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IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Activities in Africa
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Activities in Africa will develop a roadmap for
programs and initiatives to guide IEEE’s future activities in sub-Saharan Africa.
A primary goal by the end of 2015 will be to provide a draft roadmap for the
future of these efforts that encompasses 2016-2018 inclusive.
Additional activities undertaken by the committee will include, but are not
limited to:
• Develop a short-term strategy that will guide IEEE’s goals and activities
over the next 2-3 years
• Develop and support activities aimed to bolster section vitality, support
local members and nurture volunteer leadership in sub-Saharan Africa
• Facilitate increased access to technical information
• Convene key stakeholders critical to advancing the engineering
ecosystem
• Build partnerships internally and externally that will advance IEEE’s work
in the region
• Support and align with planned and ongoing IEEE activities in the region
Membership:
Vincent Kaabunga (chair)
Joseph Mutale
Towela Nyirenda-Jere
Gertjan van Stam
John Funso
Costas Stasopoulous
Primary Professional Staff
Tara Wisniewski
Additional Professional Staff
Doug Gorham
Eileen Lach
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Board Outreach
Scope/Charter:
In 2015, each member of the Board of Directors will have the opportunity to
participate in industry engagement and outreach efforts with business leaders in
IEEE fields of interest. Four cities have been selected: Munich, Germany; Tokyo,
Japan; Shenzhen, China; Silicon Valley, USA.
The goal of the visits will be to collect feedback received from corporate leaders
collectively. While there will be common focuses across cities, special attention
will be paid to local needs.
Committee members will assist the 2015 IEEE President and staff with selecting
the best industries to include and companies to visit. They will also leverage their
connections to leaders (CTOs, Chief Strategy Officers, CEOs, SVPs or EVPs, or
similar level) at international corporations in these locations.
Committee members are not expected to attend all trips as committee
members.
Membership:
Dejan Milojicic (chair)
Roberto de Marca
Axel Richter
Primary Professional Staff
Tara Wisniewski
Additional Professional Staff
Ning Hua
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Digital Strategy
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Digital Strategy will consider IEEE’s digital
footprint, both the face IEEE presents to the world, and the way(s) in which the
world views IEEE.
The committee will explore ways to maximize the value of current digital
platforms such as ieee.org, IEEE Xplore®, mobile efforts, social media channels,
other IEEE digital presences as well as consider other platforms including a
volunteer extranet. The scope of this committee covers the entire IEEE web
presence, which includes thousands of society, conference, section, and other
sites, along with defining guiding principles to ensure alignment and best-in-class
digital experiences that are unmistakably IEEE. This will relate to the branding
strategy.
A primary goal by the end of 2015 will be to provide a draft digital strategy
framework that encompasses 2015-2018 inclusive. If recommendations are
expansive, the committee should provide a roadmap related to gathering input
from the breadth of IEEE and a socialization plan.
Membership:
Diogo Monica (chair)
[member(s) awaiting confirmation]
Primary Professional Staff
Prakash Bellur
Additional Professional Staff
John Wettlaufer
Priscilla Amalraj
John Day
Francine Tardo
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Disruptive Innovations
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Disruptive Innovations is charged with focusing
on ‘what’s next’ in our ever-changing world. The committee should examine
and experiment with what it means to be a
publishing/membership/convening/fill-in-the-blank organization in 2020, 2025
and 2030 and beyond.
The committee, focusing both inwardly and outwardly, will examine ways to
incorporate measured risk into IEEE’s endeavors. The committee is charged
with generating both implementable and possibly un-implementable ideas, with
the ultimate goal of producing actionable, forward-thinking possibilities for IEEE
to explore further.
The committee will function in the manner of a “skunkworks”, focused on
projects/processes to advance IEEE as an organization, with an emphasis on
creativity and the out-of-the-ordinary.
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees/boards is
encouraged, and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any
materials generated.
Membership:
Mike Andrews (chair)
Karen Panetta
Cheri Warren
Lee Stogner
William Hurley
Jim Plummer
Pam Jones
Kartik Kulkarni
[additional member(s) awaiting confirmation]
Primary Professional Staff
David Goldstein
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Election Oversight
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Election Oversight will, in general, assist the
President, the Board of Directors, IEEE Staff, candidates in IEEE elections, and
other IEEE volunteers in conducting the Annual Election and other IEEE elections,
focusing on the following areas:
• electioneering matters addressed in IEEE governing documents;
• electioneering matters not covered by IEEE governing documents;
• verifications and presentation of candidate credentials;
• compliance of candidates and other volunteers with election-related bylaws, policies and Board directives.
In the areas outlined above, the Committee will perform the following tasks:
• Process questions from candidates and others; provide advice, guidance
and interpretation of IEEE by-laws, policies, and other pertinent
regulations (solicited or unsolicited).
• Assist in reviewing and processing complaints and protests.
• Make recommendations to the President, the Board and other governing
bodies and organizational units about proposed disposition of queries
and complaints on candidates and other volunteers.
• Make recommendations to the pertinent bodies on changes in IEEE
governing documents.
• Make recommendations on needs for education and information
dissemination.
• Engage in collection, analysis and presentation of pertinent data.
• Accept and perform other relevant duties, as directed by the President
or the Board of Directors.
Membership:
Moshe Kam (chair)
Bruce Eisenstein
Arthur Winston
[Additional member(s) awaiting
confirmation]
Primary Professional Staff
Julie Cozin
Additional Professional Staff
Carrie Loh
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Engagement in Europe
Scope/Charter
The Ad Hoc Committee on Engagement in Europe will work to expand IEEE’s
engagement with, and support of, the European engineering community, which
includes nearly 60,000 IEEE members, consistent with the four priorities adopted by
the IEEE Board of Directors in 2013. In particular, the committee will:
• Lead and manage the IEEE European Public Policy Initiative (EPPI), which is
working to expand dialogue between the European engineering community
and appropriate bodies of the EU, to enable technologists to more easily share
their concerns and to enable the EU government to more easily obtain
technologists’ input in matters of importance in IEEE fields of interest.
o The EPPI, which began in 2012 and received its initial funding from the
Board in 2013, is described in detail in the proposal made to the IEEE
New Initiatives Committee, and in subsequent progress reports.
o Primary tasks for 2015 will include expanding engagement with EU
offices and officials through direct contact and the development of
policy statements, the organization of a second IEEE Summit on a topic
of current policy interest (perhaps energy), and work toward a strategy
for sustaining the work of the Initiative after 2016.
• Consider whether IEEE should open an office (or offices) in Europe. If the
committee concludes that it should, it will recommend a development plan
to the Board, including objectives, location, timeline, funding, measures of
success, and potential exit strategy.
o Examples of needs and opportunities may include greater support for
practicing engineers, greater collaboration with industry, greater
adoption of IEEE Standards, public policy, and greater access to IEEE
information and education resources
• Collaborate with the IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Global Public Policy on
areas of mutual interest and related responsibilities.
Membership:
Marko Delimar (Chair)
Martin Bastiaans
Costas Stasopoulos
Marina Ruggieri
Gianluca Setti
David Law
Dirk Van Hertem
Axel Richter
Christopher James
Gordon Day
Primary Professional Staff
Tara Wisniewski
Additional Professional Staff
Karine Iffour
Cheryl Sinauskus
Konstantinos Karachalios
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Enhancing Financial Management
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Chief Financial Officer and the IEEE Finance Committee work together
to provide the IEEE Board of Directors with the information and
recommendations they need on budget and finance to guide the IEEE into an
even more successful future. Working together, they have earned a reputation
for honesty and reliability. This ad hoc committee is appointed to help them
transition to a clearer accounting system and to present information in new
ways to better address the evolving needs of the IEEE.
This is an appropriate activity for an ad hoc committee because in steady state,
the existing structures can handle the issues that arise. The ad hoc is only to
assist during the transition. To assure success and continuity the ad hoc
committee works with the IEEE Finance Committee and the Office of the Chief
Financial Officer so that, to the extent possible committee recommendations
are supported by all relevant parties.
This ad hoc committee will work with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to
provide advice and counsel on:
• The ways in which financial documents need to reconcile cash-based
accounting with IEEE-approved use of generally accepted accounting
principles based on the accrual method of accounting
• Progress on rationalizing the IEEE chart of accounts
• Progress on utilizing technology to make financial information more
readily available in a way that supports transparency and user
acceptance
• The identification how to improve the basis of financial information
presented within the IEEE Treasurers Report so that it is consistent
with the accrual method and to ensure the requisite changes are
considered for budgeting purposes
• The format and content of reports to be adopted across IEEE as part of
the standard reporting package
• The merits of moving to a contribution margin approach to reporting
that would show how business like activities support the non-incomegenerating programs and projects that are deemed vital to IEEE’s
mission
The ad hoc committee will work closely with the IEEE Finance Committee to
frame and address some emerging financial questions including:
• Financial incentives and disincentives to adding content to IEEE Xplore
• Modernization of the definition of infrastructure
• Guidelines for determining the appropriate amount of infrastructure
and capital spending
• Guidance on when and why to revisit revenue allocations
fundamentally in addition to the marginal adjustments made in annual
budgets.
