Registration and Breakfast

Welcome and Kickoff

• Eric Grigorian
  IEEE Region 3 Director
• Tim Lee
  2024 IEEE-USA President-Elect/Boeing
• Zach McGovern
  External Relations Officer, City of Huntsville

How Alabama Can Contribute to the CHIPS Workforce

• Will Goins
  Chair, IEEE Huntsville Section (Introduction)
• Russell Harrison
  Managing Director, IEEE-USA

Opening Keynote: Defense Implications of CHIPS Act

• Donna Joyce, Ph.D.
  Army Senior Research Scientist for Protective Technologies, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center

NASA Small Business Opportunities

• David Brock
  Small Business Specialist, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Networking Break

10:45 AM - Breakout Sessions

1) Innovation and Intellectual Property

• Jennifer Fowler
  Director and Principal Investigator, Arkansas National Science Foundation EPSCoR (Moderator)
• Mark Adams, Ph.D.
  Director, Alabama Micro/ Nano Science and Technology Center, Auburn University
• Hulya Kirkici, Ph.D.
  Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of South Alabama
• David Vance Lucas
  Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
• George White, Ph.D.
  Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, Georgia Institute of Technology

2) Opportunities and Challenges in Workforce Development

• Ebonee Walker, Ph.D.
  IEEE Region 3 WIE representative (Moderator)
• Jared Ashcroft, Ph.D.
  Director, Micro Nano Technology Education Center
• Lyndsay Ferguson
  Vice President for Talent Initiatives, Huntsville/ Madison County Chamber of Commerce
• Erin Gawron-Hyla, Ph.D.
  Workforce Development CTEA Lead, Microelectronics Commons, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
• Zhigang Xiao, Ph.D.
  Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Alabama A&M University

Networking Lunch/Fireside Chat with NSF

• Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Ph.D.
  Division Director, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for STEM Education
• Erik Heilman
  Director of Government Relations, IEEE-USA

Aerospace and CHIPS Keynote

• Tawnya Laughinghouse
  Director, Materials and Processes Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center

How the Southeast Can Contribute to the Microelectronics Commons

• Tim Morgan, Ph.D.
  Technical Director, Microelectronics Commons

Networking Break

2:30 PM - Breakout Sessions

1) Broadening Collaboration with the U.S. Defense Enterprise

• Matt Francis, Ph.D.
  CEO, Ozark Integrated Circuits, IEEE Region 5 Director (Moderator)
• Julia Buckley
  COO, Reliable MicroSystems, LLC
• Kaitlin Bulavinetz
  Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, United States Department of Defense
• Jeffrey LaRoche, Ph.D.
  Engineering Fellow, Advanced Technology Programs, RTX

2) Broadening Collaboration with U.S. Aerospace Enterprise

• Curtis Hill
  PI, ODME Project and Lead, NASA InSPA Commercialization of Semiconductors, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Moderator)
• Tim Lee
  2024 IEEE-USA President-Elect/Boeing
• Rima Kasia Oueid
  Senior Commercialization Executive, Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy
• Dale Thomas, Ph.D.
  Alabama NASA EPSCoR

Sharing Notes: Breakout Session Report Out

Wrap-Up and Adjourn