IEEE Region 1 Meeting Schenectady, NY August 16, 2003

100 Years Congratulations Schenectady Section !

Michael R. Lightner Candidate for 2004 IEEE President - Elect l Some personal and professional background l My views of the position of IEEE President

Personal Background l Born in Florida, Region 3 l Irish - German Family l Oldest of four children l Father and Mother worked for Telephone Company l Grew up in Florida, moving every year for 12 years l Telephone company moved employees when they were promoted l Married, no children

Professional Background l BS, MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Florida l Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University l Positions included l Member technical staff - Bell Labs l Summer Faculty - IBM Research l Assistant Prof. University of Illinois l Visiting Faculty - University of British Columbia l Consultant for Rockwell, Fujitsu, Epic Technologies, the World Bank and the State of Georgia among others

Professional Background l Have been at University of Colorado since 1981 l Professor, Director Graduate Studies, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs l Currently have a joint appointment with our Medical School - Department of Rehabilitation Medicine l Started the University of Colorado Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities with $250M private gift l Awards for Teaching and Service l Chair of the 4-campus University Faculty Grievance committee - received Special Training in Mediation

Professional Background l Research Interests l Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits l Simulation, Statistical Design, Synthesis, Testing, Formal Verification l Signal Processing l Multi-objective design of digital filters, adaptive filters l Technology for Cognitive Disabilities l Working at the intersection of cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, learning science and computer science and engineering l Fellow and IEEE member for 33 years

IEEE Background l Circuits and Systems l Reviewer and Author l Technical Committee Chair l Associate Editor and Editor - Trans CAD l Technical and General Chair, ICCAD l Member BoG l VP Technical Activities l President

IEEE Background l TAB l Member l Division Director l Chair of Products Committee l VP-Elect, VP, Past VP l Management, Strategic Planning, Finance

IEEE Background l Awards and Honors l Fellow l Millenium Medal l CAS Golden Jubilee Award l Distinguished Service Award l Best Paper

IEEE Background l Board of Directors l Division Director l Member of Audit Committee l Member of Executive Committee l Member of Operations Review Committee - hire consultants and oversee the review of headquarters infrastructure - BDO Seidman Report l Member of the governance committee - part of current strategic planning l Currently VP Publications Services and Products Board

Key Issues for the IEEE l Top operational issue - clear, consistent, continuous communications within the organization l Absolutely necessary to build trust l Trust is absolutely essential to enable change and growth

Key Issues for IEEE l We must operate in a business like manner l Analyze plans and opportunities l What will something cost - life cycle costing? l Where will the money come from? l Is it part of our strategic plan? l What are the tangible and intangible benefits? l Can we scale an activity to support many members? l What are the costs of not doing something?

Key Issues for IEEE l Finances continues to be a difficult challenge. l The latest results shows a challenge for 2003 l We are working hard on this and will likely meet budget l 2004 will inherit some of the challenges l At this time we must make decision based on services and service levels, not just across the board cuts l This one issue can tear us apart! l We must communicate clearly and often - the issues, reasons and what we are all doing to address the problems l It is a challenge for us all in both IEEE and our professional and personal lives l We will live through it and we must work to maintain our key values and activities as we move forward

Key Issues for IEEE l Our entire business model is or will be facing incredible challenges l Publications l Access all IEEE IP through IEL l Will be available to all members (and non-members) through a variety of mechanisms in the next 5 years l Raises issues of member in societies and even membership in IEEE l Conference are in difficulty because of economy l They may emerge with quite different characters l Continuing/Professional Education l Absolutely required for our members - we must be part of the solution

Key Issues for IEEE l We need a continuing multiple year: l Budget process l Analysis of risks l Analysis of multiple scenarios and generation of potential responses l We react to a problem, often too late - we must become proactive l Planning for integration of projects/initiatives across the Institute l We need to become much more data and information driven in our decision making l We must have an informed BoD - we don’t!

Key Issues for IEEE l Membership and Volunteers l How many, how to grow into new areas, cost, benefits l While I stand firmly for a de-centralized and locally driven structure the values of centralizing some portions of the infrastructure are clear - Pubs l One major challenge is to maintain the local flavor while supplying appropriate centralized infrastructure l Insure that central infrastructure supports local creativity

The IEEE President l Effective at building consensus l Have worked effectively in very difficult times across the IEEE units l Excellent relations with IEEE staff. Have worked with staff to achieve common goals l Chairs the IEEE Board of Directors l Top officer and top volunteer interface with IEEE staff l Significant experience working in IEEE, academia, industry, and with government organizations across the globe l Have spent time in at least 25 countries l IEEE’s Ambassador to all elements of the IEEE and the profession l Members, students, non- members, industry, other organizations, customers and partners My views and qualificationsActivities of IEEE President

The IEEE President l Excellent record in new IEEE Products, strategic planning in TAB, PSPB and the BoD, developing an enabling culture in different organizations l Provide vision for both operation and strategic improvements l Coordinate and enable IEEE strategic planning l Excellent connections with TAB, Societies, PSPB, EAB. Good and growing connections with RAB, IEEE-USA and IEEE-SA. l Skills in listening and integrating views and suggestions into creative, effective solutions l Has the pulse of the activities and opportunities of the various IEEE entities l Works to integrate and enable the activities of entities within the broader vision of IEEE My views and qualificationsActivities of IEEE President

l A balanced and dynamic response is the key to our organizational vitality and our economic viability. This balance consists of: l A decentralized organization of creative, entrepreneurial volunteers; l An efficient, coherent, flexible, affordable, and consistent infrastructure; l Continual development, marketing and delivery of products and services with affordable member rates; l Extending our connections to industry, including new products and services, continuing education, leadership and management opportunities for volunteers, and an expanded standards activity; l Quickly and visibly responding to our rapidly changing technical environment

Operational Vision l Creativity l Driven from the Societies, Chapters, etc. l Enable and Encourage l Coherence l As appropriate activities must be scalable across the range of our organization l Coordinate at the OU level l Effectiveness l Our activities have to work from a fiscal perspective l Coordinate between OU’s and BoD

Summary l IEEE is the defining organization for our profession l As such it must embrace l Change l Opportunity l All elements of profession l Members, non-members, industry, other organizations, customers and partners l Now is the time to look to the future, building on our inspiring past and current strengths l I would appreciate your vote and help in building the IEEE of the future

Thank you!