IEEE Region 6 Central Area Spring Meeting & MicroMouse Contest 2009 March 28, 2009

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Agenda
7:30 AM Breakfirst

8:00 AM Registration
8:30 AM Introduction
8:45 AM Region 6 News and Board Candidates
9:15 AM Section and Student Branch Reports
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Student Paper and Design Contests
Micromouse teams preparation for afternoon race
Section Officer Breakout

12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Keynote Talk "SmartGrid Evolution and the roll standards will play"
by Chris Knudsen, Director of the Technology Innovation Center at PG&E

1:30 PM MicroMouse Races and Awards
4:30 PM Closing Remarks

Bio of Keynote Speaker:

Chris
Knudsen is currently the Director of the Technology Innovation Center at Pacific
Gas & Electric Company where he is responsible for developing new
technologies to drive energy efficiency and SmartGrid evolution. Chris also
chairs the Open SmartGrid committee under UCA. Prior to PG&E Chris held the
position of Chief Technical Officer for Wireless Wide Area Networking Standards
& Mobile Performance Labs within Intels Mobile Wireless Group. In his role
at Intel Chris, was responsible for: IEEE WWAN standards, WiMax technical
direction, systems engineering and simulations, network architecture, mobile
WiMax labs, over-the-air test and trial networks, and technical business
analysis for WWAN. Previously, Chris spent three years at Paul Allens Vulcan
Capital focusing on early stage wireless investments including 802.11, 802.15,
802.16 technology, spectrum acquisition, as well as other proprietary systems
and technologies.Prior to Vulcan, Chris led Metricoms Ricochet development
as Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ricochet was the first of its kind
wireless wide area meshed data network delivering data rates in excess of
200kbps/user. Metricom was also the company that developed the Utilinet AMI
system is which Chris developed some of the later devices. He earlier founded
a start-up developing energy efficient home automation system. Chris started
his career designing and developing radio systems for defense electronic
applications.
Chris has
over 20 years of communications technology development, networking, start-up,
and senior management experience. Chris is an exceptionally strong technical
leader with broad experience managing diverse, multi-disciplined technical
teams. Chris has both interacted and held seats on corporate Boards. He has
designed, developed, and operated wireless hardware and systems ranging from a
few MHz to 40 GHz. Areas of experience include wireless data networks, AMI
systems, internet data, radar processing, telecommunications, wireless consumer
products, and electronic intelligence systems for military applications.

Chris holds
a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of
California at Davis and has completed work towards a Master of Technology
Management at Santa Clara University.


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IEEE Region 6 Central Area

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