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Continuing the learning and work from IEEE Digital Reality, this initiative seeks to lead the discussion on the Metaverse's technological challenges and foster its application.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://publicsafety.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Public Safety Technology" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Public Safety Technology" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-public-safety-technology.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://publicsafety.ieee.org/">Public Safety Technology</a> - The IEEE Public Safety Technology Initiative is dedicated to becoming the global center of excellence for public safety agencies, suppliers, practitioners, researchers, and all industry participants to discuss and exchange ideas on how emerging technologies can help public safety personnel be more effective in their work and support their sustained health and wellness. The initiative identifies existing relevant technologies, researches new opportunities, launches new activities, and engages with public safety entities for the betterment of all industry stakeholders.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://smartlighting.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Smart Lighting" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Smart Lighting" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-smart-lighting.jpg" width="138" height="74"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://smartlighting.ieee.org/">Smart Lighting</a> - IEEE Smart Lighting is a cross-disciplinary effort that unites and integrates IEEE expertise from various horizons to advance the science and technology of the smart lighting system. This effort will help lead the convergence of the lighting industry and the ICT industry toward the path of the Lighting 4.0 era.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://sustech.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE SusTech" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE SusTech" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-sustech-logo.jpg" width="144" height="77"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://sustech.ieee.org/">SusTech</a> - The IEEE SusTech Initiative, formerly named Climate Technologies Sustainability Initiative, in collaboration with the TA Climate Change Program and SA’s Planet Positive 2030, seeks to contribute technical expertise and solutions to address sustainability challenges, including climate change.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://telepresence.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Telepresence" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Telepresence" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-telepresence.jpg"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://telepresence.ieee.org/">Telepresence</a> - IEEE Telepresence seeks to bring together stakeholders and develop a community around advancing telepresence technology which enable a user's remote presence at a different physical location: a) feeling as if being there, and b) having a similar effect as if being there—in appearance to others and in effectual action, via telerobotics.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://wirelesspower.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Wireless Power Technologies" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Wireless Power Technologies" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-wpt.jpg"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://wirelesspower.ieee.org/">Wireless Power Technologies (WPT)</a> - IEEE WPT covers the interdisciplinary field of wirelessly supplying energy to electrical devices and systems ranging from exploratory R&D to mainstream products. IEEE WPT is bringing together researchers and industry professionals in a global setting to tackle technological challenges, develop corresponding standards, and provide education to advance WPT technology for humanity.</p> </td> </tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="link-list-container">  <ul class="link-list">  <li> <a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-future-directions-initiative-chairs.pdf" target="_blank"> <span class="arrow-right"><i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><p>View the list of initiative chairs (PDF, 90 KB)</p> </a> </li>  </ul>  </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> IEEE Future Directions Committee invites Societies and Councils to apply for funding new initiatives in emerging technologies. Learn more about the <a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/fd-opportunities/">funding process</a>. </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="ieee-future-directions-events" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>IEEE Future Directions events</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <ul> <li><a href="https://ieee-ofcct.org/">2024 IEEE Online Forum on Climate Change Technologies (OFCCT)</a>, 4-7 November & 2-5 December 2024, Virtual</li> <li><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/future-tech-forum/gtf-ai/">IEEE Global Tech Forum on AI</a>, 7 November 2024, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA</li> <li><a href="https://ieee-telepresence.org/">2024 IEEE Conference on Telepresence</a>, 16-17 November 2024, Pasadena, California, USA</li> </ul> </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="tech-megatrends" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>Technology Megatrends</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <p><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/tech-megatrends/"><img src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/2024-tech-megatrends-640x360.jpg" alt="2024 Technology Megatrends report" width="200" height="113" style="float: right;margin-left: 20.0px;"/></a>The IEEE Technology Megatrends report, released by the IEEE Future Directions Committee, reveals the technologies having the most opportunities and potential impact for the future.</p> <p> </p> <p class="arrow-link"><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/tech-megatrends/">Learn more about Technology Megatrends</a></p> </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="future-tech-forum" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>IEEE Future Tech Forum</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <p><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/future-tech-forum/"><img src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-future-tech-forum.jpg" alt="IEEE Future Tech Forum" title="IEEE Future Tech Forum" width="640" height="93" class="img-responsive center-block"/></a><br /> The IEEE Future Tech Forum, organized by IEEE Future Directions, is a series of audience-engaging roundtable discussions with a focus on leading technologies, frontline issues, crucial challenges, and societal impacts; with global subject-matter experts and thought leaders in industry, academia, and government.