Category Archives: International Collaboration

IEEE Standards Soon to be Available from Austrian Standards

IEEE and Austrian Standards sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Vienna. Austrian Standards, the Austrian competence centre for standards and rules, will soon offer its customers direct access to the standards of the globally active IEEE, as a result of negotiations and the subject of an agreement signed by top representatives of the two [...]

IEEE-SA Returns to EnergyCon

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) returned for the second time to the IEEE International Energy Conference & Exhibition – EnergyCon 2012 hosting a panel session during this year’s conference themed “Towards User-Centric Smart Systems” and held in Florence, Italy, 9-12 September 2012. The IEEE-SA participated in the first IEEE EnergyCon in 2010 in Bahrain, and [...]

Standardization: Living in the Smart Cities of the Future: eWork, eMobility and Connection to the Smart Grids

Originally posted in the IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine On 10 July 2012, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and DKE German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE co-hosted the workshop “Standardization: Living in the Smart Cities of the Future: eWork, eMobility and Connecting to Smart Grids” in Offenbach, Germany. This event [...]

Outreach in India

In March 2012, the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG) traveled to India to conduct outreach directly to India‐based companies, focusing on the field of power, communications, and information technology, with hopes to solicit their interest and participation in IEEE standards projects. The outreach activities had the CAG split between two cities, Bangalore and New Delhi. [...]

Presenting the New Standards Paradigm to Key Players in China and Japan

With China now the leading center for manufacturing worldwide, it’s to the advantage of both China and the West for China to be fully integrated into the standards-creating process globally. Japan has long been integrated in this way, but maintaining that relationship remains a priority. IEEE-SA participants visited both of these countries in June 2012, [...]

International eMobility Standards Symposium

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is collaborating with DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.), the German Institute for Standardization, and SAE International in organizing a new event to explore how standards are driving innovation in electric vehicles (EV) and charging infrastructure globally, lessons learned from the field of “electromobility” standards implementation and gaps where [...]

IEEE-SA President Speaks at the Global Standards Symposium

On 19 November, IEEE-SA President Steve Mills addressed the Global Standards Symposium in Dubai. The Global Standards Symposium (GSS) is a one-day event where ministers, regulators, heads of other international, regional and major national standards bodies, and industry from the different regions of the world discuss global ICT standards challenges, with a focus on the [...]