BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20231108T025310Z UID:587261F8-1BA1-41FA-8B90-3C48E477CBDF DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231107T203000 DESCRIPTION:Meeting the new 2024 IEEE Leadership\n\nPart of the Region 5 As k me Anything! Series\n\nIEEE’s strength come from having strong volunte er leadership\, with the support of all of our members. The members of our region are represented by a number of elected volunteer leaders. In this session\, we will meet Keith Moore\, IEEE-USA President (2024) and Christo pher Sanderson\, Region 5 Vice-Chair/Director-Elect (2024-2025). The sessi on will be moderated by Matt Francis\, Region 5 2024-2025 director.\n\nDur ing this one-hour WebEx forums\, you will have the opportunity to hear dir ectly from these new members of our 2024 leadership. This is a great oppor tunity to hear about their vision for their terms\, as well as the opportu nities and challenges within the Region (the US Southwest) and the USA (Re gions 1-6).\n\nSpeakers:\n\nKeith Moore:\n\nKeith is senior engineer at th e US Army Information Systems Engineering Command. His career has taken hi m around the world to establish and maintain communications systems. He ha s served in volunteer and other organizations to work for the good of all stakeholders. These experiences have involved organizations such as federa l and state governments\, Big Brothers/Big Sisters\, churches\, Civil Air Patrol\, Scouts\, Cyber Patriot\, and others. He has served as a Big Broth er\, engineer\, missionary\, science fair judge\, Future City mentor\, coa ch\, and firefighter/EMT. Keith holds a BSECE and an MBA. He obtained prof essional engineer status as granted by the Arizona State Board of Technica l Registration and has served as an adjunct engineering professor.\n\nChis topher Sanderson:\n\nChristopher has a distinguished career spanning over 30 years in the electrical industry. He is a proud alumnus of Prairie View A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. Whil e in the military\, he received a commission as an officer in the US Army Air Defense Artillery Core\, where he attained both enlisted and officer r anks and earned multiple honorable tours of duty. Christopher held pivotal roles increasing customer engagement service and sales along with communi ty impact in various Fortune 500 corporations\, including Schneider Electr ic\, GE\, SIEMENS\, ABB\, and EATON. His business acumen has earned him mu ltiple community service chairman awards\, among them the Alliance Award\, Gerald Phillippe Award\, and Hilltopper Award.\n\nIn IEEE\, Christopher's contributions have amplified membership engagement initiatives including Young Professionals and STEM and resulted in several R5 recognition awards \, including the Jim Leonard Award\, the R5 Directors Outstanding Service Award\, and the IEEE-USA John Meredith Award.\n\nMatt Francis:\n\nMatt is founder and President/CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits\, Inc\, where he le ads development of high-temperature semiconductor computing solutions for energy\, defense\, aerospace and space applications. Dr. Francis also serv es as a Board Member (elect) and Director (2024-2025) for the IEEE (Region 5 USA Southwest).. He is the IEEE-USA representative to the IEEE Industry Engagement Committee and past chair of the IEEE MGA Chapter Operations Su pport Committee. In 2022 he was the recipient of the IEEE-USA Entrepreneur ship Spirit Award for the ground breaking work of his company\, his mentor ing of students through his local robotics club\, and his mentoring for sm all-businesses in the deep-technology space.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Christoph er Sanderson\, SMIEEE\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/382324 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/382324 ORGANIZER:J.Redfield@ieee.org SEQUENCE:15 SUMMARY:Ask Me Anything Series: Meeting the new 2024 IEEE Leadership URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/382324 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Meeting the new 2024 IEEE Leadership</p>\n <p><em>Part of the Region 5 Ask me Anything! Series</em></p>\n<p><em>&nbsp \;</em></p>\n<p>IEEE&rsquo\;s strength come from having strong volunteer l eadership\, with the support of all of our members.&nbsp\; The members of our region are represented by a number of elected volunteer leaders.&nbsp\ ; In this session\, we will meet Keith Moore\, IEEE-USA President (2024) a nd Christopher Sanderson\, Region 5 Vice-Chair/Director-Elect (2024-2025). &nbsp\; The session will be moderated by Matt Francis\, Region 5 2024-2025 director.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>During this one-hour WebEx forums\, you will have the opportunity to hear directly from these new members of our 2024 leadership.&nbsp\; This is a great opportunity to hear about their vi sion for their terms\, as well as the opportunities and challenges within the Region (the US Southwest) and the USA (Regions 1-6).</p>\n<p>Speakers: </p>\n<p>Keith Moore:</p>\n<p>Keith is senior engineer at the US Army Info rmation Systems Engineering Command. His career has taken him around the w orld to establish and maintain communications systems. He has served in vo lunteer and other organizations to work for the good of all stakeholders. These experiences have involved organizations such as federal and state go vernments\, Big Brothers/Big Sisters\, churches\, Civil Air Patrol\, Scout s\, Cyber Patriot\, and others. He has served as a Big Brother\, engineer\ , missionary\, science fair judge\, Future City mentor\, coach\, and firef ighter/EMT. Keith holds a BSECE and an MBA. He obtained professional engin eer status as granted by the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration and has served as an adjunct engineering professor.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n <p>Chistopher Sanderson:</p>\n<p>Christopher has a distinguished career sp anning over 30 years in the electrical industry. He is a proud alumnus of Prairie View A&amp\;M University with a bachelor&rsquo\;s degree in mechan ical engineering. While in the military\, he received a commission as an o fficer in the US Army Air Defense Artillery Core\, where he attained both enlisted and officer ranks and earned multiple honorable tours of duty. Ch ristopher held pivotal roles increasing customer engagement service and sa les along with community impact in various Fortune 500 corporations\, incl uding Schneider Electric\, GE\, SIEMENS\, ABB\, and EATON. His business ac umen has earned him multiple community service chairman awards\, among the m the Alliance Award\, Gerald Phillippe Award\, and Hilltopper Award.</p>\ n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In IEEE\, Christopher's contributions have amplified m embership engagement initiatives including Young Professionals and STEM an d resulted in several R5 recognition awards\, including the Jim Leonard Aw ard\, the R5 Directors Outstanding Service Award\, and the IEEE-USA John M eredith Award.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Matt Francis:</p>\n<p>Matt is found er and President/CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits\, Inc\, where he leads d evelopment of high-temperature semiconductor computing solutions for energ y\, defense\, aerospace and space applications.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Dr. Francis also serves as a Board Member (elect) and Director (2024-2025) for the IEE E (Region 5 USA Southwest)..&nbsp\; He is the IEEE-USA representative to t he IEEE Industry Engagement Committee and past chair of the IEEE MGA Chapt er Operations Support Committee.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; In 2022 he was the recipien t of the IEEE-USA Entrepreneurship Spirit Award for the ground breaking wo rk of his company\, his mentoring of students through his local robotics c lub\, and his mentoring for small-businesses in the deep-technology space. </p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR