IEEE Panel from the 2024 CES
Well, I simply completed my very first month and a half as IEEE President. I am honored and thrilled to have this chance. In early January we were at the 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference and the Consumer Electronics Show. IEEE had a cubicle and likewise had a panel conversation session throughout the conference on “The Impact of AI on Jobs of the Future.”
The image above reveals the individuals in the panel, from delegated right, Jim Doty (Science Fiction Writer), Gloria Washington (AI and principles specialist), Tom Coughlin (2024 IEEE President), Kayne McGladrey (Cybersecurity specialist) and Kathleen Kramer (2024 IEEE President Elect). You can learn more about this panel conversation and enjoy the video here
In mid-January we held our IEEE board retreat in, where the board had an extensive conversation on the existing state of the company and strategies and methods for the future. The image listed below is me at the IEEE retreat.
Tom Coughlin at the 2024 IEEE Board of Directors Retreat
The IEEE had more than 470,000 members in over 190 nations at the end of January 2024, the greatest member count ever. On the other hand, a lot of these members were trainee members and a number of these do not transform to greater grade subscription when they finish. As a repercussion, the typical age of IEEE members has actually been increasing.
For the company to stay important and to continue our objective to advance innovation for the advantage of humankind we require to discover methods to engage with and maintain our more youthful members. Keeping more youthful members in an expert company is not simply an issue for the IEEE, it is a more basic concern.
In addition, much of these more youthful members wind up working market and in order to draw in and keep these members IEEE need to engage much better with market and for those working of the useful application of innovation.
More current generations of technologists have various experiences and methods to network and interact with each other, than those who have actually been working for several years. In order for IEEE or any other company to bring in and keep more youthful members we require to interact with them in methods they are comfy with and look for to satisfy their requirements and supply worth to them. In pursuit of these objectives the IEEE board has a job force committee this year that looks for to discover methods to engage with and maintain more youthful members in market.
I am making an effort to personally fulfill with leaders in market to comprehend their requirements and explore what IEEE can do with them and which would benefit more youthful employees and strength our worth to those included in the useful applications of innovation. In early February I had the ability to go to ASML, the severe UV (EUV) lithography business based in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.
The image listed below is from my check out, with Maarten Hoeks, VP and Head of Electronics Development at ASML while going to among their laboratories. He hosted me throughout my check out to the business.
Maarten Hoeks from ASML with Tom Coughlin
I will continue to consult with numerous innovation business through the year and deal with our members to see make tests and models of concepts for increasing our worth to and retention of, more youthful members. I anticipate discussing these experiences and lessons I am finding out throughout my period as IEEE President and CEO in 2024.
In 2024 I am the President and CEO of the IEEE, the world’s biggest technical expert company. Among my objectives is to enhance our retention of more youthful members and to offer higher worth to those associated with the useful applications of innovation.