In June 2024, as IEEE President and CEO, I visited Bremen, Germany and Birmingham, England . This is a report on additional travel in June 2024, including meetings during the IEEE meeting series in Toronto.
After the joint Region 1 and 2 meeting I flew to Denver to attend the International Conference on Communications for a day in order to give out the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for outstanding contributions to communications technology to Stephen B. Weinstein, Leonard J. Cimini, Jr., and Geoffrey Ye Li for for their work on technology that enables the high data rate capabilities in modern cellular and Wi-Fi systems.
From Washington, DC I flew to Toronto, Canada on Tuesday, where the June IEEE meeting series was going to happen. I attended the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee meeting on Tuesday where we came up with plans to increase our engagement with industry and provide value, particularly for younger technologists in industry.
On Friday, after attending IEEE Technical Activities and IEEE-USA meetings I moderated the first of the 2024 IEEE President-Elect Candidates Forums which was live for those attending the IEEE meeting series, was live-streamed on IEEE.tv and was recorded for IEEE members to view before they started to vote on these and other candidate leaders starting on August 15, 2024.
In the IEEE board of directors meeting, we had several very productive activities. In addition to supporting a new budgeting process that should benefit IEEE overall and enable us to do more good work together, Sophia Muirhead and I spoke about progress we have been making to meeting our objectives in 2024 and beyond .