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Date: Thursday, 3 October 2024
Time: In-person: 6:30-8:00 PM (PDT), Online: 7:00-8:00 PM (PDT)
Speaker: Michael Condry
Location: Heafey 225, Santa Clara University. Hybrid (online info). Sandwiches/drinks provided for in-person attendees.
In-person Cost (pre-order): $15.00 general admission, $10.00 IEEE Members
In-person Cost (at the door): $20.00, no IEEE discount
Online Cost: Free

Abstract: The WTS event is the leadership perspective on the challenges and strategies to build the necessary infrastructure for AI to flourish. It is not a smooth road. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, tweeted that for AI to really happen, infrastructure must be there. Infrastructure includes computing and communications technologies, systems to power and cool devices, standards, security, and regulations. While having many technical aspects, it is a major technical management challenge.

This presentation examines how and why the World Technology Summit was created as an IEEE event, its topics, speakers, and the management challenges of making AI work.

Speaker Bio: Michael currently has a consulting firm on future directions in business technology, with a recent focus on artificial intelligence technologies, their applications, and associated infrastructure. He also chairs the Advisory Board for ClinicAI, Inc., a healthcare startup. He retired from Intel Corporation as its Chief Technology Officer for the Client Division, at that time the largest division of Intel.

He has had both industry and academic roles. Academics at Princeton University and the University of Illinois. In industry, he worked in AT&T Bell Laboratories as an architect for the BELLMAC-32 processor (whose technology is being used across the industry today) and other roles. At Sun, he established UNIX interface standards as well as managed development processes. Starting as director of research in Intel he eventually moved to product development as the Client CTO.

Michael has had many roles in IEEE, including President of the TEMS Society (2016-2019), Senior board member for IES, and Board member of the Consumer Technology Society. As a member of the new Industry Engagement Committee, he conceived and created this World Technology Summit.