Dawn Jutla of Peer Ledger Inc.

Today governments, CEOs, and investors are prioritizing the transformation of their organizations to net zero or positive. They assess, adopt, and report the CO2e savings of carbon-neutralizing project initiatives according to international sustainability standards. Yet surveys show most reporting organizations do not measure 70-90% of their carbon emissions today. The root cause is opacity in their inbound and outbound supply chains. Adoption of innovations such as smart blockchain-based platforms for supply chain ESG traceability can close this glaring measurement loophole by enabling organizations to get actual measurements of their carbon spend. Will executives be more fearful of their corrected sustainability results, given a new capability for comprehensive and accurate CO2e measurements, or the dire consequences of a warmer planet?

Biography:

Dr. Dawn Jutla is the Scotiabank Chair of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Sobey School of Business, and founder of Peer Ledger Inc., a blockchain-based responsible supply chain startup.

Dawn has wide-ranging interests across technology and business. She has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications, a book in Pearson’s Information Professional Series entitled “e-Business Readiness: a Customer-Focused Framework”, and an issued USPTO patent for a blockchain identity translator. She is a recipient of a World Technology Award in the software category for her socio-technical work on online privacy. Dawn also has 16 years of Board experience across university, hospital and IT organizations. She served for 6 of those years on the OASIS international standards organization’s Board of Directors.

Today, her multi-disciplinary multi-sector experience as a woman in technology and business continue to cross-fertilize her contributions and interactions with government, university, and industry.

Address:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Barry Shoop of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Engineering

Technology has reshaped our world repeatedly since the foundations of IEEE were laid over a century ago; it continues to reshape it today. Recently, however, the role and influence of technology on the human experience has fundamentally changed. Previously, technology played a secondary and supportive role while social, political and cultural dimensions played a primary role. Today, technology is actually leading these dimensions in the influence on humanity. To be successful in this changed environment, increased emphasis and value is being placed on written and oral communication skills, teamwork, critical thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship. While some leadership skills are immutable, there are others that technology professionals will need to add to be competitive and successful.

Biography:

Barry L. Shoop, Ph.D., P.E., is Dean of Engineering at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Engineering in Manhattan, NY. In this capacity he leads the largest of The Cooper Union’s schools which is comprised of seven academic departments supporting an average enrollment of roughly 480 undergraduate and another 60 graduate students.

Prior to his current position, he retired as a Brigadier General after a 39-year career in the U.S. Army, with the last 25 years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. While at West Point, he served in a number of key leadership roles including Director of the Photonics Research Center, Director of the Electrical Engineering Program and his last position was Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Earlier in his career, he was a satellite communication engineer responsible for the design and installation of a high-capacity, global digital communication network, and also the Chief Technology Officer for a US$4.5B organization addressing the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) challenge worldwide.

Dr. Shoop received the B.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in electrical engineering. His research interests include optical information processing, neural networks, image processing, disruptive innovations and educational pedagogy. He is an IEEE Fellow. He has served on the BOD of OSA, ABET and IEEE. In 2016 Dr. Shoop served as the IEEE President and CEO. Dr. Shoop holds a patent on photonic analog-to-digital conversion and has authored over 150 archival publications as well as 8 books. He is a licensed PE. In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Address:New York, New York, United States