Science and Technology for Humanity

2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity (IEEE TIC-STH)

Organized by the IEEE Toronto Section, Region 7 (Canada)
September 27-29, 2009, Toronto

Website: http://www.toronto.ieee.ca/tic-sth2009/

• Paper Submission Deadline: May 2009
• The option to deliver your paper online (no need to travel)
• Get your paper published in IEEE Explore
• Low Registration Fee - $299

The TIC-STH conference is an international forum for state-of-the-art research across a broad spectrum of the IEEE science and technology fields of interest. TIC-STH is a unique conference that will include online-conferencing allowing people to participate and present their papers from wherever they may be. This could be beneficial for many international researchers. Proceedings will be published in IEEE Explore.

All members have been invited to Toronto and to the conference by Dan Hosseinzadeh, the Global Outreach Chair of the 2009 IEEE TIC-STH, Toronto.

Contact:

Dan Hosseinzadeh
Global Outreach Chair
2009 IEEE TIC-STH
Vice-Chair GOLD Affinity Group
Toronto Section

Challenge Conference

HTC Challenge Conference
June 1 - 2, 2009
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

The Conference is scheduled immediately after a major Global Health Council Conference (www.globalhealth.org) that some of the participants may be attending.

Objective
To bring together interested humanitarians, technologists and others to learn more about the three selected challenges and begin the process of defining solutions to them.

Everyone is invited to attend the HTC Challenge Conference. We will also be opening up attendance to a limited number of others.

We request all the Working Group Participants to arrive on Sunday, May 31, 2009, for an arranged dinner, where you will have an opportunity to meet people you have been working with, as well as the members of other groups.

Session Agenda
June 1, 2009 (Monday)

Forenoon - A ¾ day session of only the working group members

• Discussions on the inter-relationships and inter-dependencies among the three challenges.
• Confirm a process to develop solutions including timelines, deliverables, key milestones and leadership positions that will needs to be filled in.

Late Afternoon - Meeting of Working Group Members with other conference attendees for a formal project launch announcement.

• This session will have a keynote speaker as well as a panel discussion among humanitarians and technologists.

The session will be followed by an evening reception to facilitate networking amongst attendees.

June 2, 2009 (Tuesday)
Full day working session

Aimed at participants who will be active in the solution development process for the challenges.

• Discussions will focus on the solution process timeline, interim milestones and deliverables, utilization of Spigit as well as issues such as the handling of proprietary information.
• We expect attendees will also begin discussions of the likely forms that solutions may take.