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Workshop Overview The Leadership Skills workshop is intended to help participants develop and improve interpersonal, group, team and leadership skills. The workshop is targeted to those in management or leadership roles in engineering/technical organizations, business, industry, academia or volunteer organizations. However, anyone interested in further developing these skills in dealing with people and working within any type of organization will benefit from the workshop. The format for the workshop includes the presentation of the core material and interactive participation; using exercises, case studies and open discussion. Workshop Content Introduction - Definition of Leadership - Interpersonal Effectiveness Leadership - Attributes of a Leader - Difference between management skills and leadership skills - Being a Leader - Holistic Communications Interpersonal communications - Personal Interactive Skills - Jungian type personality indicators - Myers-Briggs Self Evaluation - Motivating - Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - Team Building - Coaching Conflict Management - Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Styles - Self Evaluation - Situations to use conflict styles and consequences - Confronting Conflict Problem Solving and Decision Making - Formal techniques, eg. KT, Alamo, Cause Mapping, etc - Brainstorming - Synergistic Decision Making Speaker(s): Sharan Kalwani Agenda: 5:30 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Section business update 5:35 PM - Skills Talk: Part 1 6:25 - 6:30 PM - Break 6:35 PM - Skills Talk: Part 2 7:25 - 7:30 PM - Break 7:30 PM - Skills Talk: Part 3 plus Exercises, Q & A 8:25 - 8:30 PM - Formal Conclusion Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542210

This free, optional training event is available to all IEEE members and prospective members within the IEEE Central Illinois Section (CILS) and surrounding areas. This session will offer general tips and assistance for anyone wishing to... * Learn about upcoming IEEE events and volunteer opportunities in central Illinois * Run an IEEE technical chapter or a student branch * Create or renew a technical chapter * Create or organize events * Add new officers * Request IEEE email or website services * Report past or future meetings * Contact other IEEE members in our area * Publish or share IEEE-branded materials ...or perform similar tasks. (1st revision) Agenda: * Introduction to the IEEE CILS * Navigating the IEEE Website * Website resources for volunteers, chapters, and student branches * Volunteer Roles Available in 2024 * Volunteer Tools (vTools) * Training via IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence (CLE) * Using IEEE Collabratec to find events and volunteers * Question & Answer session * Open Floor Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542601

In today’s saturated job market, submitting applications alone is rarely enough. This session explores advanced job-search strategies that go beyond online postings, with a focus on purposeful networking that leads to real conversations, referrals, and opportunities. Participants will learn how to identify the right people to connect with, how to approach networking in a professional and authentic way, and how to position themselves for roles that may never be publicly advertised. This webinar is designed to help job-seeking professionals compete effectively in a highly crowded market. Speaker(s): Timothy Lo Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: (https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/) (https://newsletter.smartbrief.com/rest/sign-up/2479DAB0-4089-43E7-925D-86AE0C1E6244?campaign=e0d52cef) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/537586

IEEE Computer Society Chicago and IEEE Chicago members are welcome to attend this ACM Chicago meetup in person at the AON Center, Suite 200 or online for a talk by David Giard of Microsoft. Please register for the event at the ACM Chicago meetup here: https://www.meetup.com/acm-chicago/events/313313819/ Co-sponsored by: ACM Chicago Speaker(s): David Giard, Agenda: - 5:30 – 6:00 PM — Networking (in-person) - 6:00 – 6:05 PM — Introductions - 6:05 – 6:45 PM — Talk - 6:45 – 6:55 PM — Q&A - 6:55 – 7:00 PM — Adjournment - 7:00 – 7:30 PM — Networking (in-person) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542793

This free, online-only meeting is open to all IEEE membership grades, prospective members, and students! Please join us in our executive committee (ExCom) meeting where the IEEE Central Illinois Section discusses past and future activities, administrative items, and volunteer opportunities. Agenda: Call to Order Roll Call Review Meeting Minutes Reports Unfinished Business New Business Announcements Open Floor Adjournment Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542603

A gentle introduction to the Agile Philosophy Agile is a software development methodology to build a software incrementally using short iterations, so that the development is aligned with the changing business needs. This simple tutorial uses appropriate examples to help you understand agile development in a general and quick way. Audience This tutorial has been prepared for beginners to help them understand the basics of Agile principles and its implementation. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a moderate level of expertise, from where you can advance further. Prerequisites Attendees need a basic knowledge of software development concepts such as software requirements, coding, testing, etc. Key Target/Objective: This entire seminar is designed to enable folks to be well informed on the higher level technical aspects of Agile Philosophy, so they can step into this world with full confidence, with the right perspective. Speaker(s): Sharan Kalwani, Agenda: 05:30 PM - Registration/Sign In, verification of attendee 05:31 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update 05:35 PM - Start of the Micro Tutorial Session 07:35 PM - End of session, Q&A 07:40 PM - Formal Conclusion, Feedback session and Wrap Up An e-copy of the notes will be provided to each confirmed attendee. Registration is confirmed only after fee is pre-paid Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/542222

[]Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation. { note: Actually 3 short documentaries which have been strung together } AFTER the documentary - we can have a brief discussion session. NOTE: You must supply your own soda pop and popcorn! :-) Trivia may also follow, so bring your Jeopardy hats too! Agenda: 7:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; (on your own) Pizza, Popcorn and Soda Pop 7:05 PM - Documentary Start 8:05 PM - End of Documentary; Start of Q & A; Group Discussion 8:15 PM - Wrap Up ALL times are in EST/EDT (UTC-4 or UTC-5) depending upon local day light savings times in when effect Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/539619

Digital pathology Speaker(s): Mr. Singhal Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/543670

As Artificial Intelligence systems rapidly transition from passive predictive tools to fully autonomous decision-making agents, ensuring transparency, trust, and accountability has become a critical priority. This event focuses on Explainability-Driven Autonomous AI Agents—intelligent systems capable of operating independently across multiple domains while providing interpretable and trustworthy decision insights. Organized under the broader vision of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, this session brings together researchers, industry leaders, and practitioners working at the intersection of autonomous systems, explainable AI (XAI), edge intelligence, and safety-critical applications. The event will explore: - Foundations of explainability in autonomous AI agents - Architectures for multi-domain intelligent systems - Trust, robustness, and verification in AI-driven autonomy - Human-AI collaboration and interpretable decision pipelines - Applications across healthcare, smart infrastructure, defense, consumer electronics, and distributed intelligence - Ethical, regulatory, and societal implications of autonomous AI Special emphasis will be placed on circuit- and system-level innovations that enable deployable, real-time, and resource-efficient explainable AI frameworks. Through invited talks, panel discussions, and technical presentations, participants will gain insights into emerging methodologies that bridge algorithmic intelligence with hardware-aware design and system reliability. This event aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration within the IEEE community, encouraging the development of next-generation autonomous AI agents that are not only intelligent—but also transparent, accountable, and societally aligned. Speaker(s): Reshma, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/543717