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:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250221T181730Z UID:20DE4CA7-3F62-4D59-9F6F-7ECA96E18E35 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241012T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241012T150000 DESCRIPTION:Why You Should Attend\n\nThe IEEE Chicago 130th Annual Fair & E xpo is open to the public and free to attend\, although you must register first. For high-school students contemplating college\, this is a chance t o talk to enrolled students and working engineers about what it takes to h ave an engineering career.\n\n[IEEE Chicago Section](https://ieeechicago.o rg) society chapters represent virtually all disciplines within the electr ical engineering profession. During the main Event\, you can listen to pro fessionals on how engineering contributes to the public good and what oppo rtunities exist with engineering education.\n\nWhether you are a high scho ol student\, a university student\, an industry professional\, an academic professional\, retired\, or love engineering and technology\, learn how t he Chicago engineering community continues to contribute to society. If yo u have any questions\, please email chair@ieeechicago.org.\n\nIn addition\ , this event will also be celebrating #IEEEDay which is October 1\, but we will celebrate it during our event.\n\nRefreshments and lunch will be ser ved.\n\nPlease see below flyer for a glimpse of what will be happening\, a nd feel free to download the flyer to share our event to others.\n\n[]\n\n Speaker(s): Dr. Alvin Chin\, Narendra Venkatesan\, Carol Davids\, Kathleen Kramer\, Connie Kelly\, Meredith Fore\, Biswan Senapati\, Brook Abegaz\, Norm Phoenix\, Rajarshi Roy\, Shridhar Narayan\, Sujan Das\, Debbie Birrel l\, Michael Papka\, Jeremy Riel\, Peiyuan Li\, \, Saifur Rahman\, Prasenji t Banerjee\n\nAgenda: \nTime start Time end Session Location Speakers\n9:0 0 9:05 Welcoming Remarks from the IEEE Chicago Chair\nAuditorium\n\nAlvin Chin\, IEEE Chicago\n\n9:05 9:10 Welcoming Remarks from the Program Chair Auditorium Narendra Venkatesan\, IEEE Chicago\n9:10 9:15 Welcoming Remarks from IIT Auditorium Carol Davids\, IIT\n9:15 9:20 Welcoming Address from IEEE 2024 President-Elect Auditorium Kathleen Kramer\, 2024 IEEE President -Elect\n9:20 9:30 IEEE Region 4 and IEEE Day Auditorium Connie Kelly\, IEE E Region 4 Director-Elect\n9:30 10:00 Chicago Quantum Computing Panel Audi torium Panelists: Meredith Fore (Chicago Quantum Computing Exchange)\, Bis wan (IEEE Chicago)\, Moderator: Alvin Chin\n10:00 10:15 Break\, exhibits F irst floor\, outside Auditorium\n10:15 10:25 IEEE Region 4 Industry Engage ment Committee Auditorium Brook Abegaz\, IEEE Chicago\n10:25 10:30 Impact of the Science Kit Collection on Chicago’s Communities Auditorium Norm P hoenix\, IEEE Chicago SKPL\n10:30 10:45 IEEE Educational Activities\, STEM \, TryEngineering for children\, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Board Audito rium Connie Kelly\, IEEE Region 4 Director-Elect\n10:45 11:00 Society/Chap ter/Affinity Group pitches (2 minutes each) Auditorium UIC\, EMC\, VTS\, C S\, ComSoc\, NWSS\, CSU\n11:00\n11:20\nLightning talks (5 minutes each) Au ditorium Prasenjit Banerjee\, Shridhar Narayan\, Rajarshi Roy\, Sujan Das\ n11:20 11:30 Chicago Engineers Foundation Auditorium Debbie Birrell\, Chic ago Engineers Foundation\n11:30 11:40 Group Photo Auditorium All\n11:40 12 :40 Lunch\, exhibits Lunch on 2nd floor cafeteria\, exhibits on 1st floor All\n12:40 13:10 Keynote Auditorium Michael Papka\, Argonne National Labs\ n13:10 13:15 Sponsor presentation Auditorium Coeuss\n13:15 13:20 Sponsor p resentation Auditorium FutureCon\n13:20 13:25 Sponsor presentation Auditor ium Pan-Asian American Business Council\n13:25 13:55 AI Panel Auditorium M ichael Papka (Argonne National Labs)\, Jeremy Riel (UIC)\, Alvin Chin (DPI \, IEEE Chicago) with Moderator Rajarshi Roy (IEEE Chicago)\n14:00 14:30 C limate change and sustainability panel Auditorium Peiyuan Li (DPI)\, Doug Farr (Farr Associates)\, Saifur Rahman (2023 IEEE President)\, with Modera tor Narendra Venkatesan (IEEE Chicago)\n14:30 14:45 Break\, exhibits First floor\, outside Auditorium All\n14:45 15:00 Closing and raffle Auditorium Alvin Chin and Narendra Venkatesan\nDownload the [Program](https://drive. google.com/file/d/1eZnzTvQySbt8EkYA_IpdBZWd4PmjoGjf/view?usp=drive_link).\ n\nIEEE Day\n\nTo celebrate IEEE Day\, IEEE is providing discounts to seve ral society memberships on valid until October 12\, 2024\, please have a l ook:\n\nhttps://ieeeday.org/special-activities-offers/\n\nBldg: Conviser L aw Center\, 565 W Adams St\, Chicago\, Illinois\, United States\, 60661\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/425784 LOCATION:Bldg: Conviser Law Center\, 565 W Adams St\, Chicago\, Illinois\, United States\, 60661\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/425784 ORGANIZER:narendra.venkatesan@ieee.org SEQUENCE:45 SUMMARY:2024 IEEE Chicago 130th Annual Fair & Expo URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/425784 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Why You Should Attend</strong></p> \n<p>The IEEE Chicago 130<sup>th</sup> Annual Fair &amp\; Expo is open to the public and free to attend\, although you must register first. For high -school students contemplating college\, this is a chance to talk to enrol led students and working engineers about what it takes to have an engineer ing career.