IEEE Industry Summit Program

1. IEEE Industry Summit Program Michael Condry, TEMS President-Elect, IES Senior AdCom Creator and Chair of IEEE Industry Summit 2016

2. Concept • Technology growth is moving fast in the academic research AND industry segments • Some IEEE events are diverging from Industry needs • Academic studies focus on citations and exposures • Industry studies focus on product design and marketing • Membership and cross engagement is shrinking • IEEE Industry Summit is a program to stimulate convergence of these industry and IEEE events • Convergence allows IEEE to be more valued by Industry

3. Event Design Wed Thu Fri Mon Tue IEEE Industry Summit Attached IEEE Events Summit has industry speakers and showcase Attached Events are IEEE Conferences and Workshops Engagement allows any attendee to mix in any technical sessions Stimulate a “Challenge” program for Industry to access IEEE community Attached events aligned to possible industry audience interests Overall theme of event can vary by each year

4. Objective Benefit for IEEE • Key is a program for industry to benefit and engage in IEEE • Establish resolution path for the Industry-to-IEEE dichotomy • Showcase events typically have 20-80 exhibits in the area • Showcase operators often desire more technical content - IEEE has it • Registration allows attendees for Summit or Attached Events(s)* • “Attached Event” Registration required for papers, special activities, etc. • Possible Financial Benefit for IEEE • Showcase, say 30 exhibits at $10K = $300K • Summit Attendees 500 at $250 = $125K • Say 20% share, each IEEE event gets about $150K from Summit plus their registration * Register for one and view open sessions from all

5. Current 2016 Program http://techindustrysummit.org/ Theme is Challenges of Industrial IoT Summit Events • Power Complexities of IoT  • Security and Industrial IoT • Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Marketing and IoT • IoT Architectural Framework (P2314) • IoT Computation Challenges • IoT Communication Challenges • IoT Sample Applications • 25th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE) • TEMS Workshop on Technical Management and Entrepreneurship Issues on IoT • IoT and Transportation Innovation Program • IEEE Standard for an Architectural Framework for the IoT Committee • IEEE IoT Community Workshop • IEEE ComSoc Workshop on IoT and Communications *June 6-10 Santa Clara Convention Center

6. Current Status • Finding volunteers to motivate Industry sponsors is a challenge • Section members are not used to finding sponsors • Some Society members are looking for sponsors but we need more help! • Summit speaker program is coming together • Some section and society members are helping with session organization • 4 Companies offered diamond sponsorship to get started, more are being contacted • The operational model did not align with many traditional IEEE processes, many had unique requirements requiring custom agreements • We do need support particularly in sponsors/exhibitors for 2016

7. Needed for Long Term Objective • A TAB level committee to own the effort – it is not a one person job • Engage Societies/Divisions to host Attached Events • A sponsorship committee • Motivate the Challenge Program • A Region (possibly Multiple Region) support team • Owners for next 3 years and planned events • Venue can move but stably-located events tend to grow industry engagement • Attached events need to focus on the theme and industry interest • Also make it a major recruiting event • Success can grow industry engagement – do the recalculation

8. Helping the 2016 Event • The stongest need is sponsorship/exhibits and attracting attendees • Sponsors/exhibitors come from Industry partners to the IEEE • I have talked to many, need some stronger contacts • Help “getting the word out” for attendees • Would be able to support hack-a-thons at the showcase, maybe this might draw interest • Need more applications speakers (medical, factory, automotive) • Long term return for the IEEE could be major

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10. Challenge Option • Industry Summit also enables company supported challenges • The program connects the IEEE engineering and research community to companies interested in sponsoring challenges • Company runs challenges • All rules defined (and managed) by company • Can be prototyping, hack-a-thons, benchmarks, proposed standards or whatever the company wants to use the IEEE resources • If desired, the Summit provides exhibit space for challenges selected by sponsors. This is independent of the showcase that is focused on companies exhibiting product More see: http://techindustrysummit.org/optional-challenge-program/

11. Industry Sponsorship • Industry Sponsored and Senior Speakers • Sponsorship Fees • $25K diamond provides large exhibit, speakers and 30 attendee guests, focus sessions • $10K gold exhibit, speakers and 15 guests • $5K silver exhibit, 2 guests • Optional Focused topic analysis sessions • If a challenge is supported the demo space will be provided

12. Why Engage – Value Propositions Register for any event and get in open sessions to all: listen to what you like • As a Company • Showcase your technologies and product directions • Observe competition and engineering interests • Network with a large engineering and research community • As an Engineer or researcher • Observe technology in use and directions, see demos • Listen to technology research directions, pick the ones interesting you • Present your research to a larger audience • As a Manager or Entrepreneur • Be educated in technology management skills and how they change • Engage in a hands on workshop to with Berkeley team on your challenges