February
4, 2020
From Idea – To Minimum Viable – and Across the Traction Gap
Engineering & Business Series
6:30 PM
Thought Leader: Bill Bartels
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-02-ent
Overview
The
steps from idea to minimum viable product to moving across the traction gap
to scale, require very different focus. Startups and entrepreneurs must successfully
reach a series of increasing value inflection points along the Traction Gap.
As startups reach each successive point, they substantially increase in value
because they have demonstrated a certain amount of market acceptance and risk
reduction. What is a minimal viable product and how to build one for your
start-up? Timing, team, ideas, business model, and funding are the components
but how to align, integrate and synergize these components is key for
success. Clarity in place, context and execution of each aspect lights the
path to success. This is the topic of the February 4th IEEE Tech*Talks
Thought Leader, Mr. Bill Bartels’ session.
About the
Thought Leader
Bill Bartels, President of GreenSource
Inc. works with motivated partners to find and foster a vision of community
growth and development. Bill’s work has engaged both private and public
agencies and companies. Bill’s work focuses on collaboration and facilitation
in economic development, music, creative process, municipal and regional
government, politics, land use planning, public policy and social work. He
has spent the last 30 years practicing this craft in Ventura County. From
agriculture to municipal management, transportation, water, sewer,
infrastructure, surface mining, Bill works at a personal, company,
multi-generational, and system wide level.
Bill
is also the current managing partner of the Bartels Family Partnership, a
fourth-generation family farming partnership established in 1898 and
currently partnered with Underwood Ranches in the production of diversified
row crop. This diversified family farming operation is based in sustainable
practice, organic process, healthy soil, and collaborative systems. He
consults with and for a diverse portfolio of partners and clients ranging from
farm system and regulation to, community services and organizational
development.
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Entrepreneurship Group
Flyer (PDF)
February
18, 2020
Human Motion Recognition Methods Using Radars
Pizza and Networking: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:00 PM
Speaker: Branka Jokanovic
Meetings are free and open to the public.
Overview
“A
pedestrian is killed by a car roughly every 90 minutes in the United States.
And until this week, all of those drivers were human.” This was a newspaper
headline in March 2018 after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a
self-driving car. Even though self-driving vehicles do not pose any more of a
risk to pedestrians than cars piloted by humans, making autonomous vehicles
drive safely in dense urban environment is still a challenge. This talk
addresses how a radar system can recognize different human motions, including
a pedestrian walking.
Radar
is a remote sensor that has been proven successful in human motion
recognition. Compared with LiDAR and camera, radar provides reliable
monitoring while being robust to lighting, temperature and weather
conditions. This presentation covers traditional and novel recognition
methods of human motion radar signatures. Traditional methods are based on
manual feature extraction or Principal component analysis (PCA). Novel
methods are based on deep learning techniques. Deep learning has emerged as
the key part in the field of artificial intelligence due to its powerful
brain-mimicking neural network structures. These complex structures allow an
automated way of learning and capturing the intricate properties of the human
motion signatures in different domains. Experimental results demonstrate that
the deep learning methods provide high accuracy compared with the traditional
methods.
About the
Speaker
Branka Jokanovic is a radar algorithm
development engineer at Aptiv PLC. After completing her M.Sc. degree at
University of Montenegro in 2012, she joined Villanova University where she
received her Ph.D. degree in 2017. During her graduate studies, her research
focused on time-frequency analysis, compressive sensing, deep learning and
their application to human motion recognition using radars. Since joining
Aptiv, she has been working on advanced MIMO automotive radar systems. Her
current focus is on pedestrian and other vulnerable road objects detection.
Location
Skyworks Solutions
649 Lawrence Drive
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(Not the main building; please use map to arrow that
pinpoints building)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura
Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Chapter
February
20, 2020
America's Fifth Generation Fighter Jets
6:30 PM
Speaker: Tapio Kartiala
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at https://www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-02-aes
Overview
The
presentation covers a basic explanation on how airplanes work, but most of
the discussion is about America’s latest technology fifth generation fighter
jets, the F-22 Raptor, and the F-35 Lightning II.
Both
aircraft are products of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
About the
Speaker
Tapio Kartiala has over 45 years’
experience as an Aerospace Structures Engineer, and over 35 years teaching
experience as an adjunct teacher at Los Angeles Valley College in the
Engineering Department. He earned his Master’s degree from USC, and a
Bachelor’s degree from UCLA. He has a Professional Engineer’s License from
the State of California, an Engineering Instructor’s Credential from the Los
Angeles Community College District, and two U.S. patents.
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Section Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Flyer (PDF)
February
26, 2020
Brain Data Bank Challenge – Explorations of Neuroscience for Consumer
Neurotechnology
Dinner (optional): Available at 6:00 PM
for $12, payable at the door.
Presentation (free): 7:00 PM
Speaker: N. Nan Chu
Free admission to presentation. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-02-emb
Overview
The
IEEE Brain Initiative has sponsored hackathons, challenges and competitions
in a manner of quick exploration about brain computer interface and brain
data bank, also employing neural network modeling and deep learning in the
realm of artificial intelligence, multi-modal physiological signal
interactions, games to improve multi-tasking performance, epilepsy detection
in mobile devices, all contributing to consumer usage of
neuroscience/technology. This presentation will summarize the results since
2016.
Brain
data bank analytics and tools simplification were at its infancy when the
Brain Initiative (BI) group was established within IEEE in the late 2015. It
was challenging to decode the brain, therefore the IEEE initiated brain
hackathons and challenges to educate, with hands-on experiments, to test the
state-of-the-art, and to encourage quick innovations to reach the market.
Numerous possibilities surfaced with the advent of affordable EEG headsets,
virtual reality manifestation, open-source EEG datasets, and controlled
experiments observing multi-mode physiological signal interactions. A series
of competition events under the auspices of IEEE Brain Initiative have been
held at universities and IEEE technical conferences around the world, as
listed below:
•
2016 Brain Computer Interface Hackathons in San Diego, Philadelphia, and
Budapest.
• 2017-2019 Brain Data Bank Challenges and Competitions globally including
Los Angeles.
Students,
faculty and entrepreneurs from multiple disciplines other than neuroscience
participated in these events. These activities have been catalogued with
event photos in the Brain Initiative website and other websites including the
IEEE Dataport which posted source brain datasets for the competition’s use.
Several technical papers were published as extension of projects out of the
competition in Journals and Proceedings of Consumer Electronics Society,
Engineering in Medicine & Biology (EMB) Society, Sensors Council, and
Machine Learning EEG Signal Processing Workshop. Some future directions for
brain research/technology evolution are reflected in terms of fast prototyping.
About the
Speaker
Dr. N. Nan Chu (朱 南
玉) worked in AT&T Bell Labs,
Rockwell International, Tellabs International, Comcast/Motorola/Verizon and
Thomson Multimedia before 2019. She retired from the industry as an Executive
Program Manager responsible for a $500M product line of Digital Set Top Box
manufacturing and deployment. Her technical contributions have grown along
the transformation from digital voice and Internet data to digital video
distribution and processing where she engineered the first digital STB
standard, encryption, conditional access, digital rights management schemes,
Intellectual Property protection, as well as content processing and user
interface.
While
primarily engaged with the telecom and consumer electronics industry, Dr. Chu
has forged collaboration with the academia by corporate grant management and
adjunct teaching in University of Illinois-Chicago, Widener University,
California Lutheran University, DeVry University Keller School of Management,
and National Central University. She was the Director of Research &
Services at California State University – Northridge. She has started two
companies and currently running the outfit of CWLab International among other
entrepreneurial activities in Chicago, Southern California, Taiwan, and
Russia.
She
has published more than 60 papers in areas related to digital
communication/networking technologies and edited two books. She has been
credited as the co-author of Digital Set-top Box Standards in the national
SCTE and international CCITT Study Group 9, receiving Corporate awards for
the early digital cable conversion standardization. Her interests in research
and product development continue to evolve along social networking, cloud
computing, data security, Internet connectivity to eHealthcare, with the
latest global involvement in brain communication.
Dr.
Chu has volunteered in IEEE professional services since the 1980’s and she is
a Life Senior Member, having served on Board of Governors in Consumer
Electronics Society, RFID, and Sensors Council. She executed General and/or
Industry Chair duties for AAEA, BICS, GLOBECOM, IGIC, SPCN, and many hi-tech
international conferences and symposiums. For the last 4 years, she has been
the Founding Chair of the IEEE Brain Initiative Brain Data Bank Competitions
and a pioneer in Brain Computer Interface Hackathons.
Her
humble education background includes a B.S. from National Tsing Hua
University, M.S. from Iowa State University, and Ph.D. from Northwestern
University majored in Nuclear Engineering, in 1972, 1973, and 1977,
respectively. Her career in the nuclear industry was short-lived by 1978. Her
R&D career in Communications, Networking Systems and eHealth Consumer
Electronics has continued for more than 40 years to explore
multi-disciplinary knowledge and contribution in technology.
Location
La Reina High School, Library
106 West Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(map)
Presented by: IEEE Buenaventura Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
Visit
the EMBS chapter web site for details on other upcoming events
March
3, 2020
CareRinger.com – Productized Services Explained
Engineering & Business Series
6:30 PM
Thought Leader: Henry Chan
Meetings are free and open to the public. Register at www.ieee-bv.org/meet/2020-03-ent
Overview
CareRinger
and its reassurance system can provide feelings of comfort and peace of mind
to our seniors and everyone involved. Feeling of comfort and peace of mind is
important to you and your loved ones. This session will share about a
productized-service known as CareRinger. It was developed by a Buenaventura
IEEE Section member. Senior-friendly CareRinger is like having a call buddy.
Install this CareRinger button app on your smart phone. Seniors living an
active lifestyle can check-in anywhere at the time of their choosing.
CareRinger makes all the buddy calls. It will notify the designated care
buddy, friend or family member if the call is not answered. CareRinger calls
you only at the time of your choosing. Check-in early, so CareRinger knows
not to call you that day. CareRinger will alert the designated contact
according to your instruction, by phone, by text or email. Or, just tell
Alexa to cancel the next call. If you have a Smart Speaker (such as the
Amazon Echo) near you, why not?
About the
Thought Leader
Henry Chan, inventor, senior care,
telecommunications and systems designer will share his about his most recent
invention called CarRinger. Henry is a former telecommunication professional,
now attending to special needs of elderly people. He is a member of the CSVP
(Conejo Valley Senior Volunteer Program) Advisory Board. Since 2012, Henry
has been teaching about senior-friendly technologies in his local
communities. He is the Founder of CareRinger and holds patents on methods
that apply to his service. He is a regular speaker at forums and conferences.
Henry
was responsible for data networks and high-speed Internet products for the
healthcare verticals and strategic projects. He worked with major HMO
organizations, teaching hospitals and medical centers as technical consultant
in the planning and development of their medical network, including UCLA’s
expanded network, now referred to as UCLA Heath. His experience also includes
systems maintenance and planning, engineering, product development, process
assurance, and program management.
Location
Hub101
Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship
31416 Agoura Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361
(map)
Presented by: IEEE
Buenaventura Entrepreneurship Group
Flyer (PDF)
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