The activities with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and the IEEE Finance
Committee are intertwined, so the committee will work to facilitate
communication on these topics between the staff and volunteer organizations.
In addition, the ad hoc committee will work closely with IEEE staff members
and IEEE Finance Committee to make certain the summaries presented to the
Board are traceable to the IEEE budget and accounting systems.
Membership:
Robert Hebner (chair)
Joseph Lillie
Jose Moura
Susan Land
Thomas Coughlin
John Barr
Jerry Hudgins
Alex Acero
Mary Ellen Randall
Primary Professional Staff
Thomas Siegert
Additional Professional Staff
Jason Shapiro
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on the
Future of Information and Convening
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Information will examine possible
scenarios pertaining the way in which information will produced, made available
and consumed in a five-, ten- and fifteen-year horizons, and what actions IEEE
should be undertaking in the present to anticipate and address those activities.
The committee will oversee a number of presentations made to the Board of
Directors, not limited to: (all dates are tentative)
• February
o The nature of the future of work and "the way technologists and
engineers work”
o The future of convening
• June
o The future of information and the nature of journal publications;
addressing questions such as:
 How can we make sure the information delivered can be more
efficiently brought to fruition? Can we easily make research
reproducible to ensure a better impact for the benefit of
humanity?
 Will journals matter as “information containers” in 2030?
 How will information be vetted?
 Will Xplore exist/matter in 2030, or even 2020?
• November
o Synthesis and plan to move forward including possible pilot(s)
for the IEEE
Reports to the board should not just be “traditional” reports but interactive
discussions on what the board should be focusing and working on for the
immediate and long-term future.
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees/boards is
encouraged, and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any
materials generated.
Membership:
Gianluca Setti (chair)
[member(s) awaiting confirmation]
Primary Professional Staff
Tony Durniak
Additional Professional Staff
Mary Ward-Callan
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Global Public Policy
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Global Public Policy will develop and
recommend a framework for an IEEE Global Public Policy Program. It will build
upon and carry forward the work of the 2014 IEEE Strategic Planning
Committee, consistent with IEEE’s 2013-adopted priority, “to provide
governments, nongovernmental organizations, and other groups with
innovative, practical recommendations to address public policy issues.”
The recommended framework should include:
• A mission statement
• A description of the scope and limitations of IEEE’s present and future
engagement in public policy
o This should include a database of IEEE’s present position statements
• Robust processes for the development, approval, and sunsetting of public
policy statements by IEEE and IEEE entities.
o This should include a review of IEEE Policies, Section 15
• A volunteer leadership structure including qualifications and selection of
participants
• A staffing plan, to provide sustainable support
• An analysis of the costs and budget implications of a sustainable program,
including start-up and continuing costs, and a recommended funding model
• Milestones, metrics and impact measures
• Changes to the IEEE Bylaws and Policies required for implementation
The Committee will include a Chair, a Core Team of representatives of each of
the Major IEEE OUs, a Consultation Team which will provide advice and
guidance to the Core Team, and a Review Team, to provide additional guidance
as needed. Two members of the Management Council will provide staff
support and liaison to IEEE management, as needed.
Membership:
Gordon Day (chair)
Core Team:
Karen Bartleson
Robert Hebner
Ralph Ford
John Baillieul
Ned Sauthoff
Tech Low
Marko Delimar
Consultation Team:
Axel Richter (DE)
Francisco Martinez (MX)
Rodney Tucker (AU)
Consultation Team
(continued):
Kazuo Kyuma (JP)
Terrance Malkinson (CA)
K. P. Lau (US)
Michael Lightner (US)
Jon Peha (US)
Konstantinos Karachalios
(EUR)
…..
Review Team:
OU VPs/Ps
Management Council
Strategic Planning Ad Hoc
Primary
Professional Staff
Chris Brantley
Additional
Professional Staff
Konstantinos
Karachalios
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Global Strategy
Scope/Charter:
Membership:
Joe Lillie (chair)
Keith Brown
Peter Magyer
Marcel Keschner
Anil Roy
Lance Fung
Ted Hissey
Jennifer Trelewicz
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Global Strategy is charged with overseeing the
continued execution of the objectives contained in the 2014 Globalization
Strategy final report. These include, but are not limited to:
• Crafting a global strategic plan;
• Clarifying the relationships among Corporate Activities, OUs, global
offices and local volunteers and establish a workable framework;
• Creating a formal business case template for opening a new office
including strategic objectives, metrics of success, financial implications,
exit strategy, etc.
