Ethics in AI and Humanity’s Sustainability: IEEE’s Drive for a Better World

Join us for Ethics in AI and Humanity’s Sustainability: IEEE’s Drive for a Better World, an event on Tue, Jan. 14, 2025 at 7pm at SEMI, 567 Yosemite Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035. (Also available via Zoom - see https://californiaconsultants.org/event/ethics-in-ai-and-humanitys-sustainability-ieees-drive-for-a-better-world)

We'll have free quality pizza and drinks starting at 6:30pm. Come early and network with our members, other engineers, interested parties, and possible consulting clients. A Zoom option for this hybrid event is at www.CaliforniaConsultants.org

As the world’s largest technical professional organization, IEEE has been actively developing initiatives that support ethics in AI, a broader semiconductor supply chain, mitigating climate change, and ensuring sustainability. IEEE’s efforts include initiatives in its Standards Association (SA), Future Directions Committee (FDC), Technical Societies (TA), Educational Activities Board (EAB), and Members and Geographic Activities (MGA).

In this talk, Dr. Tom Coughlin will discuss his work as 2024 IEEE President, and how these IEEE activities have included work on the Ethical Design of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, Global CHIPS Act activities, sustainability efforts such as e-Liability for certifiable determination of the carbon content in a supply chain, and the 2883-2022 standard for data sanitization. Further, he will discuss how climate change efforts have included the recent formation of a Matrix organization in IEEE to address this issue. Attendees will learn how they can find out more about these efforts, as well as how to get involved.

Tom Coughlin is President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. where he is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant. He has over 40 years of experience in the data storage industry, and has held engineering and senior management positions at industry companies. Tom consults, publishes books and market and technology reports, and organizes digital storage and memory-oriented events. He is a regular contributor to forbes.com and M&E organization websites.

Dr. Coughlin is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Immediate Past President, IEEE-USA Past President, IEEE Region 6 Past Director, and IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section Past Chair. He is a CNSV At-Large Director and its past Chair, and he is also active with SNIA and SMPTE.

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