IEEE Rising Stars Conference

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The fifth annual IEEE Rising Stars Conference will be held at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, from January 4–6, 2019. With a program focused on technical and professional development, Rising Stars is the place to be for students, young professionals and industry leaders in the electronics industry.

Conference highlights include the following:

• 2 Parallel Tracks – Technical track and Professional track.
• Competitions & Workshops – Cybersecurity competition, Resume/Job search workshop and Arduino hardware workshop by Intel.
• Keynotes – Richard New, VP of Research, Western Digital & John Treichler, CTO of Applied Signal Technology
• Technical Track topics include (among others) Block chain, 5G, Medical Technology, Space Discovery, Smart Cities, Reality Modeling, Autonomous Driving, Graphics AI.
• Professional Track topics include creating a powerful team, Finance and Wealth, Project Management, Communication, Networking strategy development, a resume workshop.
• Industry Speakers include representatives from National Instruments, NVIDIA, DARPA, Ford Motors, HP, NASA, Aerospace Corporation, Telephonics, Bentley Systems.

Meanwhile, the speaker line-up includes:

• James Kimery – Director of Wireless Research, National Instruments  
• Chris Humphreys – CEO/Founder, The Anfield Group 
• Dan Schweiker – President and Founder, China Mist 
• Kathy Murphy – Merryck & Co 
• Rick Hefner – Program Director, California Institute of Technology 
• Terence Yeoh – The Aerospace Corporation 
• Skip Rizzo – Research Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies for Medical Virtual Reality
• Tom Coughlin – President, Coughlin Associates 
• Carolyn Andrews – CEO, Inspired Leaders Now 
• Keith Moore – US Army Information Systems Engineering Command 
• Mark Schneider – Bentley Systems 
• Ramesh Ramadoss – Bitclass Inc. 
• Mathew Allred – Ameriprise Financial 
• Sid Msihra – Scientist, JPL/NASA 
• Iris Bombelyn – Managing Director, Golden Seeds 
• Guarav Pandey – Technical Specialist, Robotics and AI, Ford Motor Company 
• Lorenzo Lo Monte – Chief Scientist, Telephonics 
• Rick Hefner – Program Manager, Caltech 
• Mario Millicevic – Communications Systems Engineer, MaxLinear 
• Michael Andrews – Managing Partner, Andrews & Associates  
• Peter Pyun – Principal Solution Architect, NVIDIA 

Funding is also available for interested IEEE members. For more information about funding opportunities, contact Ramesh Nair at rameshnair@ieee.org.

Special thanks go to sponsors IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Industry Engagement Committee, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, IEEE MTTS, IEEE AESS, INCOSE-LA, and IEEE GRSS.