1. Workshop on Professional Environments IEEE Strategy Committee 9 May 2005 Piscataway, NJ

2. IEEE Workshop l Discussion on the future professional environment to drive IT planning l Professional Environment l Collaboration l Communication l Information acquisition l Publication, and l Social networking

3. IEEE Other efforts l Other things are going on… IEEE SPC RAB / Membership initiatives PSPB/TAB Strategic Planning

4. IEEE Schedule l noon - Lunch l 1pm - Introductions l 2pm - Research l 2:30pm - Some initial thoughts 2:35pm - Short (Old) Video http://www.digibarn.com/collections/movies/knowledge-navigator.html l 2:40pm - Break and networking l 3:00 pm - Guided Discussion l 4:30 pm - Wrap up

5. IEEE Participants l ~20 participants l ~half staff / half volunteers l RAB VP l PSPB VP l RAB/TAB S/CS ECCS Chair

6. IEEE l Credibility l Trust l Brand l Community l Peer Review l Conferences l Publications

7. IEEE Themes l Need to move l Sense of urgency l Aggregation of content or feeder of content to aggregation tool

8. IEEE Themes l Can not forecast future (details) l Many of necessary decisions will come from others (SPC, RAB/Membership, TAB/PSPB, SA) l Meta-data associated with our content l Indexing and linking l Internal and external l Language - “working electro-technologist” level in Region 8, 9, 10?

9. IEEE Themes l Membership / Customer Data l Rich data needed l Community l Privacy l Indexing, Linking

10. IEEE Themes l How do we stay in front of our members eyes l IEEE.TV l MyIEEE l E-mail service providers l Real time conferences, delayed play l Tutorials

11. IEEE Volunteer/Member Issues l Firewall friendly l Company IT policy friendly

12. IEEE Path’s Forward l Scenario development to determine likely least common denominator l Conduct experiments l Be agile