IEEE Sección España

As reported in the report recently issued by the United Nations (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC Report 2021), the benefits that technology provides to a green and sustainable economy are highly appreciated and under intense research and development globally. Circuits and Systems (CAS), which are the base for any system, can bring the needed functionalities and performances for reaching eco-friendly, circular and practical solutions. The IoT active connection in agriculture (as an example in Europe) are exponentially increasing, proving that Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA or Precision/Smart Agriculture) is a very fast-growing research field, where more controlled quality production, water use optimisation, and a lower spreading of pesticides and fertilisers are some key issues, serving the improvement of food quality, but also helping the respect of agriculture for the environment. For reaching these targets, electronics are the perfect tool for interfacing the data sources, extracting the data and processing them, and obtaining the needed information along the whole food chain: from the farmer, and the professional stakeholders to the consumers. In the Distinguished Lecture, an overview of electronics for CSA will be presented, analysing the possible solutions that can bring important innovations, advancing the actual strategies based on remote or indirect measurements, by instead in-place measuring the plant and soil parameters (a.k.a. Let the Plants do The Talking), associated with more standard information derived from environmental conditions. This new and disruptive technology, related to Wearable Sensors for Plants, the World Economic Forum has recently identified it as one of the “Top five technologies about to change the world”, indicating it as one of the key solutions to increase food production by 70% by 2050 to be able to feed the world population. Application scenarios for crop monitoring, water control, information communication and decision support will be presented. In particular, will be analysed technologies for reaching the needed levels of low power and low cost, and the efficient ones to be applied to AgriFood at the global scale, supporting also food security and sustainability. Speaker(s): Danilo Marchi Bldg: Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (IMSE-CNM), Cl Américo Vespucio, 28. , Parque Científico y Tecnológico Cartuja, , Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain, 41092, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/424031

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices and other objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. It is expected that 25 billion objects will be connected to the Internet by 2025 through IoT-based solutions, which will generate a huge amount of data, around 4.4 trillion gigabytes, by 2025. The IoT-connected objects will interact with their delayed environments to sense, collect, and forward the measured data. It is very important to ensure IoT solutions are deployed in trusted distributed environments to provide features such as seamless authentication, data privacy, security, robustness against attacks, easy deployment, and self-maintenance. Blockchain is an emerging technology that will help to provide confidence in implementing the aforementioned characteristics for any IoT-based solution. In this talk, I will address the evolution of IoT in different fields, followed by real examples that present data growth. Then, I will present the connection between IoT & Blockchain and the necessary components to develop an efficient framework. Challenges and future directions will be presented and discussed. Speaker(s): Nidal Nasser Bldg: Facultad de Educación, UNED, Calle de Juan del Rosal, 14, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28040

El miércoles 26 de junio de 18-19h tendrá lugar una sesión técnica sobre microcredenciales organizada por los capítulos español y portugués de educación del IEEE en el congreso TAEE. La sesión se titula "Challenges and Opportunities of Micro-credentials". La sesión se realizará en inglés. Se pueden observar más detalles sobre la misma en: https://congresotaee.es/sesiones-plenarias/ Seguidamente, el miércoles 26 de junio de 19-20h tendrá lugar una reunión del capítulo español de educación del IEEE, a la que se puede asistir bien presencialmente en Málaga en la sede del congreso TAEE o bien de forma online. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/423182

The IEEE Spain Blockchain local Group in collaboration with the IEEE Spain Signal Processing and Communications Joint Chapter organizes an industrial panel within the framework of the Salamanca Tech Summit under the title "A new type of company called DAO". You do not miss the hype! We will be lucky to have a fantastic expert panel: Title: - A new type of company called DAO Moderator: - Rafael Pastor Vargas - UNED, IEEE Spain Blockchain Local Group Speakers: - Carlos Cadada - Kairós DS - Francisco Luis Benítez - Fidesol - Pablo Romero - Carbon Solutions - Julio Merelo - Alastria Time and place: - June 28, 10:30 - Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Castilla y León, Salamanca More information: https://summit.salamancatech.es Co-sponsored by: Salamanca Tech Summit Speaker(s): Rafael Pastor Vargas, Carlos Cañado, Francisco Luis Benítez, Pablo Romero, Julio Merelo Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Castilla y León, Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain, 37007

Oscar Lage es el Responsable de Ciberseguridad de Tecnalia, miembro del consejo asesor de varias compañías. Conferenciante y coautor de varios libros entre los que destaca el best seller “Blockchain: la revolución industrial de Internet”. Es colaborador habitual en medios de comunicación generalistas (TV, radio, prensa). Oscar es miembro de las dos principales alianzas internacionales sobre blockchain (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance e Hyperledger), coordinador del sectorial de Energía e Industria de Alastria y miembro de los principales foros internacionales de ciberseguridad como la European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO). Speaker(s): Óscar Lage Bldg: Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Castilla y León, Cuesta de Oviedo, S/N, Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain, 37008

