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Mike Wimmer is a highly motivated, forward-thinking high school senior who has his sights set on redefining the future.  His entrepreneurial goal is to build technology that will enable people to live better and safer lives.

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Learn the future of human-robot interaction from the perspective of a 12-year- old.  Looking ahead, how can we ensure that consumers are educated and excited to accept the roles robots will play in their lives?

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Milan Vidaković was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (nowadays Serbia), in 1971. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, in 1995, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In 1995 he joined the department for Computing and Control of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad as a teaching assistant. In 2004 he became assistant professor, in 2009 he became associate professor, and in 2014 he became full professor at the same university. His current research interests include agent technology, distributed computing, object-oriented programming, web programming, IoT, Android programming, and internationalization/localization.

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Couple of years ago I decided to make a computer right from scratch. That task meant that I needed to devise an instruction set, internal architecture, and to make a choice of peripherals. For starters, I used a FPGA development board to implement the core of the system. Later, I added UART, keyboard, VGA graphics, SD card and Ethernet connectivity. In parallel, I needed to invent my own assembler, to modify GCC to work with my architecture and to reuse all sorts off open-source drivers for my peripherals. This is my journey into the world of low-level hardware and software development.

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Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty is a Professor at the University of North Texas. Prof. Mohanty’s research is in “Smart Electronic Systems” which has been funded by NSF, SRC, US Air Force, IUSSTF, and Mission Innovation. He has over 20 years of research experience on security and protection of media, hardware, and system. He introduced the Secure Digital Camera (SDC) in 2004 with built-in security features designed using Hardware-Assisted Security (HAS) or Secure by Design (SbD) principle. His the widely credited as the designer for the first digital watermarking chip in 2004 and first the low-power digital watermarking chip in 2006. He has authored 350 research articles, 4 books, and invented 5 granted/pending patents. His Google Scholar h-index is 37 and i10-index is 145 with 6300+ citations. He is a recipient of 12 best paper awards, Fulbright Specialist Award in 2020, IEEE Consumer Technology Society Outstanding Service Award in 2020, the IEEE-CS-TCVLSI Distinguished Leadership Award in 2018, and the PROSE Award for Best Textbook in Physical Sciences and Mathematics category in 2016. He has delivered 9 keynotes and served on 8 panels at various International Conferences. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He has been serving on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and IEEE Transactions on Bigdata. He has been serving on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and has served as the Chair of Technical Committee on VLSI (TCVLSI), IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) during 2014- 2018.

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Dr. Himanshu Thapliyal is an Associate Professor, Endowed Faculty Fellow, and Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Certification Program with the University of Kentucky, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of South Florida, USA. He has authored over 150 journal/conference articles with H-index=37 and over 4000 citations. He received Best Paper awards at the 2020 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, 2017 Cyber and Information Security Research Conference (CISR), and 2012 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI). He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He is serving as the Section Editor of the Springer Nature Computer Science, Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, and the Associate editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. His research interests include hardware security of IoT and vehicles, the circuit design of quantum computing, emerging technologies, and smart healthcare.

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Dejan is a distinguished technologist and director at Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA [1998-]. Previously, he worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA [1994-1998] and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia [1983-1991]. His areas of expertise include system software and distributed systems. He received his PhD from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1993); and MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia (1983/86). Dejan was a managing director of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing testbed (2007-2011). Dejan has over 200 papers, 2 books and 54 granted patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow (2010), ACM Distinguished Engineer (2008), and HKN and USENIX member. He was president of IEEE Computer Society (2014) and IEEE Presidential candidate (2019). He has been on many conference program committees and journal editorial boards.

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Predicting the future is never easy, it always entails a degree of uncertainty, if not luck. Predicting technology trends is even harder as it requires both technical and business acumen, e.g., whether the technology will be developed, productized, and ultimately adopted on the market. It is almost an art to distill between a fashion and a true scientific trend. At the same time, the public likes to read predictions and many individuals and organizations regularly write technology predictions, such as Gartner, MIT, Forbes, and many others. Predicting technology in times of pandemics carries even more weight as it deals with human lives and economies of many nations, and the humanity as a whole. IEEE Computer Society started its technology predictions informally in early 2010 and formally via annual press releases in 2014. In 2016 we introduced scorecards for previous year. Our predictions reached substantial audience, e.g., in 2018, it was picked up by 300 media outlets (84.6M audience), entirely different from classical publishing. We consider predictions a new type of publication, a lightweight, short, approximately a paragraph per prediction. The predictions triggered other media outreach, such as blogs, interviews, panel sessions, and special issue of IEEE Computer magazine. In this panel talk, I will present history of predictions, followed by 10 technologies that may make a difference in addressing pandemics.