</p> <p>Visit the IEEE Future Tech Forum website to learn more, register for upcoming sessions, and access previous sessions on-demand.</p> </div> <div class="link-list-container">  <ul class="link-list">  <li> <a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/future-tech-forum/" target="_self"> <span class="arrow-right"><i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></span><p>Learn more about IEEE Future Tech Forum</p> </a> </li>  </ul>  </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="top-of-page">  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin hidden"> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>  <div style="margin-bottom: ;"> </div>  </div> <div class="section-header-container">  </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="ieee-future-directions-newsletter" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>IEEE Future Directions Newsletter</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <p style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://engage.ieee.org/future-directions-newsletter-sign-up.html">Subscribe</a> to the IEEE Future Directions Newsletter</b></p> <p>IEEE Future Directions considers the reflection of technology through the lens of social implications a key tenant of its work as it incubates and promotes technologies. <a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/tech-policy-ethics/">IEEE Technology Policy & Ethics</a> features timely technical, policy, ethical, social, and governmental, but not political, commentary related to emerging technologies and advancements. Read these articles in the IEEE Future Directions Newsletter.</p> <div class="row"><div class="col-md-4"><p><b>2024</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-october-2024.pdf" target="_blank">October</a> (PDF, 827 KB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-august-2024.pdf" target="_blank">August</a> (PDF, 851 KB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-june-2024.pdf" target="_blank">June</a> (PDF, 836 KB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-april-2024.pdf" target="_blank">April</a> (PDF, 833 KB)</li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-september-2020.pdf" target="_blank">September</a> (PDF, 2 MB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-july-2020.pdf" target="_blank">July</a> (PDF, 2 MB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-may-2020.pdf" target="_blank">May</a> (PDF, 1 MB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-march-2020.pdf" target="_blank">March</a> (PDF, 2 MB)</li> <li><a href="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-directions/ieee-future-directions-newsletter-january-2020.pdf" target="_blank">January</a> (PDF, 2 MB)</li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-4"><p><b>2019</b></p> <ul> <li><a 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height="139" alt="IEEE Future Directions Podcasts" title="IEEE Future Directions Podcasts" style="margin: 0.0px 25.0px 20.0px 0.0px;vertical-align: middle;"/></a><a href="https://digitalprivacy.ieee.org/media-center/podcasts"><img src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-digital-privacy-podcasts.jpg" width="185" height="139" alt="IEEE Digital Privacy Podcasts" title="IEEE Digital Privacy Podcasts" style="margin: 0.0px 25.0px 20.0px 0.0px;vertical-align: middle;"/></a></p> </div> <div class="link-list-container">   </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="ieee-future-directions-committee" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>IEEE Future Directions Committee</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <p><img src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-future-directions-160x105.jpg" alt="IEEE Future Directions" title="IEEE Future Directions" width="160" height="105" style="float: left;margin-right: 20.0px;margin-bottom: 10.0px;"/>The IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC), in association with Societies, Councils, and OUs, anticipates and determines the direction of existing, new, and emerging technologies and spearheads their investigation and development by IEEE. Taking a holistic view, the FDC emphasizes new, emerging technical areas and drives them to maturity within the IEEE infrastructure. Additionally, the FDC serves as a liaison to and fosters cooperative efforts among Societies, Councils, and industry to develop new products and services in emerging topics.</p> <p>The primary working objectives of the IEEE Future Directions Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Incubates emerging technologies and new applications of current technologies</li> <li>Identifies opportunities to engage the engineering community and the general public</li> <li>Works with IEEE members and staff to focus on emerging technologies through technical, professional, and educational activities</li> <li>Serves as a catalyst for new conferences, publications, standards, educational products, forums, white papers, grants, and projects to support new technologies</li> </ul> <p class="arrow-link"><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/fdc/">View the IEEE Future Directions Committee Roster</a></p> </div> <div class="link-list-container">   </div>  <div class="top-of-page-link hidden-xs text-right no-margin "> <a class="arrow-color-blue" href="#top"> <img class="svg top-arrow-link" src="/etc/designs/ieee-core/clientlibs/images/top-arrow.svg"/> <span class="title-label">top of page</span> </a> </div>   </div> <div class="section-header-container">  <div id="roadmaps" class="section-header font-c" style="background-color: ; color: "> <h4>IEEE Technology Roadmaps Committee</h4> </div> <div class="rte text parbase"> <p><a href="https://roadmaps.ieee.org/"><img src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-roadmaps.png" alt="IEEE Roadmaps" style="float: left;margin-right: 20.0px;margin-bottom: 10.0px;"/></a>The IEEE Technology Roadmaps Committee (IRC) works to provide guidance and infrastructure to support technology roadmap activities across IEEE. IRC, as supported by IEEE Future Directions, is a valued resource to any society or community as it develops and promotes its technology roadmap as a critical resource between research and industry.</p> <p>The growing interest in technology roadmaps spans a wide range of IEEE organizational units. 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One of the products from the initiative is the successful IEEE DataPort.