BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250627T211008Z UID:1AB14076-3156-4150-86F4-84E9D69AD9EA DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250318T190000 DESCRIPTION:In the Stack\, but no Admin Privs\n\nValue Streams\, Metadata\, Inflection Points and Missed Opportunities in AI\, Software Engineering a nd Standardization in Support of Sustainability\n\nMarch 18\, 2025\, 6-7:0 0 pm PST\n\nMark Underwood\, Senior InfoSec & AI Consultant at Krypton Bro thers\n\nSoftware’s near ubiquity in most systems would suggest that its practitioners are in the lead when it comes to sustainability initiatives . No doubt there are courageous exceptions\, but generally speaking softwa re engineers follow\, not lead where sustainability and climate are concer ned.\n\nGenerative AI has added a heavy hammer to the toolbox\, but the le adership of sustainability teams remains unchanged. This discussion survey s several mostly disjunct initiatives to meet the challenge of a dangerous ly warming planet. The survey includes a brief overview of these initiativ es and their potential promise. They include: (1) current and proposed eff orts by professional associations to tackle the problem as a cross functio nal initiative leveraging competencies within a profession\; (2) value str eam analysis and supply chain management\; (3) DevOps\; (4) metadata and o bservability\; (5) agile methodologies\; (6) model based systems engineeri ng and complexity\; (7) human factors\; (8) AI\; and (9) the role of stand ardization. The survey concludes with a short inventory of missed opportun ities\, but identifies several inflection points on the horizon that could result in software engineers moving up the stack – perhaps gaining the privilege of bending the curve on the way to the control room.\n\nCo-spons ored by: IEEE-USA\, IEEE SSIT\, IEEE SA\, IEEE IAS\, IEEE OES\, IEEE PES a nd IEEE TEMS\n\nSpeaker(s): Mark Underwood\, \n\nAgenda: \n6:00 pm Welcome & Introduction of speaker\n\n7:00pm Adjourn\n\nVirtual: https://events.vt ools.ieee.org/m/470125 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/470125 ORGANIZER:e.perkins@ieee.org SEQUENCE:11 SUMMARY:SusTech Talk March 2025 – In the Stack\, but no Admin Privs URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/470125 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2 class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: cente r\;"><span lang="EN">In the Stack\, but no Admin Privs</span></h2>\n<h3 cl ass="MsoSubtitle" style="text-align: center\;"><span lang="EN">Value Strea ms\, Metadata\,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>Inflection Points and Missed Opportunities in AI\, Software Engineering and Standard ization in Support of Sustainability</span></h3>\n<h4 style="text-align: c enter\;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt\; line-h eight: 115%\; font-family: 'Georgia'\,serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: Geo rgia\; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia\; mso-ansi-language: EN\; mso-fareast -language: EN-US\; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\;">March 18\, 2025\, 6-7:00 pm PST</span></span></h4>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><span lang="EN">< span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt\; line-height: 115%\; font-family: 'Georgia'\,serif\; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia\; mso-bidi-font-famil y: Georgia\; mso-ansi-language: EN\; mso-fareast-language: EN-US\; mso-bid i-language: AR-SA\;">Mark Underwood\, Senior InfoSec &amp\; AI Consultant at Krypton Brothers</span></span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-al ign: justify\;"><span lang="EN">Software&rsquo\;s near ubiquity in most sy stems would suggest that its practitioners are in the lead when it comes t o sustainability initiatives. No doubt there are courageous exceptions\, b ut generally speaking software engineers follow\, not lead where sustainab ility and climate are concerned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span></span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify\;"><sp an lang="EN">Generative AI has added a heavy hammer to the toolbox\, but t he leadership of sustainability teams remains unchanged. This discussion s urveys several mostly disjunct initiatives to meet the challenge of a dang erously warming planet. The survey includes a brief overview of these init iatives and their potential promise. They include:<span style="mso-spaceru n: yes\;">&nbsp\; </span>(1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes\;">&nbsp\; </sp an>current and proposed efforts by professional associations to tackle the problem as a cross functional initiative leveraging competencies within a profession\; (2) value stream analysis and supply chain management\; (3) DevOps\; (4) metadata and observability\; (5) agile methodologies\; (6) mo del based systems engineering and complexity\; (7) human factors\; (8) AI\ ; and (9) the role of standardization. The survey concludes with a short i nventory of missed opportunities\, but identifies several inflection point s on the horizon that could result in software engineers moving up the sta ck &ndash\; perhaps gaining the privilege of bending the curve on the way to the control room.</span></p>\n<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: j ustify\;">&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:00 pm Welcome &amp\; I ntroduction of speaker</p>\n<p>7:00pm Adjourn</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR