Agenda

Maike Luiken, PhD, SMIEEE, IEEE-HKN, FEIC, is 2022 IEEE Past Vice President - Member & Geographic Activities. She served as President of IEEE Canada in 2018 - 2019 and, in 2018, as Chair, Policy Track, IEEE Internet Initiative. She is and has been for more than 15 years a very strong supporter of sustainable development. 

She is a co-owner and managing director, R&D, at a start-up company and also an Adjunct Research Professor at Western University, London, Canada. 

Previously, in Sarnia, Canada, she led the Bluewater Sustainability Initiative, 2006 – 2013, and was the founding Director of the Bluewater Technology Access Centre (now Lambton Manufacturing Innovation Centre) following eight years as Dean at Lambton College with several portfolios: School of Technology and Applied Sciences, Business Development, Sustainable Development and Applied Research. Her strategic leadership in the development of the applied research & innovation capacity and portfolio led to Lambton College becoming one of the three top Research Colleges in Canada.

Her areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy and water to advanced manufacturing and nanotechnologies as well as technology design principles, ethics in design and policy associated with their implementation. She has particular interest in how progress in one area, e.g., in ICT, enables advances in other disciplines and in how deployment of various technologies contributes – or not - to achieving sustainable development. 

Maike has experience in the public and private sectors in Canada and has worked in the USA and Germany.

Mila is a global senior consultant and leader for close to 30 years. Currently, she is also Chief Weaver and member of the Advisory Board for the Planet Positive 2030 initiative, collaborating together to design a strong sustainable white paper with IEEE Chairs from around the world. She has a wealth of commercial acumen for the strategic thinking and execution of global business transformations and portfolio management of strategic change projects and programmes in various industries and sectors working with and for government, NGOs, not-for-profits, and public sectors. As an Executive Director, leading global teams and delivering multi-million dollar initiatives, Mila has an intimate knowledge and experience of leadership, management, and business issues at global, national, and local levels including the complex and systemic challenges faced within organisational and societal change.

Coupled with Mila’s quest to explore and experiment on human ecosystem collaborations, aligned with living system (nature) principles, serving life and future generations. Together with a variety of communities, groups and organisations, Mila is now actively experimenting social innovation initiatives in various sectors and industries towards prototyping and co-evolving decentralised and self-organising human and living systems, supported by participative design, prosocial collaborations, regenerative practices, and human system dynamics. In essence co-evolving with the whole evolving living system, marrying timeless wisdom and the spectrum of modern wisdom – arts, science, technology, human co-evolution and spirituality.

Bruno Meyer,  Ph.D, FIEEE, IEEE-HKN is the 2022 IEEE Vice President of Technical Activities (TAB) and a member of the IEEE Board of DIrectors. In 2022, he launched the TAB work program on Climate Change. He has been an active IEEE volunteer in several fields, in particular in Power and Energy.

Bruno Meyer is GO15 Secretary General (www.go15.org).

He is President of the consulting firm ConsultBKM (www.consultbkm.fr)

Bruno has over 36 years of experience in industry, mainly in the field of power systems and energy utilities.

He is a former Senior Executive at RTE and EDF. 

Navroop Sahdev is the founder and CEO of The Digital Economist, a global impact organization with the mission to drive technological convergence toward a human-centered global economy. A pioneering economist and technology futurist, Navroop’s work lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, economic science and business strategy. Along with the world’s most respected digital economists, in 2019 she co-authored “Blockchain Economics: Implications of Distributed Ledgers: Markets, Communications Networks, and Algorithmic Reality”, the first book on the economics of blockchain. She has also co-authored Hyperledger’s "Blockchain for Business" online course which has trained close to 200,000 entrepreneurs globally, and counting.

Additionally, Navroop is the founder and CEO of Rethink Markets, a global action-tank focused on the Economics of Emerging Technologies, with the mission to bridge the gap between scholarly economics and business applications.

Navroop holds three masters in IP Management, Economics of Innovation and Applied Economics. Previously, she has worked at Harvard University and the United Nations Environment Programme. She is currently a Connection Science Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, part of a curated group of top scholars and entrepreneurs in emerging technologies with a track record of outstanding achievement, who are building the future of Distributed Ledger Technologies, Digital Identity and Digital Networks.

John C. Havens is Lead of the Sustainability Practice of the IEEE Standards Association.  Previously at IEEE SA John was Executive Director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems that had two primary outputs – the creation and iteration of a body of work known as Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and the recommendation of ideas for Standards Projects focused on prioritizing ethical considerations in A/IS.  John was responsible for: the initial ideation, framing and execution for bringing together the more than seven hundred global thought leaders to create Ethically Aligned Design; was Founding Chair of IEEE 7000 and IEEE 7010 and helped launch more than a dozen other IEEE Standards Working Groups focused on AI, AI Ethics, AI Governance, and AI Procurement; and continues to work on staff at the IEEE Standards Association to help further design, proliferate, and standardize the concepts of human-centric, applied ethical, values-driven design for Responsible Innovation of all technologies. 

Previously, John was an EVP of Social Media at PR Firm, Porter Novelli, led Business Development at BlogTalkRadio, and was a professional actor for over 15 years. John has written for Mashable and The Guardian and is author of the books, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity To Maximize Machines and Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World.

For more information, follow John on LinkedIn or @johnchavens on twitter. John currently has over ninety citations on Research Gate and dozens of articles for outlets such as The Guardian, Quartz, IEEE Spectrum and Mashable.