This year, over 300 researchers and practitioners from around the world convened at the 41st International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (www.icce.org). “This has been IEEE CTSoc’s flagship conference for over 60-years and the content has always been fresh,” said Dr. Nobou Funabiki, IEEE CTSoc incoming VP Conferences.
Dr. Ibrahim Gedeon, the TELUS CTO and the Conference General Chair, opened the event. "We are really proud to be here, this is one of the few places where we can actually be ourselves and debate certain topics. We are proud of where the Consumer Technology Society has gone through and the entire rebranding", Dr Gedeon said. He then continued with a challenge to the “intellectual wealth,” by referring to the participants, “How are we addressing the sustainability issues?”
Participants shared their latest research and experience, and heard from Consumer Technology leaders. The IEEE CTSoc President, Prof. Wen-Chung Kao, remarked “Three years later, we finally came back and are pleased to welcome those of you that have been with us for a long time, and those that are new to CTSoc. CTSoc will be your best platform for your professional development.”
“Despite the lingering worldwide challenges of COVID, political conflict and economic strife, the Organizing Committee delivered a program that was evidently appealing to the participants. They came from 22 countries to engage with six keynotes from industry and academia, five tutorials, three-days of Industry led programming, and two affinity program events – one by Women in Engineering and the other by Young Professionals,” noted Dr. Sreeraman Rajan, the ICCE2023 Executive Chair.
Dr. Mahsa Pourasad, who organized the keynote sessions stated, “where else can you meet and hear from those that advance consumer technologies like Bluetooth founder Dr. Yutaka Sata (Toshiba), enablers of the metaverse like Dr. Volker Zeigler (Nokia), MPEG standards creator Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione (CEDEO.net), and so many more! Check out the rich program.”
“We’ve heard that this was the first time we’ve had such a rich online tutorial program in two parallel sessions. Be sure to ask CTSoc for after conference access to the recordings,” offered Dr. Asma Khatoon, the Tutorials Co-Chair.
“The core of the program was the authors: 235 accepted papers in 32 sessions. Plus, we had four invited talks,” said Dr. Mikiko Sode-Tanaka, TPC Co-Chair.
Dr. Christian Gross, Industry Program Co-Chair, reminded us that “yes, the effort and caliber of the Industry Program this year will surely be applied to ICCE-Berlin 2023. The consumer technology fields need both academic researchers and those that develop and deploy that technology.” Dr. Gross was supported by Michael Isnardi, Glenn Parsons, and Akihiko Ken Sugiyama.
At ICCE, we recognize our accomplished members and best paper authors. Notable is the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Technology Award. This year, it was presented by the IEEE President, Dr. Saifur Rahman, to Ken Sakamura from Tokyo University. Ken-san, an IEEE Life Fellow, received this prestigious award for leadership in creating an open and free operating system for embedded computers used in consumer electronics. Also notable was Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, past CTSoc President, being recognized “For his distinguished and outstanding services as the President of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) 2019-2022, that successfully transformed the Society within the last four-years from Obscurity to Prominence.”
Missed out or want more? Keep ahead in Consumer Technology by joining us at our upcoming events this year: ICCE-Berlin (Feb. 2-5, with IFA), ICCE-Taiwan (Jul. 17-19), ICCE-Asia (Oct. 24-27), and Gaming Entertainment and Media in Barbados (Nov. 26-29), and of course ICCE 2024 in Las Vegas early January. Stay current – visit ctsoc.ieee.org for all that’s happening!
Dr. Gedeon heartedly expressed that "it's [CTSoc] such a great society reinventing itself. So we are really happy as an organization to be part of this.”
Special thanks go to our strong and consistent supporters: TELUS and the Consumer Technology Association, without whom we could not provide greater value.
L-R: Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, Dr. Saifur Rahman, Dr. Wen-Chung Kao, Dr. Ibrahim Gedeon
ICCE2023 Fans who are Authors
Keynote - Dr. Volker Ziegler (Senior Technology Advisor, Chief Architect. Nokia & Vice Chairman of the Board of Information Technology Society (ITG) in VDE), on "Technology Vision for the 2030s to Enable the Metaverses"
Authors and Session Chair Pleased with their presentations
L-R: Charlotte Kobert, CTSoc Admin; Dr. Sreeraman Rajan, ICCE2023 Executive Chair
Special Technical Session Speaker Abhay Ratnaparkhi (IBM)
Women in Engineering Panel. L-R: Anne Slevinsky (MSc., Manager of Architecture and Analytics Team at Telus Communications, Canada); Prof. Marzieh Amini (Assistant Professor
School of Information Technology
Carleton University, Canada); Dr. Mahsa Pourazad (VP Education Activities, IEEE CTSoc; Adj. Prof. UBC; Applied Intelligence Digital Strategy Manager); Dr. Jeewika Ranaweera (Vice Chair, IEEE Future Directions); Dr. Asma Khatoon (Research Fellow at the University of Limerick, Ireland)
Keynote - Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu
(Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University, Canada) on "Stratospheric Networks of the Future: It is More than Connectivity"
Industry Program Session on "How Megatrends Drive Innovations in Consumer Technology" with panelists: L-R: moderator - Kathy Grise (Future Directions Senior Program Director at IEEE); moderator - Nicholas Napp (Co-Founder at Xmark Labs, LLC); Jeewika Ranaweera, PhD (Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle); Tom Coughlin, PhD (President, Coughlin Associates, IEEE President-Elect)
Industry Panel Session on "How Megatrends Drive Innovations in Consumer Technology" panelist Dejan Milojicic (Hewlett Packard Labs, Distinguished Technologist,
FIEEE IEEE President-Elect 2020 Nominee)
Industry Keynote - Brian Markwalter (Sr. VP, Research & Standards
Consumer Technology Association) on "Consumer Technology Trends from CES"
Industry Program on "IT Security with Emphasis on Consumer IoT (CIoT)" panelists L-R: Sivakumar Radhakrishnan (HEAD - ICS/OT CyberSecurity; TÜV SÜD AMERICA INC., Alpharetta GA 3000); moderator - Dr. Christian Gross (ICCE2023 Industry Program co-Chair); Sven Öhrke (Managing Director VDE GlobalServices Member of Management Board, VDE Testing and Certification Institute, Offenbach, Hessen, Germany)
Industry Program on "IT Security with Emphasis on Consumer IoT (CIoT)" panelist Carsten Pinnow (Owner PINNOW & Partner GmbH, Berlin, Germany)
Industry Panel - Michael Isnardi, PhD (Distinguished Computer Scientist at SRI International, ICCE2023 Industry Program co-Chair)
Keynote - Pamela Snively (Chief Data & Trust Officer, TELUS) on "Building Trusted Technology"
Special Technical Session on "Further Evolution of 5G towards Super Smart Society". Speaker: Kei Sajaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Industry Program Session on "Consumer Technology Standards". L-R: Dr. Christian Gross (ICCE2023 Industry Program co-Chair); Ramesh Ramadoss, PhD (Entrepreneur, Speaker, Co-chair, IEEE Blockchain, Expert Member, EU Blockchain Forum, VP- IEEE Standards Association “Blockchain"); Glenn Parsons (IEEE CTSoc Society Committee on Standards past-Chair, IEEE Standards Association; Ericsson, Canada); Yu Yuan, PhD (President-IEEE Standards Association, Director-IEEE Board of Directors); Moderator - Brij Gupta (PhD
Director & Professor, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, Asia University, Taiwan); Moderator-Kim Fung Tsang, PhD (IEEE P2668 WG Chair, Chairman at Citycom Ltd, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE CTSoc Society Committee on Standards Chair)
Special Technical Session on "Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Enhance Patient and Community-Centered Approaches to Public Health Challenges." Speaker: Tim K. Mackey, UC San Diego, Global Health Program, USA