Welcome to the Industry Connections Program

Bridging Collaboration and Innovation

The Industry Connections (IC) program helps incubate new standards and related products and services by facilitating collaboration among organizations and individuals as they hone and refine their thinking on rapidly changing technologies. IEEE SA provides a basic level of support to all IC activities.

Industry stakeholders play a vital role by providing expertise, advocating for standards, contributing resources, validating relevance, and promoting awareness. This ensures that standards remain effective and impactful.

The IC program offers an efficient environment for building consensus and producing shared results. We provide a range of resources to fast-track content and deliverables, including:

  • Proposals for standards
  • White papers
  • Peer-reviewed guides and position papers
  • Workshops, and events
  • Databases and registration services

Who Can Participate?

IC activities can be entity-based or individual-based, as specified in the Industry Connections Activity Initiation Document (ICAID).

For more information about the Industry Connections program, check out our program flyer or email the IC Program Administrator.

IC Support Services

IEEE SA provides a basic level of support to all Industry Connections (IC) activities at no charge to participants.

Basic support services include (as needed):

  • Activity startup support
  • Early Executive Committee (EC) meeting consultation
  • Group communication, collaboration, and productivity tools
  • Policies and procedures development support and consultation
  • Voting and election administration
  • Marketing communications for significant milestones and events (if desired)
  • Publication and/or standardization support
  • Administration of added fee services (e.g., technical writing, workshops)

Current Industry Connections (IC) Activities

Individual Defined Privacy Terms Roadmap

The goal of this Initiative is to convene leaders across industry, engineering, policy, academia, legal domains and consumer advocates to help organizations operationalize responsible AI deployment (all applications and systems, not only GenAI / Agentic AI) via any and all technologies supporting advertising, marketing, PR and the firms representing the world’s largest brands utilizing partners to communicate messaging and connect to their stakeholders.

New Foundations of Trust in Digital Communication, Interactions, and Transactions

The goal of the IC Activity is to propose and suggest creation and adoption of new methods, procedures, protocols and standards that enable Trustworthy transactions between two entities, hence increasing Trust in good outcomes and reducing Trust (and hence probability) of bad outcomes.

Use of AI for Human Powered Advertising

The goal of this Initiative is to convene leaders across industry, engineering, policy, academia, legal domains and consumer advocates to help organizations operationalize responsible AI deployment (all applications and systems, not only GenAI / Agentic AI) via any and all technologies supporting advertising, marketing, PR and the firms representing the world’s largest brands utilizing partners to communicate messaging and connect to their stakeholders.

Scaling the MOVE Program through Standardization

This IC activity aims to scale the impact of the MOVE ™ Program by standardizing aspects for scaling and by identifying impactful opportunities to augment MOVE ™ Program in different contexts.

Biodiversity-Safe Renewable Energy

The IC activity responds directly to these challenges by advancing an integrated decision-support framework that links renewable energy planning with biodiversity modelling, natural capital assessment, and environmental governance

Distributed Ledger Technology for the Key Economic Sectors

While exploring the Distributed Ledger Technology for the Key Economic Sectors and related tasks, the group uncovered the existing necessity for creation of a set of standards that will cover not one case among many but will provide an extensive set of standards addressing the full cycle of needs arising in each particular sector of the economy.

Contact Information

For more information about the Industry Connections program and its activities, email the Industry Connections Program Administrator.

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