• Clarifying role of existing national society and sister society agreements
efforts as part of global strategy efforts, expanding our reach throughout
the national society and sister society global community, and exploring
ways in which to maximize existing and new agreements;
• Determining what and how information about our global activities
should be delivered to the Board of Directors
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees/boards is
encouraged, and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any
materials generated.
Primary Professional Staff
Elena Gerstmann
Additional Professional Staff
Cecelia Jankowski
Konstantinos Karachalios
Mary Ward-Callan
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Holistic IT Development
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc on Holistic IT Development will focus primarily on the IT needs
of IEEE business units on a 3- to 5-year time horizon.
This committee’s emphasis will be on the longer-term IT needs of IEEE based on
the strategic needs of OUs. For example, projects like IEEE Collabratec™ would
have arisen as a result of an ad hoc committee like this one, had it been in place
several years ago. Another example would be significant upgrades to the IEEE
Xplore platform, or projects of similar scale, scope, and long-term impact.
A primary goal by the end of 2015 will be to provide a draft roadmap for the
long-term needs of IEEE that can be used as a framework for further efforts. This
is an inward-focused committee.
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees is encouraged,
and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any materials generated.
Membership:
David Green (chair)
Francisco Martinez
Deborah Cooper
Jim Isaak
[additional member(s) awaiting
confirmation]
Primary Professional Staff
Donna Hourican
Additional Professional Staff
Tony Durniak
Providence More
Marie Hunter
Vera Sharoff
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Initiatives
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc on Humanitarian Initiatives will act upon the envisioned future
chosen by the IEEE BoD at its November 2014 meeting:
• It will work with Governance Committee to create 2016 and beyond
Committee of the Board bylaws and charter for BoD approval by April
2015. This will allow the 2016 Chair and committee to be appointed by
the BoD in November 2015 through the normal N&A process;
• It will immediately begin program development based on the BoD’s
decision to support the “boots-on-the-ground” approach to
humanitarian activities.
The programmatic vision endorsed by the BoD is that IEEE will possess a large
network of volunteers around the world carrying out and/or supporting
impactful humanitarian activities on the local level.
This work is broken into five core areas:
• Projects providing local solutions, including the housing of the IEEE
Special Interest Groups on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) program;
• Monitoring/evaluation/best practices, including metrics and impact
assessment;
• Volunteer support activities, such as workshops, newsletter, training,
awards, etc.;
• IEEE-external partnerships, such as with NGOs, governments,
corporations, etc.;
• Operations, including awareness/promotion, budget, and committee
support.
In addition, the ad hoc is tasked with further developing the partnership with
Engineering for Change (E4C) – in particular, maximizing the benefit this initiative
has for IEEE and the connection of IEEE volunteers to the E4C project and
governance structure. Two committee members will be designated as E4C
volunteer leads to ensure progress. Updates on E4C will be included in the
reports to the BoD.
A project specialist staff position for the humanitarian activities was part of the
budget approved by the Board. Hiring this person will be an early priority.
Membership:
Michael Lightner (Chair)*
Kapil Dandekar
Laura Jacob
Kartik Kulkarni
Ray Larsen
Norberto Lerendegui
Daniel Lottis*
Amarnath Raja
Saurabh Sinha
Peter Staecker
Sheree Wen
*Current E4C volunteer leads
Primary
Additional
Professional Staff
Professional Staff
Holly Schneider Brown Tara Wisniewski
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE in 2030 (IEEEin2030)
Scope/Charter:
The 2015 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on IEEE in 2030 (IEEEin2030) will assist the IEEE
Board of Directors address the question: “What changes must we make now to
best position IEEE for success in 2030, while still supporting the needs of
technologists between now and then?”
IEEEin2030 will use the output from the January 2015 Board of Directors Retreat
as the foundational material to develop a roadmap of activities and target dates
required to position IEEE for success in 2030.
IEEEin2030 will integrate input from across the IEEE and include input from
external sources as necessary.
