* The agenda is being updated and not final

In-person Conference Agenda*

Time	In Person (Las Vegas)
	Cohiba 6-7-8-9	Cohiba 10-11	Cohiba 1-2	Montecresto 1-2
January 2nd, 2022
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PT)	Registration
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)	Creating a Powerful Resume and Conduction a Successful Job Search Michael Andrews, Andrews & Associates, Carolyn Andrews, Inspired Leaders Now	—	—	—
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (PT)	Break
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PT)	EPICS Session Samarth Deo, Chair, EPICS, R&D Project Manager at Grid & Power Quality Solutions (G&PQS), Hitachi ABB Power Grids Stephanie Gillespie, University of New Haven	Ham Radio Exam	Federal Policies, Programs and Funding Opportunities in Engineering Policy by Aline McNaull, Senior Legislative Representative IEEE-USA	—-
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PT)	Young Professional’s @ Montecresto 1
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PT)	Welcome Note by Mansi Tripathi, Meta Scott Tamashiro, Raytheon Tim Lee, R6 Director, Senior Scientist in the RF and Digital Electronics Product Group, Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems, Boeing Deborah Cooper, IEEE USA President, President and Founder, DC Associates
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (PT)	Keynote by Melissa Sassi, Chief Penguin, IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (PT)	Networking & Snacks
January 3rd, 2022
6:45 AM – 7:45 AM (PT)	Breakfast
8:00 AM – 8:15AM (PT)	Opening Day 2
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM (PT)	Keynote by Stephen Welby, Executive Director and Chief Operating O!cer, IEEE
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM (PT)	Break
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM (PT)	Session by Mark Schneider, Global Solutions Architect – Digital Workflow Adviser, Bentley Systems	Session by Camilo Buscarón, Technologist, ‎Amazon Web Services (AWS)	Leadership: Goals to Game Plan by Carolyn Andrews, President, Inspired Leaders Now
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM (PT)	Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM (PT)	Good to Great: Excelling in the early phases of your career by Amy Jones, Engineering Supervisor, Comfort, Controls & Module Engineering, John Deere	The Effect of Entropy on the Choice of a Technical Career by John Treichler, Chief Technical Officer, ‎Applied Signal Technology, Raytheon	Enabling the Era of Hyperconnectivity and Hyperscale Computing by Frank Schirrmeister, Senior Group Director, Solutions Marketing, Cadence
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM (PT)	Break
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)	The Second Golden Age of Space by Andrew Rush, Chief Operating Officer, Redwire Space
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (PT)	Lunch
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)	Keynote by Ellen Ebner, Boeing
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM (PT)	Break
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM (PT)	Session by Tim Lee, Senior Scientist in the RF and Digital Electronics Product Group, Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems, Boeing	Renovating Cybersecurity: Suggestions on How You Could Change The Future by Deborah Cooper, President and Founder, DC Associates	Unpopular Opinion: It’s Okay to Say ‘No’ Michelle Yung, Business Development Manager, Northrup Grumman
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM (PT)	Break
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM (PT)	Session by Heather Monigan, Director of IP Strategy & Management Intel	LEO Satellite Communications – Security Perspectives by Kathleen Kramer, Professor, University of San Diego	Financial Planning Best Practices by Stewart Ongchin, Intel
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM (PT)	Break
3:45 PM – 4:30 PM (PT)	*Key Insights to Career Management* by John McDonald, Smart Grid Business Development Leader, GE Grid Solutions	Session by Simay Akar, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder, Innoses	Imposter Syndrome Kim Tayler, Kim Tayler Therapy
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM (PT)	Break
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM (PT)	Session by Vint Cerf, Google
5:15 PM – 5:45 PM (PT)	Young Professionals Session: Volunteering, Funding and Career by Emre Ayranci, IEEE YP Committee Chair , Director RFFE Design, pSemi @ muRata	Poster Competition Judging
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)	Young Professionals Panel Moderator: Daniel Thomson, Keysight Technologies Panelists: Alberto Tam Yang, Applied Medical Mehmet Ogut, NASA-JPL Elizabeth Farkas, Apple Sherry Buiter, L3 Harris	Poster Competition Judging
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM (PT)	EPICS Pitch Competition Award Announcement Samarth Deo, Stephanie Gillespie & Group Photo
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (PT)	Corporate Mixer & Dinner
January 4th, 2022
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM (PT)	Breakfast
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM (PT)	Awards Ceremony: Poster Competition, Sponsor giveaway raffle
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM (PT)	The Jobs They Won’t Tell You About – Why Engineers Rule the World by Daniel Bogdanoff, Keysight
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM (PT)	Mars 2020 Lecture: The Thrill and Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars by Robert Manning, Chief Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Engineering Fellow
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM (PT)	Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)	Next Big Thing Panel Moderator: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates Panelist: Whurley Melissa Sassi Robert Manning Andrew Rush
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM (PT)	Closing Remarks 2022 IEEE President: K.J. Ray Liu

