Reality to Reliability
5. Uncertainty Quantification
6. Robust Design Optimization
7. Model Verification and Validation
8. Physics-based reliability Modeling
9. Design of Experiment Performance Reconstruction
10. Multi-Objective Design Optimization
11. Resiliency Design and Analysis
12. Topology Design Optimization

TBD - CIT Summer Series Session 7

SusTech 2025 is hosting talks on Sustainability topics.

with Peter Spiller, Partner, McKinsey & Company, Frankfurt Germany

Date/Time: Tuesday August 27th 17 CET, 11 am ET, 8 am PT

Growing demand for semiconductors driven by trends such as GenAI, Automation, and E-mobility means industry emissions from semiconductor manufacturing are likely to increase over the coming years. A significant step-up in decarbonisation efforts is required to mitigate these emission increases while simultaneously bringtng the semiconductor industry on a path to net-zero by the 2030s. A successful net-zero transition however, cannot be accomplished by semiconductor manufacturers alone and requires broad collaboration within the semiconductor value chain as well as R&D efforts. Semiconductor customers, OEMs, and materials suppliers all play a pivotal role to accomplish decarbonization through carbon data-based decision making in sourcing, design, capex, and sales, along the value chain.

Monthly ExCom meeting. All Section members welcome.

IEEE Hawaii ExCom
Hosted by WebEx Hawaii Section

Sail to Alaska with IEEE-USA!

IEEE-USA's cruising saga continues in 2024 to the magnificent, wild Alaskan frontier. Building off of the success of IEEE-USA’s 50th Anniversary Cruise, IEEE-USA will be hosting a 7-night Alaska Cruise 9-16 September 2024. We’ll be cruising in style aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas from Seattle to stops in Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, and Victoria, BC, before concluding our cruise back in Seattle.

Please remember that to participate in the IEEE-USA Alaska Cruise activities, you must book through the IEEE-USA Alaska Cruise site.

Details: cruise.ieeeusa.org

This event will be available live at SEMI, as well as over Zoom. Get to SEMI by 6:30pm to network – and enjoy great pizza and refreshments! All attendees MUST register using the Eventbrite form (see link).

Organizations that develop or operate applications using deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and generative AI are accountable for the security, safety, privacy, fairness, and transparency of their operation. AI applications require governance, and organizations must manage both the associated risks as well as their compliance with a growing number of laws and regulations. It’s critical to understand that each aspect of responsible AI involves various tools and processes at each of the stages of their development and operation.

In this presentation, CNSV member Ron Herardian will review the pillars of responsible AI. He will describe important technical requirements and tools, including example open source projects and vendor services, along with solutions from select software startups. The intent of this talk is to help attendees gain a better understanding of the technical implementation aspects of responsible AI.

Engineers traditionally use deterministic modeling in their tasks, but challenges for developing and optimizing products and processes inspire us to venture beyond deterministic to probabilistic or stochastic modeling.  In this continuation from the prior presentation, a case study applying predictive engineering for the optimization of 4 requirements for an integrated circuit (Integrated Alternator Regulator for automobiles) will be shared. Deterministic models were derived by using design of experiments (DOE) and response surface modeling (RSM) in concert with circuit simulations. These deterministic models were melded with probabilistic modeling using Monte Carlo Simulation and Variance Transmission. Yield Surface Modeling™ will be introduced and shared and applied for stochastic co-optimization of the four requirements of the design. Brief summaries and overviews of other applications of predictive engineering to integrated circuit design stochastic optimization will be shared.

What is BESS thermal runaway? How can it be prevented or mitigated? Please plan to attend this meeting of the Industry Applications Society to learn more. The speaker will be Rick Reynolds, Executive Vice President, ORR Protection Systems.

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are being installed at an ever-increasing pace in an effort to mitigate the infamous duck curve caused by the ramping of renewable energy resources. The duck curve pattern is created by the midday dip (belly) in the net load curve, followed by a steep rise in the evenings when solar generation declines.

Recently, there have been multiple reported BESS failures at utility-scale installations around the world. Just in California, in the past 3 years there have been the following incidents according to the EPRI's Battery Energy Storage System Failure Incident Database:

• San Diego, CA – May 15, 2024 (250MWh/250MW, LG Chem)
• Valley Center, CA – Sept 18, 2023 (560MWh/140MW, LG Energy)
• Moss Landing, CA – Sept 20, 2022 (730MWh/182.5MW, Tesla)
• Valley Center, CA – Apr 5, 2022 (560MWh/140MW, LG Energy)
• Moss Landing, CA – Feb 13, 2022 (400MWh/100MW, LG Energy)
• Moss Landing, CA – Sept 4, 2021 (1,200MWh/300MW, LG Energy)

This presentation highlights the pressing need to enhance safety measures in lithium-ion battery usage. The presentation examines current risks, draws insights from past incidents, and explores best practices and fire suppression systems. Embracing future trends, it advocates for collaboration, compliance with standards, and continuous monitoring to achieve the vision of zero lithium-ion battery fire incidents.

This dynamic session uses case studies drawn from the IEEE community to help you dramatically improve your ability to use hybrid work as an instrument to improve retention and productivity while cutting costs. Many leaders rely on traditional office-centric collaboration and leadership styles in managing hybrid teams. Yet research conclusively demonstrates that, instead of incrementally improving on the old-school office-centric approach, the best outcomes in managing hybrid teams come from adopting a flexible hybrid-first work model. Doing so results in much higher retention and productivity, reduces costs, and boosts engagement, innovation, collaboration, and risk mitigation. Through adopting hybrid work best practices based on this training, you will empower yourself and your team to maximize retention, productivity, and cost savings in our increasingly-disrupted future of work.All attendees will have an opportunity to receive a complimentary copy of the speaker's best-selling book on which this talk is based, called Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams.