John Havens of IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)

For the December 2025 talk, IEEE SusTech Talks online will join the members and supporters of IEEE Planet Positive 2030 for their “End of Year Town Hall Celebration” to share updates from 2025 along with plans for 2026. The growth and evolution of IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Communities efforts beginning in Miami has been a major focus in 2025, and plans are being made to host events and other potential Communities in China, India, Europe and Latin America in 2026. Reports on specific initiatives will include:

• an Education Committee and an Executive Advisory Committee designed to drive the work forward strategically, pragmatically, and at scale.
• Communities ‘toolkits’ that expand on and share the insights in PP2030’s compendium Strong Sustainability by Design
• Accountable Sustainability by Design and data frameworks, utilizing the expertise of the PP2030 metrics experts.
• engaging with like-minded organizations to create Communities.
• identifying new ways to a regenerative and sustainable future.

For more information, see the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 web page.

Biography:

John C. Havens is the Global Lead for the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Initiative. Previously at IEEE SA John was Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems that had two primaryoutputs – the creation and iteration of a body of work known as “Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems” and the recommendation of ideas for Standards Projects focused on prioritizing ethical considerations in A/IS. Currently there are fourteen approved Standards Working Groups and five completed Standards in the IEEE P7000™ series. He continues to work on staff at the IEEE Standards Association to help further design, proliferate, and standardize the concepts of human-centric, applied ethical, values-driven design for responsible innovation of all technologies. He has written for Mashable and The Guardian and is author of the books Heartificial Intelligence and Hacking Happiness.

Address:New Jersey, United States

Maike Luiken of Carbovate Development

Biography:

Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FEIC is a member of the IEEE Standard Association Board of Governors and the IEEE SSIT Board of Governors. She chairs IEEE Planet Positive 2030, the IEEE P7800^TM Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice, and the Green Hydrogen IEEE SA Industry Connections Program, and is a co-chair, IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative. She is a longtime advocate for sustainable development and for the deployment and use of technology that is ‘sustainable by design’ to achieve a long-term healthy planetary biosphere. Her areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy, and water to advanced manufacturing. She has particular interest in how progress and deployment of various technologies contributes – or not – to achieving sustainable development.

Maike’s career spans academia and industry in Canada, USA and Germany. She is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada. She has served on numerous Boards of Directors and Committees, including IEEE and the Canadian Standards Council Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.

Address:Ontario, Canada