</p>\n<p><a href="https://ieeechicago.org" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">IEEE Chicago Section</a> society chapters represent virtually a ll disciplines within the electrical engineering profession. During the ma in Event\, you can listen to professionals on how engineering contributes to the public good and what opportunities exist with engineering education .</p>\n<p>Whether you are a high school student\, a university student\, a n industry professional\, an academic professional\, retired\, or love eng ineering and technology\, learn how the Chicago engineering community cont inues to contribute to society.&nbsp\; If you have any questions\, please email chair@ieeechicago.org.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In addition\, this even t will also be celebrating #IEEEDay which is October 1\, but we will celeb rate it during our event.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Refreshments and lunch wil l be served.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please see below flyer for a glimpse o f what will be happening\, and feel free to download the flyer to share ou r event to others.</p>\n<p><img src="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/vtools _ui/media/display/4cbdc44e-74c2-4b2e-b300-52d69d0e4986" alt="" width="1121 " height="1733"></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><table style="border-collaps e: collapse\; width: 100%\; height: 2159.85px\;" border="1"><colgroup><col style="width: 24.8799%\;"><col style="width: 24.8799%\;"><col style="widt h: 24.8799%\;"><col style="width: 12.3919%\;"><col style="width: 13.0644%\ ;"></colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style="height: 22.3984px\;">\n<td style="heig ht: 22.3984px\;"><strong>Time start</strong></td>\n<td style="height: 22.3 984px\;"><strong>Time end</strong></td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">< strong>Session</strong></td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;"><strong>Loca tion</strong></td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;"><strong>Speakers</stro ng></td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 99.1953px\;">\n<td style="height: 99.1 953px\;">9:00</td>\n<td style="height: 99.1953px\;">9:05</td>\n<td style=" height: 99.1953px\;">Welcoming Remarks from the IEEE Chicago Chair&nbsp\;< /td>\n<td style="height: 99.1953px\;">\n<p>Auditorium</p>\n</td>\n<td styl e="height: 99.1953px\;">\n<p>Alvin Chin\, IEEE Chicago</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n <tr style="height: 156.789px\;">\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">9:05</td >\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">9:10</td>\n<td style="height: 156.789px \;">Welcoming Remarks from the Program Chair</td>\n<td style="height: 156. 789px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">Narendra Venkate san\, IEEE Chicago</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 134.391px\;">\n<td styl e="height: 134.391px\;">9:10</td>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\;">9:15</t d>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\;">Welcoming Remarks from IIT</td>\n<td s tyle="height: 134.391px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\; ">Carol Davids\, IIT</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 156.789px\;">\n<td st yle="height: 156.789px\;">9:15</td>\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">9:20< /td>\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">Welcoming Address from IEEE 2024 Pre sident-Elect</td>\n<td style="height: 156.789px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td st yle="height: 156.789px\;">Kathleen Kramer\, 2024 IEEE President-Elect</td> \n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 67.1953px\;">\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;" >9:20</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">9:30</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">IEEE Region 4 and IEEE Day</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px \;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">Connie Kelly\, IEEE R egion 4 Director-Elect</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 291.18px\;">\n<td s tyle="height: 291.18px\;">9:30</td>\n<td style="height: 291.18px\;">10:00< /td>\n<td style="height: 291.18px\;">Chicago Quantum Computing Panel</td>\ n<td style="height: 291.18px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 291.18 px\;">Panelists: Meredith Fore (Chicago Quantum Computing Exchange)\, Bisw an (IEEE Chicago)\, Moderator: Alvin Chin</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 67.1953px\;">\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">10:00</td>\n<td style="heig ht: 67.1953px\;">10:15</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">Break\, exhib its</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">First floor\, outside Auditorium </td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">&nbsp\;</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="hei ght: 201.586px\;">\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">10:15</td>\n<td style= "height: 201.586px\;">10:25</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">IEEE Reg ion 4 Industry Engagement Committee</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;"> Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">Brook Abegaz\,&nbsp\; IEE E Chicago</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 111.992px\;">\n<td style="height : 111.992px\;">10:25</td>\n<td style="height: 111.992px\;">10:30</td>\n<td style="height: 111.992px\;">Impact of the Science Kit Collection on Chica go&rsquo\;s Communities</td>\n<td style="height: 111.992px\;">Auditorium</ td>\n<td style="height: 111.992px\;">Norm Phoenix\, IEEE Chicago