Events for May 23, 2026

[]IEEE Senior Member is the highest IEEE member grade for which IEEE members can apply and does not incur any additional cost or fees. The Senior Member grade is a way for the IEEE members to receive recognition for their professional experience and significant performance in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and the related fields including Computer Science and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, Law, and Policy. The advancement to Senior Member provides the IEEE members with significant and distinct benefits. These benefits include the eligibility to hold Executive IEEE Volunteer Positions and getting recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence. Newly elevated senior members will also receive an engraved senior member plaque from IEEE. Senior Member Elevation: IEEE SEM Section Membership Committee will reprise its Senior Member Elevation event, on May 23rd, 2026 between 9 am and 10:30 AM (EDT USA). This is the 4th such event of 2026, being held. The way it works is: At least a 10 years of experience with a Bachelors degree needs be established to initiate the senior membership elevation. (A Ph.D. is considered to be 5 years of significant experience and a master's degree is considered to be 2 years of significant experience. The remaining 5 (with PhD) to 8 (with MS degree) years of significant experience should be established from the member experience in his/her profession to initiate and submit applications for Senior Member Elevation.) Note: There is no cost to becoming a Senior Member, and this step is a necessary prelude to seeking the IEEE ‘Fellow’ level. For a complete description of the Senior Member process and its benefits, see the link at: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/grade_elevation.html To(https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556888)for "Elevation" Time Slot, please(https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556888)for the event and we will have several existing senior members/fellows also attend so they can get familiar with you and act as references; also bring an electronic copy of your resume, and relevant supporting materials (list of papers published, standards work done, patents, senior/leadership positions, etc.). []Here is a link to (https://www.ieee.org/membership/senior/deadlines.html) before filing your application. Also you may seek to contact or network with other Southeastern Michigan Section members who were upgraded to senior status. You may find some of them profiled in our monthly newsletter - (https://r4.ieee.org/sem/about-sem/sem-history/wavelengths-magazine-archive/)! Networking: * We recommend that if attendees cannot join us in person do look for the next events { most will be scheduled all thru 2026}. Co-sponsored by: Mohamad Berri, Sreekanth Narayan, Aneesh Mathai Speaker(s): Mohamad Berri, Sharan Kalwani, Sreekanth Narayan, Aneesh Agenda: Online Link (TBD) 9:00 AM - Introductions and how Elevation processing works.... 10:30 AM - Wrap up, Clean up, Solidify new friendships, contacts, networking and head off to lunch. Then we temporarily say 'Good bye' Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/556888

Indirect tax determination in global SAP S/4HANA deployments has historically relied on sample-based testing, with quality assurance teams validating a small subset of transactions against expected tax outcomes. This approach scales poorly across multi-country rollouts. A typical Tier-1 enterprise deployment spans 30+ countries, dozens of business processes, hundreds of material and customer tax classifications, and tax engine integrations such as Thomson Reuters OneSource. The combinatorial space of valid tax scenarios reaches into the tens of thousands, and sample-based testing, by construction, cannot certify the population. This talk presents the Global Indirect Tax Validation and Compliance Assurance Framework, an automated mechanism built within SAP S/4HANA that systematically verifies indirect tax determination logic across the full population of in-scope scenarios. The framework executes 14,000+ validation cases covering 50+ countries and operates in two distinct modes: as a pre-deployment validation tool in lower environments during rollout cycles, and as a regression validation tool during system events such as upgrades, tax engine version updates, condition record changes, and configuration releases. Sub-0.7% defect rates have been sustained across multiple production cutovers since 2022. The session walks through the framework architecture: the scenario generation layer that derives the validation population from configuration metadata rather than test scripts; the orchestration layer that drives SAP pricing procedures, tax classifications, and OneSource calls programmatically; the comparison engine that reconciles expected versus determined outcomes against jurisdictional rule libraries; and the defect classification layer that distinguishes configuration defects from rule-engine defects from data defects, routing each to the correct remediation team. Key topics include why traditional UAT scripts under-cover the tax determination space, how to model the expected-outcome library across federal, state, provincial, GST, VAT, and withholding regimes, how to keep the framework maintainable as tax law changes, and how the same execution harness can be re-pointed at lower environments for pre-deployment runs and at production-equivalent environments for post-event regression checks. The talk concludes with results from rollouts across 35 countries and a discussion of what the broader SAP and tax technology community can adopt from this approach. Speaker(s): , Anilreddy Bhimavarapu Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/560463