Virtual Conference Agenda*

Time	Virtual (EventMobi)
Tracks	Virtual Track #1	Virtual Track #2
January 2nd, 2022
	[Live Streamed] Creating a Powerful Resume and Conduction a Successful Job Search Michael Andrews, Andrews & Associates, Carolyn Andrews, Inspired Leaders Now
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (PT)	Break
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] EPICS Session Samarth Deo, Chair, EPICS, R&D Project Manager at Grid & Power Quality Solutions (G&PQS), Hitachi ABB Power Grids Stephanie Gillespie, University of New Haven	Session by Aline McNaull
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PT)	Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Welcome Note by Mansi Tripathi, Meta Scott Tamashiro, Raytheon Tim Lee, R6 Director, Senior Scientist in the RF and Digital Electronics Product Group, Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems, Boeing Deborah Cooper, IEEE USA President, President and Founder, DC Associates
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Keynote by Melissa Sassi, Chief Penguin, IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (PT)	Networking – Spatial Chat
January 3rd, 2022
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM (PT)	Women as an entrepreneur, participating in the AES and being integrated into the industry by Laila Moreira, Technical Director, Radaz
8:15 AM – 9:00 AM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Keynote by Whurley, President, Strange Works
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM (PT)	Session by Hima Bindu, Global Enablement & Communication Leader – Advisory & Implementation Service @ Kyndryl	Metawork – Towards an era of Decentralised workforce powered by AI, Blockchain & Mixed reality by Aravind Voruganti, Vice President – Blockchain Practice & Products, IDS, Inc
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM (PT)	Break & Networking – Sponsor spotlight: Mercer, GRSS, Micron & Qualcomm Foundation
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM (PT)	Entrepreneurship & Electric Flight by Kevin Noertker, Co-Founder and CEO, Ampaire	Session by Vijay Pravin Maharajan, Founder & CEO, bitsCrunch
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM (PT)	Break & Networking – Sponsor spotlight: IEEE YP & IEEE EAB
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Keynote by Andrew Rush, Chief Operating Officer, Redwire Space
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (PT)	Antennas to Bits: System Apps Does It All by Charles Frick, Analog Devices	Session by Mary Ann Hellrigel, Institutional Historian and Archivist, IEEE History Center
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Keynote by Ellen Ebner, Boeing
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM (PT)	Session by Sonita Lontoh, Global Head of Marketing (CMO) for 3D Print & Digital Manufacturing, HP	Session by Tekin Mericli, CTO, Locomation
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM (PT)	Break & Networking – Sponsor spotlight: Boeing, Keysight, Locomotion & Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:45PM – 3:30 PM (PT)	Technology wears a lot of masks in healthcare today, from the least to most glamorous by Kate Jenkins Mercado, Engineer, Forward, Inc	How Complex High-Frequency Systems are Driving Design Innovation by Matt Ozalas, Keysight Technologies
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM (PT)	Break & Networking – Sponsor spotlight: IEEE EPICS, IEEE USA, IEEE CS, IEEE MadC, IEEE ComSoc
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM (PT)		Session by Elizabeth Ruetsch, Vice President and General Manager, Quantum Electronics Group, Keysight
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Session by Vint Cerf, Google
5:15 PM – 5:45 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Young Professionals Session: Volunteering, Funding and Career by Emre Ayranci, IEEE YP Committee Chair , Director RFFE Design, pSemi @ muRata
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Young Professionals Panel Moderator: Daniel Thomson, Keysight Technologies Panelists: Alberto Tam Yang, Applied Medical Mehmet Ogut, NASA-JPL Elizabeth Farkas, Apple Sherry Buiter, L3 Harris
6:30 PM – 6:45 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed] EPICS Pitch Competition Award Announcement Samarth Deo, Stephanie Gillespie
6:45 PM – 7:30 PM (PT)	Session by Stephen Phillips, Director, School Of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, Arizona State University	Technology-based Sustainable Development for Global Good by Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan, Amazon, IEEE Humanitarian Activities
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM (PT)	Networking
January 4th, 2022
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM (PT)	Pros and Cons of Working for a Government R&D Organization by Alexander Kott,Chief Scientist, US Army Research Laboratory
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Awards Ceremony: Poster Competition, Sponsor giveaway raffle
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM (PT)	[Live Streamed]The Jobs They Won’t Tell You About – Why Engineers Rule the World by Daniel Bogdanoff, Keysight
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM (PT)	[Live Streamed] Mars 2020 Lecture: The Thrill and Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars by Robert Manning, Chief Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Engineering Fellow
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM (PT)	Break & Networking – Sponsor spotlight: IEEE Life Members, IEEE RAS, IEEE AESS, IEEE YP, IEEE Antenna & Propagation
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed]Next Big Thing Panel Moderator: Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates Panelist: Whurley Melissa Sassi Robert Manning Andrew Rush
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM (PT)	[Live Streamed]Closing Remarks by 2022 IEEE President :K.J. Ray Liu