IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitors Program: Providing Speakers for Chapters

1. IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitors Program How SAB can help provide speakers to IEEE-CS chapters David Schultz SAB/CAB Liaison

2. Objective • To provide qualified members of the Standards community to address IEEE-CS chapter meetings • To present the criteria that the Chapters Activities Board (CAB) uses to identify qualified speakers • To solicit nominations for speakers on standards-related topics

3. IEEE-CS Distinguished Visitors Program • A roster of qualified speakers who address IEEE-CS professional and student chapters • List of speakers and topics is updated annually

4. Logistics • Prospective speakers apply for inclusion in the Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) • Chapters submit requests for speakers on topics of interest • Neighboring chapters are encouraged to collaborate, so that a speaker can visit two or more chapters on a single trip (to reduce traveling expenses) • Visit requests, nominations for speakers, and comments or questions are submitted to the Volunteer Services Coordinator (VSC)

5. Logistics (cont.) • All DVP visits must be approved in advance by the DVP Chair • IEEE-CS reimburses up to $700 for inter-city travel for approved visits to professional and student chapters • Chapters pay local expenses (hotel, meals, rental car, etc.)

6. Selection of Speakers • The DVP Committee selects speakers • The DVP Chair solicits nominations for new speakers every Spring, but nominations are accepted at any time throughout the year • Nominations are reviewed and approved only in December of each year; deadline is November 30, 2006 • We are encouraging nominations of speakers on topics related to standards

7. Nomination of Speakers • To nominate (or self-nominate) a potential DVP speaker: • Submit the DVP Speaker Nomination Form (available from the IEEE-CS web site, http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/index.jsp) • Click on Communities, then Chapters, then DVP • Attach a curriculum vitae for the nominee • Include two or three abstracts of proposed topics

8. Qualifications for Speakers • Speakers are recognized authorities in their field, as indicated by: • A record of public speaking at conferences or technical meetings • Articles in technical or trade journals • Books published

9. Qualifications for Speakers (cont.) • Speakers offer topics of interest to the general CS membership, as determined by: • Topics represented in publications, trade journals, and books • Reader/member interest surveys

10. Qualifications for Speakers (cont.) • Speakers’ schedules permit them to respond positively to requests from chapters • Speakers have the support of their employer to participate in the DVP • Speakers must be members of the Computer Society

11. Next steps • SAB members are invited to submit nominations (or self-nominations) for DVP speakers • SAB/CAB liaison is available on request to review these nominations before submission • Deadline for submission of nominations is November 30, 2006

12. Contact for correspondence • Send all DVP correspondence to the Volunteer Services Coordinator (VSC) at vsc@computer.org • Address: DVP Services c/o IEEE Computer Society Volunteer Services Coordinator 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036-1992 • Phone: 202-371-0101