SKPL</td> \n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 89.5938px\;">\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;" >10:30</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">10:45</td>\n<td style="height : 89.5938px\;">IEEE Educational Activities\, STEM\, TryEngineering for chi ldren\, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Board</td>\n<td style="height: 89.593 8px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Connie Kelly\, IEE E Region 4 Director-Elect</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 201.586px\;">\n< td style="height: 201.586px\;">10:45</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;" >11:00</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">Society/Chapter/Affinity Grou p pitches (2 minutes each)</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">Auditoriu m</td>\n<td style="height: 201.586px\;">UIC\, EMC\, VTS\, CS\, ComSoc\, NW SS\, CSU&nbsp\;</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 134.391px\;">\n<td style=" height: 134.391px\;">11:00</td>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\;">\n<p>11:2 0</p>\n</td>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\;">Lightning talks (5 minutes e ach)</td>\n<td style="height: 134.391px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="hei ght: 134.391px\;">Prasenjit Banerjee\, Shridhar Narayan\, Rajarshi Roy\, S ujan Das</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 89.5938px\;">\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">11:20</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">11:30</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Chicago Engineers Foundation</td>\n<td style=" height: 89.5938px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Debb ie Birrell\, Chicago Engineers Foundation</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 22.3984px\;">\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">11:30</td>\n<td style="heig ht: 22.3984px\;">11:40</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Group Photo</ td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 2 2.3984px\;">All</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 89.5938px\;">\n<td style=" height: 89.5938px\;">11:40</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">12:40</td >\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Lunch\, exhibits</td>\n<td style="heigh t: 89.5938px\;">Lunch on 2nd floor cafeteria\, exhibits on 1st floor</td>\ n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">All</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 67.19 53px\;">\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">12:40</td>\n<td style="height: 6 7.1953px\;">13:10</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">Keynote</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 67.1953px\ ;">Michael Papka\, Argonne National Labs</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 2 2.3984px\;">\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">13:10</td>\n<td style="heigh t: 22.3984px\;">13:15</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Sponsor presen tation</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="h eight: 22.3984px\;">Coeuss</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 22.3984px\;">\n <td style="height: 22.3984px\;">13:15</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\; ">13:20</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Sponsor presentation</td>\n< td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984 px\;">FutureCon</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 89.5938px\;">\n<td style=" height: 89.5938px\;">13:20</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">13:25</td >\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Sponsor presentation</td>\n<td style="h eight: 89.5938px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 89.5938px\;">Pan-A sian American Business Council</td>\n</tr>\n<tr style="height: 22.3984px\; ">\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">13:25</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984 px\;">13:55</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">AI Panel</td>\n<td style ="height: 22.3984px\;">Auditorium</td>\n<td style="height: 22.3984px\;">Mi chael Papka (Argonne National Labs)\, Jeremy Riel (UIC)\, Alvin Chin (DPI\ , IEEE Chicago) with Moderator Rajarshi Roy (IEEE Chicago)</td>\n</tr>\n<t r>\n<td>14:00</td>\n<td>14:30</td>\n<td>Climate change and sustainability panel</td>\n<td>Auditorium</td>\n<td>Peiyuan Li (DPI)\, Doug Farr (Farr As sociates)\, Saifur Rahman&nbsp\; (2023 IEEE President)\, with Moderator Na rendra Venkatesan (IEEE Chicago)</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:30</td>\n<td>14 :45</td>\n<td>Break\, exhibits</td>\n<td>First floor\, outside Auditorium< /td>\n<td>All</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:45</td>\n<td>15:00</td>\n<td>Closi ng and raffle</td>\n<td>Auditorium</td>\n<td>Alvin Chin and Narendra Venka tesan</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Download the <a href="https://dr ive.google.com/file/d/1eZnzTvQySbt8EkYA_IpdBZWd4PmjoGjf/view?usp=drive_lin k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program</a>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>IEEE Day</strong></p>\n<p>To celebrate IEEE Day\, IEEE is providing discounts to several society memberships on valid until October 12\, 2024\, please h ave a look:</p>\n<p><a href="https://ieeeday.org/special-activities-offers /" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://ieeeday.org/special-activities-o ffers/</a></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR