IEEE Dallas CVT Chapter
Meetings & Other Key Information
CVT’s next meeting will be on December 12, 2023. Samsung has offered our society members the opportunity to tour their Plano, TX, Innovation Center. Due to schedule considerations, we will be holding this meeting on December 12, 2023. There will not be a November meeting. Due to the possibility of conflict of interest at the site, our host has asked that we provide our employer affiliation. As such, the registration page will included an employer affiliation. The registration is limited to 30 people due to space considerations. We will be offering the registration to our IEEE members first, then open to the general members, beginning on Wednesday, November 22. A broadcast email will announce the opening of registration.
CVT’s October meeting was held on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. The Blackberry QNX team presented “Unlocking the Software Defined Vehicle for Defense Innovation”. Rich DesMarais and Stephen Olsen presented for BlackBerry. DesMarais is BlackBerry’s Regional Sales Manager for embedded products which are used to solve real-world issues in Medical, Industrial, Aerospace, Defense and Transportation solutions. Stephen Olsen is BlackBerry’s Embedded Systems Expert for Automotive, Medical, Industrial, Aerospace and Defense, Safety, Security and the Internet of Things. Click here for more details.
CVT’s September meeting was held on Tuesday, Sep. 19, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. Song Fu, Site Director, NSF eCAT Center and Director, Vehicle and Edge Computing Laboratory – UNT gave a brief introduction of eCAT: The Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT). Click here for more details.
CVT’s May meeting was held on May 23, 2023, and consisted of a tour of the Toyota Motor North America Headquarters in Plano with a presentation and exhibit of the new Toyota bZ4X EV by John Spielman, Technical Training Analyst for Toyota. Click here for more details.
CVT’s April meeting was held on Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. Dr. Kurt Tutschku from the Blekinge Institute of Technology was our speaker. His topic was “Toward Networking for Intelligent Realities (Metaverse)”. Click here for more details.
CVT’s March meeting was held on Tuesday, Mar. 21, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. Peter DeNagy from Skyworld ATC was our speaker. His topic was “Update on Building of Skyworld ATC (Advanced Technology Center)”. Click here for more details.
CVT’s February meeting was held on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. Bill James from JPods LLC was our speaker. His topic was “JPods: Building the Physical Internet® in DFW”. Click here for more details.
CVT’s January meeting was held on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023; lunch starting at 11:30am, presentation at 12pm, at UTD SPN 1 building, 3000 Waterview, Richardson, TX 75080. CVT’s chair and Intel Telecom specialist, Larry Horner, was our speaker. His topic was “Features of the newly announced Intel 4th generation Xeon-SP CPU”. Click here for more details.
CVT’s Dec. 20, 2022 meeting was a special meeting at Hexa in Richardson. We toured Hexa’s facility, had lunch, and then had CVT member/board discussions. Click here for more details.
CVT’s Nov. 15, 2022 speaker was Gary Brown, VP Product Management, at NPI Mobile. The title of his presentation was “NPI Mobile Strategies to improve US Infrastructure” and discussed application of Artificial Intelligence. Click here for details.
For several months, many CVT members have been reporting they are not receiving CVT’s monthly emails. This results from recent enhancements to spam filters by major email services. The solution is to whitelist CVT’s emails: 1) enotice@enotice.ieee.org; and 2) ieee-cvt-dallas@list.smu.edu .If you need help, please contact jimgunn@ieee.org.
Upcoming Meeting Dates
CVT meetings are planned on the third Tuesday of each month, excluding June – August summer months. Upcoming meeting dates are listed below.
Dec 12, 2023
Who We Are
IEEE is the largest technical professional organization for engineers dedicated to advancing technology for all of us. As a global organization, IEEE fosters the connection between engineering professionals to use technology and academic excellence to change the world for the better. In alignment with the global IEEE organization, the IEEE chapter of Communications and Vehicular Technology (CVT) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area explores the engineering principles and technology foundations behind telecommunications, information technologies, and vehicular technologies. The CVT mission is to encourage engineers and others to advance their professional and educational interests through exploring research and technology advancements via open-forum discussions around communication and vehicular topics in a learning environment.
CVT hosts a monthly technical luncheon once a month (Sept. to May) in order to bring together technologists, managers and entrepreneurs which have a desire to continue professional learning, training and investment for the future generation of engineers. Speakers are invited as thought leaders and experts in their field for a one-hour technical presentation on a topic that relates to CVT. Topics have ranged from the deployment of 5G, smart battery technology for connected cars, sensor technology for an IoT network and the 911 priority etc. The chapter meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month from September to May. The technical lunch is open to members and non-IEEE members.