This talk will explore the challenges and opportunities for building a technology business in a post-COVID world, with a focus on the perspective of venture capitalists, but targeting the entrepreneur. Topics include the impact of the pandemic on consumer behavior and business models, shifts in investment trends, and strategies for navigating the current economic environment. Overall, the talk will aim to provide actionable insights for entrepreneurs looking to build technology businesses in the post-pandemic world. Speaker(s): Kostas Mallios, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/346307

Dr. Jasmin Grosinger will present RF design solutions for wireless sensor and communication nodes to solve sustainability issues in the Internet of things (IoT) due to the massive deployment of wireless IoT nodes on environmental, economic, and societal levels. Engineers can apply these design solutions to improve the (ultra) low-power operation of IoT nodes, avoid batteries’ eco-toxicity, and decrease maintenance costs due to battery replacement. The presented solutions offer high integration levels based on system-on-chip and system-in-package concepts in low-cost complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technologies to limit the costs and carbon footprints of these nodes. In particular, I will present solutions for (ultra) low-power wireless communication systems based on high-frequency and ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies. I will show design solutions for wireless systems that reveal how to develop passive miniaturized IoT nodes that operate robustly in harsh application environments and how to create passive – batteryless – IoT nodes which provide passive sensing capabilities and work robustly in their respective application environment. Speaker(s): Jasmin Grosinger, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/346714

RESCHEDULED to 15-FEB 5PM PT (existing registrations preserved) SusTech Talks lead up to the IEEE SusTech conference in April, 2023, (https://ieee-sustech.org/) “Connectivity Standards Alliance & Matter Introduction “ with Chris LaPré – Head of Technology, Connectivity Standards Alliance Date: Feb. 15, 2023 Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM (PT) On October 4, 2022, the Alliance released Matter 1.0, a global, open-source standard that removes barriers to IoT device interoperability & sustainability by enabling smart home products to work together seamlessly, to help to improve efficiency and reduce energy use and cost. This industry-unifying standard is the foundation for connected things and eliminates the walled gardens of IoT with the promise of reliable, secure connectivity. Matter paves a new path to product innovation and adoption by creating increased connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers, and improved compatibility and accessibility for consumers. We will share how to get involved in the Connectivity Standards Alliance and the nearly 500-plus global companies inspired to change the future of IoT. Speaker(s): Chris LaPré, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/344854

In this talk astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin will examine the possibilities. Starting with a discussion of the present-day breakthroughs, we will take a deeper look at where it leads: to ultrafast global travel through suborbital space, to new industries on orbit, and to human settlement of the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, the outer solar system, and ultimately the stars. All these things are possible, and he will explain how to achieve them. Then he will look at what such mastery implies: what we will gain by undertaking this grand adventure, and what we would lose by failing to do so. Co-sponsored by: Orange County AIAA and also Orange County Sigma Xi Speaker(s): Robert Zubrin, Agenda: The talk will be from noon to 1pm followed by no more than 30 minutes of open Q&A. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347373

Two free pre-symposium tutorials: One Profiling the Open Chiplets Economy (1:00 PM); the other on three NIST-sponsored Roadmaps (2:30 PM); no registration fee. In-Person only, in Milpitas, CA USA. (Register separately if you wish to attend the HI Symposium, at: (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/336609) For program updates, speaker names and topics, etc, visit : https://r6.ieee.org/scv-eps/?p=3003 Bldg: (in-person only), SEMI World Hdqtrs, 673 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035

Abstract: Conventional gas sensors are designed as zero-order analytical instruments with a single-output response (e.g. resistance, current, light intensity). Under variable ambient conditions such sensors suffer from cross-sensitivity from interferent gases and from fluctuations (drift) of their response because single-output sensor designs mathematically do not allow gas-selectivity and/or drift correction. We break this status quo by developing a new generation of gas sensors, known as multivariable sensors with several independent responses. By our designs, these sensors are first-order analytical instruments. In this talk, we will show that individual multivariable gas sensors quantify several gases and reject interferences, which is mathematically not feasible using conventional sensor designs. Next, we will show that such multivariable gas sensors have the ability for self-correction for sensor drift. Our multivariable gas sensors operate in the radio-frequency (RF) and optical portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. We self-correct for the baseline drift by sensor operation at more than one frequency of wavelength. Our approach for the drift self-correction should allow implementations of gas sensors in diverse applications that cannot afford weekly, monthly, or quarterly periodic maintenance, typical of traditional analytical instruments. Speaker(s): Dr. Radislav A. Potyrailo, Agenda: 6:30 – 6:50 PM Zoom Registration & Networking 6:50 – 7:00 PM Announcements & Polling 7:00 – 7:45 PM Invited Talk 7:45 – 8:00 PM Questions & Answers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347326

Persistent memories are finding many uses in embedded devices and in various computing applications. NOR and SRAM have scaling limits that favor new memory technologies for smaller lithographic nodes such as MRAM and RRAM. In this talk we will explore important developments in memory technology including CXL and memory in chiplets that will transform computing. We will also look at how far persistent memories could go in the memory/storage hierarchy. URL's will be emailed to registered attendees two days, two hours and two minutes before the start of the meeting. Speaker(s): Tom Coughlin, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347592

Free Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/security-in-quantum-computing-era-tickets-514840380437 Synopsis: The amount of data that is being generated, stored, communicated, and analysed is increasing at an exponential rate. Securing this data while in storage (or) in communication (or) in the analysis is challenging. Emerging technologies make this task much more challenging. Quantum computing is such an emerging technology having large-scale computing capabilities and has the potential to solve some of the problems that conventional computing principles can not solve. With such potential, it can adversely disrupt the current security frameworks and, at the same time, address some of the pressing problems in security. This talk introduces threats and challenges in security due to quantum computing, addressing security challenges with quantum principles and developments in post-quantum cryptography. Speaker(s): Dr Aswani, Vishnu S. Pendyala Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/343025