IEEE Cedar Rapids Section

See the Topics in the Agenda and Speakers below To Attend.... Register and Pay the $100 event fee at the Energy Symposium Website: https://corridorbusiness.com/event/energy-symposium/ IEEE Members - Register ALSO here for this IEEE Event to request a $50 Rebate Check if you PAY and ATTEND. - Register ALSO on this IEEE event and include your IEEE Member Number - Keep your Energy Symposium registration payment receipt - Send a copy of your receipt and include your mailing address to the IEEE host, after the Event: BruceLindholm@IEEE.org Co-sponsored by: Corridor Business Journal Speaker(s): Richard, Dusky, Mike, Dennis, Lane, Samantha Agenda: AGENDA: 1:30-2:00 pm - Registration & Networking 2:00-5:00 pm - Opening remarks, Program: • Looking to the Future - The P3 Imperative, Richard Ney, UIEC • The Condition of Iowa's Electrical Grid, Dusky Terry, ITC Midwest • Renewable Energy's Role in an All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy, Mike Fehr, MidAmerican Energy • Powering Data Centers, Dennis Jordan, Alliant Energy • What's Fueling the Country's Increased Energy Demand, Lane Witten, NextEra Energy • Iowa's Changing Energy Landscape, Samantha Norris, Brown Winick Law 5:00-6:30 pm - Networking, appetizers and beverages (optional) Double Tree by Hilton, 301 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, 52401

"Building Wealth in Your Early Career" will walk early career professionals through the 7 steps to build and preserve their wealth. You Will Learn: - The 3 disasters that can destroy your finances and how to protect against them. - The 4 MOST underutilized employer-sponsored benefits and how to take advantage of them. - How to prioritize paying off debts and the 2 most popular strategies. - What an adequate "emergency fund" should be for your family, and it's not the same for everyone. - Why tax planning is so important, and how to avoid a ticking tax time-bomb once you get to retirement. - The 3 phases of investing and why investing looks different during each phase. - How to protect everything you've worked hard for, and the importance of wills, trusts and other estate planning documents. - How to actually save for and accomplish your financial goals, and how to NOT overcomplicate it in the process. - The 5 areas when optimizing and automating your money really makes sense, and when it doesn't. - Why traditional retirement planning is missing the mark, and how to re-think your retirement plans. Don't miss out, register today! *The presenter and this workshop is not affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by IEEE in any way. Speaker(s): David Sandhu, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/473041

Functional Safety is a method to allow entry and access to industrial equipment not using OHSA Logout procedures. It is generally seen in "Safety Gates", "Safety Mats" or other items that render machinery non-operational for minor maintenance. This talk will reference standards ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 Agenda: - Introduction to the Machine Safety Lifecycle - Machine Safety as an integral part of business culture. - Importance of picking a safety standard. - Risk assessments are a must do. (And they are easier than you think) - How to design your safety system to meet your required safety level. (SIL or PL) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/480382

Distributed Machine Learning for FPGAs in the Cloud Machine Learning (ML) is a growing area in both research and applications. Trends include larger and larger ML models and the interest in getting results from ML with low latency and high throughput. To address these trends, researchers are increasingly looking at accelerators (such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), especially those that are directly connected to the network to achieve low latency access to data. In this talk, I will introduce the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT): https://octestbed.org/ OCT is available to researchers who are interested in conducting cloud research with accelerators. We provide GPUS, FPGAs, and AI engines from AMD. The FPGAs and AI engines are directly connected to the network. I will discuss experiments on using OCT for distributed ML using multiple network connected FPGAs. Specifically I will present results for running Resnet50 inference on the imagenet dataset. No hardware knowledge is assumed for this webinar. Speaker(s): Miriam Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/473027

Have you ever wanted help completing a IEEE Committee application. IEEE, Technical Activities Board (TAB) and Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) will be accepting submissions for 2026 committee positions in May. Learn how to complete your application to get noticed. Learn more about the MGA N&A process at https://mga.ieee.org/board-committees/nominations-appointments. Learn more about the IEEE N&A process at (https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/nominations/index.html) To be eligible to be a Chair or a voting member of any Committee, except the Student Activities Committee, the individual must be a member in good standing and shall be at IEEE Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member, or Fellow grade. Please note that at this time, the N&A committee is only querying individuals for their willingness to serve and an appointment cannot be guaranteed. Appointments are contingent upon N&A's recommendation and approval by the appropriate Board, or appointment by the VP. Speaker(s): Kathy Land, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/477908