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Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant. He has over 39 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports (including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report), and puts on digital storage-oriented events. He is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites. He is an IEEE Fellow, Past-President of IEEE-USA and is active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities go to www.tomcoughlin.com .

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The IEEE Future Directions Committee explores the future of technology, ranging from quantum computing to electronics interfacing with the brain. This talk will discuss these efforts and the role that these technologies will have in creating the jobs and careers of the future.

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In this interesting panel topic, during Keynote introductions you will learn how exoskeletons are used, why they are not recommended for the consumer applications yet, and when we will have a device to create own stem cell cream.

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Prof. Dr Dušan Marić, MD specialized in pediatric surgery and orthopedist. From 2015 he is the Chair of the Department for Regenerative Medicine and Regenerative Orthopedic. He has done first stem cells transplation on Balckans region, and has a success in stem cell based treatments for autism, spine injuries, and other diseases. His treatment methods are versatile, and along with stem cells, cellular signaling, he includes robot exoskeleton and other technology approached in his practice.

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In this interesting panel topic, during Keynote introductions you will learn how exoskeletons are used, why they are not recommended for the consumer applications yet, and when we will have a device to create own stem cell cream.

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Džihan Abazović, MD is an emergency medicine specialist. He graduated from University of Belgrade Medical Faculty in 2007 and after graduation he has worked in the field of clinical genetics and intercellular signaling. In the years to follow he gained valuable knowledge in blood management. He was a head of emergency medicine department in the Emergency Medicine Centre of Montenegro in Ulcinj (2013-2018) and since 2010 dr Abazovic works on a project on the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Along with his colleagues dr Abazovic was the first doctor in Serbia who introduced regenerative medicine in clinical practice. Research of stem cell and blood derivatives in orthopedics and gynecology are of his greatest interests and together with his teams he is introducing novel techniques in the treatment of different pathologies. He is the author of numerous publications and lecturer on numerous Congresses.

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This pandemic has revealed the shortage of medical devices, such as ventilators as well as monitoring devices for testing the virus, Pulse Oximetry and remote temperature monitoring. Low and Middle Income countries are hit hardest due to affordability of devices such as ventilators that can cost several hundred dollars. Furthermore availability of affordable home monitoring of the virus can obviate the need to visit a testing center, regularly to monitor infection. The panelists will discuss the role of Consumer Technology, such as inexpensive processors, 3-D printing to enable affordable devices for treatment and monitoring. The first segment will discuss ventilators. The second segment will be a discussion on optical devices to monitor temperature and oxygen saturation. The final segment will relate to advances in home-testing of the virus. Each of these segments will illustrate the role of Consumer Technology in enabling such devices.

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Ram held senior positions in engineering and research, in medical systems, at Eastman Kodak Company, Analogic, and Bose Corporation before embarking on a full time consulting career. He was educated at IIT Bombay and Yale University and has degrees in Civil Engineering, Fluid mechanics, Electronic Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering, and Control System Theory. Over his career, he has designed medical systems such as Patient Monitors, Defibrillators, CT scanners, Ultrasound Imaging Systems, Fetal Monitoring systems, Digital and Computed Radiography, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitation, and precision analog circuitry for medical systems. Ram and a team are developing open-source tools for designing affordable ventilators for LMICs. He has 16 issued patents, and two pending, in the areas of medical devices and systems. He is passionate about affordable medical systems for Low and Middle-Income countries. He works closely with the Engineering World Health organization (EWH), developing medical devices for under-developed countries and is a member of the Board for the EWH organization. Ram developed a hand-cranked defibrillator to be marketed, initially, in India. Expertise in High voltage magnetics plus consulting in High Voltage transformer and X-Ray generator design are two of Ram’s additional qualifications. Professionally, Ram has previously served on the AAMI standards committees on Defibrillators and ECGs, Chair of IEEE Rochester Section, and as Member of IEEE Committee of Man and Radiation. He is currently a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and is a founding member of the IEEE SSIT.