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices and other objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. It is expected that 25 billion objects will be connected to the Internet by 2025 through IoT-based solutions, which will generate a huge amount of data, around 4.4 trillion gigabytes, by 2025. The IoT-connected objects will interact with their delayed environments to sense, collect, and forward the measured data. It is very important to ensure IoT solutions are deployed in trusted distributed environments to provide features such as seamless authentication, data privacy, security, robustness against attacks, easy deployment, and self-maintenance. Blockchain is an emerging technology that will help to provide confidence in implementing the aforementioned characteristics for any IoT-based solution. In this talk, I will address the evolution of IoT in different fields, followed by real examples that present data growth. Then, I will present the connection between IoT & Blockchain and the necessary components to develop an efficient framework. Challenges and future directions will be presented and discussed. Speaker(s): Nidal Nasser Bldg: Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Castilla y León, Cuesta de Oviedo, S/N, , Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain, 37008

We are pleased to announce MISC'24, the Spanish Workshop on Machine Learning, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Communications. In Madrid on July 2, 2024, MISC'24 expands upon the Signal Processing, Information Theory, and Communications (SIC) Workshop to include the Machine learning field. The technical program features speakers of renowned international prestige in these fields. Remarkably, the event will host a distinguished lecturer from the Information Theory Society. In the afternoon, we will have a poster session for Ph.D. students, postdocs, and researchers in the fields above to foster interaction and potential new collaborations. We encourage all participants to contribute. Registration will be open until June 21, 2024. Please fill out the form: https://forms.office.com/e/4YpXNajrQy Moreover, we will hold a welcome and networking dinner on July 1st to promote social interaction among participants. Each participant would cover the costs, with an estimated cost between 40 and 50 EUR. Please, let us know your interest in attending the dinner by answering the corresponding question within the registration form. Visit our website for more details: https://sites.google.com/view/misc24workshop/home Feel free to share the event details with potential interested participants. We look forward to your participation in this event. Kind regards, Grace Villacrés (URJC), Alejando Lancho (UC3M), Mihaela I. Chidean (URJC) MISC'24 Co-Chairs Co-sponsored by: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Speaker(s): Anand D. Sarwate, Tobias Koch, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Antonio G. Marqués Agenda: https://sites.google.com/view/misc24workshop/program Room: 501, Bldg: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Quintana 21, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28008

We are pleased to announce MISC'24, the Spanish Workshop on Machine Learning, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and Communications. In Madrid on July 2, 2024, MISC'24 expands upon the Signal Processing, Information Theory, and Communications (SIC) Workshop to include the Machine learning field. The technical program features speakers of renowned international prestige in these fields. Remarkably, the event will host a distinguished lecturer from the Information Theory Society. In the afternoon, we will have a poster session for Ph.D. students, postdocs, and researchers in the fields above to foster interaction and potential new collaborations. We encourage all participants to contribute. Registration will be open until June 21, 2024. Please fill out the form: https://forms.office.com/e/4YpXNajrQy Moreover, we will hold a welcome and networking dinner on July 1st to promote social interaction among participants. Each participant would cover the costs, with an estimated cost between 40 and 50 EUR. Please, let us know your interest in attending the dinner by answering the corresponding question within the registration form. Visit our website for more details: https://sites.google.com/view/misc24workshop/home Feel free to share the event details with potential interested participants. We look forward to your participation in this event. Kind regards, Grace Villacrés (URJC), Alejando Lancho (UC3M), Mihaela I. Chidean (URJC) MISC'24 Co-Chairs Co-sponsored by: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Speaker(s): Anand D. Sarwate, Tobias Koch, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Antonio G. Marqués Agenda: https://sites.google.com/view/misc24workshop/program Room: Salón de Actos, Bldg: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Quintana 21, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 28008

On Tuesday, July 2nd, Prof. Anand Sarwate from Rutgers University give his Distinguished Lecture: Title: "Learning with Structured Tensor Decompositions” Abstract: Many measurements or signals are multidimensional, or tensor-valued. Vectorizing tensor data for statistical and machine learning tasks often results in having to fit a very large number of parameters. Using tensor decompositions to model such data can give a flexible and useful modeling framework whose complexity can adapt to the amount of data available. This talk will introduce classical decompositions (CP, Tucker) as well as more recent ones (tensor train, block tensor decomposition, and low separation rank) and show how they can be used to learn scalable representations for tensor-valued data and make predictions from tensor-valued data. Time permitting, we will describe applications in federated learning as well as open problems for future research. The event will be transmitted via Teams: (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTgzMjdkYjUtZDYxNi00NmUxLTk0YjAtNDQwZTIxYWQzMDdh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%225f84c4ea-370d-4b9e-830c-756f8bf1b51f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22b4bdccba-f532-48cd-8208-457d6bc3086c%22%7d) Co-sponsored by: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Speaker(s): Dr. Anand Sarwate, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/425691

Por orden del presidente, se convoca la reunión ordinaria del capitulo correspondiente a Julio 2024 Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/426063