Membership:
Barry L. Shoop (chair)
Marko Delimar
Ralph Ford
Ellen Yoffa
Tom Coughlin
Norberto Lerendegui
Bill Moses
Kathy Land
Lawrence Wong
Primary Professional Staff
Jim Prendergast
Additional Professional Staff
Elena Gerstmann
Providence More
IEEE Internet Initiative Ad Hoc Committee Scope/Charter: The IEEE Internet Initiative Ad Hoc Committee is charged with overseeing the continued execution of the Initiative strategic plan which includes these goals: 1. Engage the technical community in shaping policies surrounding Internet governance to inform decision making that impacts the Internet ecosystem 2. Deliver technology policy program for cyber‐security 3. Deliver technology policy program for cyber‐privacy 4. Establish Initiative management processes and communications platforms The Committee will build upon the foundation of work accomplished in 2014. By the end of 2015, it is expected that:  The framework for delivering technology policy programs in both cyber‐
security and cyber‐privacy has been established  Milestones are established for evolution and deployment of the technology policy programs  Initiative management processes and communications platforms are fully operational In addition, the Committee should be prepared, by the end to 2015, to provide a draft roadmap for the continued evolution of the IEEE Internet Initiative that explores options for the period of 2016‐2018, inclusive. Membership: Oleg Logvinov (chair) John Cioffi Roberto de Marca Jose Ribeiro Greg Shannon Mary Ward‐Callan Konstantinos Karachalios [member(s) awaiting confirmation] Primary Professional Staff Karen McCabe Additional Professional Staff Bobby Wong Kathy Clark‐Fisher Jim Wendorf IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Roles and Responsibilities
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Roles & Responsibilities will focus on describing a
positive, productive, and collaborative working relationship among the Board of
Directors, the President and the Executive Director. Its work will be data driven
and include benchmarking the structures of leading peer organizations and
examining trends in not-for-profit leadership consistent with the future we
aspire to.
The operations of the Board, President and Executive Director will continue as
defined by the IEEE Constitution, bylaws and the existing Executive Director’s
contract so there is no violation of current legal documents.
Membership:
Barry Shoop (chair)
Jim Prendergast
Roger Fujii
Jerry Hudgins
Jim Jefferies
Individual with legal expertise in Board Governance still to be identified
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Serving Individuals From Industry
Scope/Charter:
The primary focus is to develop an understanding of how IEEE can better serve
the needs on professionals in IEEE fields who work in industry. Many of IEEE’s
current products and services are developed for academics and professionals
working in R&D. This committee will focus its attention on the needs of the
contemporary and future engineers and related professionals and define new
IEEE products and services in support of them.
The use of a technology readiness model may be needed to provide focus to the
committee as it works to provide for professionals who engage in activities in the
middle of the model.
The goals include:
• Requirements for new IEEE products and services
• 3 top potential new IEEE products and services
• Roadmap of how to transition IEEE to deliver new products and services
within next 2-4 years
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees/boards is
encouraged, and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any
materials generated.
Membership:
Dejan Milojicic (chair)
Wanda Reder
Laura Jacob
Dan Coode
Hironori Kasahara
Danny Lange
Hasan Alkhatib
Roberto Saracco
Paul Nikolic
Shmuel Schottan
Michael Condry
Primary Professional Staff
Cecelia Jankowski
IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Planning
Scope/Charter:
The IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Planning (SPC) will develop and write an
IEEE Strategic Plan. The goal is to review a draft of the plan with the IEEE Board
of Directors by November 2015. This plan must be based on appropriate input
from the breadth of IEEE.
In addition, SPC will work on the strategy coordination between IEEE Boards and
strategic planning committees across IEEE. Plans may include:
• a plenary session for all February 2015 Meeting Series attendees on a
strategy issue
• quarterly strategy webinars in 2015 with invitations sent to a wide
breadth of volunteers in all OUs
• supporting of sharing of strategy among staff in different OUs
• providing input to 2015 President regarding the value and role of a
strategy committee in facilitating the Board’s strategic planning activities
Additionally, SPC will work with IEEE Finance Committee and IEEE New Initiatives
Committee to better align the budgeting process to support IEEE strategic
priorities.
The exploration of possible collaborations with other committees/boards is
encouraged, and, whenever possible can and should be reflected in any
materials generated.
Membership:
Ellen Yoffa (chair)
Amir Aghdam
Antonio Ferreira
Kazuhiro Kosuge
William Moses
Mary Ellen Randall
Saurabh Sinha
Jacek Zurada
Primary Professional Staff
Elena Gerstmann
Additional Professional Staff
John Keaton
Providence More