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://blockchain.ieee.org"><img title="IEEE Blockchain" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Blockchain" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-blockchain.png" width="150" height="60"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://blockchain.ieee.org/">Blockchain</a> - More than Cryptocurrency, blockchain is a technological foundation to a new way of conducting transactions, securing networks, and recording the validity and origin of data. Blockchain will allow a new perspective on how humans interact to society's challenges; touching upon everything from financial transactions, energy trading, carbon emission trading, protection and easy access to healthcare records, to the protection of the valued assets of corporations and nation states.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://brain.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Brain" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Brain" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/838786.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://brain.ieee.org/">Brain</a> - This initiative is dedicated to advancing technologies that improve the understanding of brain function, revolutionizing current abilities to reverse engineer neural circuits in both the central and peripheral nervous systems, and developing new approaches to interface the brain with machines for augmenting human-machine interaction and mitigating effects of neurological disease and injury.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://tc.computer.org/tccld/"><img title="IEEE Cloud Computing" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Cloud Computing" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/840350.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://tc.computer.org/tccld/">Cloud Computing</a> - This has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. IEEE is advancing the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm, which currently has a significant impact on the entire information and communications ecosystem.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="http://cybersecurity.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Cybersecurity" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Cybersecurity" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/838787.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="http://cybersecurity.ieee.org/">Cybersecurity</a> - Through outreach projects, workshops, experiments, and challenge competitions, the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative builds on IEEE’s long-standing and world-leading technical activities in cybersecurity and privacy to actively engage, inform, and support members, organizations, and communities involved in cybersecurity research, development, operations, policy, and education.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://digitalreality.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Digital Reality" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Digital Reality" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/ieee-digital-reality.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://digitalreality.ieee.org/">Digital Reality</a> - This initiative serves to enable the coming Digital Transformation through collaboration among technologists, engineers, regulators, and ethicists. The Digital Transformation is fueled by advances in sensors and actuators, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). By leveraging these technologies and others, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and Digital Twins, the line between the physical world and the digital world will be increasingly less distinct.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Future Networks" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Future Networks" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/future-networks.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/">Future Networks</a> - IEEE Future Networks is dedicated to bringing together researchers, scientists, and engineers from industry, academia, and governments around the world to solve the challenges associated with the development and deployment of next-generation network infrastructure. 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The initiative has developed a project plan to address the current landscape of quantum technologies, identify challenges and opportunities, leverage and collaborate with existing initiatives, and engage the quantum community at large.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Rebooting Computing" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Rebooting Computing" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/838791.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/">Rebooting Computing</a> - IEEE seeks to rethink the computer, "from soup to nuts," including all aspects from device to user interface. This group works from a holistic viewpoint, taking into account evolutionary and revolutionary approaches.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://smartcities.ieee.org/"><img title="IEEE Smart Cities" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Smart Cities" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/838793.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://smartcities.ieee.org/">Smart Cities</a> - IEEE experts will work with local government leaders and city planners around the world to explore the issues and address what's needed to prepare for the ever-increasing urban population growth, including engaging and interacting with local inhabitants to increase awareness of their urban environment, leading to the formation of smart cities.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://smartgrid.ieee.org"><img title="IEEE Smart Grid" alt="IEEE Smart Grid" class="img-responsive" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/840353.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="http://smartgrid.ieee.org">Smart Grid</a> - The "smart grid" has come to describe a next-generation electrical power system that is typified by the increased use of communications and information technology in the generation, delivery, and consumption of electrical energy.</p> </td> </tr><tr><td><a href="https://sdn.ieee.org"><img title="IEEE Software Defined Networks" class="img-responsive" alt="IEEE Software Defined Networks" src="/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/futuredirections/838792.png"/></a></td> <td><p><a href="https://sdn.ieee.org">Software Defined Networks (SDN)</a> - SDN and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) are creating the conditions to reinvent network architectures. 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