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

Integration of Digital and Physical Economy and Green Development

This IC activity provides guidelines and reference implementations to support the industrial and governance infrastructure that integrates the digital and physical realms, builds a green, intelligent and efficient digital ecosystem, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of the economy and society.

Software Forensics Algorithms and Processes

The goal of this activity is to provide concrete algorithms for accurately and reliably analyzing and comparing software code and specific recommended practices for detecting plagiarism and IP violation.

Promoting IEEE Standards on Power Line Communications With the Hybrid PLC/RF PHY

The goal of this activity to provide guidance on current PLC technology development, and recommendations for the future.

Data Centers: Standards Needs Analysis and Recommendations

The goal of this initiative is to identify the current state of standards relevant to data centers, and the anticipated future state needed, and to define a path for the standards community to reach that future state

Development of Evaluation Techniques for Multi-Agent System

The primary objective of this activity is to explore whether a system of coordinated Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents can engage in goal-directed problem-solving in uncharted domains.

Interdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Improvement

The goal of this activity is to enhance mental health through interdisciplinary integration by gaining insight into the potential causes of mental health problems, building consensus, and improving mental health.

Contact Information

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

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