Agenda

Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego in California. She worked to develop new engineering programs as a founding member of the faculty and eventually became the chair of electrical engineering, then serving as Director of Engineering (2004-2013), providing academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs. Her teaching interests are in the areas of signal processing, mechatronics and robotics, and communication systems.

She has also been a member of technical staff at several companies, including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and is a past vice president of the society. She is a Fellow of ABET, and a leader in the development of accreditation criteria for cyber security, mechatronics & robotics, and graduate programs. Kathleen served on the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Secretary and chair of Governance and IEEE Region 6 (Western USA) Director. She was also chair of the 2023 IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Innovating Funding Models. 

She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Maike is a member of the IEEE Standard Association Board of Governors and the IEEE SSIT Board of Governors. She chairs the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Initiative, the IEEE P7800[TM] Standards Working Group: Recommended Practice for Addressing Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and Climate Change Challenges in Professional Practice, and the Green Hydrogen IEEE SA Industry Connections Program. She is a co-chair, IEEE Future Directions SusTech Initiative. 

Maike is a longtime advocate for sustainable development and for the deployment and use of technology that is ‘sustainable by design’ to achieve a long-term healthy planetary biosphere. Her areas of interest and expertise span diverse technical areas from ICT, energy, and water to advanced manufacturing. 

She is managing director, R&D, at a start-up company, Carbovate Development, and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University, Canada. Maike’s career spans academia and industry in Canada, USA and Germany.  She is/has been serving on numerous Boards of Directors and Committees, including IEEE and the Canadian Standards Council Steering Committee of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.

Dr. Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos is a pioneer in digital health and agentic AI, and a committed advocate for the ethical, inclusive, and responsible use of AI in healthcare. He serves as CEO of the Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation, Health Executive in Residence at UCL’s Global Business School for Health, and a member of its MBA Advisory Board. With over three decades of experience in global health and innovation, Dr. Kalogeropoulos has advised leading organisations including the World Health Organization, the European Commission, and the World Bank. He has played a key role in shaping international policy frameworks to enhance healthcare accessibility and resilience, and to advance sustainable, patient-centred innovation worldwide. He is the incoming Chair of the IEEE European Public Policy Committee and leads several global initiatives at the intersection of health, technology, and equity.

Yuhan is a Ph.D. student in the geography department at the National University of Ireland, focusing on the global governance of the energy transition, specifically examining how energy innovation disproportionately empowers local communities. With working experiences with the UNFCCC secretariat in the Intergovernmental Support and Collective Progress Division, she contributed to coordinating the workstreams on the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Yuhan leads the global youth policy board for the Asia-Pacific region at FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization). She chairs the young working group for energy systems at the UNECE in the Sustainable Energy Division. 

Aside from her academic role, she co-chairs external affairs at the IEEE Young Professionals Climate and Sustainability Task Force, monitoring academic and science-based projects, and contributing to long-term collaboration with leading energy institutes like IEA, IRENA, SeForAll, etc. Yuhan currently serves as International Affairs Manager at WAGA (a renewable energy company dedicated to solving energy poverty starting in African villages), which is dedicated to providing sustainable and reliable lithium-ion battery solutions by recycling and reusing lithium-ion batteries and producing durable and affordable battery powered products.

Karen Mulberry is Senior Manager of Public Affairs at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) where she manages strategic public and government affairs programs and engagements within and across the organization. Karen has been involved in shaping policy development, identifying strategic initiatives, and providing technical standards through leadership at the intersection of technology, standards, regulation, and policy throughout her career. She holds a BS in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.